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Empowering Next-Level Insights: Dune Brings Polkadot and Kusama Analytics into Focus
Unlock powerful insights for the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem with comprehensive on-chain data and custom dashboards on Dune Analytics.
Polkadot 2023 Roundup
Polkadot founder Gavin Wood reflects on the key events within the ecosystem during 2023, and provides a vision of how 2024 might pan out.
Five New Parachains, Staking Growth & Technical Upgrades as Expansion Continues
Polkadot enjoyed further ecosystem growth in the third quarter of 2023, with impressive metrics around staking, on-chain events and unique accounts.
Polkadot Update: Q1 2023
Polkadot has enjoyed a spectacular start to 2023, with a range of eye-catching partnerships coming to fruition and development activity breaking all-time records.
Parachain Dispatch: March 2023
Read the latest news and technical updates from Polkadot parachains for March 2023.
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
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
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
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
Parachain Dispatch: December 2022
Read the latest news and technical updates from Polkadot parachains for December 2022.
Making History, Again: Polkadot Auctions 1-5
Following the successful completion of Polkadot's first batch of auctions, we review what happened and look at the data.
Parachains are Live! Polkadot Launch is Now Complete
Parachains are now live on Polkadot, completing the multi-stage Polkadot launch process.