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Beatport, Polkadot & Aventus Join Forces to Launch a Web3 Electronic Music Platform

Beatport is joining the Polkadot ecosystem through a collaboration with the Aventus parachain on a Web3 electronic music platform

Polkadot

A Year in Parachains, Part 4: Sustainability, IoT, NFTs, Gaming, & Metaverse

A brief overview of Polkadot's parachain landscape following its first full year since launch. Part 4: Sustainability, IoT, NFTs, Gaming, & Metaverse

Polkadot

Introducing the Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Coming to California, Summer 2023

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy, a month-long intensive academic program designed to train the next generation of top blockchain engineers, is coming to Berkeley, CA Summer 2023.

Polkadot

A Year in Parachains, Part 3: Data, ID, Privacy, Storage, & Infrastructure

Providing a brief overview of Polkadot's parachain landscape in its first full year since launch. Part 3: Data, ID, Privacy, Storage, and Infrastructure

Polkadot

Polkadot Staking Review: Impressive Stats, What’s New & What’s Coming

Since the launch of the Polkadot Staking Dashboard and nomination pools, participation in native staking has skyrocketed. These updates transformed how to stake on Polkadot.

Polkadot

A Year in Parachains, Part 2: System Chains, Smart Contracts, & Social Media

Providing a brief overview of Polkadot's parachain landscape in its first year since launch. Part 2: System Chains, Smart Contracts, & Social Media

Parachains

A Year in Parachains, Part 1: DeFi

It’s been just over a year since parachains first launched on Polkadot, and already the network boasts the largest ecosystem of use-case specific blockchains in the world. Since the first slot auctions took place in November 2021 and the first parachains began onboarding to the network the following month, 37 parachains have joined Polkadot, with an additional 42 parachains on Polkadot’s canary network, Kusama, for a total of 79 across the Polkadot ecosystem. Over the past year, Polkadot’s firs

Community

Revamping Polkadot Governance with Polkadot OpenGov

A look at Polkadot's new governance model, Polkadot OpenGov, increasing the decentralization, agility, and efficiency of Polkadot's pioneering on-chain governance system.

Polkadot

Polkadot 2022 Roundup

Polkadot's yearly roundup for 2022. The Polkadot community wraps up the year with the largest ecosystem of purpose-built layer-1 blockchains. Read on for all the 2022 highlights.

Parachains

Parachain Dispatch: December 2022

Read the latest news and technical updates from Polkadot parachains for December 2022.

Polkadot

Nomination Pools are Live! Stake Natively with Just 1 DOT.

Stake natively on Polkadot easier than ever and with as little as 1 DOT thanks to this new scalability feature for Polkadot’s staking system.

Parachain

First Parachain Successfully Migrates from Kusama to Polkadot

KILT Protocol's migration from Kusama to Polkadot is an important technical milestone and the first parachain migration. Polkadot's 'canary network' model allows Web3 projects to test their technology in a real-world environment before upgrading to stable production networks.