Polkadot Digest 5 Jun 2023

Polkadot News

With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Parathread ID 3342 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot & Kusama networks | Parachains.info

Referendum 118, proposing to gradually increase the ideal number of validators in the active set on Polkadot to 400, is failing with 30% in favor and 2 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/118

Referendum 119, proposing to swap to perform a parachain lease swap between two different parachain IDs controlled by Acala, is passing with 66% in favor and 7 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/119

Referendum 121, proposing to upgrade the relay chain to runtime 9420 and enable Polkadot OpenGov, is passing with 99% in favor and 10 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/121

Did you know that you can access the power of the Polkadot-JS API via the command line? tools/packages/api-cli at master · polkadot-js/tools · GitHub

Kusama News

With half a day left in the current parachain lease auction, Calamari has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. Kusama Auctions and Crowdloans | Parachains.info

Referendum 213, moving the Kabocha parachain manager to a new address, is now up for vote on the Root track. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/213

Referendum 214, aiming to decentralize the collator set on Kusama system chains, is now up for vote on the Staking Admin track. Further decentralize collator set on Kusama system chains | Polkassembly

There are now 10 Referenda up for vote on Kusama OpenGov. You can see the list and vote with your KSM here: Polkadot/Substrate Portal