Dear community,

To make the Darwinia protocol more concise and understandable, the Darwinia Dev Team has decided to study the feasibility of merging Darwinia Chain and Darwinia Parachain, which is called Darwinia 2.0. The latest research and testing progress of Darwinia 2.0 will be kept up to date with the community.

Darwinia 2.0 will consider updating the staking module, which allows users to earn staking rewards via nominating collator.

Why consider updating the staking module?

Once merged, Darwinia 2.0 will benefit from the economic security provided by the Polkadot Relay Chain validators. So Darwinia validators are no longer needed to ensure Darwinia’s economic security. But Darwinia 2.0 still needs collators to collect Darwinia’s transactions and produce state transition proofs for Relay Chain validators.

The responsibility of the collators is relatively small but also important. Users can still earn rewards by nominating collators. The reward ratio has not yet been determined, and the team will collect opinions from the community.

About Darwinia Network

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Darwinia is a cross-chain messaging infrastructure, which provides a light client-based, programmable, universal cross-chain messaging network for decentralized applications. Now, we’ve successfully used Darwinia’s light-client cross-chain messaging protocol(LCMP) to bridge cross-chain messages between substrate-based chains, and even between substrate-based chains and EVM chains, meanwhile, Darwinia provides developers with an SDK, so they can easily integrate cross-chain capabilities into their Dapps. This will have profound implications for cross-chain interoperability, and Darwinia as a cross-chain messaging infrastructure will facilitate the building of a hybrid cross-chain network.