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Engineering writing from the Polkadot Network, re-published here from Medium.

  • Kusama’s First Adventure

    A little chaos ensued on the Kusama network, Polkadot’s canary-net. Here’s a quick summary of the cause and solution.

  • Polkadot Consensus Part 4: Security

    This is part 4 in our Polkadot consensus series. See part 1 for the introduction, part 2 for a discussion about GRANDPA and part 3 for a…

  • Polkadot Consensus Part 3: BABE

    This is part 3 in our Polkadot consensus series. See part 1 for the introduction and part 2 for a discussion about GRANDPA.

  • Polkadot Consensus Part 1: Introduction

    This series will be a discussion about security and consensus in Polkadot. In part 1, we will define some terms before getting into the…

  • Polkadot v0.7.0 and Kusama CC-3

    After a little chaos, Kusama is ready for the next chapter: CC-3 and at long last the governance handover.

  • Kusama CC2

    Three weeks ago, we released Kusama Chain Candidate 1 (CC1). After several key fixes to the Polkadot, including the Babe consensus layer, w

  • Parathreads: Pay-as-you-go Parachains

    Parathreads open up the parachain paradigm, lowering the barrier to gaining the benefits of shared security and connectivity. Polkadot is…