Polkadot Parachains Go Live, Capping Yearslong Tech Build for Ambitious Blockchain Project

Dec 21, 2021

After several years in development, Polkadot, an underlying framework for connecting various blockchains, now has five live parachains, or “parallelized chains”: Acala, Moonbeam, Parallel Finance, Astar, and Clover.

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