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THE BLOCKSPACE ECOSYSTEM FOR BOUNDLESS INNOVATION




THE BLOCKSPACE ECOSYSTEM FOR BOUNDLESS INNOVATION

Get your Web3 ideas to market fast with economics that work for you

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Learn about blockspace

True interoperability

Polkadot enables cross-blockchain transfers of any type of data or asset, not
just tokens. Connecting to Polkadot gives you the ability to interoperate with a
wide variety of blockchains in the Polkadot network.

Economic & transactional scalability

Polkadot provides unprecedented economic scalability by enabling a common set of
validators to secure multiple blockchains. Polkadot provides transactional
scalability by spreading transactions across multiple parallel blockchains.

Easy blockchain innovation

Create a custom blockchain in minutes using the Substrate framework. Connect
your chain to Polkadot and get interoperability and security from day one. This
ease of development helps Polkadot’s network grow.

High energy efficiency

Polkadot consumes a small fraction of the energy used by conventional
blockchains thanks to its next-generation nominated proof-of-stake (NPoS) model.
Using the equivalent of ~6.6 US households worth of energy per year, Polkadot
has the lowest carbon footprint among proof-of-stake protocols analyzed in
recent research.

Security for everyone

Polkadot's novel data availability and validity scheme allows chains to interact
with each other in a meaningful way. Chains remain independent in their
governance, but united in their security.

User-driven governance

Polkadot has a sophisticated governance system where all stakeholders have a
voice. Network upgrades are coordinated on-chain and enacted autonomously and
without forking the network, ensuring that Polkadot’s development remains
future-proof and community-driven.


LEARN MORE ABOUT POLKADOT’S TECHNOLOGY

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POWERING THE POLKADOT NETWORK

The DOT token serves three distinct purposes:
governance over the network, staking and bonding.

Governance

Polkadot token holders have complete control over the protocol. All privileges,
which on other platforms are exclusive to miners will be given to the Relay
Chain participants (DOT holders), including managing exceptional events such as
protocol upgrades and fixes.

Staking

Token holders keep the network secure and collect rewards by staking DOT.
Polkadot’s advanced staking system is designed for maximum decentralization and
fair representation, rewarding good actors and punishing bad actors to ensure
network security.

Bonding

New parachains are added by bonding tokens. Outdated or non-useful parachains
are removed by removing bonded tokens. This is a form of proof of stake.


LEARN MORE ABOUT DOT AND STAKING

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AN OPEN-SOURCE PROTOCOL BUILT FOR EVERYONE

Polkadot is an open-source project founded by the Web3 Foundation.

Web3 Foundation has commissioned five teams and over 100 developers to build
Polkadot, including:

ChainSafe
Parity Technologies
Polkadot JS
Soramitsu


FOUNDED BY SOME OF THE BLOCKCHAIN INDUSTRY’S FOREMOST BUILDERS

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FROM THE BLOG

Polkadot Blockchain Academy

Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Forging Web3’s Future Innovators

Polkadot Blockchain Academy, designed to shape promising developers into
tomorrow's leading blockchain engineers, just wrapped up its 3rd wave in
Berkeley, California.

Polkadot

Parachain Dispatch: August 2023

Recapping recent news and developments from Polkadot’s parachains. Find out how
Polkadot teams are pushing the boundaries of Web3.

Polkadot

Polkadot 1.0: Pioneering Blockspace Composability and Scalability

Polkadot version 1.0 has been completed and released, representing the
culmination and completion of the pioneering vision outlined in the Polkadot
whitepaper.


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