Polkadot

Top Consulting Firm Believes Digital IDs Can Improve Inefficient Verification Process

A Deep Dive Into Consensus on Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana and Avalanche

Seven Founding Projects Include Acala, Astar and Interlay

Will Retain Title Of ‘Chief Architect’

Ether Is Up 5% In A Week While Bitcoin Has Declined 3.5%

Some LPs Were Able To Claim Excessive Rewards

Global markets are rallying after the US central bank raised interest rates by 75 basis points in a widely expected move.

Wood Says Gov2 Code To Launch on Kusama 'Imminently'

Major Step Forward for Multi-chain Interoperability

Leading crypto projects have banded together to offer $7M in prizes to teams innovating using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Polkadot's parachains project just got a big boost.

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…

Crypto founders are jockeying to have the Ukrainian government accept their tokens as donations.

A roundup of the second group of winners in the Polkadot parachain auction.

A new report finds that devs love working in the Ethereum ecosystem.

The winners of Polkadot's parachain auctions are up and rolling.

Acala Network won the parachain slot on Polkadot as auction moves into new phase.

Polkadot's auction of parachains may drive innovation and scalability for a project aims to improve on Ethereum.

Polkadot's first parachain auction is expected to be a hit with $800M already committed.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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,…