# Polkadot Digest 8 Aug 2025

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-8-aug-2025/14330>\
**Category:** Digest\
**Created:** [August 8, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-8-aug-2025/14330 "2025-08-08T08:19:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-8-aug-2025/14330/1 "2025-08-08T08:19:42Z")

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## **Polkadot News**

Polkadot will migrate governance, staking, and DOT balances to the Asset Hub chain on Tuesday 4 November; Kusama will go first on Tuesday 7 October. [https://forum.polkadot.network/t/asset-hub-migration-2025/11129/58](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/asset-hub-migration-2025/11129/58)

Four papers from the Web3 Foundation research team have been accepted to CRYPTO 2025 in Santa Barbara, USA. [https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1953421741541236858](https://x.com/Web3foundation/status/1953421741541236858)

## **Kusama News**

Referendum 569, proposing to upgrade system parachains to 1.6.x, enable RFC-103, and fix XCM version subscriptions, is passing unanimously. [https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/referendum/569](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/referendum/569)

The pot is now 33.3333 KSM for bidders for Kappa Sigma Mu, the human blockchain. There are no candidates this round with a bid this low. [https://ksmsociety.io/explore/bidders](https://ksmsociety.io/explore/bidders)