Polkadot Implementations

There are Polkadot implementations developed in Rust, C++, Go, and JavaScript.

Parity Polkadot — The Rust client is developed by Parity Technologies in concert with their work on Substrate.

Kagome — C++ implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment being built by Soramitsu, a Japanese digital identity company that previously developed Hyperledger Iroha. They were awarded a grant from the Web3 Foundation. As part of the process they are developing a libp2p networking layer in C++.

Gossamer — A Go implementation being built by ChainSafe Systems, a 23-person development team in Toronto that is also building an Eth2.0 Serenity client. Grant announcement.

Polkadot-JS — A JavaScript client and tool set developed by Polkadot JS.

Polkadot Approaches Beta Launch

Claim Your Dots Today with Coinbase Custody!

Individuals and entities that hold allocations of dots — Polkadot’s native token that enables access to the protocol’s features — can now take the first step to prepare for Polkadot’s launch in the coming months.

You can verify your claim using the Ethereum address checking tool. Next, dot holders can generate a Polkadot address, connect their dot allocation on Ethereum with their Polkadot address, and claim their dots via our new Polkadot claims website. Please note that this website is only for dot holders with Ethereum-based dot allocation indicator tokens.

Dot holders have four options to claim their dots:

Coinbase Custody (read about our partnership with Coinbase here) Polkadot.js browser plug-in Subkey Polkadot.js user-interface.

The ability to create Polkadot addresses and claim dots via the Polkadot claims website is the first step in Polkadot’s rollout. In later stages, dot holders will be able to stake their dots, participate in governance, and build and use parachains.

The deadline to claim will be when Polkadot’s main network launches. at this time, the team cannot promise an exact date, but we expect the claims process will remain live for several weeks.

If you miss the deadline, there will be a separate claims process (similar to the current Kusama claims process) to claim your dots. You will gain access to your dots very shortly thereafter (most likely within a minute). This process will also work indefinitely after the launch of Polkadot’s main network and beyond the genesis block.

Initially, functionality will be restricted to the Staking, Session, and Claims modules. After you have claimed your dots, you will be able to bond your dots, nominate validators, and signal your own intention to validate.

After enough potential validators signal their intention to validate and Web3 Foundation deems the network stable, a runtime upgrade will transition Polkadot to its decentralized, nominated proof-of-stake protocol. Once the network is running stable with NPoS, a series of runtime upgrades will unlock the remaining functionality like governance, parachain auctions, and token transfers.

If you participate in the claims process before the Polkadot main network is live, your dot allocation will be denoted in Polakdot’s genesis block. This means that you will have access to your dots once the Polkadot blockchain launches and the on-chain governance mechanism votes to enable tokens transfers.

If you claim the dots using the alternative claims process after launch, then you will receive access to your dot allocation shortly after submitting your claim. This process should take less than a minute.

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For more information go to Polkadot claims website

Centrifuge

Certifage is Centrifuge is an open, decentralized platform to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows any business to transact while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions.

The vision of Centrifuge is to bring the counterparties of the Financial Supply Chain both closer together and into the open by creating a worldwide network of buyer-supplier relationships: a Global Business Graph. By joining Centrifuge, participants can access a new generation of applications and services for the financial supply chain.

Global B2B spend (a.k.a. all invoices sent around the globe) amounts to roughly $180 Trillion. With payment terms at an average of 60 days, businesses, and especially SMEs, need financing to bridge the gap. It is one of the main reasons that sustainable growth is so much harder for SMEs than for larger corporates. Existing solutions today, such as factoring and reverse factoring, only address a small portion of that need. This is why Centrifuge is built OS — to allow businesses to exchange business documents (such as invoices) and tokenize those assets to have greater access to financing — thereby unlocking value that has previously been inaccessible.

Centrifuge OS is a decentralized platform to support a new generation of applications for the financial supply chain. The stack consists of a peer-to-peer messaging protocol to store and exchange business documents in a private, secure way. As the next layer, we built Centrifuge Chain using Substrate to hold the unalterable, single source of truth of these documents for all parties. Using Centrifuge Chain and dApps built on top, businesses can tokenize documents and use this as collateral to access financing. Tinlake is our securitization protocol for these tokenized assets built on Centrifuge Chain to optimize risk allocation and connect Centrifuge to the DeFi ecosystem.

The Polkadot, Kusama, and Substrate ecosystems have a wide range of teams and projects building out their ideas for the future. The team invite you to the upcoming webinar, Web3 Builders: Centrifuge, on Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 16:00 UTC.

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https://centrifuge.io/

Announcing the Acala Mandala Testnet, Proof-of-Liveness Partners, and Ecosystem projects

The Acala Network will power cross-chain capable multi-collateralized and decentralized stablecoin, and serve as the DeFi building block for the Polkadot Ecosystem. The evolution of the Acala Network will be marked by trilogy networks:

Mandala Test Network: is a risk-free and value-free playground for users and developers to test drive functionalities of Acala. Expect bugs, chaos, and unannounced reboots.

Karura Network: is an unaudited and experimental release of Acala that will join the Kusama network as parachain. It will have economic value represented as kACA native tokens, and KSM can be used as collateral for kaUSD.

Acala Mainnet: will be connected to the Polkadot network upon its launch.

Mandala Network

Mandala is the test network for Acala. It allows users, teams, and developers to test drive stablecoin functionalities, get a taste of Acala’s governance, and build integration in a risk-free environment.

Other useful articles:

Read the following article “The Path of a Parachain Block”

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