A number of teams have started researching or building Polkadot infrastructure and parachains.
Some of these teams are preparing for Polkadot’s launch today by building on the Substrate technology stack. Polkadot parachains don’t have to be built on Substrate, but they can be and it is easy for them to be used in Polkadot. For Substrate chains to become parachains there is very little technical overhead or extra coding. The chain simply needs to bond DOT tokens to lease a parachain slot on the Polkadot platform.
This is a rundown of the teams building out the Polkadot ecosystem. Please comment as more come online.
Teams Building on Substrate and Polkadot
- ChainLink - developing an oracle (announcement)
- Laminar - open finance platform (website)
- Aragon - unstoppable organizations, DAOs (Presentation)
- AdEx - implementing their registry (announcement)
- ChainX - developing a Bitcoin and Ethereum bridge (announcement)
- Digix - gold on the blockchain (website)
- Dock.io - verifiable credentials (website)
- Centrifuge - operating system for financial supply chain (website)
- Ocean Protocol - ecosystem for sharing data (presentations)
- Energy Web Foundation - building an energy network (announcement)
- iExec - decentralized cloud computing (announcement)
- Edgeware - building a WASM-based smart contract platform (website)
- ZeroChain - zK-SNARKs chain built on Substrate (announcement)
- Acala Network - stable coin platform built using Substrate (Twitter)
- Robonomics - cyber-physical systems integration (Twitter status)
- pLibra - a privacy preserving implementation of Libra (website)
- MXC - IoT protocol (website & technical paper)
- Darwinia - multi-chain gaming (repo)
- Katal - financial contracts (website)
- Joystream - A user governed video platform (announcement)
- Ladder Network - decentralized exchange for cross-chain assets (website)
- Akropolis - decentralized pension and DeFi blockchain (website)
- Asure Network - social security network (website)
- KILT Protocol - credentials for Web 3.0 (website)
- PACTCare - Metadata Blockchain based on Substrate called Starlog (GitHub)
- 0x protocol - decentralized exchange (Tweet)
- Blink Network - lightning fast payments (website)
- LayerX - zk-SNARKs chain (announcement)
- Plasm - Plasm is a Substrate Runtime Module Library allows developers to add Plasma functions to their Substrate chain (GitHub)
- Speckle OS - universal identity and account parachain (announcement)
- Totem - real time accounting for Substrate (website)
Wallets
- Blockchain.com - non-custodial global wallet (Announcement)
- Polkawallet - mobile wallet (Twitter)
- Enzyme - browser extension wallet (website)
- imToken - digital asset wallet with multi-chain asset management (website)
- Cobo Wallet - proof of stake wallet (website)
- Speckle Wallet - browser extension wallet (website)
- Qbao Network - cross-chain wallet. (website)
Infrastructure
- HOPR - decentralized & privacy-preserving point-to-point messaging protocol with incentives (announcement)
- Polkascan - block explorer to mine data on all chains (announcement)
- Bison Trails - node infrastructure and staking/monitoring service (Website)
- Blockdaemon - node infrastructure and staking/monitoring service (Website)
- Polkasource - ITSM for blockchain infrastructure (announcement)
- Protos - Open Source Node Explorer (website)
- Polka.io - block explorer (website)
- Supercomputing Systems — Substrate Transaction Privacy using Intel SGX (GitHub)
- Validators — Open Source Scalable Cluster (GitHub)
Tooling
- Noise Explorer - Rust code generator for formally verified (Noise/ cryptographic) handshakes (GitHub)
- Clovyr - service to easily build a blockchain (demo)
- Chainhammer — Multi-chain performance testing tool (GitHub)
- Agoric - secure smart contracts (website)
Polkadot Implementations
- Parity Polkadot - The Rust client is developed by Parity Technologies in concert with their work on Substrate.
- Gossamer - A Go implementation being built by ChainSafe Systems, which is also building an Eth 2.0 Serenity client. (grant announcement).
- Polkadot-JS - A JavaScript client and tool set developed by Polkadot JS.
- Kagome - C++ implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment being built by Soramitsu. As part of the process they are developing a libp2p networking layer in C++.
