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Bitcoin News Roundup for June 19, 2020
19.6.2020
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
Polkadot Is Latest Blockchain to Explore Redeemable Bitcoin Tokens
18.6.2020
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
Exclusive: Gitcoin and Polkadot Cooperate to Bring New Developers to Blockchain
16.6.2020
Polkadot will now have representation on Gitcoin, a developer-focused platform that uses a mix of crowdfunding and foundation grants to grow Web3 and blockchain
Why Is Polkadot Mainnet News Important to Blockchain Adoption?
27.5.2020
The first candidate for the highly anticipated blockchain and one of the top 10 ICOs of 2017, Polkadot Network, is live. The relevance of this project lies in its promise to bring much-needed "true [blockchain] interoperability."
Web3 Foundation, Polkadot’s lead developer has announced...
Polkadot Mainnet Not Yet Live, Just a Mainnet Candidate
26.5.2020
Time will tell if the network will cement its dominance
Polkadot Goes Live as Web3 Foundation Pushes Prospective Mainnet
26.5.2020
Polkadot is now live, following the launch of its first “chain candidate” (CC1)
Web3 Foundation Holds Off on 100x Polkadot Redenomination
17.5.2020
Web3 Foundation wants to conduct a binding, network-wide vote before implementing its proposed redenomination
Parity’s Gavin Wood Takes a Swipe at Ethereum
11.5.2020
Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed
‘Very Near Launch’: Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout
6.5.2020
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
Coinbase Custody to Support Polkadot Staking With up to 20% Returns
14.4.2020
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
Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team Up for Virtual Developer Event
7.4.2020
A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot
Shyft Network to Build FATF-Compliant ‘Identity Layer’ for Polkadot
6.4.2020
Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network
IoT App Nodle Moves From Stellar Blockchain to Polkadot
31.3.2020
IoT platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to a custom build on Parity Technologies’ Substrate network
Interlay Receives Web3 Foundation Grant for Bridging Bitcoin to Polkadot
6.3.2020
Polkadot targets integration with BTC after attracting major Ethereum players
Web3 Foundation Funds Technical Bridge Connecting Polkadot to Bitcoin
5.3.2020
Web3 has awarded grants to more than 60 projects building on Polkadot
Polkadot Aims for Ethereum Ecosystem with Chainlink Integration
25.2.2020
Polkadot snatches yet another Ethereum ecosystem project by integrating Chainlink
Polkadot to Use Chainlink Oracles for Interoperability Network
25.2.2020
Polkadot will be the first non-ethereum blockchain to integrate Chainlink
Polkadot Will Feature Layer Two Scaling Thanks to Celer Network
24.2.2020
Celer and Polkadot join forces to bring layer two scaling on the upcoming platform
‘One Network, Many Chains’ – The Case for Blockchain Interoperability
30.1.2020
Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) is poised to be a major theme of 2020. And, like most trends in crypto, it has its fair share of hope, hype and haters
Polkadot Will Finally Launch This Year – But Is the Multi-Chain Network too Late to Catch Ethereum?
23.1.2020
Remember Polkadot? It’s the multi-chain network that raised $145 million in 2017 and hasn’t been seen since. But unlike many of the blockchain projects from that era, Polkadot hasn’t taken the money and run. Its team, led by Ethereum founder Gavin Wood, has been beavering away...