Polkadot Digest 24 Jan 2025

Polkadot News

OpenGov.Watch has released their 2024 overview of Polkadot OpenGov, entitled “The Year of Waste - The Year of Reforms”. The Year of Waste - The Year of Reforms | OpenGov.Watch

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Kusama News

Referendum 484, proposing to increase the maximum number of parachain validators from 500 to 600, has passed and executed. [Whitelisted Caller] Increase max_validators to 600 | Polkassembly

Note that this does not change the number of validators in the active set, but rather how many of these are actively validating parachains.

Referendum 488, proposing to update the schedulerParams.lookahead parameter from 2 to 3, is now up for vote. [Whitelisted Caller] Update schedulerParams.lookahead configuration parameter to 3 | Polkassembly

The KAGOME implementation of the Kusama validator is now hitting A+ grade on Turboflakes. x.com