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Polkadot
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$5.96
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Smart Contract Platform
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Layer 0 (L0)
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$5.82
$6.13
Low
High
Market Cap (Mcap)
Rank
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Mcap
$8.30B
Fully Diluted Mcap
$8.78B
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Circulating
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All Time High (ATH)
ATH
$54.98
ATH Change
-89.14%
ATH Date
Nov 4th, 2021
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Jul 19, 2024

Polkadot

Technology Guides

What is Polkadot 2.0? Polkadot's Vision for the Future Explained

Polkadot 2.0 is a catch-all term for a new vision for the future of the Polkadot network. Polkadot founder Gavin Wood hopes that Polkadot 2.0 will represent an “agile, ubiquitous, compute resource” once introduced. What is Polkadot 2.0? Although it sounds like a technical upgrade, Polkadot 2.0 doesn’t refer to one specific event. Instead, it’s a collection of changes that will radically alter what the blockchain is capable of. At a top level, Wood has used the metaphor of a pancake business to e...

by Will McCurdy ·

Jul 2, 2024

Polkadot. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

Polkadot Marketing Cost Controversy Sparks Claims of Discrimination

Polkadot’s recent spending has ignited a firestorm of debate among stakeholders who fear the project is burning through cash fast. But the outcry has given way to a new controversy as some within the Polkadot community say it’s not just a problem of how much is being spent but also on whom, alleging discrimination. Victor Ji, co-founder of Manta Network, criticized Polkadot’s ecosystem as "highly toxic” Tuesday, urging Asian founders to consider development work on other platforms. In an intervi...

by André Beganski, Murtuza Merchant ·

Jun 28, 2024

Parity CEO Björn Wagner and Polkadot founder Gavin Wood at Polkadot Decoded 2023. Image: Polkadot

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Community Gears Up for Polkadot Decoded

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkadot Decoded is almost here Billed as the biggest event in the Polkadot calendar, Polkadot Decoded is set to take place in Brussels, Belgium from July 11th to 12th. This year’s edition of the international flagship conference for the Polkadot ecosystem will celebrate all facets of Polkadot and Kusama, combining both in-person and virtual experiences. Tickets for the event are sti...

by Will McCurdy ·

Jun 21, 2024

JAM. Image: Polkadot

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: $60 Million JAM Prize Fund Open for Applications

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. $60 million JAM Prize pool open for applications The JAM Prize is now officially open for applications. Developers working on implementations of JAM, the next stage in Polkadot’s evolution, will be able to win prizes from a pool of 10 million DOT tokens and 100,000 KSM tokens, roughly $60 million and $1.8 million at the time of writing. Developers can now find out exactly how many to...

by Will McCurdy ·

Jun 14, 2024

The Moon. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Moonbeam Launches $13 Million Funding Initiative

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Moonbeam Network, consistently one of Polkadot’s most popular parachains since it first launched in January 2022, has launched a $13 million funding initiative. The new initiative will look to boost Moonbeam’s ecosystem in several key areas such as gaming and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, alongside supporting its sister blockchain Moonriver, hosted on Polkadot’s canary network...

by Will McCurdy ·

Jun 8, 2024

JAM. Image: Decrypt

Technology Guides

What is JAM? Polkadot's Biggest Ever Upgrade Explained

Announced in April 2024, the Join Accumulate Machine (JAM) represents the biggest-ever update to Polkadot since the blockchain first became fully operational in 2021. It will bring deep changes to the Relay Chain, the center of the project’s ecosystem, which underpins all its independent parachains. The JAM upgrade’s proposed technical principles and aims were outlined in the JAM Gray Paper, penned by Polkadot creator Gavin Wood. Polkadot relies on decentralized leadership to decide the future o...

by Will McCurdy ·

Jun 7, 2024

Pudgy Penguins are the latest NFT craze. Image: Pudgy Penguins

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Pudgy Penguins Mobile Game Coming to Polkadot

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Pudgy Penguins land on Polkadot with mobile game Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games is set to release a Polkadot-based mobile game based on the well-known NFT brand Pudgy Penguins. The Pudgy Penguins brand has made inroads into the mainstream in recent months; physical toys based on its intellectual property have been released in Walmart and Target, while the brand has hit the pages o...

by Will McCurdy ·

May 31, 2024

JAM. Image: Polkadot

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: JAM Upgrade Passes in Near-Unanimous Vote

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. The Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) upgrade, the next stage in the technical evolution of Polkadot, has now been ratified in a collective vote by Polkadot’s community members, passing with a near-unanimous landslide vote among the network’s validators. JAM, which was announced by Polkadot founder Gavin Wood in Dubai back in April at Token2049, will be the most significant upgrade since...

by Will McCurdy ·

May 30, 2024

Pudgy Penguins is an Ethereum NFT project. Image: Pudgy Penguins

Gaming

Pudgy Penguins Mobile Game Coming to Mythos Chain on Polkadot

Ethereum NFT brand Pudgy Penguins has expanded from tokenized profile pictures (PFPs) to plush toys in major retailers and beyond—and next it’ll enter the mobile gaming world via a new collaboration with publisher Mythical Games. Billed as a “AAA” mobile game, the Pudgy Penguins title is set to debut in 2025 on the Mythos Chain, a Polkadot-based gaming network that was spearheaded by Mythical Games. The studio is the developer behind games like NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party. John Linden, co...

by Andrew Hayward ·

May 24, 2024

Polkadot. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: New Ways to Raise Cash and a Gaming Chain Migrates

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Funding platform hits Polkadot Polimec, a new decentralized and community-centric funding protocol, has officially launched on Polkadot. The platform allows its community members to assess and support Web3 projects, granting them access to funding information and project evaluations, and allowing them to join funding rounds. The protocol, according to Polimec, is specifically built w...

by Will McCurdy ·

May 17, 2024

Polkadot. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: The Founder Institute Backs Polkadot Start-ups

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. The Founder Institute to collaborate with Polkadot The Founder Institute, a Silicon Valley start-up incubator that has helped firms such as Udemy, OddBox and FightCamp raise money, has announced a strategic collaboration with Polkadot. The Founder Institute will help early-stage Web3 startups that are accepted into the latest cohort by offering them resources, mentorship and access t...

by Will McCurdy ·

May 10, 2024

Polkadot. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Monthly Active Accounts Hit All-Time High

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. The number of monthly active accounts on Polkadot reached an all-time high in April, the highest since the start of 2022 when parachains, one of the ecosystem’s key distinguishing factors, first launched. Meanwhile, ahead of the community vote on Polkadot’s JAM Upgrade being implemented, many parachains, including the smart contract platform Moonbeam, achieved near record highs in ac...

by Will McCurdy ·

May 3, 2024

Polkadot. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: JAM Pushes Toward ‘Original Concept’ of World Computer: Gavin Wood

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Gavin Wood gives deep dive on JAM upgrade Polkadot founder Gavin Wood sat down to answer some of the questions surrounding the network’s proposed Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) upgrade, following the publication of its graypaper last month. In a hour-long podcast interview with The Kusamarian, Wood touched on how JAM represents a step towards his “original concept” of a world computer...

by Will McCurdy ·

May 2, 2024

Polkadot

Technology Guides

What are Parachains? Polkadot's Secret Weapon Explained

With an ever-growing number of blockchain projects, achieving interoperability and scalability between blockchains is increasingly important. Polkadot’s solution to this challenge is ‘parachains,’ a technical approach to allowing distinct blockchains to scale and work together effectively and safely, leveraging the Polkadot network’s guarantees of security, isolation, and communication. What are parachains? Unlike most other blockchains such as Ethereum, Polkadot isn’t built to have much inheren...

by Will McCurdy ·

Apr 26, 2024

Decentralized storage. Image: Shutterstock

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Web3 Foundation Backs Decentralized Storage

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Following last week's major announcement by Gavin Wood about the new JAM protocol at Token2049, several new projects built around Polkadot have been announced in the past week.  The Web3 Foundation threw its weight behind decentralized storage, backing Moonsong Labs’ StorageHub as part of its Decentralized Futures Program. The project aims to provide a full Polkadot native storage so...

by Will McCurdy ·

Apr 19, 2024

Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, 2017. Image: Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch (CC BY 2.0 Deed)

Technology

The Week in Polkadot: Gavin Wood Unveils ‘Major Upgrade’ JAM at Token2049

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. At the Token2049 conference in Dubai this week, Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood introduced a graypaper outlining the Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM), billed as “a proposal for the future of Polkadot.” In a “major revision,” the JAM protocol would replace Polkadot’s Relay Chain with a “more modular, minimalistic design,” building a permissionless object environment akin to Ethereum’s sma...

by Decrypt Staff ·

Apr 12, 2024

Polkadot. Image: Shutterstock Vector-3D

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Active Addresses Hit All-Time High

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our new regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. It’s been a busy week for Polkadot, as activity on the network surged, while the network’s community voted overwhelmingly in favor of sending a crypto-branded car to the Indy 500. Active addresses hit all-time high March saw Polkadot hit a new all-time high in active addresses on its network, with over 605,000 active addresses on-chain by the end of the month. Per data from DotLa...

by Decrypt Staff ·

Apr 9, 2024

Image: Polkadot/Conor Daly

Coins

Polkadot Races Into Indianapolis 500 With Crypto-Branded Car

Polkadot is coming to the Indianapolis 500 after community members voted to select IndyCar racing star Conor Daly as a brand ambassador. The year-long collaboration, announced by Daly’s company during a press conference on Tuesday, will begin at the preeminent race set to take place in May. A proposal to sponsor Daly passed with 95.8% approval in a community vote on the Polk Assembly website. The plan, which was up for review from February 19 to March 14, requested 290,000 DOT, worth around $2.1...

by Jason Nelson ·

Dec 12, 2023

Image: Rafski Wojnowski.

NFTs

Electronic Music Duo Disclosure Drop AI-Powered NFTs on Beatport

Grammy-nominated electronic music duo Disclosure is releasing 1,000 unique NFTs offering different versions of their track “Simply Won’t Do,” which was first released in July 2023 as part of their “Alchemy” album. The NFT collection, Disclosure Bronze Editions, will be released on Beatport’s NFT marketplace, the platform announced Tuesday. “The concept of offering 1,000 unique variations of ‘Simply Won’t Do’ is a groundbreaking step in music production,” said Disclosure’s Guy Lawrence in a state...

by Kate Irwin ·

Nov 15, 2023

Frank McCourt at Web Summit 2023. Image: Decrypt

Business

Billionaire Frank McCourt: 'Dodgy Cryptocurrencies and Silly NFTs' Have Spoiled Blockchain's Narrative

Billionaire real estate developer Frank McCourt took aim at "dodgy cryptocurrencies and silly NFTs" for spoiling the narrative around blockchain. Speaking at Web Summit 2023, McCourt noted that his own project, open internet protocol or Decentralized Social Network Protocol (DSNP), was not tokenized. "Dodgy cryptocurrencies and silly NFTs are not the same as core technology that can actually help make the internet better for us," he said, adding that "the narrative has been spoiled somewhat." Bl...

by Stephen Graves ·