Polkadot Digest 7 Jul 2025

Polkadot News

Referendum 1645, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v1.6.1, is currently passing almost unanimously. Polkassembly - Referendum #1645

Kusama News

Referendum 551, proposing to upgrade the Kusama runtime to v1.6.1, has passed. It will execute on 9 July. Polkassembly - Referendum #551

This fixes the finality issues seen with the first attempt to enable elastic scaling. You can read the postmortem of that issue here: [2025-05-09] Kusama dispute storm postmortem

Referendum 549, proposing to register CurioDAO ERC-20 token on Kusama Asset Hub, is currently passing with 69.7% in favor. https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/549