What tools do we have to build decentralised governance systems now? What examples are there of them in action? And how can we conceptualise and build them? — Right now, in 2021, the tools available to build decentralised systems with democratic “on-chain” governance capabilities are very real, very awesome, and are in practice and working effectively (here is an example). Communities are making decisions on using voting, councils, referenda, and treasury proposal decisions. They are self-governing in a…

Wen Kabocha? Imminently. This post highlights the progress status of Kabocha’s parachain journey from sudo phase to Live. — TL;dr Kabocha has made its first runtime upgrade, kab-release-v0.1.8, which upgrades the runtime to the latest polkadot release, v0.9.27, on our main net on the Kusama relay chain. There are still 2 more key upgrades to go, kab-release-v0.1.9, which contains more pallets including the ability to mint new coins based on…

What tools does web2 offer that keep people and businesses within web2, until web3 can provide it? — Web3 is a revolution in many ways. And the future is bright with all the new possibilities available, but what are some of the blockers for wider adoption? Here’s a perspective on one big blocker, and a solution… What’s the situ? We now live in a world where you can transact with another…

Introducing to the substrate ecosystem, Supersig, a tool that has a few more very useful features for decentralised organising. Status: Milestone 1 complete Multisig is a rather powerful and pervasively used tool across the Substrate ecosystem. Almost every chain has the pallet. It allows a group of people to take…

My reflections from the first ever in person blockchain training academy by the Parity team. — I’m reflecting on this past month and how truly awesome it has been… As a (sort of) local, I commuted from London on a daily basis. Sounds long but I enjoyed the routine, waking up before the birds, to go to Cambridge, a place that I’ve actually never been. It…

Tech companies What we learned about tech companies is that they can scale internationally, therefore network effects can be selected as a higher metric to optimise for than revenue would be. Many companies have raised money and have been valued based on their pursuit to monopolise an entire global market. The way…

In this quick how to we are going to send funds securely by signing a transaction from an “air-gapped” wallet. — Our aim is to send funds in a much more secure way than using a “hot” wallet… How can you send funds from a wallet that is not online you might be asking? The initial thought can be perplexing. But in this quick how-to you will understand the process. It…

This post should get you through the workflow of making a runtime upgrade for your parachain. — First you need to have a running parachain on a local or live testnet of some kind. The chain needs to be producing blocks, and you need to have the sudo key of the chain. Bump version and compile Make sure to bump up the relevant version in your `runtime/src/lib.rs` file, if its a…