Polkadot

CoinFlash

Polkadot Releases Rococo, Its Test Environment for Interoperable ‘Parachains’

Polkadot has released its first testnet, Rococo, for its parachain network. The testnet will commence with three parachains, Parity Technologies said.

Tech  ·  6 August 2020
DeFi

Proof-of-Stake Chains Team Up to Prove DeFi Is Bigger Than Ethereum

Terra is joining forces with Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana to roll out a DeFi product meant for a wider consumer audience. Meet Anchor.

Business  ·  28 July 2020
Polkadot

Polkadot Raises $43M in 72-Hour Private Sale: Source

A second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) has netted some 3,982.07 BTC worth an estimated $43.3 million as of press time, according to sources.

News  ·  27 July 2020
Polkadot

Polkadot’s Inaugural Vote Could Expand DOT Supply by 1,000x

The first vote on Polkadot will be to see whether the DOT supply should be redenominated by a "logical" 100x or even by 1,000x.

News  ·  13 July 2020
Bitcoin

Polkadot Is Latest Blockchain to Explore Redeemable Bitcoin Tokens

It's only a proof-of-concept at this point, but there's now a model for locking BTC on the Bitcoin blockchain and minting PolkaBTC on Polkadot.

Tech  ·  18 June 2020
Polkadot

Polkadot Goes Live as Web3 Foundation Pushes Prospective Mainnet

Polkadot is now live, following the launch of its first “chain candidate” (CC1).

Tech  ·  26 May 2020
Ethereum

Parity’s Gavin Wood Takes a Swipe at Ethereum

Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed.

Tech  ·  11 May 2020
Polkadot

‘Very Near Launch’: Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his Ready Layer One presentation.

Tech  ·  6 May 2020
Staking

Coinbase Custody to Support Polkadot Staking With up to 20% Returns

Coinbase Custody is partnering with Bison Trails to add staking support for Polkadot’s native DOT tokens in anticipation of the network’s mainnet launch.

Business  ·  14 April 2020
Cosmos

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

Tech  ·  7 April 2020
Polkadot

Shyft Network to Build FATF-Compliant ‘Identity Layer’ for Polkadot

Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network.

Tech  ·  6 April 2020
Polkadot

IoT App Nodle Moves From Stellar Blockchain to Polkadot

IoT platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to a custom build on Parity Technologies’ Substrate network.

Tech  ·  31 March 2020
Polkadot

Web3 Foundation Funds Technical Bridge Connecting Polkadot to Bitcoin

Web3 has awarded grants to more than 100 projects building on Polkadot.

Tech  ·  5 March 2020
DeFi

Polkadot to Use Chainlink Oracles for Interoperability Network

Polkadot will be the first non-ethereum blockchain to integrate Chainlink.

Tech  ·  25 February 2020
Ethereum

‘One Network, Many Chains’ – The Case for Blockchain Interoperability

Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) is poised to be a major theme of 2020. And, like most trends in crypto, it has its fair share of hope, hype and haters.

Tech  ·  30 January 2020