Polkadot Whitepaper

Gavin Wood's Polkadot whitepaper, published November 2016 and hosted on Polkadot's own site, describes a separate cryptocurrency's design -- not a venue Satoshi or his contemporaries used.

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Event July 27, 2026 Added July 27, 2026 Updated September 13, 2026 Altcoin / Stablecoin

Polkadot: Nominated Proof-of-Stake, Parachains, and the Vote That Capped an Uncapped Supply

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Gavin Wood

A relay chain coordinating parachains, nominated proof-of-stake, and the 2025 vote that capped a decade of roughly-10-percent issuance -- Polkadot's design, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.