apilipis / polkadot-overview

Overview of the current Polkadot technology development

Polkadot technology overview

Chat

• General channel - Discuss general Polkadot topics.

Writing

• Polkadot Medium - Updates on the development and technology articles.

Presentations

• Polkadot Overview - Dr. Gaving Wood presents an overview of Polkadot.
• Substrate Intro - Dr. Gavin Wood presents Substrate, one of the technologies underlying Polkadot.
• Governance Demo - Dr. Gavin Wood presents the initial governance structure for Polkadot.

Specifications

• Polkadot White Paper - General Polkadot description.
• Polkadot Spec - Working yellow paper style Polkadot specification.
• Polkadot Wiki - Set of spec drafts.

PoC implementations

• Rust - Initial Polkadot implementation.
• JS - Tools, utilities and client.
• POC-1 UI - Browser and apps.

Component implementations

• Parity Bridge - Bridge between any two ethereum-based networks.
• ParityDB - Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operations.
• wasmi - WebAssembly interpreter written in Rust.
• Parity WASM - WebAssembly serialization/deserialization in Rust.
• WASM utils - Collection of WASM utilities used in Parity and WASM contract devepment.
• Rust libp2p - The Rust Implementation of libp2p networking stack.