# Polkadot Digest 15 January 2026

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-15-january-2026/16712>\
**Category:** Digest\
**Created:** [January 15, 2026, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-15-january-2026/16712 "2026-01-15T11:07:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![radha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@radha](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/radha)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-15-january-2026/16712/1 "2026-01-15T11:07:50Z")

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## Polkadot News

The referendum to upgrade to Polkadot Runtime 2.0.5 is now up for voting. This upgrade features capped issuance for DOT, Solidity smart contracts support, and two-second block times [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1828](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1828)

The implementation of a hard pressure-capped and stepped supply schedule for DOT, which was approved by Polkadot OpenGov in September 2025, is part of this 2.0.5 runtime upgrade [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1710?tab=timeline](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1710?tab=timeline)

The Elastic Scaling feature, which enables two-second block times on Polkadot Hub with 2.0.5, has been battle-tested on Kusama Hub for a few weeks now [https://x.com/filippoweb3/status/2008491910445641888](https://x.com/filippoweb3/status/2008491910445641888)

The Polkadot 2.0.5 upgrade also features the addition of the Proxy pallet to Bridge Hub, weight reclaim functionality on system chains, improving their efficiency, and more. Check the change log here [Release Runtimes 2.0.5 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/releases/tag/v2.0.5)

## Kusama News

The registrar application of [ECHO.RE](http://ECHO.RE) to verify identities on the Kusama network is now up for voting [https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/626](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/626)