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Covid-19 sent 2020 down the rabbit hole, altering our day-to-day lives, changing the pace and working habits of all of us around the world. But time stops for no one, and 2020 has seen some amazing…

Happy Holidays! This is a special edition of Building Acala bringing you updates for November and December 2020. If you’re new to Acala, welcome! Acala is the decentralized financial hub of Polkadot…

Trace Alliance is happy to announce a new working group in our partnership hub. From today, the partnership is stronger for a Food & Agriculture Technology working group, focusing on digitalisation…

We have come across one of the earliest blockchain mining companies during equity investment back in 2015. Crypto industry immediately caught our attention during the conversation with the mining…

What surprised me was that Phase 0 of ETH2.0 does not have a mechanism for delegating ETH. On the contrary, most of the mainstream PoS applications support this feature. What’s worse is that we do…

Oracles don’t have to be complicated, in fact, understanding an Oracles role can be easily understood by understanding the peripheral mechanisms that allow them to operate. When you can grasp a…

Imagine a world without language, it would be a hostile and difficult world to say the least. No exchange of information and no possibility of using any sort of learned foreign knowledge to your…

If you are familiar with blockchain technology you’ll know it’s not without its limitations, specifically concerning the problem of interoperability and scalability, two problems that have stood in…

We are excited to announce that Nsure is integrating the Chainlink Price Feeds, starting with ETH/USD on Alpha, to determine mining rewards between capital pools, calculate the costs of insurance…

We’re pleased to announce that IJS Technologies has received a grant from OAX Foundation for their community-driven open source DeFi swap platform. The OAX Foundation sees true potential in this…

Linear.Finance is proud to secure an investment from Huobi, a key supporter and driver within the DeFi space. Huobi joins a list of institutional investors backing Linear including names like NGC…

Linear is a cross-chain compatible, delta-one asset protocol. Linear’s long term DeFi vision is to increase inclusiveness and democratize access to any investment exposure. Alongside with our mainnet…

The Rococo-V1 Parachains Testnet is live. Rococo is a public testnet, maintained by Parity Technologies and the community, aimed towards testing both the parachains consensus process itself and parachains built by the community.

ETH 2.0 has a harsh rule when it comes to Slash — a validator may face up to a Slash of 16 ETH from his balance. In extreme cases, the entire Staking principal of the validator may be confiscated…

Guru, launched by Bandot, is an asset cross-chain bridge gateway that serves as a bridge connecting the multi-token market and the Polkadot DeFi market, making it easier and seamless for users…

Community & Progress Update

Our upcoming Guru is a cross-chain asset gateway on Ethereum. It is an important infrastructure launched to open up the cross-chain of assets between Ethereum assets and Polkadot DeFi. It is also the…