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A Year in Parachains, Part 4: Sustainability, IoT, NFTs, Gaming, & Metaverse

A brief overview of Polkadot's parachain landscape following its first full year since launch. Part 4: Sustainability, IoT, NFTs, Gaming, & Metaverse

Introducing the Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Coming to California, Summer 2023

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy, a month-long intensive academic program designed to train the next generation of top blockchain engineers, is coming to Berkeley, CA Summer 2023.

A Year in Parachains, Part 3: Data, ID, Privacy, Storage, & Infrastructure

Providing a brief overview of Polkadot's parachain landscape in its first full year since launch. Part 3: Data, ID, Privacy, Storage, and Infrastructure

Polkadot Staking Review: Impressive Stats, What’s New & What’s Coming

Since the launch of the Polkadot Staking Dashboard and nomination pools, participation in native staking has skyrocketed. These updates transformed how to stake on Polkadot.

    Polkadot is coming to Rust Nation '23

    Rust has always been an integral part of the Polkadot ecosystem. It is the foundation of Substrate - the blockchain framework Polkadot and all of its parachains are built upon - and a large portion of the Polkadot community are amazing Rust developers. So it only seemed logical for Polkadot to join Rust Nation.

      Polkadot @ ETHDenver 2023

      Polkadot is coming to ETHDenver.

      A Year in Parachains, Part 2: System Chains, Smart Contracts, & Social Media

      Providing a brief overview of Polkadot's parachain landscape in its first year since launch. Part 2: System Chains, Smart Contracts, & Social Media

      A Year in Parachains, Part 1: DeFi

      It’s been just over a year since parachains first launched on Polkadot, and already the network boasts the largest ecosystem of use-case specific blockchains in the world. Since the first slot auctions took place in November 2021 and the first parachains began onboarding to the network the following month, 37 parachains have joined Polkadot, with an additional 42 parachains on Polkadot’s canary network, Kusama, for a total of 79 across the Polkadot ecosystem.

      Revamping Polkadot Governance with Polkadot OpenGov

      A look at Polkadot's new governance model, Polkadot OpenGov, increasing the decentralization, agility, and efficiency of Polkadot's pioneering on-chain governance system.

      Polkadot 2022 Roundup

      Polkadot's yearly roundup for 2022. The Polkadot community wraps up the year with the largest ecosystem of purpose-built layer-1 blockchains. Read on for all the 2022 highlights.

      Parachain Dispatch: December 2022

      Read the latest news and technical updates from Polkadot parachains for December 2022.

      Staking Update: October-November 2022

      Updates to Polkadot's staking system for the months of October-November 2022.

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