Wasm on the Blockchain: The Lesser Evil
Why Wasm? This blog post answers questions people have asked about our choice to use Wasm.
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Engineering writing from the Polkadot Network, re-published here from Medium.
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Dotcon-0: Substrate workshop with Gavin Wood
Polkadot Co-Founder Gavin Wood and Parity Technologies Core Developer gave a workshop on Substrate at DotCon-0.
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Why on-chain governance?
On-chain governance addresses many problems we have seen in off-chain governance, such as unclear decision-making processes and a lack of…
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GRANDPA: Block Finality in Polkadot
This article is the first in a series of articles exploring consensus and finality in Polkadot.
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From Bitcoin to Polkadot: A brief history of consensus and finality in blockchains
This piece will explore the need for fault tolerant consensus algorithms in blockchain networks and where development is headed in the near future.
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Polkadot PoC-2 is here: Parachains, runtime upgrades, and Libp2p networking
Two months after Polkadot’s first proof of concept went live, PoC-2 is here. This major milestone reached by the Polkadot team provides the…
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Setting up a validator node in Polkadot PoC-1
TL;DR: a short list of instructions, but basically the same steps as Gav wrote on GitHub. FYI, I started from a fairly clean install of…
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Polkadot co-founder Robert Habermeier named 2018 Thiel Fellow
The Thiel Foundation announced the 2018 class of Thiel Fellows, and Parity’s own Robert Habermeier has been selected as a recipient. The…
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How Polkadot tackles the biggest problems facing blockchain innovators
Excitement is growing in the Polkadot community as we edge closer to our scheduled release in Q3 2019.
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Now Live: Polkadot Proof-of-Concept 1
Polkadot aims to solve some of the big issues facing blockchains today, including scalability, governance, extensibility, and…
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Polkadot Simplified Developer Update #2
A developer update for non-developers that tried to read the developer update.
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Polkadot: The Parachain
Polkadot is a blockchain for scalable decentralized computation and interoperability. In this article, we are going to examine one of the…