Polkadot News
I will be giving a keynote talk on “Smart Contracts on Polkadot” at Aleph/Crecimiento at 17.00 Argentina time (UTC-3) today. https://x.com/crecimientoar/status/1902502303480844554
I was on Decentralized Mic along with Lane Rettig (NEAR Foundation) and Christine Kim (Galaxy) to compare and contrast chain governance of Polkadot, NEAR, and Ethereum. https://x.com/paritytech/status/1902002980834136455
Joyce from Parity has written a great non-technical description of how parachains are a type of rollup (”cynical” or “pessimistic” rollups). Parachains = Rollups (the not-so-techy explanation)
Referendum 1498, registering several Polkadot native assets on Ethereum (including DOT, KSM, GLMR, HDX, and more) , is now up for vote. [Whitelisted Caller] Register Polkadot Native Assets on Ethereum | Polkassembly
The full list is available here - it is Rust code but understandable to non-programmers. Just look at the names at the end of each register_polkadot_native_asset call (e.g. “Polimec”, “PLMC”). snowbridge/control/preimage/src/commands.rs at dcf3ebf5ff5735a785c1473419eca25fc39792fb · Snowfork/snowbridge · GitHub
Kusama News
Referendum 507, proposing to reduce the Kusama inflation rate to 5% and modify the coretime pricing algorithm, is failing with 10.7% in favor. Reducing inflation and setting a realistic target for coretime sales | Polkassembly
The staking rate on Kusama continues to increase and is now at 47.06%. Polkadot Cloud Staking | Polkadot Staking (DOT)