Polkadot News
Robonomics has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
The next parachain lease auction begins today at ~ 20.00 UTC. https://parachains.info/auctions
Jonas Gehrlein, researcher at W3F, has started a thread on Polkadot which has received many comments, on the topic “Proposal for Adjusting Polkadot’s Inflation System: Reducing Issuance and Complexity”. Proposal for Adjusting Polkadot's Inflation System: Reducing Issuance and Complexity
If you’re interested in the technical details on changing the staking system to support flexible inflation, see RFC 89. https://polkadot-fellows.github.io/RFCs/proposed/0089-flexible-inflation.html
Kusama News
Referendum 418, proposing to add PolkaIdentity as a Registrar, is passing with 96.1% in favor. Polkassembly - Referendum #418
There are currently two candidates for inclusion in Kappa Sigma Mu. https://ksmsociety.io/explore/candidates