Interoperability

Funding Rounds

Algorand-Linked Axelar Raises $3.75M in Seed Funding to Help Blockchains Communicate

Sebastian SinclairNov 13, 2020

Axelar is a decentralized protocol designed by the founding members of Algorand to make it easier for dapps to work across blockchains.

Payments

Raiffeisen Bank Bringing Blockchain Interoperability to Its Stablecoin Project

Daniel PalmerOct 22, 2020

Raiffeisen's stablecoin project is becoming blockchain-agnostic, adding interoperability tech from Bitpanda and the ​Technical University of Vienna.

Opinion

Fixing Crypto’s Silos

Stephen TseJan 15, 2021

Our fragmented status quo – thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps – will not work indefinitely without interoperability.

India

Cosmos Gains Traction in India Amid Broader Crypto Resurgence

Leigh Cuen Shuai HaoOct 2, 2020

Cosmos and its ATOM token are finding success among university students in India during the 2020 bull market.

Polkadot

Parity Upgrades Polkadot’s Underlying Tech to Make Custom Blockchain Building Easier

William FoxleySep 23, 2020

Polkadot developer Parity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit Substrate 2.0, including 70 composable modules.

Interoperability

Polkadot

Developers Eye Mid-September for Ethereum, Polkadot Bridge Proof-of-Concept

William Foxley

The Snowfork proof-of-concept acts as a two-way bridge between the Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems, according to the group.

Cosmos

Cosmos’ Founding Team Broke Up Early This Year. The Project Didn’t

Leigh Cuen

How Cosmos, the blockchain interoperability project that turned a small ICO into a thriving ecosystem, survived the breakup of its founding team.

China

How Chainlink and Cosmos Fit Into China’s Grand Blockchain Initiative

David Pan

Chainlink will help the state-backed Blockchain-Based Service Network with oracles, and Cosmos-powered Irisnet will assist with interoperability.

Alibaba

Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than Cosmos

Paddy Baker

The e-commerce firm says its new patent would improve upon current systems used by blockchains to communicate with one another.

Polkadot

Polkadot Goes Live as Web3 Foundation Pushes Prospective Mainnet

William Foxley

Polkadot is now live, following the launch of its first “chain candidate” (CC1).

Interoperability

‘Very Near Launch’: Polkadot Founder Gavin Wood Details Network Rollout

William Foxley

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood outlined the “five or six” steps the network will be taking as it moves to a full launch, some four years after first being conceived, during his Ready Layer One presentation.

Interoperability

New Crypto Bridge Will Make Tether Transactions Cheaper, CTO Says

Paddy Baker

Bitfinex and Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino says he hopes pToken – a project he has assisted – will make it easier for retail USDT holders to swap their tokens from one chain to another.