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Gavin Wood – creator of Polkadot and co-founder of Ethereum – has exited his leadership position from the network’s major infrastructure provider, Parity Technologies. However, he will still remain closely involved with the company.  Though he will no longer be CEO, Wood will remain Parity’s majority shareholder, and will transition into a new role as its “Chief Architect.” “The role of CEO has never been one which I have coveted,” said Wood in a statement about the...

Latest data also suggest that nearly 14,930 developer contributions were recorded on Polkadot’s GitHub for August, establishing a new monthly ATH by a wide margin. Polkadot surpassed the margin yet again but for the first time in September, concluding the month with 15,433 contributions, the highest recorded on any network, including Ethereum. New Records For Polkadot The launch of new parachains continued on a regular basis taking the number of active ones to 40 on the...

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Tether, the operator of the third-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of almost $70 billion, announced the USDT launch on Polkadot. Thus, the stablecoin is now available on roughly a dozen blockchain networks. The announcement from the company described Polkadot as a “full-stack Web 3 ecosystem built for the multi-chain future.” Adding that it has a “multi-chain application environment where activities such as cross-chain registries and cross-chain computation are...

Polkadot’s decentralized finance (DeFi) hub Acala suffered a major attack on its newly launched liquidity pool on Sunday. The exploit allowed the hacker to mint more than 1.2 billion aUSD, the project’s stablecoin.  Shortly after the hack, the Acala team updated users on Twitter, noting that the exploit originated from a “misconfiguration of the iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool.” The misconfiguration has now been rectified, according to the project.  We have identified the issue as...

Polkadot’s innovation hub Astar Network has partnered with DeFi network Acala to boost decentralized finance (DeFi) by unlocking new opportunities and rewards for developers in the Polkadot ecosystem.  The two entities have joined forces to launch a new DeFi program dubbed “Astar x Acala DeFi Rising.”  The DeFi Rising Program According to a press release seen by CryptoPotato, the program will allow developers to build apps on Astar’s dApp ecosystem while leveraging Acala’s...

Since the 21st of November 2021, the team at Polkadot has conducted regular DOT-based auctions for one of the coveted slots in their parachain network. There are plans for 100 parachain slots, give or take. Auctions for the first 41 have already been planned, with one happening roughly every ten days. The 16th auction started on the 29th of April and ended on the 6th of May with a victory for Polkadex, an order book-based DEX with support for Polkadot, Ethereum, and the...

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Crypto analytics resource Messari published a report on Polkadot’s Q1 performance, outlining the layer-zero protocol’s price action, network usage, latest developments in staking and decentralization, and possibilities ahead. The paper stated that Polkadot has successfully completed 13 parachain slot auctions, with a total of 127.8 million DOT – worth $2.9 billion (at Q1’s end) and around 11% of the total supply – bonded. In addition, 28 more parachain slot auctions are...

Web 3 and blockchain infrastructure provider Coinbase Cloud has announced a new partnership with Acala Foundation, the DeFi hub of Polkadot, by first bringing KSM liquid staking on Karura. KSM is the native token of the Kusuma network, a public pre-production environment for Polkadot. Unlike traditional staking in proof-of-stake networks, Liquid staking allows asset delegators to access their funds while staking their tokens. In this way, validators can put their staked...