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Launched in 2019, Kusama is the brainchild of Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot and co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum.
Kusama was built using Substrate (a modular blockchain framework), with (nearly) the same codebase and industry-leading multichain infrastructure as its cousin Polkadot.
Designed for risk-taking and radical innovation, Kusama is both a fast-moving “canary in the coal mine” for Polkadot and an experimental development environment for teams who want to move fast and innovate on Kusama, and/or prepare for deployment on Polkadot.
It's a living platform built for change agents to take back control, spark innovation and disrupt the status quo. Kusama provides unprecedented interoperability and scalability for blockchain developers who want to quickly push the limits of what’s possible.
Like Polkadot, Kusama is a scalable, multichain network, consisting of up to 100 independent blockchains (parachains) working in parallel and interoperating, with security provided by a Relay Chain.
Kusama is ideal for lean startups looking to move fast and iterate as it allows them to launch their custom blockchain (parachain) project with low economic barriers to entry.
KSM, the native tokens on Kusama, is used to:
Kusama is a project of Web3 Foundation.
3 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments amtraderpro
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2 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments kev_nag
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21 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments aarton
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19 Feb 2021 5 minute read 10 comments Dzoelx
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18 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
In response to a flood of questions about what's on my altcoin radar, I'm starting this series of articles called "JCAS" - JaiChai 's Altcoin Spotlight". ^image by Kusama.net JCAS articles will be short and feature whatever caught my eye about an al...
17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Makingdigital
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16 Feb 2021 7 minute read 2 comments gaming4co.in
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14 Feb 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Makingdigital
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12 Feb 2021 3 minute read 12 comments Cryptonator`s
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