Blockchain project Polkadot is reportedly seeking to raise up to $60 million through another initial coin offering.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday citing "People familiar with the matter," the startup's latest token fundraising effort would bring the value of all its tokens to $1.2 billion, when those not in circulation are included.
Soon after it had ether tokens to the value of $98 million frozen due to a bug in Parity wallets.
At the time the team asserted: "Our ability to build Polkadot as planned and to the original timetable has not been affected."
Developed by ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood and owned by Parity Technologies and the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot is a blockchain interoperability protocol that saw its first proof-of-concept go live.
The protocol is designed to allow blockchains to communicate with each other and facilitate upgrades automatically without system-wide upgrades or hard forks.
DOT, the internal token of the Polkadot network, allows holders to vote on potential code changes, which will then automatically upgrade across the network if consensus is reached.
Parity and Web3 have previously said the plan is to officially launch the Polkadot network in the third quarter of 2019.
Parity has been working on building a number of blockchain tools and projects.
Last month, it launched Substrate, a platform that lets users create customized blockchains for decentralized applications, and is integrated with Polkadot protocol.
Blockchain Project Polkadot Plans ICO to Raise Another $60 Million: Report
gepubliceerd op Jan 25, 2019
by Coindesk | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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