RT Parity Technologies (@paritytech)Polkadot is often misinterpreted as just another blockchain bridged to other chains, but that framing misses the architecture completely. Polkadot provides shared infrastructure:security | consensus | data availability | cross-chain messagingBut sadly, many people still picture Polkadot like this:Chain├ parachain├ parachain├ parachainThat mental model is wrong, or at least unfinished, and it makes Polkadot look like many independent chains loosely connected, which conceal ...