Polkadot News
With four and a half left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread ID 2058 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Polkadot/Substrate Portal
Referendum 73, proposing to upgrade the Statemint runtime to v9270, has passed and executed. Upgrade Statemint to v9270 | Polkassembly
EasyA has published a Treasury Proposal for Milestone 2, following successful completion of their London hackathon. Milestone 2 Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon for 200 Students and Educators | Polkassembly
There is also a potential Treasury Proposal to fund community involvement at Token2049. Polkassembly - Proposal: Polkadot Singapore Event During Token2049 #1223
There is a post on Polkassembly seeking feedback about increasing the minimum nomination limit (note that this does not impact the minimum to receive staking rewards). Polkassembly - Proposal: Slightly higher nomination limits #1224
This is to make nomination pools, which should be coming soon to Polkadot, more attractive and reduce individual nominations.
There is a post seeking feedback on a potential Treasury Proposal for a San Francisco Blockchain Week Polkadot Summit. Polkassembly - Proposal: San Francisco Blockchain Week Polkadot Summit #1238
ChainSafe has published a proposal for continuing development of the Gossamer Polkadot Host implementation (written in Go) using Treasury funds. Polkassembly - Treasury Proposal: Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant #1260
The Polkadot Digest focuses on the Relay Chain, but there is lots of other activity happening in the Polkadot ecosystem: https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1569327104847757328
Polkadot will be represented at Stand P70 at Singapore’s Token2049 conference 28-29 September. You can sign up for a raffle for a free ticket here: Polkadot | Freedom to build at Web3 scale
Kusama News
Referendum 228, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9280, is passing with 94% in favor with a few hours left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/228
Referendum 229, a proposal which was admitted to be a mistake by the originator, is still failing with 2% in favor with five days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/229
Per Treasury Proposal 164, Polkascan Explorer has been open-sourced. GitHub - polkascan/explorer: Polkascan Substrate Explorer
The original Treasury Proposal is here: Open-sourcing Polkascan block-explorer stack | Polkassembly
There is a post seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for a Polkadot Search Indexer and RPC endpoints. Polkassembly - Treasury Proposal - Polkadot Search indexer and RPC end-points #1814