Don’t Miss Out on the DotSama: The Scoop on Polkadot, Kusama, and Parachain Auctions

DotSama; the combination of Polkadot and Kusama

TL;DR

• DotSama is a combination of Polkadot and Kusama

• Polkadot is a multichain interoperability protocol that allows the transfer of any type of asset or data on its network

• Kusama is a public pre-production environment for Polkadot

DotSama is a combination of Polkadot and Kusama, both of which are emerging ecosystems in the crypto space. DotSama is designed as a multichain ecosystem that acts as a bridge to various blockchains, a patchwork of independent legal systems that interact with each other.

Polkadot

Polkadot is a multichain interoperability protocol that allows the transfer of any type of asset or data on its network. Founded in 2016, by Gavin Wood, Polkadot is oftentimes referred to as ‘Ethereum killer’ due to the rising number of active developments on the platform as well as potential use cases.

Kusama

Kusama is a public pre-production environment for Polkadot. In short, Kusama allows developers to test and experiment with new applications and blockchains before releasing them on the Polkadot network. $KSM is the canary network in the $DOT ecosystem.

Future Plans

The basic architecture of $KSM and $DOT is almost similar as they are both multichain, have on-chain governance, have a heterogeneous shard design based on NPoS, have crosschain messaging and changeable runtimes for fork-free on-chain upgrades. Some projects will have parachains on both $DOT and $KSM but others will be on $KSM only. However, the two also have some differences.