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Polkadot Node Implementation (by paritytech)
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Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains. (by polkadot-js)
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| polkadot | apps | |
|---|---|---|
| 143 | 29 | |
| 7,026 | 1,705 | |
| - | 3.8% | |
| 9.7 | 9.9 | |
| 8 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| Rust | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Projects to contribute to
Polkadot (6400 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot
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There are 43 active parachains on Polkadot, not counting private ones, and 130 total announced projects headed for parachain status. When is the relay chain going to be upgraded to handle more than 100 parachains?
I don't think asynchronous backing has any direct effect on the number of parachains, no (I mean, there likely is an effect, but it's not the goal and my understanding is that any effect on that would be minimal, although I'm not involved in the deep engineering here). It increases throughput, correct, by decreasing the time between blocks by not needing to do a "roundtrip" to the relay chain to build new blocks. See https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/issues/3779 for an overview.
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Polkadot Staking Alternatives in light of Kraken US's staking closure
"The 27 waiting day is unavoidable and a very important security measure to protect against certain attacks and vulnerabilities of PoS. I totally understand that it is annoying, but arguably it is for the benefit+security of the overall network, which includes you as well at the end of the day as DOT-holder." - from this GitHub discussion.
- Polkadot Surpasses Cardano To Rank Top In Crypto Development Activity
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Can we change the 28 day unbonding lockup period?
Ref: Kianenigma @ https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/issues/2418
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Polkadot Digest 19 Jan 2023
Polkadot 0.9.37 has been released with MEDIUM upgrade priority. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.9.37
- Minimum Active Bond jumped from 237 to 248.5 in 8 eras :(
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Polkadot Digest 17 Jan 2023
Specifically, it was this PR that changed it: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/6230
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Question about controller address when staking.
Actually it looks like you can! It's just not recommended. This is from the official documentation: "Starting with runtime version v23 natively included in the client version 0.8.23, payouts can go to any custom address. If you'd like to redirect payments to an account that is neither the controller nor the stash account, set one up. Note that setting an exchange address as the recipient of the staking rewards is extremely unsafe.*
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Bill Laboon AMA 9 Dec 2022 - 14.00-15.00 UTC
A particular validator sent out a LOT of dispute reports (i.e., saying that other validators did something incorrectly) last night (for reasons unknown). It looks like other nodes "choked" reading all of these disputes, and one subsystem died, stalling nodes but NOT killing the process. It's still being investigated, but you can look at the issue on Github to see it being discussed here: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/issues/6412
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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Newbie here looking for help on staking in ledger - DOT Stuck bonded?
Side note: It does take time for everything to the validators on Polkadot-JS App to load, but I've never seen an issue on the repo about them _never_ loading.
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sign a message with a ledger?
I provided a workaround to migrate a Ledger account to Polkdakot-JS extension and sign from there: 6 days ago - https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/5014
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Transaction has a bad signature
I think it has to do with the wrong network you chose, check this GitHub repo from polkadot https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4487
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How to pay transaction fees using the sufficient asset created by using pallet_assets?
Polkadot-JS UI doesn't support the functionality to pay with a sufficient asset yet. When using Polkadot-JS UI, transaction fee needs to be paid in DOT.
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Ledger issue. homa:mint 1010: Invalid Transaction: Transaction has a bad signature.
Other people have already encountered this issue on Kusama network, you can see discussions here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4487
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accounts keep disappearing
Please add the information to the bug report I've already posted as an issue to the Polkadot-JS Apps repo here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/8465
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Polkadot Digest 22 June 2022
If you are attempting to verify the SHA512 hash of the Electron version of Polkadot-JS, note that the package manager base64-encodes the hash. See this issue for how to convert: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/4713
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polkadot.js 1010 bad sig error on MOVR
Even though Polkadot-JS App will show an Ethereum-style address, I don't know if it can actually interact with the Moonriver/Moonbeam networks - I'm seeing a few open PRs/issues which make me think it does not work (e.g. https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/pull/5216)
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Polkadot Digest 22 Apr 2022
There is a proposal to port the Substrate tip bot to the Polkadot-JS repository, as well, allowing users to be tipped for PRs and other contributions to the Polkadot-JS codebase. https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/7339
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How to get off of the Polkadot.js extension
Maybe you can find a solution here: https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/issues/3681
What are some alternatives?
When comparing polkadot and apps you can also consider the following projects:
substrate - Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
polkadot-Js-Plus-extension - A user-friendly wallet to interact with the Polkadot/Substrate based blockchains through a browser.
parity-signer - Air-gapped crypto wallet.
ledger-kusama - Kusama app for Ledger Nano S and X
extension - Taho, the community owned and operated Web3 wallet.
rust - Rust language bindings for TensorFlow
extension - Simple browser extension for managing Polkadot and Substrate network accounts in a browser. Allows the signing of extrinsics using these accounts. Also provides a simple interface for compliant extensions for dapps.
Parity - (deprecated) The fast, light, and robust client for the Ethereum mainnet.
api - Promise and RxJS APIs around Polkadot and Substrate based chains via RPC calls. It is dynamically generated based on what the Substrate runtime provides in terms of metadata.
cumulus - Write Parachains on Substrate
tools - Various cli tools for Polkadot and Substrate chains, including basic node monitoring, making API queries via a cli app and other command-line tools