Polkadot News
With the Ending Period beginning in approximately 15 hours, Interlay is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
Interested in experimenting with Agile Coretime on Rococo? Santi Balaguer from Parity has posted details and instructions here: https://twitter.com/SantiBalaguer/status/1716796073182724405
Please note that there is no need for individual users to issue crowdloan.refund extrinsics. There is generally no action needed by individual users; the crowdloaned DOT should already be in the original crowdloaning account. Polkadot Support
For more details on how this process works, please see the Polkadot Wiki: Web3 and Polkadot - Polkadot Wiki
Referendum 211, to upgrade Polkadot to runtime v1’000’000, is now up for vote. However, no DD has yet been placed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/211
Kusama News
With slightly under three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Zero has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama
Referendum 297, to upgrade Kusama to runtime v1’000’000 is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/297
Note that as it is on the Whitelisted Track, it will also need to be whitelisted by the Polkadot Technical Fellowship. For details, see Polkadot OpenGov - Polkadot Wiki
There are now 9 active Referenda up for vote on Kusama OpenGov. Polkadot/Substrate Portal