Polkadot Digest 15 Oct 2025
Polkadot News
The third cohort of the Decentralized Nodes program by Web3 Foundation, which focuses on improving the resilience of the Polkadot network, was announced earlier this week https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1977654674644951296
Polkadot and its parachains consistently rank at the top on multiple dashboards that independently audit decentralization metrics of blockchain networks. https://x.com/chainspect_app/status/1978096780580364414
Road to Sub0 builder party workshops in Budapest, Hungary, and Vicenza, Italy, are happening today Polkadot · Luma
Missed attending Polkadot Builder party sessions and workshops? Here is the full playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOyWqupZ-WGvx3e73tc4gYObf0rJ4UV1X
Bounty Proposal for Public RPCs for Relay and System Chains is passing almost unanimously https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1758
Funding request for maintenance and continuation of the public good Polkadot NFT marketplace has been submitted by Damsky from Chaotic Infrastructure Funding for Polkadot Asset Hub #4 - Maintenance & Continuation of Public good Polkadot NFT marketplace
Kusama News
Announcement: Sub0 Symbiosis hackathon in Buenos Aires will feature Arts and Social experiments track on Kusama network with a prize pool of $5000 https://x.com/Polkadotsub0/status/1978072480087454158
The referendum to upgrade Kusama runtime to 1.9.2, which performs post-migration cleanup and addition of some runtime APIs, is up for vote again https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/607