Polkadot News
With twelve hours to go until the Ending Period begins, InvArch is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info
Referendum 84, proposing to update and decentralize the collator set of system parachains, has passed and executed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/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 | Polkadot Staking (DOT)
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. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info
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 Parachain Slot Auctions ยท Polkadot Wiki
The staking rate on Kusama has increased slightly over the last week to 54.26%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)