Polkadot Protocol Specification

Polkadot is a replicated sharded state machine designed to resolve the scalability and interoperability among blockchains. This repository serves as the point of reference for Polkadot Protocol. In this repo you will find:

• The official Polkadot Host Specification
• The official Polkadot Runtime Specification
• Various other files used by the Polkadot spec team

Polkadot Host and Runtime Specification

The latest releases of the Polkadot Host and Runtime Specification can be found on our GitHub Releases page.

Each release also includes a PDF "diff" to the previous versions that highlights the history of changes to the specification.

For more details please refer to the respective README.md in the host-spec or runtime-spec subfolders.

Polkadot Protocol Conformance Testsuite

The official Polkadot Conformance Testsuite was moved into a seperate repository.

Genesis and Runtime files

The latest genesis files can be retrieved from the official polkadot repository here.

All runtime releases can be found on the official Polkadot Releases page.