Polkadot Digest 19 Mar 2024

Polkadot News

The March 2024 OpenDev Core call is happening here now: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1nAKEaVmqjRKL

Filippo Franchini, Technical Educator at W3F, will be hosting an AMA about JAM and the Polkadot vision tomorrow at 13.30 UTC: https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1769703592087183437

With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, Litentry has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info

Referendum 581, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v1.1.3, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/581

This is a relatively minor upgrade which prevents a controller from becoming a stash of another ledger. For details, see Staking ledger bonding fixes by gpestana · Pull Request #3639 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub

Kusama News

With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, Basilisk has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info

Referendum 359, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain runtime to v1.1.3, is now up for vote. This is similar to Polkadot referendum 581, referenced above. Kusama Runtime Upgrade v1.1.3 | Polkassembly