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Polkadot Investor KR1: ‘You Can See Polkadot as Being a Kind of Ethereum That Fixes Some of the Problems’

KR1 Managing Partner Keld van Schreven joins CoinDesk senior markets reporter Daniel Cawrey to discuss why the firm is heavily invested in Polkadot, which is considered an up-and-coming rival to Ethereum.

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Markets

BitMEX Delves Deeper Into DeFi With New Futures Listings

BitMEX is soon to offer futures contracts for DeFi project yearn.finance (YFI), Polkadot (DOT) and Binance coin (BNB).

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Finance

Reef Finance Raises $3.9M for Cross-Chain DeFi on Polkadot

DeFi on Ethereum is costly and congested. Can other base layers step up? Polkadot's Reef Finance has raised $3.9 million to try.

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Tech

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

Polkadot developer Parity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit Substrate 2.0, including 70 composable modules.

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Finance

Polkadot Projects Will Be Able to Mint Their Own Tokens in 2021

A token minting system is coming to the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem, promising to be a leaner, meaner version of Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard.

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Tech

Swisscom Blockchain Wins Grant From Web3 to Help Toughen Polkadot’s Proof-of-Stake Network

Swisscom Blockchain has been awarded a grant from the Web3 Foundation to build a cloud-based protection layer for the Polkadot network.

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Tech

Polkadot-Based Acala Raises $7M as DeFi Grabs Land on Another Blockchain

Acala, a DeFi startup building on the Polkadot blockchain, has closed a $7 million simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT) led by Pantera Capital.

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Tech

Developers Eye Mid-September for Ethereum, Polkadot Bridge Proof-of-Concept

The Snowfork proof-of-concept acts as a two-way bridge between the Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems, according to the group.

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Markets

First Mover: Anything-Goes Token Market Repudiates Rich-Only Venture Capital Club

Venture capital is no longer just for the rich, as crypto markets let traders bet on early-stage digital-asset startups, risks included.

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Finance

Token Sales Are Back in 2020

As the price of bitcoin rises, token sales have become trendy once more. Here's how Avalanche, Polkadot and NEAR have fared in 2020.

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