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If you have been following the development of Polkadot, Ethereum 2.0 or Substrate, you may have heard of libp2p. Libp2p is a network framework that allows you to write decentralized peer-to-peer applications.

Substrate 1.0 Beta is out now, opening the door to a radical acceleration in blockchain and decentralised application development. Substrate is an open-source technology stack that makes it easy to create a

At the Web3 Summit in Berlin, Parity Technologies founder Gavin Wood demoed launching a blockchain in under 60 minutes on a brand new laptop, announcing the November 2018 release of Substrate 1.0-beta.

Just as most web applications shouldn't need to reimplement their own version of HTTP, we believe that it's wasted effort for every team creating a new blockchain to have to implement all the networking and consensus code from scratch.

The Thiel Foundation announced the 2018 class of Thiel Fellows, and Parity’s own Robert Habermeier has been selected as a recipient. The 20-year-old Washington D.C. native will receive $100,000 over