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Snowbridge, the trustless Polkadot-Ethereum bridge, is now live. https://snowfork.substack.com/p/snowbridge-is-live
I will be on the Uphold Institutional Webinar to discuss Polkadot Tuesday 25 Jun at...View Post
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Jonas Gehrlein and Alistair Stewart, researchers at W3F, have issued an RFC proposing to significantly reduce unbonding time on Polkadot (variable, but down to a potential minimum of 2 days) https...View Post
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Raffael Hueber (Amforc) and Jonas Gehrlein (W3F) have produced a report analyzing the positive impact of the Decentralized Voices program. https://medium...View Post
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A paper with various W3F co-authors , Efficient Execution Auditing for Blockchains under Byzantine Assumptions will be presented at the Science of (formerly Stanford) Blockchain Conference 2024. https...View Post
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The JAM implementers’ prize has been announced, with up to 10 million DOT as awards for developing a JAM implementation. https://medium...View Post
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With two days left, Mosaic Chain is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
You may have noticed that Kusama’s total issuance listed on CoinGecko and...View Post
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Cohort 2 of Decentralized Voices have been delegated. Kusama delegations should occur soon.
Referendum 841, proposing to upgrade Polkadot relay chain and system parachains to 1.2.5, is currently...View Post
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Decentralized Voices Cohort 2 delegates were announced Friday. The delegations will be made later today. https://medium.com/web3foundation/decentralized-voices-cohort-2-b10ddb7c71cc
Referendum 832...View Post
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Today marks the 1000th Polkadot Digest!
The next Polkadot parachain lease auction will begin on 9 June at approximately 07.00 UTC. https://parachains.info/auctions
Referendum 791, proposing to upgrade...View Post
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Parathread 3375 has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
Interested in having a team build on Substrate, work on infrastructure for your Polkadot project, or...View Post
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Decentralized Voices Cohort 2 delegates will be announced this week.
With less than a day left to go in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous Parathread 3374 is in the lead. https://parachains...View Post
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Polkadot v1.12.0 has been released. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/releases/tag/polkadot-v1.12.0
There is a new notification process in the Changelog which includes different sections for...View Post
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The 1.2.4 runtimes (for Polkadot, Kusama, testnets, and various system parachains) have been released on the polkadot-fellows repository. https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/releases/tag/v1.2.4...View Post
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Referendum 702, proposing to restrict delegations on the Root, Treasurer, and Wish-for-Change tracks, is now failing with 47.6% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/702
Referendum 706...View Post
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Interested in hearing an in-depth discussion on Polkadot OpenGov? Check out the latest OpenGov Office Hours with Alice_und_Bob. https://twitter.com/alice%5Fund%5Fbob/status/1790430046298972586...View Post
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Reminder that Decentralized Voices is taking applications for Cohort 2. https://medium.com/web3foundation/decentralized-voices-cohort-2-eab16de857e2
There are now 70 Referenda up for vote on Polkadot...View Post
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Integritee has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
This is despite being only in the lead for 36% of the blocks in the Ending Period. This is by design of the...View Post
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Gavin Wood, along with Basti Köcher and Pierre Aubert, held a Twitter/X Space on the topic of JAM: the next disruptor in Web3. https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1788614918796607848
OpenZeppelin has...View Post
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Referendum 680, to initialize the Snowbridge Ethereum bridge, is currently passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/680
Referendum 741, to move part of the the Polkadot...View Post