Polkadot News
Parathread 3351 has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period in the current parachain lease auction. Polkadot Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info
Referendum 159, setting the moderators bounty curator to a 2/3 multisig, is now up for vote. Moderation Team Bounty Curator Proposal | Polkassembly
The Polkadot Technical Fellowship notes from the 21 September meeting are now available. HackMD - Collaborative Markdown Knowledge Base
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Kusama News
A detailed postmortem for the stalled parachain issue that Kusama experienced on 1 September has been released: Stalled parachains on Kusama - post mortem
Anonymous parathread 2284 has won the most recent Kusama parachain lease auction. Kusama Auctions #104-110 and Crowdloans | Parachains.info