#Polkadot News

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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Cosmos Mainnett Launch Closer Than Ever

February 13, 2019 by Neil at Blockchain, Development, News, Tech

We are edging closer to the launch of Cosmos Hub, which is good news for ATOM holders eager to see whether investing in the blockchain project, focused on interoperability, will pay off. This according to a blog entry on Medium, February 8, 2019. Cosmos Thanks to the bearish price action...

Contrasting Ethereum and Polkadot’s Scalable Interoperability Solutions

February 4, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Blockchain, Ethereum, News, Tech

With an array of blockchain projects in development, it might get cumbersome at times to keep a track of each and every one of them. The mainstream is aware of the giants such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple to some extent, but the deeper you dive into the ocean of...

ChainSafe Acquires Web3 Grant to Develop Polkadot Runtime

February 1, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at News

ChainSafe, a Canadian distributed ledger technology (DLT) startup has secured a grant from the Web3 Foundation. The grant will enable the firm to develop a runtime environment for the Polkadot network using the Golang programming language, according to a Medium blog post on January 29, 2019. Polkadot Runtime In December...

Chinese Blockchain News Platform Mars Finance Raises $51 Million in Funding Round

Interoperability Platform Polkadot Looks to Raise $60 Million in Bear Market

January 26, 2019 by Neil at News

Even if there are more Fortune 500 corporations and governments interested in using blockchain technology; it doesn’t change the fact that we are still in a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market that is continuing from last year. For cryptocurrency startups, it’s not exactly a prime time to raise money. Despite market...

Cosmos and Polkadot: Multi-Chain Infrastructures that Want to Revolutionize Blockchain

December 4, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Business, Ethereum, News

Numerous startups are racing to solve the problem of scalability and efficiency on the blockchain, but few have come as close to providing inter-chain operability as Cosmos and Polkadot have. In the following, BTCManager compares the two interoperability projects that aim to solve the toughest problems blockchain technology is currently...

Rockchain to Disrupt Cloud Services Market, Crowdsale Begins in November

September 19, 2017 by Admin BTCManager at ICO/IEO

Rockchain, a distributed data intelligence platform connecting to local data stores and performing map reduce operations on structured data, provides secured and auditable computation resources on a totally distributed network, without any central ownership of computation nodes. By connecting to "FactMap nodes", which are computers inside corporate networks, any data...

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