Polkadot Digest 27 Oct 2023

Polkadot News

The staking rate on Polkadot continues to increase and is now at 49.63%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard

With three and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, Clover Finance has been in the lead for the vast majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions

Referendum 204, proposing to kill Referendum 203 (slashing its submission and decision deposits), is currently passing. Polkassembly - Referendum #204

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Kusama News

With less than a day 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, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain runtime to v1’000’000, is currently failing with 64% in favor. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/297

Referendum 294, proposing to reduce the backing group size from 5 to 3, is passing with 99.8% in favor. Polkassembly - Referendum #294

There are nine other Referenda up for vote on Polkadot OpenGov. Polkadot/Substrate Portal