The Graph explores integrations for Bitcoin, Polkadot, and other Layer-1 bloc...

Protocol infrastructure company StreamingFast is the recipient of the full $60 million grant. It will work with The Graph to further develop its decentralized internet ambitions. The Graph Foundation, the grants program behind the Ethereum (ETH) indexing protocol, has tapped StreamingFast to further the development of its so-called decentralized internet, potentially setting the stage for more real-world use cases of Web 3.0. StreamingFast will provide The Graph with its infrastructure platform, core IP and API products, as well as access to core developers and other human resources, the....

As Polkadot’s vision of a decentralized web advances, the integrations of KILT Protocol and the fintech platform Current are adding new utility layers across the blockchain’s ecosystem, helping tear down the existing barriers between Web 2.0 and 3.0. Value-Driven Integrations to Overcome Traditional Digital Obstacles As excitement over Polkadot’s forthcoming launch heats up, more players are joining the ecosystem with novel solutions for how Web 3.0 can add incremental value for users in a manner that puts them in the driver’s seat. It is evident that the....

The global network of open APIs is expanding to support new layer 1 blockchains. Following its mainnet launch on Ethereum in mid-December 2020, The Graph has today announced that it is integrating Polkadot, NEAR, Solana and Celo.As reported, The Graph is a protocol that enables programmers to build Application Programming Interfaces, which it calls subgraphs, that can query and index blockchain data. Envisaged as an open alternative to existing blockchain analytics tools, it offers an infrastructure for accessing on-chain data from multiple blockchains, with the wider aim of supporting....

The price of Polkadot’s native token hit an all-time high (ATH) this week, soaring above $30, as the company laid out the next steps of its plans and the systems to finalize the network launch. Polkadot Roadmap Outlines Layer 0 Deployment Initiatives Polkadot released a roadmap highlighting that it is currently in its Rococo phase, the first of three major phases until the network goes live. Here is a breakdown of the roadmap. Rococo Testnet Rollout Polkadot (DOT) plans to continue with its launch of parachains, also referred to as application-specific data structures. These....

Polkadot may beat Ethereum 2.0 in the transaction fee race. Web3, interoperability, and layer 0 are all terms tossed around when describing Polkadot. But what do they mean, and how will they impact the internet and cryptocurrency market? Cointelegraph Research’s new report explores how Polkadot is tackling distributed ledger scalability and centralization of the web simultaneously. For starters, imagine a world where Facebook is replaced by a decentralized social media application built on Polkadot. This is what projects like Subsocial are building in their platforms which lets users....