Polkadot News
Referendum 615 has passed and executed, enabling BEEFY consensus on Polkadot. Set BEEFY genesis (thus starting BEEFY consensus on Polkadot)
Referendum 639, bumping parachain validation timeouts from 2s to 2.5s, has passed and executed. Bump parachain validation timeouts
With fourteen hours left in the current parachain lease auction, Ajuna Network is in the lead and has been for the majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions
Jonas Gehrlein of the W3F developed a tool for tracking staking rewards on Polkadot, Kusama, and various parachains. For details, see https://twitter.com/GehrleinJonas/status/1779920556445315483
The staking rate on Polkadot has been increasing and is now at 51.9%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)
Kusama News
After 138 parachain auctions, there will be no more on Kusama as the transition to coretime occurs tomorrow at block 22_793_600. Enable Coretime | Polkassembly
Previous parachain leases will be migrated to equivalent long-term coretime leases. For more details, see the Polkadot Wiki Polkadot Direction · Polkadot Wiki