Polkadot News
Polkadot v1.10.0 has been released. Release Polkadot v1.10.0 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub
Referendum 514, a Treasury Proposal for sponsoring Conor Daly in the Indianapolis 500, passed, marking the first time a community through decentralized governance voted to do a major sport sponsorship. Polkadot To Sponsor Daly’s DRR/Cusick Entry at Indy 500
Polkadot Staking Dashboard v1.3 has been released, including major improvements when using nomination pools. https://twitter.com/rossbulat/status/1777628264590368850
Note that there was a technical issue with Referendum 514 executing. Referendum 616, fixing the technical issue, is currently confirming. Conor Daly Indy500 Replacement Ref | Polkassembly
The next round of parachain auctions has begun, with the Ending Period starting tomorrow. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info
Kusama News
With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Parathread 3350 has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period so far. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info
Referendum 373, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain runtime to v1.2.0, is passing almost unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/373
There are a few other Referenda up for vote for the move to asynchronous backing and Coretime, all passing with over 99% approval. These include Referenda 371 (bumping parachain validation timeouts), 372 (Coretime parachain), 374 (enable async backing), 375 (enable Coretime). Enable Coretime | Polkassembly