# Shiden secures third parachain slot on Kusama
“# Shiden secures third parachain slot on Kusama ” Shiden, the sister-project of leading Polkadot-native layer-two decentralized app hub, Astar Network (formerly Plasm Network), has won the third parachain auction for Polkadot’s experimental sister-network, Kusama. Shiden secured the slot with a total of 137,020 KSM tokens bonded — worth nearly $29 million at current prices….