Polkadot News
There is currently an issue resulting in longer and less consistent parachain block times on Polkadot. The Polkadot Technical Fellowship is aware and looking into the problem. All* Polkadot Parachains having Slow and Inconsistent Block Times · Issue #8414 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub
Jonas Gehrlein, researcher at W3F, would like to discuss his new coretime market redesign proposal with any coretime purchasers. https://x.com/GehrleinJonas/status/1919718392568701205
Kusama News
Referendum 519, proposing to upgrade Kusama relay chain to runtime 1.5.0 (including support for elastic scaling), has passed. It will execute Friday (9 May) morning UTC. https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/519
Referendum 521, setting a DOT/KSM asset conversion rate, is now up for vote. Set Asset rate for DOT/KSM to enable treasury spends of DOT through Kusama OpenGov | Polkassembly