Moonbeam se lanza en Polkadot, convirtiéndose en su primera parachain totalmente operativa

Moonbeam de Polkadot — la plataforma de contratos inteligentes parachain compatible con Ethereum — recientemente logró completar su proceso previo al lanzamiento y, finalmente, entrar en funcionamiento dentro del ecosistema de Polkadot. El lanzamiento se anunció a principios de esta semana, el martes 11 de diciembre.

El lanzamiento también representa un gran hito para el propio Polkadot, ya que Moonbeam es ahora la primera parachain totalmente operativa en la blockchain de Polkadot. Con su lanzamiento, el protocolo Moonbeam ofrecerá una forma para que más de 80 proyectos diferentes en su ecosistema puedan ser desplegados.

El lanzamiento de Moonbeam también traerá una serie de innovaciones, incluidas nuevas integraciones, usuarios, actividades y más, todo lo cual ayudará a impulsar el ecosistema de Polkadot y a hacer crecer su red.

Back in octubre de 2021, Moonbeam also managed to win Polkadot Parachain Auction — which was the second one that was ever held. Now, according to the announcement, Moonbeam removed the superuser key, Sudo, during the first phase of the launch. In doing so, it started the process that will grant control of the network to its community of token holders, thus triggering full decentralization.

Detalles sobre el lanzamiento de Moonbeam

Apart from everything mentioned above, it is worth noting that Moonbeam also enabled balance transfers, as well as EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) within its platform. The balance transfer is particularly important for investors, as it will allow them to engage in staking. In other words, users will be able to start earning rewards from the crowdloan, and receive passive income.

Following this change, the project’s community of token holders will now be in charge of overseeing the chain through the governance system. Another noteworthy change is the fact that the active set of collectors is now higher, sitting at 48.

After the launch, GLMR token holders gained the ability to stake alongside the collectors, serve as active network members by participating in an on-chain governance system, and claim crowdloan rewards. Speaking of crowdloan rewards, approximately 30% of them — or around 45 million GLMR — was distributed as soon as the project got launched on Polkadot. The distribution was directly dependant on the percentage of the contribution, as the announcement pointed out.

The other 70%, which is around 105 million GLMR, will be linearly vested over the 96-week parachain lease period. This started in mid-December, and we are already three weeks in. What this means is that there are three weeks of vested rewards that can be claimed by the contributors right now.

Finally, Moonbeam used this opportunity to announce that it plans to deploy several new projects dedicated to building up infrastructure. These will arrive over the next few weeks, and they will include things like multisig support, Chainlink oracles, bridges, The Graph, and alike.

With Moonbeam’s parachain launch, this is a big step for Polkadot’s entire network, as the project became the first official, fully functioning parachain, and Polkadot’s entire system is dedicated to launching parachains — not only for increased scalability, but also for achieving interoperability with other chains in the industry. Now, the project made a huge step towards this goal, and the move will provide additional encouragement.

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