Polkadot News
The official Polkadot Telegram group has been re-opened. https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1893995029930049669
Polkadot version stable2412-2 has been released. Release Polkadot stable2412-2 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub
This explainer from Basti Köcher describes how a cold wallet can show plain English versions of what is being signed via merkleized metadata. One Metadata to rule them all - Or how to implement offline signers
Kusama News
Referendum 498, proposing a new Kusama vision and 10 million DOT for Kusama, is now passing with 99.4% in favor. A New Kusama Vision - 10 Million DOT from W3F & Transition Away From Being A Canary Network | Polkassembly
The changes from this PR (removing unnecessary Kappa Sigma Mu funding and disabling the Treasury burn, have come into effect. Kusama Treasury: remove funding to the Kappa Sigma Mu Society and disable burn by muharem · Pull Request #507 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub