Polkadot News
With twelve hours to go until the Ending Period begins, InvArch is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
Referendum 84, proposing to update and decentralize the collator set of system parachains, has passed and executed. Polkassembly - Referendum #84
A proposal for an agile coretime implementation has been passed and merged after on-chain vote by the Polkadot Technical Fellowship. https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/1
The staking rate on Polkadot has increased over the last week to 46.85%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard
Kusama News
With two and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, Bifrost Kusama is in the lead, but DAO IPCI has been in the lead for ~ 45% of all previous blocks. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama
Due to the nature of parachain auctions, thus either could now win, depending on when the Ending Block is determined to be. For details, see Web3 and Polkadot - Polkadot Wiki
The staking rate on Kusama has increased slightly over the last week to 54.26%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard