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Story: When will the Polkadot (DOT) Parachains Launch?

By Steven Anderson

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Polkadot’s parachains launch is expected to begin once two things have happened: 1. A full external audit is completed. 2.

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What are Parachains? Parachains are the diverse individual layer-1 blockchains that run in parallel within the Polkadot ecosystem (on both the Polkadot and Kusama Networks).

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The path to launching a parachain on Kusama will differ from team to team, but a typical process could look something like this: Design a parachain and build it using substrate.

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What is an external audit? Polkadot has been entering the fourth and final phase of its mainnet launch, which involves deploying parachains to the Kusama network.

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Before the launch of Parachains there will be a full external audit on the new version of Polkadot and Kusama.

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What is a Kusama Network? Kusama is a scalable multi-chain network for radical innovation and early stage Polkadot deployments.

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What is the Successful Auction on Crowd Loans? After the launch of Polkadot, Kusama will execute “at least one successful auction involving crowdloans and hosting at least one…

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After Kusama’s first auctions complete successfully, one would expect Polkadot’s auctions to happen soon after,” said Wood.

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Parachain slot auctions follow a modified candle auction format, where the exact endpoint of the auction is unknown by participants in order to prevent auction sniping (the…

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Acquiring a parachain slot is important to ensure guaranteed block inclusion at ever Relay block for a particular parachain.

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Parachain slots get sold by way of unpermissioned candle auction. Candle auctions are different from open auctions.  Candle auction is a variant of open auctions.

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Online candle auctions make use of random numbers to decide the moment of termination of the auction process.

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So, in an open phase online candle auction, the bids will continue to be accepted; however, the close moment will be retroactively determined.

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What is a Functional Parachain?  Technically, the launch of Polkadot began around ten months ago with the first four phases; the last round is a move to complete…

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