{"id":54960,"date":"2021-12-20T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54960"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:03:51","slug":"polkadot-launches-first-public-parachain-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polkadot-launches-first-public-parachain-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Polkadot launches first public parachain Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polkadot community approved upgrading the Shell parachain to the Statemint level on the mainnet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-width=\\\"500\\\" data-dnt=\\\"true\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">After passing two stakeholder referenda, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Polkadot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Polkadot<\/a> sent its first cross-chain messages, upgrading Shell to Statemint. It just created its first blocks as Polkadot&#8217;s first common good parachain.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/8mIhi1iZ3h\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/8mIhi1iZ3h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Petrowski (@joepetrowski) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joepetrowski\/status\/1472281330687873029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">December 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Shell has been operating on Kusama&#8217;s experimental network since May 2021 at the Statemine level.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>After the referendum, the Polkadot network sent two messages to the parachain with instructions to upgrade to Statemint. The first wrote a value into storage to create the genesis state.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The second message sanctioned the runtime upgrade, including all functions to create and manage fungible and non-fungible assets.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The team recommended a &#8216;conservative&#8217; rollout of features with significant restrictions on parachain usage. Initially, users will not be able to teleport DOT tokens into the network.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The developers recommended keeping this restriction in place until the dispute-resolution protocol is connected, ensuring security.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>More features will become available after sufficient testing on the Kusama network.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cWith the launch of Statemint and five other parachains, the network is ready for the next wave of innovations in Web 3 applications,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The winners of five parachain slot auctions were projects <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>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/parallel-finance-wins-polkadots-fourth-parachain-auction-slot\">Parallel Finance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/clover-finance-wins-the-fifth-polkadot-parachain-auction\">Clover Finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polkadot community approved upgrading the Shell parachain to the Statemint level on the mainnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54961,"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":[1554,1461],"class_list":["post-54960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-parachains","tag-polkadot-dot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960","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=54960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54962,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54960\/revisions\/54962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}