Chainlink Makes Oracle Pallet Available to all Substrate, Polkadot and Kusama Chains
Since the last update, there has been significant development work completed on the Polkadot - Chainlink integration, culminating in Chainlink making their extensive collection of on-chain Price Feeds available as a Substrate oracle pallet.
Polkadot Bridges: Connecting the ecosystem with external blockchain networks
Web3, the next generation of the internet, has been envisioned as a fully functional and user-friendly web where our identity and data are our own. Polkadot was created with the belief that no single blockchain can do everything. Instead, the future is multichain.
Rococo V1 - A Holiday Gift to the Polkadot Community
The Rococo-V1 Parachains Testnet is live. Rococo is a public testnet, maintained by Parity Technologies and the community, aimed towards testing both the parachains consensus process itself and parachains built by the community.
Supporting Decentralization: Join the Polkadot Thousand Validators Programme
Web3 Foundation has created a Thousand Validators Programme for Polkadot. Apply and follow the validator setup instructions, and you could be eligible to receive nominations from Web3 Foundation to help kickstart your Polkadot node.
Obtaining a Parachain Slot on Polkadot
Parachains are specialized shards of Polkadot that give projects and their communities agency over their respective goals.
Una descripción general actualizada de Polkadot
Polkadot permite la escalabilidad y colaboración entre blockchains especializadas, transformando la arquitectura y gobernanza del ecosistema blockchain global.
Trusted Execution Environments and the Polkadot Ecosystem
The use of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in combination with the Substrate blockchain modular framework is providing new solutions to enable real-use applications on the next generation of the web.
What is Polkadot? Part 2: The Vision.
Polkadot is designed to take back our digital sovereignty and agency from powerful third-parties, while also providing the foundation for new business models, services, organizations—and even entire societies and economies—to take shape and thrive into the future.
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).
An Updated Overview of Polkadot
The new paper Overview of Polkadot and its Design Considerations expands on the white paper, presenting a comprehensive and updated description of Polkadot’s design components and subprotocols. Some of these are outlined here.
W3F Initiates Launch: Polkadot is Live
Polkadot’s highly-anticipated release follows three years of intense development work. Mainnet launch builds on the success of Kusama canary network release in 2019.
What is Polkadot? A Brief Introduction
Polkadot is a next-generation blockchain protocol connecting multiple specialized blockchains into one unified network.