Events so far

This section will provide an overview of the events which have already happened. I will try to add the latest events as they occur.

2020

August

21 August 2020 – Dots redenomination (1 -> 100)! [Link]

18 August 2020 – Transferbility enabled! [Link]

04? August 2020 Rococo parachain testnet launched! [Link]

May

26 May 2020 – Polkadot Launched! [Link]

February

February 2020 – Grants Program hit 100 funded projects (announcement was later).

2018

December

05 December 2018 – W3F Grants program launched – supporting Substrate and Polkadot builders! [Link] (first commit)

August

30 August 2018 — Polkascan Launched! [Link]

29 August 2018 — Polka b ot Launched! [Link]

ot Launched! [Link] 27 August 2018 — Gavin interviewed live on Bloomberg. [Link]

20 August 2018 — W3F announce the Polkadot Runtime Environment (PRE) grant. [Link]

08 August 2018 — 1,000,000 blocks, two blockchain protocols, numerous validators and 51 peers. [Link]

July

26 July 2018 — First parachain deployed ! Rob Habermeier deployed the first parachain to the PoC2 network. [Link]

! Rob Habermeier deployed the first parachain to the PoC2 network. [Link] 17 July 2018 — Proof-of-Concept 2 is here! At 18:49 (London), the network stakeholders successfully performed an on-chain governance-based upgrade of the global testnet from PoC-1 to PoC-2. The first of its kind in the wild. [Link]

is here! At 18:49 (London), the network stakeholders successfully performed an of the global testnet from PoC-1 to PoC-2. The first of its kind in the wild. [Link] 16 July 2018 — Web3 Foundation’s collaboration repo is launched. First issue added! [Link]

05 July 2018 — Global testnet just passed 500,000 blocks. [Link]

blocks. [Link] 03 July 2018 — Polkadot won the Hottest Blockchain Protocol 2018 at the Europas awards!

June

22 June 2018 — Robert Habermeier named 2018 Thiel Fellow [Link]

22 June 2018 — The Polkadot Network nominated for three awards at the Europas awards: Hottest Blockchain Protocol, Hottest Blockchain ICO in Europe, and Jutta Steiner voted as the Hottest Startup Founder. (Eventually won Hottest Blockchain Protocol 2018 ).

21 June 2018 — Blog: Preparing to build on Polkadot [Link]

07 June 2018 — Polkadot Pizza Day! The first real world transaction of DOTs. @EAThomson pays Josh 10,000 DOTs for a pizza. Hopefully he doesn’t regret it! [Tweet with Video]

— The first real world transaction of DOTs. @EAThomson pays Josh 10,000 DOTs for a pizza. Hopefully he doesn’t regret it! [Tweet with Video] 07 June 2018 — Blog: How Polkadot tackles the biggest problems facing blockchain innovators [Link]

May

18 May 2018 — Proof-of-Concept 1 is here! The first major milestone. [Link][Twitter]

is here! The first major milestone. [Link][Twitter] 04 May 2018 — Substrate presentation plus a live demo of the Polkadot governance model (EdCon, Toronto). [Link][Video]

02 May 2018 — Gavin showed off a test of a governance-based dynamic runtime-upgrade for Polkadot. [Link]

April

26 April 2018 — Parity reconfirmed their commitment to the Ethereum ecosystem. [Link]

19 April 2018 — Parity Substrate revealed at Event Horizon, Berlin. [Link]

10 April 2018 — First transaction (“extrinsic”) validated/finalised on a Polkadot chain. [Link]

January

04 January 2018 — Ether hits $1000 for the first time.

2017

December

19 December 2017 — New Wikipedia page created for the Polkadot project. [Link]

18 December 2017 — Ether hits $800 for the first time.

13 December 2017 — Ether hits $700 for the first time.

12 December 2017 — Ether hits $600 for the first time.

11 December 2017 — Parity provided an update on their thinking on the frozen funds. [Link]

05 December 2017 — TechCrunch published a video featuring Gavin and Jutta at Disrupt Berlin. [Link]

03 December 2017 — Glossary page created on this website. [Link]

November

29 November 2017 — Ether hits $500 for the first time.

28 November 2017 — Polkadot Dev Update #1. [Link].

20 November 2017 — Gavin publishes a specification document on Github. [Link]

20 November 2017 — Web3 created a new subreddit for the project (r/polkadot_network). Update: Now migrated to a new place r/dot: [Link]

15 November 2017 — Gavin launches Polkadot Technical chat room on riot (read only). [Link]

12 November 2017 — Polkadot.market website launched.

09 November 2017 — First code released on Github . Private at the time of writing. [Announcement]

. Private at the time of writing. [Announcement] 08 November 2017 — Bug in the Parity multi-sig wallet freezes the pre-sale funds. [Announcement] [Update]

October

27 October 2017 — Polkadot pre-sale concluded. 485,331 Eth raised (at 1 dot = 0.109 ETH). 1 Eth: ~ $296.80.

26 October 2017 — First Polakdot meetup held in London. [Event]

15 October 2017 — Polkadot pre-sale starts (via polkadot.network).

09 October 2017 — The first ever Polkadot meetup was held in Berlin. [Event]

August

13 August 2017 — Polkadot.market domain name purchased.

July

29 July 2017 — Polkadot Market subreddit launched.

July 2017 — Polkadot pre-sale (“ICO”) announced.

01 July 2017 — Edward wrote a brief review of the #EthLdn meetup which included a comment on Polkadot. This was followed up with a preliminary analysis of the pre-sale.

June

16 June 2017 — Gavin Wood presented Polkadot at the Ethereum London meetup. Video here: [Youtube]

16 June 2017 — Creation of the Web3 Foundation. [Link]

2016

November

14 November 2016 — Gavin Wood published the Polkadot whitepaper. [Link]

Future Plans

In this section I will show when the development team have planned for the future. This will include pre and post launch information. At the time of writing the developers have a roadmap published on polkadot.network:

Check back for further updates to roadmap and timeline of events as they happen.