Kusama is a blockchain network designed for risk-taking and radical innovation, built using (almost) the same code as the Polkadot network. This blog was run by Web3 Foundation and is now closed. All proceeds from tips have been donated to She256.org in these two transactions: https://etherscan.io/token/0xd46ba6d942050d489dbd938a2c909a5d5039a161?a=0xed11e5ea95a5a3440fbaadc4cc404c56d0a5bb04 https://etherscan.io/token/0xa0246c9032bc3a600820415ae600c6388619a14d?a=0xed11e5ea95a5a3440fbaadc4cc404c56d0a5bb04
19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Web3 Foundation
Kusama News "Hello World! by Polkadot" is live. It’s a Gitcoin-powered learning challenge where you can gain DOT and KSM. http://bit.ly/0x2HcwPtd Karura, Acala's DeFi chain, has been launched, and is aiming to be among the first parachains on Kusam...
12 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Web3 Foundation
Kusama News If you are a KSM holder, please be sure to vote on Referendum 88. If passed, this would start the journey to 1,000 validators on Kusama, increasing the number of validators in the active set by one each era for 400 eras. https://polkadot...
5 Oct 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News There is a discussion on the NFT strategy for Kusama taking place here: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/303 Kappa Sigma Mu is now up to 17 members. Congratulations to the new members! https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fcc3...
28 Sep 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Web3 Foundation
A round-up of what’s new in the Kusama universe, September 21 - 27, 2020 Kusama News Kusama runtime has been upgraded to v2024. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/84 There is quite a bit of discussion around this Treasury Proposal for weekly...
25 Sep 2020 2 minute read 9 comments Web3 Foundation
Web3 Foundation has an open grants program that runs alongside our general grants program. Transparent and efficient, the new program is running on GitHub, funding projects that support the Polkadot ecosystem up to US$30K equivalent, administered in...
21 Sep 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Web3 Foundation
A round-up of what’s new in the Kusama universe, September 14 - 20, 2020 Kusama News Bryan Chen of Laminar has implemented logic gates using only Kusama transactions. 8) https://gist.github.com/xlc/f064f492a4040f698a2b4eb838f0bf2b Bruno Skvorc creat...
17 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Polkadot and Kusama have onboarded to the Gitcoin platform, strengthening the foundations of the Web 3.0 ecosystem and expanding the opportunities for developers to earn from open source projects. This is a landmark step towards our mission to contr...
14 Sep 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Web3 Foundation
Receive Nominations to Kickstart your Validator on Polkadot’s Wild Cousin, Kusama Kusama network launched in July 2019 as an early, unaudited version of Polkadot’s codebase. The network launched with a set of 25 validators and has been rapidly passi...
9 Sep 2020 2 minute read 6 comments Web3 Foundation
Polkadot and its wild cousin Kusama are built on nearly the same codebase but they have a few key differences. We’ll explore these briefly below and look at how use cases on Kusama are likely to differ from Polkadot as the networks develop. Kusama o...
7 Sep 2020 2 minute read 5 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama is a scalable blockchain network, designed to help understand how the various cutting edge technologies introduced in areas such as governance, staking and sharding work under “real” economic conditions and to give coders a fast-paced environ...
