In recent times, many blockchains rose, claiming themselves to be the ‘Ethereum Killers’ & Polkadot is one among them. Polkadot is a faster, highly scalable network that is designed to work with other platforms. Created by ex-Ethereum CTO, Gravin Wood, Polkadot is an open-sourced, decentralized platform that serves as a protocol for protocols & a blockchain for blockchains.

Interestingly, DOT & ETH have the same ambitions to be the leader of the Smart contract platform. Polkadot has many elements which are designed to overcome the weakness of the Ethereum protocol. However, as DOT still appears to be immature compared to ETH which is well-established, Ethereum continues to be the leader in the DeFi space.

Polkadot is composed of Parachains which are a part of the entire blockchain, shredded to minimize the congestion. For the first time ever, two of the biggest Parachains, Astar Network & Acala collaborated to launch a ‘DeFi Raising’ program on Polkadot.

In another boost to the Polkadot ecosystem, Interlay, a blockchain firm based in London launched a Bitcoin-based cross-chain bridge on Polkadot called interBTC or iBTC. Hence, Polkadot now has a decentralized version of ‘Wrapped Bitcoin’.

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Polkadot is expected to be pretty busy blockchain ahead as nearly 415 project grants have been passed by the Web3 Foundation out of 1054 applications. On the other hand, staking DOT becomes much easier with the launch of the new staking and nominating dashboard.

The platform recently approved a relay chain upgrade after being proposed earlier that aims to improve runtime mitigations & database operations