Polkadot
DeFi News
Deloitte Taps Polkadot’s Kilt Protocol For KYC Credentials
Top Consulting Firm Believes Digital IDs Can Improve Inefficient Verification Process
DeFi Research
The State of PoS: Delving Into the Risk and Promise of a Staked Future
A Deep Dive Into Consensus on Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana and Avalanche
DeFi News
Polkadot Projects Forge Alliance to Protect Blockchain From Bad Actors
Seven Founding Projects Include Acala, Astar and Interlay
DeFi News
Polkadot, Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood Leaves Parity CEO Role
Will Retain Title Of ‘Chief Architect’
Markets
ETH/BTC Ratio Soars To Nine-Month High Ahead Of The Merge
Ether Is Up 5% In A Week While Bitcoin Has Declined 3.5%
Markets
Ethereum Pops 10% as Fed Signals Rate Hikes Are Working
Global markets are rallying after the US central bank raised interest rates by 75 basis points in a widely expected move.
Dive
Polkadot to Form 'Fellowship' of Tokenholders as Part of Major Upgrade
Wood Says Gov2 Code To Launch on Kusama 'Imminently'
DeFi News
Polkadot Upgrade Locks in Parachain Messaging
Major Step Forward for Multi-chain Interoperability
DeFi News
Ethereum Foundation, AMD, Polkadot Launch $7M Competition to Boost Zero-Knowledge Scaling
Leading crypto projects have banded together to offer $7M in prizes to teams innovating using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.
Byte
Polkadot Parachains Launch $250M Fund To Grow Ecosystem
Polkadot's parachains project just got a big boost.
DeFi Podcasts
Polkadot's Gavin Wood on Building a Layer 0 to Underpin the Entire Blockchain-Based Economy
Section 1: Gavin Wood 0:10 Minutes Gavin Wood’s crypto journey started with Ethereum – he was one of the eight original founders and the project’s CTO in the early days. Today though, he’s busy building Polkadot, a chain that is attempting to improve where Ethereum falls short. After years of development, the ecosystem’s first applications…
Byte
Polkadot and Tron Founders Beseech Ukraine to Accept Their Native Tokens as Donations
Crypto founders are jockeying to have the Ukrainian government accept their tokens as donations.
DeFi News
Winners in Second Round of Polkadot Parachains Poised to Add Mojo to Expanding DOT Ecosystem
A roundup of the second group of winners in the Polkadot parachain auction.
Byte
Devs Flock to Ethereum But Fulltimers Still Sorely Needed as DeFi Expands
A new report finds that devs love working in the Ethereum ecosystem.
DeFi News
Polkadot's Parachain Winners Make Strides in Building Sharded Ecosystem
The winners of Polkadot's parachain auctions are up and rolling.
DeFi News
Acala Network Wins Polkadot's Parachain Slot as Auction Shifts to Next Phase
Acala Network won the parachain slot on Polkadot as auction moves into new phase.
DeFi News
Polkadot’s Parachain Auctions Aim to Fulfill Promise of Scalability
Polkadot's auction of parachains may drive innovation and scalability for a project aims to improve on Ethereum.
Byte
DOT Holders Have Pledged $800M Ahead Of First Polkadot Parachain Auction
Polkadot's first parachain auction is expected to be a hit with $800M already committed.
Byte
Fantom Surges 90% in 30 Days to Hit All-Time High and Challenge Elite Layer 1s
Fantom's FTM token hit an all-time high this week and is a hot new entrant in the elite club of Layer 1 blockchains.
DeFi Tutorials
Acala’s Liquid Tokens – The Great DeFi Unlock
Acala, the Ethereum-compatible DeFi and liquidity hub of Polkadot, has launched Liquid Crowdloan DOT (lcDOT) ahead of its upcoming crowdloan event. The product joins Acala’s suite of derivative products including its recently launched KSM Liquid Staking product (LKSM), now available on Karura, as well as DOT Liquid Staking (LDOT), which will launch on Acala.
DeFi Research
Exploring the Multi-Chain Universe Amid Incentives & Upgrades
On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock Smart contract platforms’ tokens have been amongst the top performers of 2021. While Ether has recorded a remarkable 330% return year-to-date, newer platforms such as Solana, Avalanche and Terra have seen their tokens grow over 1,000% in 2021. The rise in these platforms has been driven initially by…
DeFi Tutorials
How to Use Karuraswap
Trading is now live on Karura Swap, the First Decentralized Exchange in the Polkadot & Kusama Ecosystem. Karura Swap has opened trading for the KSM/KAR pair, which currently has $3,410,992.00 in Total Value Locked thanks to Karura Swap’s “Bootstrap” mechanism.
DeFi Videos
Kusama, Karura and the Crazy World of Crowdloans
Today we’re covering Karura but in order to understand it we have to define its relationship to Kusama as well as Kusama’s relationship to Polkadot, not to mention Karura’s relationship to Acala. But I’ll do my best to make it as clear as possible because what’s being built here, particularly in DeFi could be really…
Byte
Equilibrium Creating Version of Curve on Polkadot
Equilibrium, an interoperable money market, announced on a Feb. 9 Medium post plans to create a version of Curve Finance’s automated market maker on the project’s chain within the Polkadot ecosystem. Equilibrium will be able to facilitate trading for homogeneous assets on Polkadot, whether they are DOT-based or different tokenized versions of the same asset,…