Polkadot

  • Project from Gavin Wood, CTO of Ethereum for a period of time
  • Uses PoS
  • Uses additional blockchains: “parachains” (for longer-term projects; limited slots) and “parathreads” (more widely available) that plug into the main chain (“relay chain”)
  • Only 100 parachain slots, chosen via an auction (happening in April?)

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Cross Chain Atomic Swapping
Just like there’s no single programming language that is used by every programmer, there won’t be one blockchain used by...