Polkadot Protocol Specification and Conformance Tests

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 Conformance Testsuite
• A florishing Polkadot Runtime Specification
• Various other files used by the Polkadot spec team

Polkadot Host Specification

Here your can find the latest version of the Polkadot Host Specification

Please refer to the Change Log and PDF Diff to review the history of changes to the specification.

For more details please refer README.md to the specification.

Polkadot Protocol Conformance Testsuite

The test/ directory contains tests of different components for the different implementations of the Polkadot protocol.

This ensures that the different implementations behave the same and produce identical output, which is the necessary basis for the interoperability of all Polkadot clients.

For more details plese see the README.md of the testsuite.

Genesis files

This repository contains genesis parameters for different networks in the genesis-state/ directory.

• The alexander test network
• The kusama test network