#parity technologies

Zodia Custody has partnered with Parity Technologies to enhance institutional access to the Polkadot ecosystem, a pioneering blockspace network. The partnership will provide custody services, staking DOT, and bridging the gap between traditional finance and digital assets. Zodia Custody will also support the ecosystem’s sustained evolution through research and development, promoting global…

Parity Technologies-Guided Pontem Network Launches Its Parachain, Completes Milestone #1

Pontem Network, an experimentation platform for Facebook-backed Diem planning to run on Kusama, has completed the first milestone set out under the Substrate Builder’s Grant Program by Parity Technologies. Pontem Network Completes the First Milestone under the Substrate Builder’s Grant Program As per an update on October 24, in three months, Pontem Network managed toRead More

Parity Upgrades Polkadot’s Underlying Tech to Make Custom Blockchain Building Easier

Parity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit, Substrate 2.0, according to a blog post shared Wednesday with CoinDesk. 

The new release gives developers additional tools to customize a blockchain “precisely for your application or business logic,” the post reads. 

Parity Technologies is the developer of the Polkadot blockchain with ambitions for developing…

Polkadot Partners With Trace Alliance to Realize Vision of a New Blockchain-Agnostic Internet

Parity Technologies, the parent company behind the popular Web 3.0 Foundation project, Polkadot, has secured a partnership with Trace Alliance, as announced in an official blog post on OriginTrail on September 9. This partnership exhibits a major milestone in achieving the goal of creating a blockchain-agnostic internet. About the Partnership  Polkadot is well known forRead More

Polkadot Releases Rococo, Its Test Environment for Interoperable ‘Parachains’

Parity Technologies’ Polkadot has launched a testnet, Rococo, of the protocol’s first parachain specification, according to a blog Thursday. Parachains underlie Parity Tech’s vision of a “protocol for protocols.”

Disclosure

The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is…

Polkadot Raises $43M in 72-Hour Private Sale: Source

A second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) netted the Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies some 3,982.07 bitcoin (BTC) worth an estimated $43.3 million at press time, according to sources.

A bitcoin address shared with CoinDesk saw 1,059 transactions beginning July 24 at 5:22 UTC.

The token offering was not available in certain jurisdictions such as the United States, according to…

Russia’s Supreme Court Makes ‘Landmark’ Vote With Blockchain System From Kaspersky Lab

Russia’s Supreme Court for the first time used a blockchain-based system to record votes in a plenary session on Friday.

According to a press release, judges used the Polys app from Kaspersky Lab to record the results of voting on six issues before the court. The session was the latest to take place as a web video conference as part of Russia’s anti-coronavirus measures.

“This voting system…

Another blockchain project is heading to the Polkadot Network.

Launched in 2017, Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to Parity Technologies’ Substrate network, according to a blog post shared in advance with CoinDesk. Substrate lets teams customize their own blockchains; Nodle’s is called Arcadia.

Nodleprovides “last mile” support for…