Back in June, we began accepting applications for the Polkadex beta tester program. We received hundreds of applications from experienced traders, early Polkadexers, and skilled developers. …
Exactly a year after the idea of Polkadex began to take form, the Polkadex blockchain is now live as a public solo-chain built on Substrate. Soon, the main components of Polkadex, including the PolkaIDO launchpad, Polkapool, and Polkadex Orderbook, will be launched onto the Mainnet. Before that can happen, the…
It’s been two months since the Polkadex mainnet was launched! While the month of October laid out the foundation for the growth of the Polkadex network, November has continued to build on top of that foundation. From native PDEX getting listed on Gate.io to Orderbook development crunch-time and from new…
The Polkadex network has been constantly growing since its September 29th launch. In less than two months, more than 850,000 PDEX have been migrated from Ethereum to Polkadex, and there are now almost 900,000 PDEX (~$15 million) being staked in the network. The staking APY (annual percentage yield) is currently…
Polkadex has partnered with Subscan to integrate the Polkadex network into the Subscan block explorer.
Subscan.io is a high-precision multi-chain explorer built for Substrate-based blockchains. Subscan is currently used as a tool to view and analyze different data on Web3 blockchain networks like Polkadot, Kusama, Centrifuge, KILT Protocol and more…
Bringing institutional liquidity to DeFi has always been a major objective for Polkadex. While the Polkadex developer team is busy building the platform that will make this possible, the business team is connecting with traditional finance and institutional players. …
After the anticipated launch of the Polkadex Mainnet on September 29th, October was bound to be an important month for Polkadex. …
Polkadex has partnered with OnFinality to give Polkadex community members the ability to run their own validator nodes without needing to buy and/or set up their own hardware.
OnFinality provides core infrastructure services for the future of Web3 and allows anybody to run reliable, scalable, and fast nodes. In the…
As you may have realized by now, building Polkadex is a huge undertaking. A solo-chain on Substrate with a decentralized trading engine for Web3 built on top is an unprecedented and complex solution that involves many ‘firsts’. Without the right kind of support, this endeavor would be almost unfathomable. …
We are a little over a week into the launch of the Polkadex blockchain and there are already 60 validator nodes spread across the world who are currently verifying transactions and producing blocks. Over 25 more nodes are waiting to validate in the next era. The almost 90 validators are…
