#Polkadot News

Polkadot Announces Protocol-Wide Integration of ChainLink

February 26, 2020 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

ChainLink finally has its first integration outside of Ethereum, having completed a successful integration with Parity's substrate blockchain. This integration implies ChainLink has taken another step towards becoming the oracle of choice for Polkadot, with a parachain on the Kusuma testnet imminent, February 26, 2020. ChainLink to Improve Polkadot's Utility...

Parity Announces Last Gap Update for Second Time in a Month

January 2, 2020 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Ethereum

Of late, Parity has started to get on the bad side of many in the Ethereum community. Before the Istanbul hard fork, it was revealed that there was a bug in the client update and a last-minute upgrade was released to prevent anything going wrong. Once again, a bug that...

Parity Slowly Dumping Ethereum to Focus on Polkadot

December 17, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Ethereum

Parity Technologies, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) project in charge of the Parity Ethereum client has announced plans to adopt a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) model for its Ethereum codebase. The firm says the move will enable it to focus more on the development of its Polkadot ecosystem whilst also...

Joseph Lubin Discusses Cryptocurrency Regulation and Ethereum Competitors

Joseph Lubin Discusses Cryptocurrency Regulations and Ethereum Competitors

November 18, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Ethereum

Joseph Lubin, the co-founder of Ethereum and ConsenSys, offered his thoughts on the so-called "Ethereum killers" as well as the state of regulation in the cryptosphere. As per an interview by Forkast Focus, Lubin rightfully acknowledges the benefits Bitcoin and Ethereum gained by being first movers, November 18, 2019. Finding Core Decentralization...

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Coinbase to List Telegram (GRM), Polkadot (DOT) and 15 Fresh Cryptocurrencies

September 20, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Coinbase, a leading U.S-based crypto exchange has announced plans to add support for 17 new cryptocurrencies on a jurisdiction-to-jurisdiction basis. The digital assets include Telegram’s Gram token, Polkadot, Dfinity, Filecoin, and several others. This according to a blog post on September 19, 2019. Bolster the Roster In line with its...

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Pantera Capital Invests in Four Scalability-Focused DLT Projects

August 31, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Business

Pantera Capital, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) focused investment firm and hedge fund has adopted four blockchain projects aimed at solving the age-long scalability problems of the cryptoverse. The projects include Polkadot, BloXroute, Origin, and Filecoin, reports Forex Crunch on August 29, 2019. Pantera Capital Focused on Eliminating Scalability Issues ...

Polkadot Launches Kusama: An Experimental Research and Development Network

July 17, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

On July 16, 2019, Polkadot announced the release of Kusama, a community-driven experimental network that allows teams and developers to deploy their parachains and get a feel for the radically new governance mechanisms that Polkadot offers. An explicit warning from the team to users is that this is not a...

Ethereum Competitor Polkadot Closes Token Sale at $1.2 Billion

June 30, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins

Polkadot Protocol, the first project out of Web3 Foundation (W3F), closed its second private sale of tokens selling 500,000 DOT (five percent of the total supply). This operation confirms an evaluation of around $1.2 billion. This based on a report from crypto publication The Block June 27, 2019. Successful Round for...

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Telegram Open Network’s (TON) Scaling Plan Inspired by Ethereum and Polkadot

May 28, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Development, News

The Telegram Open Network (TON) recently opened a GitHub repository and a launched a test net of sorts on their website. An article by BUTTON Wallet on 26 May, 2019, reveals TON's scaling plan for its network. How the Chain Will Function The main focus of TON's plan is to scale...

Polkadot’s New Proof of Concept Could Enhance Decentralized Governance

May 21, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain, Development, Ethereum, News

The Alexander testnet on Polkadot was upgraded with new features of which the most significant is improved staking governance, as per an announcement by the development team on May 20, 2019. Polkadot was created by Ethereum and Parity co-founder Gavin Wood, who also co-invented the Solidity programming language. A New...

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