{"id":68038,"date":"2022-10-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68038"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:54:22","slug":"bitcoin-suisse-adds-polkadot-governance-voting-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-suisse-adds-polkadot-governance-voting-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Suisse adds Polkadot governance voting feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland&#8217;s oldest crypto company Bitcoin Suisse has opened up voting for clients who hold Polkadot (DOT), <span data-descr=\"Polkadot testnet\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Kusama<\/span> (KSM) and <span data-descr=\"one of Polkadot's parachains\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Centrifuge<\/span> (CFG) on the custody platform Vault. Project representatives told ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, users will be able to participate in governing the Polkadot protocol directly from the application interface.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is also available for a growing number of parachains connected to the network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWith the latest update to Bitcoin Suisse Vault, holders of DOT, as well as KSM and CFG, can easily use their account in the app to create a proxy account on a device of their choice. This allows their assets to remain safely in cold storage while they participate in governance voting\u201d, \u2014 the company explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Head of Bitcoin Suisse&#8217;s custody division, Markus Perdritzat, noted that on-chain governance is of \u201ckey importance for advancing the Web3 ecosystem\u201d and is a rapidly growing space.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, Bitcoin Suisse Vault was the first institutional custodian to offer clients staking of DOT. The new option continued the trend, added Perdritzat.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Parity Technologies, the Polkadot-affiliated organization, published <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/parity-technologies-unveils-polkadot-roadmap\">an overview of the project&#8217;s roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland&#8217;s oldest crypto company Bitcoin Suisse has opened up voting for clients holding Polkadot (DOT), Kusama (KSM) and Centrifuge (CFG) on the Vault custody platform, project representatives told ForkLog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68039,"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":[2053,1461,785],"class_list":["post-68038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-suisse","tag-polkadot-dot","tag-voting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68038","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=68038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68040,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68038\/revisions\/68040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}