# Polkadot Digest 16 Oct 2023

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-16-oct-2023/4291>\
**Category:** Digest\
**Created:** [October 16, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-16-oct-2023/4291 "2023-10-16T09:18:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-16-oct-2023/4291/1 "2023-10-16T09:18:43Z")

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## Polkadot News

With two and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread ID 3353 has been in the lead almost the entire Ending Period. [https://parachains.info/auctions](https://parachains.info/auctions)

Filippo Franchini, Technical Educator at W3F, was recently interviewed by KryptosChain about coretime, staking, and more Polkadot topics. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnimxXoB5eY&ab\_channel=KryptosChain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnimxXoB5eY&ab_channel=KryptosChain)

The staking rate on Polkadot has remained relatively steady over the last week at 48.81%. [https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1713825492439121928](https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1713825492439121928)

For more details on staking on Polkadot, see Filippo’s Bi-Weekly Staking Snapshot. [https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1713825492439121928](https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1713825492439121928)

This Polkadot Forum post goes into detail about the potential timeline for agile coretime (tl;dr - Westend by EOY; Kusama in Q1 2024; Polkadot in Q2 2024) [Timeline on agile coretime?](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/timeline-on-agile-coretime/4274)

## Kusama News

Genshiro has won the most recent parachain lease auction. [https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama](https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama)

The Kusama staking rate has remained relatively steady over the last week at 48.73%. [Polkadot Staking Dashboard](https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview)