Blog
Page 10
Polkadot Consensus Part 4: Security
So far, we have discussed how BABE creates blockchain candidates and GRANDPA finalizes them. We know that we need more than two-thirds of validators to properly follow the protocol. But how many validators are there? How are they chosen? Why should they follow the rules?
Polkadot Consensus Part 3: BABE
Blind Assignment for Blockchain Extension (BABE) is a block production engine that was inspired by Ouroboros Praos, another proof-of-stake protocol. It can be used on its own because it provides probabilistic finality, or it can be coupled with a finality gadget like GRANDPA.
Polkadot Consensus Part 2: GRANDPA
In the introduction to this series, I outlined that a consensus algorithm helps a network of computers answer three questions. GRANDPA addresses the second.
Polkadot Consensus Part 1: Introduction
This series will be a discussion about security and consensus in Polkadot. In part 1, we will define some terms before getting into the details of how Polkadot creates and secures blocks.
Únete a Los Embajadores de Polkadot
¡Bienvenido a Polkadot! Si ya has leído la información a continuación sobre el Programa de Embajadores, presenta tu solicitud ahora.
Kusama Upgrade Bulletin (1030)
Kusama is about to get a new logic core; here’s the details.
Have a TEE with Polkadot
Hello from the SubstraTEE team at Supercomputing Systems AG! In this post we’d like to introduce key concepts of trusted off-chain computing. We’ll show what you can do with our tool, SubstraTEE, today and what our vision is for future applications.
Polkadot v0.7.0 and Kusama CC-3
After a little chaos, Kusama is ready for the next chapter: CC-3 and at long last the governance handover.
Announcing the Polkadot Ecosystem Fund
San Francisco & 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.