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The latest posts about all things Polkadot, major news, ecosystem announcements, engineering updates, and more.

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A Year in Parachains, Part 1: DeFi

Polkadot’s first year of parachains brings 79 blockchains across DeFi, gaming (GameFi), decentralized identity (DIDs), and more, showcasing Polkadot's web3 innovation and decentralization at scale.

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.

Polkadot Nomination Pools Implementation Guide

A short writeup on implementing Polkadot nomination pools for wallet and application builders in the Polkadot ecosystem.

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 2020 Roundup

Polkadot emerged strong in 2020, with major launches, treasury expansion, and staking dominance. Here's a roundup of achievements and plans for 2021.

Polkadot Research Update

Several articles have recently been added to the Web3 Foundation research portal covering individual subprotocols of the Polkadot decentralized blockchain platform: nominated proof of stake (NPoS), time consensus and GRANDPA (the finality gadget implemented for the relay chain).

Polkadot 2019: Year in review

I started the last year-end round-up with some statistics, and it seems fitting to continue the trend and report some numbers from this year. In total, the Polkadot project, including Substrate, Grandpa, Cumulus and a few bits of support code, has over three hundred thousand lines of code!

Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020

To close out the year, we asked colleagues across the Polkadot Launch Team to reflect on their work in 2019 and discuss what part of their work they’re most looking forward to in 2020. We’re excited to share their answers (some serious and some light-hearted!) with you below.