Polkadot Runtime

Description of various useful Runtime internals

📄️ 9. Extrinsics

9.1. Introduction

📄️ 10. Weights

10.1. Motivation

📄️ 11. Consensus

11.1. BABE digest messages

📄️ 12. Metadata

The runtime metadata structure contains all the information necessary on how to interact with the Polkadot runtime. Considering that Polkadot runtimes are upgradable and, therefore, any interfaces are subject to change, the metadata allows developers to structure any extrinsics or storage entries accordingly.