Polkadot’s ongoing mission to unlock the full potential of Web3 has seen several milestones so far in 2023. With the recent official release of the completed version of Polkadot 1.0, …

The Web3 landscape’s most robust and vibrant ecosystems are those that embody true decentralization. In this trustless environment, power is distributed among multiple participants, eliminating any single point of vulnerability. …

The concept of blockspace is an important one for understanding what blockchains and blockchain ecosystems offer the world. …

XCM is Polkadot’s standard for cross-chain and cross-consensus communication. It’s a messaging format used to exchange arbitrary data between chains, and is effectively a language used by developers to compose applications that span different blockchains, smart contract platforms, and Substrate pallets. In less than a year, XCM has transformed the…

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The current Polkadot governance model was designed with the ultimate goal of ensuring consensus and automatic enactment of any changes based on community decision. Composed of three collectives that have ensured that necessary legislation is initiated (Council), discussed and enacted successfully or rejected (Democracy module), and executed in a speedy…

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…