Polkadot technology overview

Chat

• Technical channel - Discuss Polkadot implementations.
• General channel - Discuss general Polkadot topics.

Writing

• Polkadot Medium - Updates on the development and technology articles.

Presentatons

• Substrate intro - Description of the Substrate, one of the technologies underlying Polkadot.

Specifications

• Polkadot White Paper - General Polkadot description.
• Polkadot Spec - Working yellow paper style Polkadot specification.
• Polkadot Wiki - Set of spec drafts.

PoC implementations

• Rust - Initial Polkadot implementation.
• JS - Tools, utilities and client.

Component implementations

• Parity Bridge - Bridge between any two ethereum-based networks.
• ParityDB - Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operations.
• Parity WASM - WebAssembly serialization/deserialization in Rust.
• WASM utils - Collection of WASM utilities used in Parity and WASM contract devepment.
• Rust libp2p - The Rust Implementation of libp2p networking stack.