Polkadot Digest 25 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

With 2 days left in the current parachain lease auction, Parathread ID 2104 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Polkadot/Substrate Portal

The staking rate on Polkadot has increased over 2 percentage points since the last era, to 47.9%. Polkadot/Substrate Portal

Kusama News

With less than a day to go in the current parachain lease auction, Moonriver has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Polkadot/Substrate Portal

There are now 16 Referenda available to vote on in the OpenGov system. Polkadot/Substrate Portal

There is a post seeking feedback on increasing the validator minimum commission rate on Kusama (from 3% to 10%). Polkassembly

There is a post seeking feedback for a Treasury Proposal for Subsquid integration with the Polkascan block explorer. Polkassembly

There is a post seeking feedback for a Treasury Proposal for maintenance of the substrate-api-client by Supercomputing Systems. Polkassembly

There is a post seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for funding GMI crypto media, a network public service podcast series. Polkassembly

There is a post seeking feedback on renewing funding for the NFT Content Creators initially funded by Bounty 12. Polkassembly

On the Gov1 side, Referendum 261, which has provided no contextual information on what it is proposing, is currently failing with slightly over 0% in favor and 6 days left to vote. Polkassembly