Polkadot Parachain Auctions

A deep dive into how to participate and an analysis of the top candidates and the possible ROI

James Thorn
17 min readNov 7, 2021

Hello dear reader! In this article we are going to go very deep into the Polkadot project parachain auctions, explain what they are, the best ways to participate in them, and the projects that are postulating to become the winners of the first batch of contested parachain slots that start being auctioned on the 11st of November.

Lets go!

TLDR:

0) Introduction to Polkadot

1) Polkadot Parachains

2) Polkadot Parachain auctions

3) What is a Crowdloan?

4) The Top Candidates

5) Other Projects

6) How to evaluate these projects: ROI analysis

7) Conclusion

0) Introduction to Polkadot

Polkadot is a Blockchain platform founded in 2017 by Gavin Wood, one of the co-founders of Ethereum. Gavin parted from Ethereum because he thought that the most important smart contracts Blockchain platform was failing to deliver some of the promises it had made.

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