Polkadot News
Nodle has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions
The next parachain lease auction is scheduled to begin at block 17_510_400 (approx 01.00 UTC on 30 Sep). Polkadot/Substrate Portal
RFC-11, proposing “CoreJam”, a proposal to fundamentally change and generalize the workload of the Polkadot Relay Chain, has been submitted to the polkadot-fellows repository. RFCs/text/corejam.md at 006a9ff07c3d3bc5316c6bf63b05e966e694cc2d · polkadot-fellows/RFCs · GitHub
The staking rate on Polkadot has declined slightly over the last week to 48.59%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard
Kusama News
Anonymous parathread ID 2284 has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama
There is a new Referendum on the Whitelisted track to upgrade Encointer runtime to v16. Polkassembly - Referendum #276
Remember that Whitelisted referenda need to be whitelisted by the Polkadot Fellowship. Polkadot OpenGov - Polkadot Wiki
The staking rate on Kusama has remained relatively steady over the last week, with only a 0.04% decrease to 54.63%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard