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I spent part of an evening last month reading a Polkadot Forum thread about a small testnet called MADAR, and one line from a commenter stopped me cold: in a network with no IDs and no stake, an attacker only has to pay enough operators to win a majority of the votes, and with a
I have spent enough time reading Polkadot OpenGov threads to recognize the shape of this argument before it starts. A team submits a Treasury proposal, a bold comment appears calling itself a systemic risk audit, and the debate quickly stops being about one proposal and starts be
Hyperbridge has released Simplex as an npm library, allowing teams to embed the solver directly into Node.js applications. Discover how this new deployment mode reduces infrastructure overhead and enables deep code-level control.
A technical glitch in Polkadot's XCM executor led to a $1.38 million Treasury loss on Asset Hub. Explore the full post-mortem to see how the bug occurred, why no user funds were lost, and what the ecosystem is changing to prevent future exploits.
Polkadot's Paseo testnet just proved that leaner is better. By restarting the relay chain with a smaller footprint, the team slashed quarterly budgets by nearly 50% while maintaining perfect availability and improving validator performance.
A supply-accounting bug on Polkadot's Asset Hub led to a $1.3 million loss for the Treasury after arbitrageurs exploited a pricing imbalance. The Polkadot Technical Fellowship has fixed the issue and confirmed that user funds remain safe.
Startale App now allows users to earn yield on USDC through two new Morpho vaults on Ethereum. Discover how Gauntlet and Flowmark are putting idle stablecoins to work with RWA and crypto-collateralized loans.
Startale Group introduces the Startale Card, a self-custodial Visa card on Soneium that lets you spend onchain assets without sacrificing yield. Earn rewards in USDSC and maintain full control of your assets while shopping at 150 million merchants.
Thousands of xcDOT holders are stuck in limbo after a Moonbeam governance move broke the redemption path. A new Polkadot RFC titled Wish For Change proposes a concrete path to recover 233,000 DOT for affected users.
Startale Group CEO Sota Watanabe argues that modular crypto is a user experience catastrophe. Discover why vertical integration across blockchain infrastructure and consumer apps is the key to mass onchain adoption.
