Polkadot Digest 18 Aug 2023

Polkadot News

With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, InvArch has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info

Today’s Polkadot Deep Dive at 14.00 UTC covers XCM integration. https://twitter.com/paritytech/status/1692138575305777286

The PR for on-demand parachains (f/k/a parathreads) has been merged into the Polkadot master branch. Parathreads Feature Branch by eskimor · Pull Request #6969 · paritytech/polkadot · GitHub

The staking rate on Polkadot has continued to increase, and is now at 47.5%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)

An increase in the staking rate has effects on staking rewards, inflation, and funding for the on-chain Treasury. For details, see Advanced Staking Concepts · Polkadot Wiki

Kusama News

With four and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, Robonomics has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info