Polkadot News
Decentralized Voices Cohort 2 delegates will be announced this week.
With less than a day left to go in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous Parathread 3374 is in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions
The staking rate on Polkadot continues to increase and is now at 57.15%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard
Referendum 791, proposing to upgrade Polkadot relay chain and system parachains to runtime 1.2.4, is passing almost unanimously. Polkassembly - Referendum #791
Interested in learning more about JAM? Gavin Wood gave a presentation on it at Eth Prague last week. https://x.com/thewhiterabbitM/status/1796525356540932489
Kusama News
The Kusama staking rate has remained relatively steady at 52.26%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard