Polkadot / Kusama Referendum 81, onboarding Collectives as a common-good parachain on Polkadot, has been passed and executed. Polkadot Relayers 2022, an initiative bringing together developers and entrepreneurs in the Polkadot ecosystem, has come to an end. Meet the teams and projects that made it to the final of this 3-month program. OpenGov…

Polkadot / Kusama Referendum 80, proposing to grant sufficiency to USDT on Statemint, has successfully passed. The first panoramic and interactive Polkadot & Kusama Ecosystem Map is live, together with the Polkadot Deep Dive Report Q3 2022. Upgrading Kusama to runtime v9320 will activate Gov v2. However, the current version of governance on…

Green Projects on Dotsama. by PolkadotNews Polkadot / Kusama Polkadot’s new nomination pools are proving popular: it has taken just four days since launch for all 64 pools to be opened. Learn how to join them to start collecting rewards with as little as 1 DOT. Polkadot Academy, the flagship educational program to help speed up Web3 adoption, is…

Introduction The days of blockchain adoption when the environmental costs of verifying transactions and mining blocks could be comfortably overlooked are long gone. Since recently the Web3 community is increasingly concerned about the environmental effects that blockchain networks produce. ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) standards are being analyzed and expected to…

Polkadot / Kusama Nomination pools became live on Polkadot. You can now stake and obtain staking rewards by nominating via pool with a minimum of 1 DOT. Learn more about creating & joining a nomination pool with the new Staking Dashboard. The next runtime upgrade vote on Kusama will include Gov2: a new…

Polkadot / Kusama The second edition of the Polkadot Academy will take place in Buenos Aires from January 10th to February 10th, 2023. Join to become a leading blockchain engineer. Congratulations to Crust Network on winning Polkadot’s 30th parachain auction. Its team is building decentralized cloud storage on Polkadot by supporting multiple storage-layer…

Polkadot / Kusama Parity co-founder Björn Wagner will step up to the role of company CEO while former CEO Gavin Wood retains the title of Chief Architect. Crust Network is the winner of the 30th Polkadot Parachain Auction. Congratulations! Polkadot 0.9.30 has been released with LOW upgrade priority. Interested to learn more about…

Polkadot / Kusama Congratulations to Bitgreen on winning Polkadot’s 29th parachain auction. The project is building a permissionless blockchain to bring together DeFi & Web3, with a focus on green projects, renewable energy tech, microfinance & impact investing. DAO IPCI has won the 55th Kusama auction. Its team provides users with the ability…

Polkadot / Kusama Polkadot’s Governance v2 is merged into Kusama: the Polkadot Fellowship will be going live in the near future. Check out what some of the Polkadot developers are working on now. From increasing TPS to between 100.000–1.000.000 with asynchronous backing to parathreads, XCMv3, a bridge hub, and a fully decentralized governance…