Tag: kusama

The canary network for the Polkadot blockchain, Kusama, has recently enjoyed a rally in the market. However, the technicals point to a brief correction that may allow DOT to take...

Gavin Wood, Polkadot's creator, and Ethereum’s co-founder has announced a blockchain governance upgrade during the ongoing Polkadot Decoded conference in Buenos Aires. Gavin noted that the new model would completely transform Polkadot into a new system. The upgrade, known as Gov2, will transform the...

Responding to the ongoing uncertainty in the crypto market, the...

The cryptocurrency market has kicked off the week in the green, helping Polkadot and Kusama surge to critical resistance areas. Still, both assets have yet to find the catalysts they...

Despite more tokens entering circulation, the price of KSM has increased by over 13%. Kusama Surges on Bullish Unlock It appears that investors have taken the recent Kusama token unlock...

Bifrost, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity provider for staked assets, has reached its crowdloan soft cap for its Polkadot parachain auction. The protocol currently has over 369,000 DOT contributed to its crowdloan as it sets to...

Subsocial is an open platform that allows anyone to launch their own decentralized social networks and marketplaces. Based on Kusama, Polkadot's canary chain, Subsocial enables developers to create decentralized versions of the social networks we're used to while making them censorship-resistant and completely customizable....

Kusama has been having great success in recent weeks. Its native token, KSM, has grown its marketcap by 36.4% in the last 30 days, and its ecosystem has also received a lot of initiatives. However, this growth won't be compared to what is coming next for Kusama. The entry of Tether to the "Polkadot's cousin" will boost the liquidity and...

Tether, the operator of the most liquid and widely-used stablecoin USDT, has announced the launch of its dollar-pegged digital currency on Kusama, a “canary network” of Polkadot. As of Wednesday, USDT is available on ten different blockchain platforms, including Ethereum, TRON, Algorand, and EOS, to name a few.

Announced Wednesday in a blog post by Dan Reecer Chief Growth Officer at Acala and Karura, the two Polkadot protocols will integrate with Wormhole, the...

The Kusama Kingdom, home of the popular Kusama Kings, is welcoming a new addition to its ecosystem—a collection of Queens. RD Studios, the development team behind Kusama Kings, will roll out 110 Queens to accompany the Kings in the Great Hall and bring more utility to the tight-knit...

With the Metaverse trend in full force, KSM Starter is seeing plenty of new Metaverse-related projects spring up. Most Metaverse initiatives, on the other hand, lack a launch experience that really embraces the Metaverse's nature. Initial Metaverse Offering is the solution from KSM Starter. KSM Starter introduces the Initial Metaverse Offering. It is a launchpad initiative for metaverse-focused projects...

The crypto and blockchain industry has continued to evolve over the years after launching the technology and its first token, Bitcoin. Bitcoin was birthed to make payments seamless through a peer-to-peer payment system. However, the market has undergone immense developments by launching new products and projects. One...

Astar Network (formerly known as Plasm Network) has won the third Polkadot parachain slot in last week’s parachain auction. The multichain smart contract hub supporting Ethereum VM, WebAssembly, and Layer 2 raised over 10 million DOT, worth $274 million at corresponding market rates.

Croatia is embracing crypto at an exponential rate. Earlier in the week, Konzum announced it will accept cryptocurrency payments in its online store. This is phase one for Croatia’s largest supermarket chain, the company plans to roll out the service in all of its stores. The country is quickly becoming one of the friendliest for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. One could probably already live on...

In an exclusive interview with CryptoSlate, the creators of Kusama Kings talk about the issues with minting NFTs, utilizing Kusama's potential, and the unusually strong community bond NFTs can facilitate. Kusama, Singular, and lowering the barrier for entry Polkadot's more chaotic cousin Kusama has been a...

Earlier this week, KILT Protocol delivered its native KILT tokens to users that supported the protocol's crowdloan on Kusama. Parallel to its token transferability event, KILT also launched two new additions for storing and staking KILT—the Sporran wallet and the Stakeboard staking application. KILT and its...

After years of anticipation, the first batch of parachains auctions was successfully completed on Thursday. The first-ever parachain auction slot winner with 32M DOT staked is Acala, popular decentralized finance (DeFi) hub for Polkadot. Acala came out ahead in a neck and neck race with multi-chain protocol Moonbean.