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. https://parachains.info/auctions
The staking rate on Polkadot has been increasing lately and now stands at 53.33%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard
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. Polkassembly - Referendum #343
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. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama
The staking rate on Kusama has been decreasing and now stands at 49.7%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard