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Announcing the Polkadot Ecosystem Fund

San Francisco and Zug — Web3 Foundation and Polychain Capital are joining forces to launch the Polkadot Ecosystem Fund during San Francisco Blockchain Week. The fund is a Polychain-operated investment vehicle jointly capitalized by Web3 Foundation and Polychain.

Kusama CC2: PrePoS

Kusama just got an upgrade. I’m pleased to announce that at exactly 9am today (Zug time), Kusama CC-2 went through a full upgrade to runtime version 1005 as found in Polkadot release v0.6.3.

Kusama CC2

Three weeks ago, we released Kusama Chain Candidate 1 (CC1). After several key fixes to the Polkadot, including the Babe consensus layer, we’re pleased to release the next chapter in Kusama: CC2.

Parathreads: Pay-as-you-go Parachains

By: Joe Petrowski Polkadot is now even more accessible to projects that may not have the capital to secure a dedicated parachain slot and gives the opportunity to become a parachain if their application requires high throughput.

Kusama Rollout and Governance

Kusama is Polkadot’s canary network. It is an early, unaudited, and wholly experimental network, designed to help understand how the various cutting-edge technologies introduced in areas including governance, staking and sharding work under real economic conditions

KILT Protocol’s public test net implemented using Substrate

KILT intends to secure a parachain slot after Polkadot main net launch and aims to provide the Polkadot ecosystem with an interoperable trust infrastructure to create numerous opportunities for both projects.

The Polkadot Claims Audit

Web3 Foundation engaged Chain Security for an audit of the Polkadot Claims smart contract. The audit found 0 Critical, 0 High, 2 Medium and 9 Low level issues, all of which have been resolved in the latest commits to the code.

Announcing the Kusama Network

Kusama is an experimental community research and development network. Warning: this is an experimental network. EXPECT CHAOS.

A Walkthrough of Polkadot’s Governance

Polkadot's breakthrough onchain governance model enables user-driven decisions with transparent, decentralized voting, ensuring a resilient blockchain network.

Akropolis Launches Proof-of-Concept Chain Using Substrate

The Akropolis team launched a Substrate-based chain earlier this year for their DeFi protocol. Akropolis intends to participate in a parachain slot auction after the Polkadot main net launch.

Launching Worldwide Polkadot & Web3 Community Meetups

The Polkadot and Web3 community has grown significantly in 2019, with community events taking place around the world. We want to encourage these events and help facilitate them, so together, we can grow the global Web3 community.

Join the Polkadot Ambassador Program

If you want to become deeply integrated into the Polkadot community, join the Polkadot Ambassador Program!

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