# Polkadot Digest 17 November 2025

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-17-november-2025/15964>\
**Category:** Digest\
**Created:** [November 17, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-17-november-2025/15964 "2025-11-17T06:40:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![radha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@radha](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/radha)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-17-november-2025/15964/1 "2025-11-17T06:40:29Z")

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## Polkadot News

The Polkadot Builder Party hackathon, with over 2,700 participants, concludes tonight, with submissions closing at 11:45 PM GMT [https://polkadot.devpost.com/](https://polkadot.devpost.com/)

Polkadot’s flagship conference Sub0 Symbiosis concluded over the weekend in Buenos Aires, with the hackathon attracting over 150 submissions [https://x.com/Polkadotsub0/status/1990183241253613683](https://x.com/Polkadotsub0/status/1990183241253613683)

The research team at Web3 Foundation publishes results relevant to [https://proximityprize.org/](https://proximityprize.org/), an initiative by the Ethereum Foundation to advance the foundations of modern zkVMs. [https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1989001826750865658](https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1989001826750865658)

Polkadot People Initiative: Incentives for Mass Polkadot Activation Campaign is in the decision period and is currently passing [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1783](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1783)

## Kusama News

The referendum to set KSM/DOT Asset Rate Locations on Kusama Asset Hub (Post-Migration Restoration) is passing unanimously [https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/615](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/615)

The referendum to Encointer runtime to 2.0.0 is passing unanimously [https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/613](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/613)