DFG piles $12.6M into Astar Network’s Polkadot parachain bid
Astar Network currently ranks third place in Polkadot’s first parachain auction behind Acala and Moonbeam. The first-ever parachain auction on Polkadot is heating up, with leading projects from the Polkadot ecosystem competing for the coveted first slot.On Nov. 15, DFG Group — a global blockchain investment firm controlling $1 billion in assets under management — announced it had pledged 300,000 DOT tokens (worth $12.65 million) in support of Astar Network’s parachain bid.Polkadot will use parachain auctions to realize its sharded proof-of-stake ecosystem. In order to secure a parachain or....
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Funds will be used for hiring industry-leading engineers to implement both EVM and WASM and to invest and nurture Astar native ecosystem projects. Astar, a multichain DApp protocol, formerly known as Plasm, has raised $22 million in its latest strategic fundraise.The funding round was led by Polychain and saw participation from the likes of Alameda Research, Crypto.com Capital, Digital Finance Group and a few other angel investors. Astar rose to popularity after gaining the Polkadot parachain slot last December and the protocol was officially launched on Jan. 17th.Astar is currently....
Acala was victorious in Polkadot’s first parachain auction, Iota announced its staking network, and Uniswap liquidity providers lose money — all coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.Read on to discover why almost half of the liquidity providers on Uniswap v3 are losing capital due to impermanent loss.What you’re about to read is the smaller version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments over the last week, subscribe below.Acala wins Polkadot’s debut parachain....
DIA is the first oracle provider to integrate its oracle infrastructure with the Astar Network, running on the Polkadot Relaychain. The oracle deployment will facilitate DeFi applications on Astar to easily connect to the outside world data. The open-source data provider DIA announced today the integration of its decentralized oracle infrastructure with the Astar Network, running on the Polkadot Relaychain. This oracle deployment will facilitate DeFi applications on Astar to easily connect to the outside world data via DIA’s trusted oracles. Astar Network, previously known as Plasm, is a....
The canary project of Polkadot-based multi-chain DApp hub Astar Network has won Kusama’s third parachain auction. Shiden, the sister-project of leading Polkadot-native layer-two decentralized app hub, Astar Network (formerly Plasm Network), has won the third parachain auction for Polkadot’s experimental sister-network, Kusama.Shiden secured the slot with a total of 137,020 KSM tokens bonded — worth nearly $29 million at current prices.Shiden is a smart contract platform for Kusama-based DApps, offering multi-chain support for Ethereum Virtual Machine and WebAssembly-based contracts. The....
Kusama and Polkadot are jointly two of the most successful Blockchain partnerships, judging by the effort both teams have put to drive a massive adoption for the Blockchain. Following the success of the first Parachain auction, Polkadot will commence the next phase of the Parachain auction on Kusama. The auction, which is open to all […]