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Polkadot Unshackles Admin Rights, Now Fully Decentralized

Lily Yang

Summary: After removing the admin privileges used by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot blockchain completes its decentralization, as reported by Cryptopolitan. The removal was ratified by community governance on July 21, signaling the official rollout of Polkadot blockchain in mainnet. To decrease potential security violations and bugs, Polkadot has been applying a permissioned “proof-of-authority” network since May, ...

After removing the admin privileges used by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot blockchain completes its decentralization, as reported by Cryptopolitan. The removal was ratified by community governance on July 21, signaling the official rollout of Polkadot blockchain in mainnet.

To decrease potential security violations and bugs, Polkadot has been applying a permissioned “proof-of-authority” network since May, until its special community governance system approved the removal of admin access.

By Lily Yang