David Germanowicz

Polkadot is the bedrock for a more open and collaborative web that restores power back to where it belongs—with you. It enables Web3’s biggest trailblazers to launch their ideas at warp speed, with flexible start-up costs and an exceptionally adaptable builder environment. Apps on Polkadot are built on top of a secure, resilient platform where decisions are made by a lively community of DOT holders. With Polkadot, youre not just along for the ride, youre a co-creator with the power to shape the future of our digital world. By making blockchain technology more flexible and collaborative, Polkadot is powering the movement for a better web.

Kusama is a scalable network of specialized blockchains built using Substrate and nearly the same codebase as Polkadot. The network is an development environment for teams who want to move fast and innovate on Kusama, or prepare for deployment on Polkadot. Kusama was founded in 2019 by Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot and co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum.

Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration. Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation. To find out more about how Ethereum works, consult the whitepaper. This page is managed and operated by members of the Ethereum Foundation.

Polkadot is the bedrock for a more open and collaborative web that restores power back to where it belongs—with you. It enables Web3’s biggest trailblazers to launch their ideas at warp speed, with flexible start-up costs and an exceptionally adaptable builder environment. Apps on Polkadot are built on top of a secure, resilient platform where decisions are made by a lively community of DOT holders. With Polkadot, youre not just along for the ride, youre a co-creator with the power to shape the future of our digital world. By making blockchain technology more flexible and collaborative, Polkadot is powering the movement for a better web.

Kusama is a scalable network of specialized blockchains built using Substrate and nearly the same codebase as Polkadot. The network is an development environment for teams who want to move fast and innovate on Kusama, or prepare for deployment on Polkadot. Kusama was founded in 2019 by Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot and co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum.

Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration. Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation. To find out more about how Ethereum works, consult the whitepaper. This page is managed and operated by members of the Ethereum Foundation.