Gavin Wood Says Parachains Virtually Ready to Launch on Polkadot

Gavin Wood Says Parachains Virtually Ready to Launch on Polkadot

Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood has suggested in a recent interview that parachains are “technologically” ready to launch on his sharded blockchain protocol Polkadot, and it is now down to the platform’s governance process to set that in motion. Parachains are highly customizable layer-1 blockchains that run in parallel on Polkadot, connected to the shared security of the layer-0 central Relay Chain, and can include their own economies and native tokens. The long-awaited parachain rollout marks the final piece of the core functionality for the project to be delivered, realizing the....


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