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Finance

Bitcoin App Developer Trust Machines Hires Coinbase, BNY Mellon Veterans

Manas Mohapatra and Asiff Hirji joined the firm in legal and advisory roles.

Trust Machines co-founder Muneeb Ali (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Polkadot Weighs Multichain Tech Challenges Ahead of DOT 'Parachain' Auctions

Polkadot’s interconnected web of blockchains will require “a totally different application programming paradigm,” said Web3 Foundation tech lead Joe Petrowski.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

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.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Tech

Polkadot Releases Rococo, Its Test Environment for Interoperable 'Parachains'

Polkadot has released its first testnet, Rococo, for its parachain network. The testnet will commence with three parachains, Parity Technologies said.

(David Clode/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Polkadot Is Latest Blockchain to Explore Redeemable Bitcoin Tokens

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.

The polkadot-themed artwork of Yayoi Kusama.

Tech

Polkadot Goes Live as Web3 Foundation Pushes Prospective Mainnet

Polkadot is now live, following the launch of its first “chain candidate” (CC1).

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Tech

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

Credit: Shutterstock

Tech

Web3 Foundation Funds Technical Bridge Connecting Polkadot to Bitcoin

Web3 has awarded grants to more than 100 projects building on Polkadot.

Bridge

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