Today, Catena discusses one of the most prominent and promising projects in the entire cryptocurrrency sphere, Polkadot. Created by Co-Founder of Ethereum Gavin Wood, Polkadot aims to be the go-to interoperable protocol for the entirety of the blockchain sphere. Without interconnectivity of blockchains, we will not achieve mass adoption; isolation cannot be the calling card for the overall continuity of this space in the future. Polkadot fixes the isolation of blockchains through parachain interconnectivity between public and private blockchains. In essence, Polkadot and ICON are cousins in what they would like to achieve in the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem overall.