Moonbeam (GLMR) & Moonriver (MOVR)

EVM compatible Parachain on Polkadot

Basics

• Announced on:
• Testnet release: 9-2020
• Mainnet release: 'will launch the Moonbeam network later this year' (30-3-2021). Went live 11-1-2022.
• Based in:

• From The Defiant (28-4-2020):

"Blockchain infrastructure company PureStake said its building Moonbeam, a smart contract platform which will be compatible with the Ethereum blockchain. Moonbeam would allow developers to transfer existing Ethereum dapps and create new dapps using Ethereum development tools like Truffle and MetaMask.

“Getting traction for a new developer platform is a numbers game,” wrote PureStake founder and CEO Derek Yoo “By providing Ethereum compatibility, we give ourselves access to the largest market of existing blockchain developers.”

Moonbeam is based on Parity Technologies Substrate blockchain development framework, and would be a parachain —similar to a shard— within the Polkadot network. The platform will be released together with the Polkadot network launch."

• Is still not live on mainnet (12-10-2020). "We are currently targeting Q2 2021 for a Moonbeam launch on Polkadot. We will be launching to Kusama later this year, in Q4 2020."

Audits & Exploits

• Bug bounty program can be found [insert here].

Technology

• Whitepaper can be found [insert here].
• Code can be viewed here.

Implementations

• Built on: Polkadot and ChainSafe (the bridge to Ethereum, 27-1-2021).
• Programming language used: "Support for Solidity, Vyper, and anything that compiles to EVM bytecode." (5-4-2021).

Transaction Details

• Capacity (TPS):
• Latency:

Interoperability

• From CoinDesk (30-3-2021):

"Applications that are built on Ethereum can be deployed in parallel onto Moonbeam without having to reconfigure their code."

• ChainSafe builds the bridge (27-1-2021):

"ChainBridge is the a bridge between Ethereum and the Moonbeam parachain on Polkadot that will allow asset transfers between the two independent chains."

Oracle Method

• Chainlink; integrated (17-12-2020)
• Band Protocol; will integrate it (22-12-2020)
• Razor Network; will integrate it (1-2-2021).
• DIA; will integrate it (19-3-2021).

Roadmap

• Can be found [Insert link here].

Usage

• From Twitter (10-11-2021) after it did 5m tx:

"Moonriver continues to be the most widely adopted parachain on @KusamaNetwork with 60+ live integrations, 173k+ wallets, 2k+ ERC-20 tokens."

Projects that use or built on it

• Alliance Block; (5-4-2021)
• AMPnet; (15-12-2020).
• Balancer; Moonbeam is going after a Balancer grant to port it over (3-3-2021).
• Betprotocol; (5-4-2021)
• ChainSafe; (5-4-2021)
• Covalent; will use MoonBeam (30-4-2021).
• Human Protocol; (5-4-2021)
• IDEX (30-3-2021)
• Injective Protocol; (5-4-2021)
• Kilt; (5-4-2021)
• Linear; (5-4-2021)
• Ocean Protocol (30-3-2021)
• Offshift; (5-4-2021)
• Polkastarter; (5-4-2021)
• PolkaCover; (5-4-2021)
• Poolz; (5-4-2021)
• SushiSwap; deployed its contracts on it as part of adding support for 5 new chains (4-3-2021).

Team, Funding, Partners

Team

• Full team can be found [here].
• PureStake, a company that builds blockchain infrastructure for proof-of-stake networks.

Funding

• Covalent; the firm was part of a $2M round for Covalent (26-3-2021).
• From CoinDesk (30-3-2021):

"Raised $6 million in a funding round led by investment firm CoinFund, and supported by Binance Labs. Coinbase Venture, ParaFi, Fenbushi Capital, IOSG Ventures, Divergence Ventures, Signum Capital and others also participated in the round."

Partners 

• Acala's aUSD Ecosystem Fund; one of the founding parachains to grow the Acala stablecoin (23-3-2022)

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