Your path to parachain engineering starts here The Polkadot ecosystem is powered by a diverse developer community. Although there are several hundred active monthly developers around the globe, demand and interest in Polkadot and Substrate engineering continues to grow. This is why Polkadot DevCamps have been created. In association with Tribe, the 1st Singapore Government-supported blockchain ecosystem…

Polkadot Decoded is back for 2022, and is going even bigger and bolder than last year. The annual conference for all things Polkadot — ranging from talks to immersive workshops — has been confirmed for June 29th & 30th, with events at four international locations spanning three continents. This year’s…

Polkadot returns to ETHDenver this year for more creativity, code, and chaos! Meet the teams in person, join the $15k bounty, or check out the talks, presentations, and workshops online; February 11–20, 2022. All free! Polkadot is a lot of things in one decentralized network! At the base it’s a…

By Rob Habermeier, Polkadot founder This post is about the technology powering Polkadot. Polkadot is a sharded blockchain with heterogeneous shards. What sharding means in this context is splitting up the work that happens onto multiple sub-blockchains, known as parachains. What heterogeneous means in this context is that each blockchain…

By Jonas Gehrlein, Web3 Foundation Researcher The Polkadot network has reached yet another remarkable milestone, delivering the final piece of functionality to achieve the vision of Polkadot as outlined in the whitepaper (aka the Polkadot Paper). The first five slot auctions have successfully concluded and the winning parachains were onboarded…

Today is an exciting and historic day for Polkadot. After 5 years of research and development, and a multi-stage launch that began in May of 2020, Polkadot launch is now complete, with all auction-winning parachains currently producing blocks on the network. The onboarding process for Polkadot’s first batch of five…

As the Polkadot community eagerly awaits the launch of the network’s first five auction-winning parachains on December 18th, we take a closer look at the parachain model and the value this game-changing multichain technology brings to Web3. Parachains explained First conceived of in 2016, Polkadot’s heterogeneous multichain model allows diverse, independent blockchains…

By Ben Weiß, Parity Technologies Ecosystem Success Lead Rococo has come a long way over its short life. Initially conceived to test parachain functionality back in summer 2020, it has now evolved to become the testnet for teams building parachains in the ecosystem. Rococo V0 enabled the first integrations of…

Polkadot and Kusama Gifts are a new way to send DOT or KSM to anyone, even if they don’t already have an account or wallet. Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges for any blockchain network. For members of the Polkadot community, until now the only way to…