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
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.
Parachain Dispatch: December 2022
Read the latest news and technical updates from Polkadot parachains for December 2022.
First Parachain Successfully Migrates from Kusama to Polkadot
KILT Protocol's migration from Kusama to Polkadot is an important technical milestone and the first parachain migration. Polkadot's 'canary network' model allows Web3 projects to test their technology in a real-world environment before upgrading to stable production networks.
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.
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 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.
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.
Parachains are Live! Polkadot Launch is Now Complete
Parachains are now live on Polkadot, completing the multi-stage Polkadot launch process.
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.
A Polkadot Postmortem - 24.05.2021
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 takes place on-chain if no off-chain solution is submitted.
