Why You Should Build on Polkadot

What is Polkadot? What problems does it solve? Everything Polkadot.

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With each new technology coming out claiming to be “the next generation of XYZ”, it can be hard to keep track of what actually is the next generation of XYZ. In this case, that XYZ is blockchain, and that technology is Polkadot.

With so many blockchains being spun up saying “they are the best, etc, etc” it’s important to look at the problems they solve — the only reason to use any tool. If you don’t understand the problems, you can’t understand the tool.

With so many blockchains and platforms that you can build on, you’ll be asking “why should I build with blockchain X?” in the same way you should ask “Why should we use Python? or mongoDB? or JavaScript?”

That’s what blockchains are. They’re technologies.

Now let’s see what Polkadot brings to the table and why you should build on it.

Introduction

When I talk about blockchain technology, I aim to talk about the impact it can have. That’s what blockchain does — it solves problems. I’ve written about the problems blockchain solves before, and I won’t go into those here. Instead, we will go into the specific problems of blockchain that Polkadot solves, and how it does it…