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Since Moonbeam was announced in April 2020, the development team has been hard at work to meet engineering milestones and deliver on the stated project goals.
In the first six months following the announcement, the team has delivered a working Ethereum-compatible TestNet, called Moonbase Alpha, and been awarded a Web3 Foundation grant for their work building a Web3 RPC for the Frontier projects.
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Moonbeam and Subscan Partner to Launch Substrate-Based Block Explorer for the Moonbase Alpha TestNet
Plan to Release Additional Explorer support for EVM Functionality Based on the Frontier Project Boston, MA – March 4, 2021 – Moonbeam, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot, announced an initial integration with…
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Moonbeam Partners with OnFinality to Build the First API Service on Moonbase Alpha
Developers Will Now Be Able to Set Up Nodes in a Quick and Cost-effective Way Boston, MA – February 19, 2021 – Moonbeam, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot, announced the availability of a…
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Moonbeam Upgrades Its TestNet to Moonbase Alpha v6
Adding Governance and Staking Features for Users. Boston, MA – February 18, 2021 – Moonbeam, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot, announced today the latest version of its TestNet, Moonbase Alpha. Now, Moonbeam users…
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Moonbeam Network Completes TestNet Integration of ChainBridge, The Network’s First Bridge to Ethereum
Developers Can Use the Bridge to Transfer ERC-20 Tokens Between TestNet Environments on Ethereum and Moonbeam Boston, MA – January 27, 2021 – Moonbeam, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot, announced today the completion…
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Moonbeam and Ocean Protocol Partner to Bring a New Data Economy to the Polkadot Ecosystem
Completes First Phase of Integration on the Moonbase Alpha TestNet. Boston, MA – January 25th, 2021 – Moonbeam, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot, announced its integration with Ocean Protocol, a data exchange protocol…
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Recent News Coverage
A sampling of recent press coverage for Moonbeam.
December 14, 2020
Equilibrium’s Polkadot-native Stablecoin Will Integrate With Moonbeam
November 17, 2020
As DeFi Grows, Investors Look to Polkadot to Be the Next Ethereum
November 11, 2020
November 11, 2020
November 11, 2020
November 11, 2020
Moonbeam Launch Paves Way for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Polkadot
November 4, 2020
DeFi on Polkadot: An Alt Chain with Interoperability on the Horizon
October 23, 2020
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