This year, while the industry slid headlong into yet another crypto winter, the Polkadot community was busy building and launching the largest and most diverse ecosystem of layer-1 blockchains in the world, with several core technologies rolled out to propel the ecosystem forward into 2023. With enough happening in the…

Stake natively on Polkadot easier than ever and with as little as 1 DOT thanks to this new scalability feature for Polkadot’s staking system. Nomination pools are a new feature for Polkadot’s staking system that allows users to pool their DOT tokens together on-chain to nominate validators and receive rewards…

On October 3rd, KILT Protocol made history by becoming the first parachain to accomplish a full migration from the Kusama Relay Chain to the Polkadot Relay Chain. Besides marking an important technical milestone, the migration also represents the first instance of a parachain taking the upgrade path from Kusama to…

By Rob Habermeier, Polkadot founder As the Polkadot Community comes into the last quarter of 2022, we at Parity Technologies would like to update the community on a number of important development topics we’ve been working on. These bridge a number of categories: parachain scalability, parachain development, relay-chain governance, cross-chain…

Your path to parachain engineering starts here Following hot on the heels of the hugely successful first Polkadot DevCamp in May, and to meet demand from new prospective applicants, we are delighted to announce that the second edition of Polkadot DevCamp has been slated for this fall and will take place online. …

Important information The sub0 conference will run on November 28th and 29th as an in-person event in Lisbon Its main program includes a range of keynote presentations, breakout sessions, and workshops, with community-organized side events happening on both days. You’re invited! Sub0 is open to all skill levels — ranging from developers…

With the release of runtime v0.9.22, nomination pools have been added to the Kusama runtime. Adhering to the tradition of the Polkadot ecosystem, Kusama is acting as the canary network here and is receiving this update first before Polkadot. As usual, some degree of chaos is expected. Nomination pools are…

Great things happen when incredible people work together, and that’s what Polkadot Relayers 2022 is all about. In association with Tribe, Polkadot Relayers 2022 is a program bringing together developers and entrepreneurs to create a conducive and engaging platform for innovative ideas to come to life. Apply Now What can…

The first ever Polkadot Hacker House will be held in New York City, between June 23 and 28. This six-day event for developers, coders, engineers and builders will be filled with technical workshops, in-person support, mentorship and networking. Put your hacking hats on because New York, here we come! Make…