Polkadot News
Cohort 2 of Decentralized Voices have been delegated. Kusama delegations should occur soon.
Referendum 841, proposing to upgrade Polkadot relay chain and system parachains to 1.2.5, is currently passing, with execution set for 1 July (block 21_455_000). Upgrade Polkadot v1.2.5 | Polkassembly
Note that runtime 1.2.5 includes a breaking change for transaction encoding (inclusion of the CheckMetadataHash extension). You will need to upgrade wallets and applications as appropriate. Release Runtimes 1.2.5 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub
The Polkadot staking rate has increased slightly to 57.35%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)
Kusama News
With the runtime upgrade yesterday of Kusama to 1.2.5, the Polkadot-JS extension will need to be updated to sign transactions. The latest version is already on the Chrome store.
The Kusama staking rate has increased slightly to 52.77%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)