Polkadot News
Web3 Foundation has announced the Decentralized Futures program, which will allocate US$ 20 million and 5 million DOT to innovative teams building the future of Polkadot. https://futures.web3.foundation/
The next parachain lease auction begins tomorrow at approximately 03.00 UTC. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info
A release analysis of Polkadot 1.3.0 has been released and published on the Polkadot Forum. Polkadot Release Analysis v1.3.0
Nikhil Ranjan has produced an application for inscribing/viewing images on the Polkadot Relay Chain. https://twitter.com/BillLaboon/status/1725113752079552515
The staking rate on Polkadot has decreased slightly to 50.3% (was 50.41% on Monday). Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)
Kusama News
Referendum 308, expanding the invulnerables set among Asset Hub Kusama collators, is now up for vote. [Fix 224] Expand invulnerables set on Asset-Hub Kusama | Polkassembly
Referendum 305, setting the relay chain’s safe XCM version to v3, currently has 100% in favor. Setting the relay chain's safeXcmVersion to v3 | Polkassembly