Polkadot News
DOT locked in the second round of Polkadot crowdloans can be returned starting today. Generally NO ACTION is needed by individual users and the DOT will be transferred to your account automatically.
In the case that the parachain team does not initiate the return in a time, anyone can initiate the crowdloan.refund extrinsic for that crowdloan. For details, see Parachain Crowdloans · Polkadot Wiki
Referendum 416, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain and system parachains to runtime v1’001’000, is currently passing with 95% in favor. Upgrade Polkadot v1,001,000 | Polkassembly
Based on requests from the community, I have been adding on-chain information about the accounts of Treasury Proposal proposers to Polkassembly. For an example, see Polkadot Developers Conference // sub0 September 19-20, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal - Final tranche | Polkassembly
The staking rate on Polkadot has increased to 51.93%, approximately 0.4 percentage points higher than this time last week. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)
Kusama News
Referendum 328, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain and system parachains to runtime 1’001’000, has passed and will execute on 24 Jan. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/328
This runtime upgrade will bring numerous changes - BEEFY activation, asynchronous backing, various Treasury and governance updates, and more. For details, see Release Runtimes 1.1.0 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub
With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread 3345 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info
The staking rate on Kusama has been increasing and now stands at 52.69%, approximately 1.2 percentage points higher than this time last week. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)