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Polkadot and Kusama are two emerging blockchains with an exciting feature known as parachains, which are custom blockchains selected by public auction to join these exclusive networks. While this novel selection process has garnered a lot of excitement, there is still confusion as to how… The post Polkadot and Kusama Parachains Primer appeared first on...

After making a daily low of $46,659, Bitcoin is now trading at $49,685. Meanwhile, Ethereum is up by 9.5% in the past 24 hours and is trading close to $...

Have you ever heard about Polkadot? As one of the most innovative crypto projects of the last decade, it has certainly been talked about a lot ever since it was announced. Polkadot is famous for a good reason – its developers have come up with possibly the most elegant solution to the age-old crypto issue of scalability – parachains. What is Kusama?...

Earlier on Monday, Parallel Finance announced that it had raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. The investing round for the Polkadot-based DeFi protocol was led by Polychain Capital, alongside Alameda Research, Blockchain Capital, Blockchain ventures, Slow ventures, Lightspeed venture Partners, and CMT Digital, among others....

Demonstrating the strength of a community-led approach, the Moonriver Smart Contract Platform has successfully secured a slot in the second round of Kusama parachain slot auctions last week. Crowdloan via Kusama The Moonbeam team proudly shared an official announcement via Twitter, stating that they are...

We are happy to announce that KSM by Kusama has joined the family of the over 200 cryptocurrencies available for exchange and purchase on Changelly! Starting today, users will be able to buy KSM with fiat or swap it with other digital assets at floating rates on our platform. Kusama is an early and unrefined version of Polkadot. It essentially works as proving...

The fifth parachain slot on Polkadot’s Kusama platform has been awarded to DeFi staking protocol, Bifrost. The announcement was made by U.S. crypto exchange Kraken on July 20, 2021. It added that the auction for the fifth parachain slot ended on block 8,355,247 and Bifrost won it with a total amount of 142,431 Kusama tokens (KSM) worth an estimated $23 million bonded to...

After making a daily low of $33,732, Bitcoin is now trading at $34,750.11. Meanwhile, Altcoins are looking strong and the second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, is trading close to $2,365.71. Let’s deep dive into some interesting crypto news for today. 1- Crypto.com Taps Historic Partnership With UFC...

Over the past week, there has been significant development concerning Binance Smart Chain (BSC). To keep users informed of the latest developments relating to BSC, Altcoin Buzz has compiled the latest updates. Among the updates, the $BNB staked on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) reached a new landmark. Also, PARSIQ's IQ Protocol launched on the Binance Smart Chain...

We are excited to announce that Shiden secured the third parachain slot on Kusama – Congratulations! Slot 3 Winner Shiden (SDN) – A smart contract platform for decentralized applications (dapps) on the Kusama network. Shiden is built to support “layer 2” solutions, which refers to… The post Shiden Wins The Third Kusama Parachain Slot...

Last week, Bitcoin experienced significant fluctuations in price, ranging between $35,787.08 and $32,890.85. However, today the crypto is trading at $35,297.46 with a 24-hour trading volume of $34,850,147,452. Bitcoin price is also up 1.3% in the last 24 hours. The decentralized finance (DeFi) space, on the other hand, has been rocking the crypto space with top DeFi updates. To keep our readers informed...

The crypto space is improving following yesterday’s volatility. Bitcoin is currently up 2.7% and is trading at $33,461. Meanwhile, Ethereum is up 2.8% over the last 24 hours and is trading at $...

Another week filled with red numbers has brought the total cryptocurrency market capitalization back down to $1.50 trillion, before it climbed back up to $1.62 trillion in the last few Sunday hours. While Bitcoin ended week 23 with an 8% gain over last 7 days, quite a few altcoins from the top 50 cryptocurrencies posted 10% or even greater loses. As a natural...

Polygon (formerly Matic), has announced a partnership with leading cryptocurrency exchange, OKex. This will enable users to move funds between both networks quickly and effortlessly. OKex, who announced the partnership via an official blog post, stated that the collaboration would focus on enabling faster, and cheaper token transfer to Polygon network. It would also extend fast and cheap network fees when interacting with...

The Kusama and Polkadot networks have a limited number of parachain slots. The network allows the parachains to acquire Kusama (KSM) for the parachain bidding via crowdloans. Recently, Crust Shadow, Shiden,...