Polkadot News
Referendum 1529, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot Bridge Hub to Runtime 1.4.3, is now up for vote. [Runtime 1.4.3] Upgrade Polkadot Bridge Hub | Polkassembly
Although Ref 1510 (setting up Snowbridge USDC and USDT assets) passed and executed, there was an error in the call. It has been fixed and re-submitted as Ref 1529. Set Snowbridge-wrapped USDC & USDT as sufficient assets, set their ED to $0.01, and set their metadata on Asset Hub | Polkassembly
Runtime 1.5.0 is preparing to be released for Kusama. This will allow elastic scaling on Polkadot. Note to builders: this will add an extra parameters to the dry-run function. See Bump to stable2409-6 by bkontur · Pull Request #623 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub
Tomorrow, 18 April at 14.00 UTC, there will be an AMA with DV delegate Polkaworld. https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1912783011872989675
Next week, I will be giving a talk on on-chain governance at AIMA and then giving an overview on Polkadot’s roadmap in Brooklyn, New York. https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1912237484119085532
Kusama News
Encointer has published an article about creating a “Kusama Mchezo” in Tanzania. https://encointer.org/kusama-mchezo-in-tanzania/