Polkadot(DOT) IR Report (2021)

Timeline Type

ANNUAL

Date of Announcement

2021-12-31

Report Type

PERIODIC_REPORT

Key Information

On December 31st, 2021, Polkadot announced its annual report for 2021. Some of the major achievements covered in the report include:

Launches

• In 2021, Polkadot held parachain auction six times, and completed in launching first five parachains.
• The projects which competed to win the auction raised funds through Crowdloan, and parachain auction was held by the method called Slot Auction.
• The winner of the parachain auction is shown below.
  • Acala(ACA)
  • Moonbeam(GLMR)
  • Astar(ASTR)
  • Parallel(PARA)
  • Clover(CLV)
  • Efinity(EFI)
• The new metadata format signalled a huge change for so many developers in the ecosystem minimizing development friction and reducing the chance of bugs.

Technology

• The new metadata format signalled a huge change for so many developers in the ecosystem minimizing development friction and reducing the chance of bugs.
• Another major delivery in Polkadot which happened this year was version 2 of XCM, Polkadot\u2019s message format making it easy for different consensus systems to interact.
• FRAME, the API and framework which allows for easily-composable modules of on-chain business logic, was also upgraded across the board so now all pallets (modules) **utilize the much cleaner and more idiomatic procedural macro.
• Smoldot, an alternative implementation of Substrate/Polkadot node, has also been progressing in the background.