Questions tagged [polkadot]

This topic can be used to discuss the Polkadot protocol and/or its white paper.

Here's a link to the GitHub (https://github.com/polkadot-io) and another to the actual Polkadot White (Polkadot) paper (https://github.com/polkadot-io/polkadotpaper/blob/master/PolkaDotPaper.pdf).

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What is PolkaDot in layman's terms?

So I was trying to dive into the polkadot paper by Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Parity. But it seems to be too advanced for my current level of understanding. In layman's terms what exactly is polkadot? Here is the link to the…

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asked May 30 '17 at 17:04

Atif Ali

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Can we say Polkadot is a sidechain of Ethereum

There is something i do not understand about Polkadot. Can we say Polkadot is a sidechain of Ethereum ? Or is it contestant of Ethereum ? Is it correct to say "Polkadot is not a Layer 2 of Ethereum but a Layer 1 sidechain" ? Thanks

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asked Jan 07 '21 at 18:58

Bob5421

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