Polkadot

Technology

Parity’s Gavin Wood Takes a Swipe at Ethereum

Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed.

By Ian Allison

May 11, 2020 at 1:56 p.m. UTC

May 11, 2020

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Technology

Interoperability

'Very Near Launch': Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his R...

By William Foxley

May 6, 2020 at 5:47 p.m. UTC

May 6, 2020

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Coinbase Custody CEO Sam McIngvale (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Polkadot

Coinbase Custody to Support Polkadot Staking With up to 20% Returns

Coinbase Custody is partnering with Bison Trails to add staking support for Polkadot’s native DOT tokens in anticipation of the network’s mainnet launch.

By Danny Nelson

Apr 14, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Apr 14, 2020

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Tech

Smart contracts

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

By Brady Dale

Apr 7, 2020 at 6:05 p.m. UTC

Apr 7, 2020

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Shyft Network co-founder Joseph Weinberg speaks at Consensus 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Fatf

Shyft Network to Build FATF-Compliant 'Identity Layer' for Polkadot

Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network.

By William Foxley

Apr 6, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Apr 6, 2020

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Tech

Stellar

IoT App Nodle Moves From Stellar Blockchain to Polkadot

IoT platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to a custom build on Parity Technologies’ Substrate network.

By William Foxley

Mar 31, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. UTC

Mar 31, 2020

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Tech

Interoperability

Web3 Foundation Funds Technical Bridge Connecting Polkadot to Bitcoin

Web3 has awarded grants to more than 100 projects building on Polkadot.

By Paddy Baker

Mar 5, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTC

Mar 5, 2020

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Tech

Oracles

Polkadot to Use Chainlink Oracles for Interoperability Network

Polkadot will be the first non-ethereum blockchain to integrate Chainlink.

By William Foxley

Feb 25, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTC

Feb 25, 2020

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'HERESY': Andreas Antonopoulos articulated why "winner takes all" is out and inter-blockchain communication is in, at the Blockstack Summit in San Francisco. (Credit: Gary Sexton/Blockstack Summit 2019)

Tech

Ethereum

'One Network, Many Chains' – The Case for Blockchain Interoperability

Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) is poised to be a major theme of 2020. And, like most trends in crypto, it has its fair share of hope, hype and haters.

By Brady Dale

Jan 30, 2020 at 5:15 p.m. UTC

Jan 30, 2020