Polkadot News
With the Ending Period beginning in less than a day, Moonbeam is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
W3F has announced the recipients of Wave 19 of their Grants Program, including 33 grants amounting to over US $1.1 million in funding. https://medium.com/web3foundation/web3-foundation-grants-wave-19-recipients-8ca2e980c2b5
Interested in applying for a grant or learning more about the grants program? See https://grants.web3.foundation/
Referendum 166, tweaking Polkadot’s ideal staking rate, currently has enough approval to pass and has enough support to start confirming tomorrow. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/166
Referendum 190, recognizing Alice und Bob for his contributions to the Polkadot discourse, has passed and executed. Polkassembly - Referendum #190
For a recording and overview of yesterday’s talk about ChainSafe’s Polkadot MetaMask Snap, see this thread - https://twitter.com/ChainSafeth/status/1712468265740665283
Kusama News
With slightly than three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Genshiro has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama