Kusama’s first parachain auction will take place on June 15, 2021, and all KSM token holders will be able to participate. To release card slots, Kusama holds an auction. Most parachain teams will… (read more)

Equilibrium’s Kusama-based canary network that can do all things that existing DeFi primitives do, but with less risk and with cross-chain interoperability. (read more)

Are you ready for round three of Genshiro’s crowdloan? The next batch of Kusama auctions has started on October 23, and there’s an immense amount of 150 million GENS up for grabs for those who get… (read more)

Composable is rolling out additional incentives for people who stake in our Picasso Crowdloan strategy. An additional 10% of Picasso’s native token (PICA) supply will be allocated to contributors, on… (read more)

The Kusama network, the experimental hotbed of unaudited, pre-production code serving as Polkadot’s wild cousin and somewhat rash trailblazer lived up to its “Expect Chaos” mantra and had another… (read more)

It is Parity’s recommendation to the Kusama Council that the next parachain auctions commence with the following schedule: The following is the case assuming that no significant and unexpected issues… (read more)

This blog contains information provided by the projects Karura, Moonriver, Shiden, Khala, and Bifrost, in order of when they won their parachain slot. Discover what network each does, their achievements so far, and the phases ahead on their respective roadmaps. (read more)

Exciting news everyone! Our fantastic development team has been hard at work increasing the scope and utility of SubID. You may have noticed that only a few chains were displayed before. Or maybe you thought, “I transferred some KSM to Karura, where did it go?” We’ve got you covered - SubID... (read more)

Balance transfers and EVM are now enabled in Moonriver for collator staking, project deployments, token transfers, and crowdloan reward distribution. (read more)

The first batch of 5 parachain slot auctions on Kusama were completed successfully over the course of June and July. Here are our recommendations for rolling out the next batch of Parachain Auctions after the interim period of monitoring for liveness and stability. (read more)

This post provides important background information on the candle auctions and crowdloan mechanisms for these slots and recaps what happened during the first five auctions. (read more)

We’ve monitored the Kusama network for stability after the first 5 parachain auctions. We’ve sampled metrics from opt-in validators to gather the information in Prometheus and Grafana for this report. (read more)

Kusama’s all-in-one DeFi hub Karura has just passed a vote to start minting its own stablecoin, the Karura Dollar (kUSD). Read more (read more)

During phase three, the Sudo Key will be removed, crowdloan rewards functionality, performance improvements, and bug fixes will be introduced. (read more)

What is the difference between crypto’s two most popular Ethereum killers? Explore now by reading Shrimpy’s Polkadot vs. Kusama comparison (read more)

This week Karura will start rolling out live functions on its apps, giving holders access to a range of DEFI products on Kusama, some of which are not entirely familiar to uses of other DAPPs.The key underlying function of Karura is the ability to st... (read more)

Khala Network has won the 4th slot in the Kusama parachain slot auctions, with a winning bid of 132,280 KSM from 2,759 contributing addresses. At present, Khala has been successfully launched as a… (read more)

Karura is the Polkadot ecosystem DeFi infrastructure Acala’s sister network, and it is also the DeFi hub in the Kusama network. It provides a series of DeFi infrastructure, including staked… (read more)

Polkadot is a decentralized system run by a large number of nodes that cannot be controlled by a single entity. The security of the network relies on nominators active participation in selecting… (read more)