Polkadot News
Polkadot stable-2412.4 has been released. This is a patch update to the latest stable version stable2412. Release Polkadot stable2412-4 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub
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BlockDeep Labs has announced ExBrid, an Eth-DOT messaging passing bridge adapter, allowing smoldot and subxt to submit extrinsics without relying on external relayers. https://x.com/0xBlockDeep/status/1906700071229427883
Kusama News
Referendum 512, proposing to adjust the ideal bulk proportion for Kusama coretime sales, is now up for vote. Adjust (only) ideal bulk proportion | Polkassembly
Referendum 511, proposing to increase the max_validators parameters from 600 to 700, is passing unanimously. [Whitelisted Caller] Increase max_validators to 600 | Polkassembly
Note that this increases the number of parachain validators, NOT the number of validators in the active set (i.e. the # of validators actively validating parachains, which is always <= the total # of validators).