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Polkadot

Proposal for Common Good Parachains

Introducing a proposed roadmap for future developments on common good parachains, subject to approval by Polkadot's decentralized governance community.

Polkadot

Polkadot OpenGov: Polkadot’s Next Generation of Decentralised Governance

Read the proposal for Polkadot's next-generation governance system - currently known as Gov2 - to discover how it aims to advance the decentralisation of the network.

Polkadot

Introducing the Polkadot Staking Dashboard: The Easiest Way to Nominate and Stake Your DOT

Staking your DOT just got a whole lot easier with Polkadot’s new staking dashboard, a user-friendly interface for staking natively on Polkadot.

Polkadot

XCMv2 Audit Completed by Quarkslab

XCMv2 has now been audited for a second time to discover any potential cross-chain security or fairness issues, including logical bugs, denial-of-service, and incorrect lock/unlock or burn/mint on both chains

Kusama

Introducing Encointer: Making Web3 Truly Inclusive

Encointer is Kusama’s second common-good parachain slot . In this post, we take an in-depth look at Encointer and the problems it addresses — how it can bring financial inclusivity to Web3 and mitigate Sybil attacks with a novel ‘proof-of-personhood’ system for unique identity.

Polkadot

Polkadot v1.0: Sharding and Economic Security

This post is about the technology powering Polkadot. Polkadot is a sharded blockchain with heterogeneous shards.

Polkadot

Polkadot 2021 Roundup

The holiday season is coming around again and with the new year, let’s take a quick retrospective about what the Polkadot project achieved over 2021.

Polkadot

Making History, Again: Polkadot Auctions 1-5

Following the successful completion of Polkadot's first batch of auctions, we review what happened and look at the data.

Polkadot

Parachains are Live! Polkadot Launch is Now Complete

Parachains are now live on Polkadot, completing the multi-stage Polkadot launch process.

Polkadot

The Parachain Advantage: Exploring Polkadot's Next-Generation Model

With the recent launch of Polkadot's first five auction-winning parachains, we take a closer look at the parachain model and the value this game-changing multichain technology brings to Web3.

Kusama

Kusama Batch 2 Auctions Report

This is the second report on Kusama’s parachain auctions. It follows a similar format as the first, however detailed explanations about the candle mechanism applied in the auctions are left out because they were discussed in the first report.

Rococo

Rococo Revamp – Becoming a Community Parachain Testbed

Rococo has come a long way over its short life. It is now ready to evolve into a decentralized, community maintained network.