Polkadot Digest 23 Jan 2024

Polkadot News

With forty minutes left in the current parachain lease auction, Darwinia has been in the lead for almost 93% of the Ending Period. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info

Referendum 416, proposing to upgrade Polkadot and system parachains to runtime v1’001’000, is passing almost unanimously. Upgrade Polkadot v1,001,000 | Polkassembly

The staking rate on Polkadot has been increasing over the last few days and is now at 52.04%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)

Kusama News

Reminder to all Kusama validators to rotate your session keys, if you haven’t yet, to ensure that your BEEFY key is set. You can see if you have a BEEFY key set here: ParaNodes - Polkadot and Kusama Validator

Runtime 1’001’000 on Kusama will activate at block 21_570_000 tomorrow. Release Runtimes 1.1.0 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub

With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Sora Kusama has been in the lead for the majority of the Ending Period. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info

I was a special guest on the Kusamarian’s Attempts at Governance for Episode 100 yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX02iUGl8f0

Referendum 329, setting curators for Bounty #25 (Public RPCs for Relay and System Parachains), is passing with 56% in favor. Proposing Curators for Bounty #25 | Polkassembly

The staking rate on Kusama has been increasing over the last few days and now stands at 52.87%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)