# Polkadot Digest 23 Jan 2025

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-23-jan-2025/11517>\
**Category:** Digest\
**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-23-jan-2025/11517 "2025-01-23T11:32:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![bill\_w3f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/bill_w3f/32/910_2.png) [@bill\_w3f](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/bill_w3f)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-23-jan-2025/11517/1 "2025-01-23T11:32:38Z")

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## Polkadot News

Interested in helping the Polkadot community grow by hosting meetups? Polkadot Roots is accepting applications to help you do so. [https://x.com/dotevents\_/status/1881382674515845533](https://x.com/dotevents_/status/1881382674515845533)

Polkadot Blockchain Academy is coming to Luzern, Switzerland, 24 Mar - 10 April. For more information and to apply, you can see here: [PBA Campus Bali: Our Next Advanced Blockchain Course](https://polkadot.academy/pba-campus/)

Referendum 1339, proposing to force upgrade the Parallel parachain, is currently passing with 99.3% in favor and three days left to vote. [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1339](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1339)

## Kusama News

Referendum 484, proposing to increase the maximum number of parachain validators from 500 to 600, is passing almost unanimously. [Polkassembly - Referendum #484](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/484)