Polkadot News
WebZero will be hosting an Polkadot hackathon as an official side event at Consensus 2025, 13 - 16 May, including a round-the-clock private chef. https://x.com/joinwebzero/status/1915461721617006923
Jonas Gehrlein, researcher at W3F, has put together a simulator for his proposed coretime sales mechanism (detailed in RFC 15). https://x.com/GehrleinJonas/status/1916769210044186670
Radha Dasari, technical educator at W3F, gave a keynote talk this weekend for the Harvard Crypto Conference as well as a talk at the Easy A Hackathon. https://x.com/DrW3RK/status/1915780794720649284
JAM Matrix chats are now being archived, for those people who aren’t in the Matrix rooms (or just want to easily look at the history). Archived rooms
Kusama News
Referendum 518, proposing to upgrade the Kusama Asset Hub to runtime 1.4.3, has passed and executed. [Runtime 1.4.3] Upgrade Kusama Asset Hub | Polkassembly
There are four candidates for Kappa Sigma Mu this round. https://ksmsociety.io/explore/candidates