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This is not a technical book. It's a presentation of Polkadot from a layman’s perspective, with the goal of giving the community an easy-to-understand book on polkadot that they can read and also share with friends, families, and strangers who are interested in the DotSama ecosystem.  

Standard Protocol is the first Collateralized Rebasable Stablecoin (CRS) protocol for synthetic assets and operates in the Polkadot ecosystem. On September 15th, Standard Protocol Global Communication Director, March Z. joined us to answer our questions.

 

The Moonbeam Foundation has finalized the Take Flight community token event, which took place from September 7th to 10th, 2021. The event was a way for the Moonbeam community to obtain Glimmer (GLMR) tokens in anticipation of the Moonbeam network launch.  

In this report, we unpack the technical and philosophical foundations of Polkadot. The first section will focus on how Polkadot answers the blockchain trilemma, converging on the customizability of the Parachains. The second section will unpack the financing of Parachains through CrowdLoans, candle auctions and Parathreads. In the third and final section, we explore prominent Parachain pioneers and describe how they are leveraging Polkadot’s architecture to build their own custom blockchains.  

Five Client Releases and Four Runtime Upgrades Since Launch
It’s been three weeks since we launched the Moonriver network, and in that time there has been a large amount of interest and usage on the network.