Polkadot is releasing a testnet specifically designed for its sharding implementation. The Polkadot (DOT) project launched a testnet to evaluate its planned sharding implementation based on parachains. The key component that separates shards from being just many independent blockchains is communication. Shards need to be able to communicate with their peers to enable cross-shard token […]
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This time around, for however long it lasts, Bitcon’s run and the altcoin season are going to be very different. Bitcoin has finally woken from its two-month slumber, as well as interest in the number-one cryptocurrency along with it. Bitcoin futures trading is bustling again, with both volume and aggregated interest at their highest since […]
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Polkadot’s first major voting proposal passed with 86% in favor of multiplying the DOT supply 100-fold. The first token-based vote on the Polkadot network passed in favor of multiplying the DOT supply 100-fold. As announced on Monday, a proposal to give DOTs a “more ergonomic” value was accepted by the community with 86% of the […]
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The popularity of DApps, DeFi tokens and their increasing market share of the Ethereum ecosystem as a result of platform’s evolution? Ethereum’s dominance as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform has been boosted by the popularity of decentralized finance and decentralized applications tokens in 2020, with ERC-20 tokens now accounting for nearly half of the […]
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The Polkadot project appears to be launching its second token sale after a “building with Polkadot” page is published. Persistent rumors on Polkadot channels and groups and a series of forms and NDAs to “build with Polkadot” suggest that the project may soon run a new token sale for its token, the DOT. The purported […]
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A new project building on Polkadot received an investment of $600,000 to build liquid staking, a way of unlocking liquidity devoted to proof-of-stake. An upcoming decentralized finance project built on Polkadot (DOT) is looking to unlock liquidity that would be tied up in staking as part of its consensus mechanism. Called Stafi, short for Staking […]
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Polkadot is now officially in mainnet mode as the last centralizing shackle has been thrown off by the network. The Polkadot blockchain is now fully decentralized and permissionless after a decision passed by community governance removed the admin rights enjoyed by the Web3 Foundation. Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Polkadot developer Parity Technologies, tweeted the […]
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Polkadot and Ethereum have an intertwined history, but how does the newly launched Polkadot stack up against the plans for Ethereum 2.0? After Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood left the Ethereum Foundation in 2016, he wrote a white paper for a new kind of blockchain — one that would use an innovative form of sharding and […]
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The exchange also plans to launch additional trading pairs in the near future. OKEx has listed the native token of Polkadot (DOT) on its trading platform. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on July 17, DOT spot trading against Tether’s USDT stablecoin on OKEx started at 8:00 AM UTC today. As Cointelegraph recently reported, […]
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An overview of the first two days of the Unitize virtual blockchain conference where top crypto and blockchain experts offered their views on topical issues in the industry. The first two days of Unitize, the virtual conference organized by BlockShow and San Francisco Blockchain Week, have come and gone with speakers from various sectors of […]
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