The Polkadot network is on the verge of making some major updates. Yesterday, Parachain auctions and crowdloans were added to Kusama and Westend. Polkadot’s Role in the Blockchain Ecosystem While other blockchains like Ethereum and Solana are marching ahead, Polkadot has promised to provide serious improvements to existing solutions’ scalability and connectivity. Notably, Polkadot offers...Read More
Reef Finance has announced that its Substrate-based mainnet will see the light of day in May 2021. Called Reef Chain, it promises to “make DeFi easy” by enabling developers to use a highly scalable and fully EVM-compatible network that’s integrated into the Polkadot ecosystem. Reef Chain Coming in May Reef Finance is a cross-chain DeFi...Read More
The largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether (USDT), has announced plans to launch on two more blockchains – Polkadot and Kusama. Tether aims to become the first-ever stablecoin operating on Polkadot, but it will first launch on Kusama due to the availability of parachains. USDT Goes on Polkadot and Kusama Tether Operations Limited is the...Read More
The gaming-focused blockchain platform Enjin has raised almost $19 million to develop a next-generation blockchain on Polkadot for non-fungible tokens. In a March 31 announcement, Enjin introduced Efinity, a next-generation blockchain built for NFTs on the Polkadot ecosystem. The firm raised $18.9 million to finance the new venture in a round led by Crypto.com Capital,...Read More
In an attempt to serve as the next generation of DLT, Polkadot has announced plans to establish decentralized and trustless bridges to enhance interoperability among various networks. Parity Technologies is developing the first generic bridge that will enable all Substrate-based chains to connect and communicate with each other. Polkadot’s Decentralized Bridges The blockchain project behind...Read More
Parity Technologies aims at developing and releasing a generic asset parachain to serve as one of the first common-good chains on Polkadot. Dubbed Statemint, it would provide functionality for deploying various asset types, such as tokenized artwork or even central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Statemin to Come on Polkadot The press release shared with CryptoPotato...Read More
The popular DLT protocol Parity Technologies has partnered with Berkeley’s Blockchain Xcelerator program to provide educational panels for students in the university’s blockchain curriculum. As part of the collaboration, Polkadot’s co-founder Gavin Woods will be a guest lecturer in the A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series. Parity to Educate Berkeley Students About Blockchain Parity...Read More
The popular hardware wallet provider, Ledger, has added Polkadot to its wide variety of supported tokens. Additionally, Ledger will also enable users to stake DOT coins directly on the platform, thus increasing the total number of staking options to five. Ledger Adds Polkadot and DOT Staking Founded in 2014, Ledger is a digital asset wallet...Read More
FD7 Ventures, the cryptocurrency-oriented fund that recently vowed to dispose of its BTC holdings for ADA and DOT, has set up a $250 million micro-fund focusing on investments in teams working on the ecosystems of Polkadot and Cardano. FD7 Goes to India for DOT and ADA Based in Dubai, UAE, FD7 is a crypto-oriented investment...Read More
Polkadot, the interoperable blockchain protocol spearheaded by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, has announced its forthcoming parachain launch. Parachains – application-specific blockchains that connect to the main network and benefit from its security and computing capacity – are viewed as the building block of Polkadot’s ecosystem. Initially, the plan was for 100 parachain slots, with an...Read More
Dubai-based cryptocurrency investment fund currently sitting on $1 billion in AUM believes that the value of Cardano and Polkadot will be higher than that of BTC in the upcoming years. Consequently, the fund has announced plans to dispose of $750 million of its Bitcoin holdings and expand its exposure to ADA and DOT instead. Crypto...Read More
Cosmos developers will be welcoming the news that their chains can now connect with Polkadot’s Substrate network of parachains with minimal effort. Until now, projects elected to build on Cosmos would have been forced to remain there, given the costs and time associated with migrating to a different blockchain and rebuilding from scratch. A new...Read More
After recording yet another ATH on the charts, one well beyond $1,800, Ethereum currently has its eyes set on the $2,000-mark. While quite a few of its on-chain metrics are flashing positive signs, other noticeable concerns are creeping up as well. The culprit here, according to many, is a familiar foe (fee*). Source: Coinstats Ethereum...Read More
The world’s first ETP tracking the performance of Polkadot will see the light of day on February 4th, 2021, courtesy of 21Shares AG. The firm will release the product on the regulated Swiss stock exchange and will be fully backed by DOT tokens. 21Shares is a Zug, Switzerland-based company with nearly $500 million in assets...Read More
With nearly 90% of investments located in its Bitcoin Trust, Grayscale could be providing new diversification products to its institutional investors. Recent filings in Delaware revealed that the company has registered for new cryptocurrency products for the privacy-oriented coin Monero and three DeFi tokens – Polkadot, Cosmos, and Aave. According to the filings made by...Read More
Bitcoin failed to recover in the past seven days, and it marked a further decline of about 8%. This has its current price hovering around $32,000, and its dominance has declined to 64.1%. But before we take a look at what this means for the altcoin market, let’s see what happened with BTC. The cryptocurrency...Read More
Binance Futures is in the news today after it announced the launch of a DOTECO (Polkadot Ecosystem) Composite Index perpetual contract. The DOTECO Composite Index perpetual contract is a USDT-margined Futures contract that uses USDT as collateral. According to the said announcement by one of the market’s biggest crypto-exchanges, the DOTECO Composite Index is denominated...Read More
This week was very intensive in the cryptocurrency market. It’s perhaps safe to say that it was among the most tumultuous ones we’ve had in the last few months. Everything started calmly, and during the weekend, the price hit an all-time high value of $42,000. The excitement was short-lived, as immediately after that, bitcoin went...Read More
Polkastarter is a DEX developed to operate on the Ethereum rivaling network, Polkadot. Its highly anticipated launch this week went well despite the heavy loads on the dApp and server the blog post stated. The platform has been developed for cross-chain token pools and auctions, with the primary purpose of enabling projects to raise capital...Read More
Most of the crypto-community is obsessed with titles. Any cryptocurrency or a blockchain project advertised with the title of XYZ-killer is particularly popular. Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, is often the target of such dubious comparisons. The latest to do so is Coinbase after it recently published a blog that identified 9 blockchains it classified...Read More
Polkastarter, a Polkadot-based DEX built for cross-chain token pools and auctions, has partnered with Moonbeam, an Ethereum compatible parachain, to enable cross-chain interoperability. In an announcement, Polkastarter stated that the partnership would allow for easy integration between the Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems. Moonbeam is able to transpile Solidity and other Ethereum-native logic & code to...Read More
Over the past week, the bullish sentiment of the collective crypto market has slowed down. Bears had made their presence felt and Polkadot continued to be aware of this impact. After briefly registering a local top at $6.45 on 24th November, DOT has managed to cross the $6 mark again. Its recent rally pushed the...Read More
Polkadot has competitors that claim the same thing as DOT – throughput that achieves scalability, lower fees, security, and the ability to build a defi ecosystem on its chain. However, only a few actually deliver these things and are yet to gain adoption. The adoption isn’t here yet due to the fact that Ethereum is...Read More
The team behind the mimblewimble-based privacy coin Beam will launch a DeFi platform enabling developers to create confidential, decentralized, and user-friendly financial applications. Dubbed BeamX, the platform will arrive on November 19th, with the first iteration being an experimental network, while the mainnet should be released in Q1 2021. Beam Announces DeFi Platform Called BeamX...Read More
Bitcoin’s roller-coaster continued in the past 24 hours with significant fluctuations resulting in a few $500 moves and it finally breaking the previous 2019 high. The altcoins have taken a breather with some green charted, and the market capitalization has increased by around $15 billion. Bitcoin Goes On A Wild 24H Ride It’s safe to...Read More
Although bitcoin hit $13,800, it seems like altcoins didn’t share the enthusiasm, as most coins including Polkadot, saw a decline. Perhaps, this rally was centralized to bitcoin and very few altcoins, and Dot wasn’t among them. Source: DOTUSD TradingView At press time, Dot is trading at $4.601 and is in the top 10 list of...Read More
Despite a brief price slump to $12,800, Bitcoin has perhaps indicated signs of decoupling from the stock markets. Wall Street bled out rather viciously yesterday, while BTC has risen above $13,000 again. Bitcoin Decouples From Stocks? During the past several weeks, Bitcoin’s price performance has resembled that of the US stock markets. For example, when...Read More
Following Bitcoin’s price rally, all eyes are now on Ethereum. The altcoin is only second to Bitcoin in its market capitalization and it has been in the spotlight for a long time this year owing to developments around ETH 2.0. The latest edition of the Bad Crypto Podcast discussed the “Building of a Better Ethereum”...Read More
Ontology is in the news after it recently announced that it is building a sharded blockchain on top of Polkadot, one that connects multiple chains together across a single network. Our new collaboration with @ParityTech to integrate #DeID into @Polkadot is just kicking off! Not only will #Ontology bring cross-chain liquidity to this #Parachain, but...Read More
Bitcoin has continued to overcome the recent adverse news and jumped to an intraday high of $11,550 a few hours ago. Ethereum has also increased in value to about $375, while most other large-cap altcoins remain relatively still. Bitcoin Sees A $11,550 High As reported yesterday, the weekend was fairly bullish for the cryptocurrency market....Read More
