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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Other Popular Cryptos / Coins => Polkadot Forum => Topic started by: Goldlife on February 24, 2021, 08:13:23 AM
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Polkadot’s relay chain is built with Substrate, a blockchain-building framework that is the distillation of Parity Technologies’ learnings building Ethereum, Bitcoin, and enterprise blockchains.
Polkadot’s state machine is compiled to WebAssembly (Wasm), a super performantvirtual environment. Wasm is developed by major companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla, that have created a large ecosystem of support for the standard.
Polkadot’s networking uses libp2p, a flexible cross-platform network framework for peer-to-peer applications. Positioned to be the standard for future decentralized applications, libp2p handles the peer discovery and communication in the Polkadot ecosystem.
The Polkadot runtime environment is being coded in Rust, C++, and Golang, making Polkadot accessible to a wide range of developers.
A better security model
In both Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake systems, blockchains compete with each other over resources to secure their networks, and blockchains are easily attacked until they develop a significant community to support their network.
Polkadot takes a different approach by letting blockchains pool their security, which means that the blockchains' security is aggregated and applied to all.
By connecting to Polkadot, blockchain developers can secure their blockchain from day one.
More info:
https://polkadot.network/technology/