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Moonbeam's interoperability and compatibility will drive the next wave of application development and user growth Written by Austin Barack.
California Democrats, an historically ineffectual bunch, are finally learning how to wield their majority power.
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Another View: Once upon a moonbeam

WASHINGTON – In matters cultural, California has always been America’s petri dish. Whatever happened in California usually infiltrated the rest of the country.

Today there is reason to hope other trends collecting on our far-left coast (geographically speaking) might infect the nation, especially in matters of governance and fiscal responsibility.

Jerry Brown, about to begin a run for his fourth term as governor, has shed the “Governor Moonbeam” moniker that he has worn like an itchy suit for nearly 40 years, compliments of Chicago columnist Mike Royko. Even Royko later regretted the nickname and tried to retract it after hearing Brown speak at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, saying Brown seemed to be the only Democrat who understood the challenges that lay ahead. There is cause today to resurrect this observation.

In his elder years, Brown has traded earlier dreams of a California space program for more down-to-earth policies that reflect a respect for non-ideological pragmatism. At times, he sounds more Republican than Democrat.

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Source: New Republic

Not too long ago, California was in calamitous shape—if the unresolvable budget battles and furloughing of hundreds of thousands of workers weren’t depressing enough, there was also the decrepit condition of the school system. But over the last few years, California has experienced a remarkable turnaround. Unemployment is down, and the state’s bond rating is up. The budget, to everyone’s amazement, is in surplus. Equally surprising is the state’s political transformation.

California Democrats, an historically ineffectual bunch, are finally learning how to wield their majority power. They’ve been so successful that Barack Obama and the other Democrats in Washington who seem bedeviled by an intransigent opposition party should study their moves well.

For years, California’s political experts had insisted that what the state suffered from was party polarization—the Democrats had moved too far left, the Republicans too far right—and what the state needed was a post-partisan politics. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who became governor in 2003, embodied that dream; and

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Moonbeam’s interoperability and compatibility will drive the next wave of application development and user growth

This week marks a momentous time with Moonbeam’s Kusama parachain Moonriver winning one of the first parachain auction slots, kicking application and user growth into the next gear. CoinFund has been an early supporter of the network, having led Moonbeam’s $6MM capital raise earlier this year. We also recently contributed KSM towards the Kusama parachain auctions for Moonriver to secure its Kusama parachain slot ahead of Moonbeam which will be doing the same later this year on Polkadot. We are thrilled to continue to support Moonbeam and excited for this next phase of growth.

The Polkadot ecosystem is one of the fastest growing networks in terms of active developers and new projects in the entire blockchain space. In many ways, Polkadot mirrors where Ethereum was in 2016/2017, when it was still building out key infrastructure and had yet to find the product market fit it now has with DeFi, NFTs, and elsewhere. At this stage, the root structures within Polkadot