Polkadot News
Parachains with asynchronous backing on Rococo testnet have been achieving consistent 6 second block time. For further details and status updates on asynchronous backing, see Async Backing - Development Updates
With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, NeuroWeb has been in the lead the entire Ending period. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info
The staking rate on Polkadot has been increasing lately and now stands at 53.33%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)
Mario Nawfal’s CryptoWeekly hosted an AMA with various people from Polkadot, including Bill Laboon, Ingo Ruebe, John Linden, Filippo Franchini, and Mark Cachia. https://twitter.com/mark_cachia_/status/1757792782477856886
Kusama News
Referendum 343, setting the BEEFY genesis and starting BEEFY consensus on Kusama, has been whitelisted and is passing almost unanimously. Set BEEFY genesis (thus starting BEEFY consensus on Kusama) | Polkassembly
Some initial analysis on the Kusama parachain block production slowdown has been published. Kusama parachains block production slowed down · Issue #3314 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub
With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, Quartz has been in the lead the majority of the Ending Period. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info
The staking rate on Kusama has been decreasing and now stands at 49.7%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)