By Jonas Gehrlein, Web3 Foundation Researcher
Introduction
The Polkadot network has reached yet another remarkable milestone, delivering the final piece of functionality to achieve the vision of Polkadot as outlined...View Post
The Polkadot community has approved the upgrade of the Shell parachain to Statemint, Polkadot’s parachain dedicated to asset functionality. The Shell parachain contains almost no logic, except an XCM interface that...View Post
By Ben Weiß, Parity Technologies Ecosystem Success Lead
Rococo has come a long way over its short life. Initially conceived to test parachain functionality back in summer 2020, it has now evolved to become the...View Post
Polkadot and Kusama Gifts are a new way to send DOT or KSM to anyone, even if they don’t already have an account or wallet.
Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges for any blockchain network. For...View Post
Almost exactly five years after the vision of a heterogeneous multichain framework was first outlined in the Polkadot Whitepaper (aka the Polkadot Paper), parachains are now officially ready for launch on Polkadot...View Post
In the first two articles (Part I, Part II) I wrote on XCM, I introduced the basics of its design and versioning structure. In this article, we will take a deeper look into its underlying design and execution model...View Post
In the first article I wrote on XCM, I introduced its basic architecture, goals and how it could be used for some simple use cases. Here we will move on to inspect one interesting aspect of XCM in depth: how XCM can...View Post
As the final Polkadot 1.0 release, complete with Parachains draws close, the Cross-Consensus Messaging format, XCM for short, is approaching its first production-ready release. This is an introduction to the format...View Post
By Jonas Gehrlein, Web3 Foundation Research Scientist
Introduction
Polkadot and its wild cousin Kusama are decentralized systems run by a large number of servers (i.e., nodes) that cannot be controlled by a single...View Post
TL;DR: On 24 May 2021, Polkadot nodes failed with an out of memory (OOM) error on block 5,202,216. This block contained an on-chain solution to the validator election, which is normally computed off-chain and only...View Post
The staged launch of Polkadot is about to reach another chapter. As we approach the launch of Parachain functionality and the auctions and crowd-loans behind them, let’s look at what’s coming.
The launch of Polkadot...View Post
Key Updates
A chain restart is planned early next week to include new network optimizations.
After the chain restart, 20 validators will be added a day, targeting a total of 200 validators to test network stability....View Post