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The journey to 1,000 parachains

Polkadot (DOT), an avant-garde interoperability network, is set to undergo transformative expansion, with plans to enhance its ecosystem by introducing the asynchronous backing update. Currently, the ecosystem accommodates a limit of 100 parachains—individual blockchains interlinked within Polkadot’s structure. Yet, the core developers are ambitiously pushing towards a future where this number could

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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,

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Polkadot parachains full of promise, but lack of launch date raises concern

Polkadot’s parachain auctions will mark the most significant milestone on its roadmap since the mainnet launch in 2020. Currently in the testnet on the Rococo network, the next stage of the launch will involve the rollout of parachains on Polkadot’s crazy cousin, the “canary network” Kusama. The rollout of Polkadot

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