Polkadot Digest 28 January 2026

Polkadot News

Smart Contracts are now live on Polkadot https://x.com/paritytech/status/2016181827744985220

The developer documentation now features instructions to deploy Solidity contracts on both EVM and PVM on Polkadot Use Hardhat with Polkadot Hub | Polkadot Developer Docs

ink! Alliance announces the discontinuation of its Rust smart contract development framework. More details here https://x.com/ink_lang/status/2016224809424736524

“[Wish For Change] The Dynamic Allocation Pool (DAP) and the future of staking: Phase 1” referendum is in the confirmation period and is expected to pass later today https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1827

The issue with Polkadot treasury payouts of assets addressed with older XCM versions has been resolved with the latest runtime upgrade https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/spends

Kusama News

“Sustainable KSM Economics via Burn Mechanisms (v1.2)” referendum is currently passing with a slight majority https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/627

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