Polkadot News
Agile Coretime went live today and with it ended the era of parachain lease auctions on Polkadot. There is a Twitter/X Space on the topic here: x.com
A post-mortem on the temporary block production slowdown and finality lag on Polkadot has been published: [2024-09-17] Polkadot finality lag/slow parachain production immediately after runtime upgrade - post mortem
Web3 Foundation is now accepting applicants for Cohort 3 of Decentralized Voices. Several changes have been made to the program. Decentralized Voices Program. In February 2024, Web3 Foundation… | by Web3 Foundation Team | Web3 Foundation | Sep, 2024 | Medium
Referendum 1169, proposing to perform a “Spammening” of the Polkadot Relay Chain to showcase Polkadot’s scalability, is now up for vote. Showcasing Polkadot’s Capabilities: The Spammening | Polkassembly
Referendum 1098, cleaning up several obsolete/unneeded Bounties, is now confirming. Bounty Cleanup | Polkassembly
Referendum 1162, granting authority to register .DOT identities, is passing with 99.4% in favor. .DOT Authority Registration for the Polkadot App | Polkassembly
Kusama News
Referendum 455, increasing the AsyncBacking.max_candidate_depth parameter from 3 to 6, is now up for vote. This is necessary for the Elastic Scaling MVP. [Whitelisted Caller] Set AsyncBackingParams.max_candidate_depth to 6 | Polkassembly
Referendum 454, reimbursing some accounts that were victim of an XCM bug, is now up for vote. [Small Spender] Reimburse accounts affected by an XCM bug | Polkassembly