Polkadot Digest 15 Jan 2024

Polkadot News

Agile coretime allocation has been activated on the Rococo testnet. https://twitter.com/bkchr/status/1745769929532399947

For details on how agile coretime works, please read the Polkadot Wiki page Polkadot Direction · Polkadot Wiki or if you really wish to go into detail, you can read the RFC RFCs/text/0001-agile-coretime.md at ade390b5ef06f3d897a56acea653504e706fe30e · polkadot-fellows/RFCs · GitHub

Referendum 416, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v1’001’000, is now up for vote. Upgrade Polkadot v1,001,000 | Polkassembly

Referendum 414, proposing to open an HRMP channel between InvArch and the Polkadot Asset Hub, is now up for vote. Open HRMP Channels Between AssetHub And InvArch | Polkassembly

The Polkadot Q4 2024 Update has been released: https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1745824641128526124

Kusama News

Darwinia Crab has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

A new parachain lease auction has begun, and with the Ending Period beginning shortly, Parathread 3345 is in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 328, proposing to upgrade the relay chain to runtime v1’001’000, is passing with almost 100% in favor. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/328