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I started the last year-end round-up with some statistics, and it seems fitting to continue the trend and report some numbers from this year. In total, the Polkadot project, including Substrate, Grandpa, Cumulus and a few bits of support code, has over three hundred thousand lines of code!

Kusama is about to get a new logic core; here’s the details.

Kusama is about to get a new logic core; here’s the details.

After a little chaos, Kusama is ready for the next chapter: CC-3 and at long last the governance handover.

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.

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.

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

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