Polkadot News
Referendum 615 has passed and executed, enabling BEEFY consensus on Polkadot. https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/615
Referendum 639, bumping parachain validation timeouts from 2s to 2.5s, has passed and executed. https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/639
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
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. Polkassembly - Referendum #375
Previous parachain leases will be migrated to equivalent long-term coretime leases. For more details, see the Polkadot Wiki Polkadot Direction - Polkadot Wiki