Markets

Polkadot's Inaugural Vote Could Expand DOT Supply by 1,000x

The first vote on Polkadot will be to see whether the DOT supply should be redenominated by a "logical" 100x or even by 1,000x.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Markets

Bitcoin News Roundup for June 19, 2020

With BTC miners HODLing, Reddit dreaming big and a crypto card issuer missing billions of dollars and drawing comparisons to Enron, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another Bitcoin news roundup.

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Tech

Polkadot Is Latest Blockchain to Explore Redeemable Bitcoin Tokens

It's only a proof-of-concept at this point, but there's now a model for locking BTC on the Bitcoin blockchain and minting PolkaBTC on Polkadot.

The polkadot-themed artwork of Yayoi Kusama.

Tech

Polkadot Goes Live as Web3 Foundation Pushes Prospective Mainnet

Polkadot is now live, following the launch of its first “chain candidate” (CC1).

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Videos

Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov on the Growth of Polkadot

Sergey Nazarov sits down with Will Foxley to talk about Polkadot at ETHDenver

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Tech

Parity’s Gavin Wood Takes a Swipe at Ethereum

Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Tech

'Very Near Launch': Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his Ready Layer One presentation.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Finance

Coinbase Custody to Support Polkadot Staking With up to 20% Returns

Coinbase Custody is partnering with Bison Trails to add staking support for Polkadot’s native DOT tokens in anticipation of the network’s mainnet launch.

Coinbase Custody CEO Sam McIngvale (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

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Tech

Shyft Network to Build FATF-Compliant 'Identity Layer' for Polkadot

Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network.

Shyft Network co-founder Joseph Weinberg speaks at Consensus 2018. (CoinDesk archives)