{"id":54832,"date":"2021-12-16T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54832"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:22:22","slug":"clover-finance-wins-the-fifth-polkadot-parachain-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/clover-finance-wins-the-fifth-polkadot-parachain-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Clover Finance wins the fifth Polkadot parachain auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clover Finance project won the auction for the fifth Polkadot parachain slot. Supporters locked 9.75 million DOT, worth about $266 million.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Clover Finance&#8217;s nearest competitor was the Efinity project. Its supporters locked 8.8 million DOT worth $240 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clover-1024x548.png\" alt=\"The fifth Polkadot parachain auction has concluded. Clover Finance won.\" class=\"wp-image-159431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clover-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clover-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clover-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clover.png 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/parachains.info\/auctions\/polkadot-1-5\">Parachains.info<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clover Finance is a cross\u2011chain platform with NFT support and an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).<\/p>\n<p>A network snapshot to determine the fifth winner was taken on December 12. At the time of the snapshot, 6,726,275 DOT had been locked in Clover Finance&#8217;s favor. Efinity stood at 6,721,428 DOT.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snapshot-1024x315.png\" alt=\"The fifth Polkadot parachain auction has concluded. Clover Finance won.\" class=\"wp-image-159432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snapshot-1024x315.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snapshot-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snapshot-768x236.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snapshot.png 1219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/parachains.info\/auctions\/polkadot-1-5\">Parachains.info<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Support for Clover Finance came from 5,465 DOT holders. The project&#8217;s success marked the end of the first round of parachain auctions. On December 18, the five winners will be integrated into the Polkadot mainnet, and block production will begin.<\/p>\n<p>The second round starts on December 23. The screenshot below shows the future participants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"862\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/next-round.png\" alt=\"The fifth Polkadot parachain auction has concluded. Clover Finance won.\" class=\"wp-image-159433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/next-round.png 957w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/next-round-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/next-round-768x692.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/parachains.info\/auctions\/polkadot-6-11\">Parachains.info<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, the Polkadot parachain slots were won by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polkadots-first-parachain-auction-ends-acala-wins\">Acala<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/moonbeam-wins-the-second-polkadot-parachain-auction\">Moonbeam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polkadots-third-parachain-auction-ends-astar-wins\">Astar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/parallel-finance-wins-polkadots-fourth-parachain-auction-slot\">Parallel Finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full stream of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clover Finance won the auction for the fifth Polkadot parachain slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2274,1554,1461],"class_list":["post-54832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-clover-finance","tag-parachains","tag-polkadot-dot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54834,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54832\/revisions\/54834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}