Polkadot Digest 26 May 2025

Polkadot News

Polkadot produced its first block exactly five years ago today. https://x.com/BillLaboon/status/1926878914527338512

There is a post on the Polkadot Forum soliciting feedback for the future of the Decentralized Voices program. Reflections on the DV Program So Far & What's Next!?

Alice_und_Bob held a discussion on “Jobs in Polkadot”. A recording is available here: https://x.com/alice_und_bob/status/1925856440696074596

Referendum 1581, proposing to upgrade Polkadot to runtime 1.5.1 to fix a security issue with the Polkadot SDK, has passed and executed. [Whitelisted Caller] Runtime Upgrade to v1.5.1

Kusama News

Referendum 530, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 1.5.1 to fix the same security issue as in Ref 1581 on Polkadot, has passed and executed. [Whitelisted Caller] Runtime Upgrade to v1.5.1

The pot is now up to 49.999 KSM for Kappa Sigma Mu, available to whoever has a successful bid and provides proof-of-ink next. https://ksmsociety.io/explore/bidders

The Kusama staking rate has decreased over the last week, and is now down to 46.94%. Polkadot Cloud Staking | Polkadot Staking (DOT)

Happy birthday Polkadot!