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Kusama CC-1 v0.5.0
Initial release of the Polkadot Kusama protocol, node and tools. This includes natively-built Kusama genesis (PoA period) governance.
Polkadot Kusama is an experimental, pre-production and unaudited, "canary network". It comprises several bleeding-edge features:
- Hybrid Grandpa/Babe consensus giving fast block production and finality even in highly adverse network conditions with thousands of validators.
- WebAssembly-based runtime allowing arbitrary upgrades to all on-chain logic.
- Nominated proof-of-stake validator selection using a stake-weighted proportional representation with economic incentives and punishments designed to ensure secure public network operations.
- A tricameral governance and treasury mechanism.
- Initial parachain (sharding) implementation.