Polkadot News
There is an RFC for a flexible unbonding mechanism from Jonas Gehrlein which could significantly reduce unstaking time on Polkadot. Unbonding queue by jonasW3F · Pull Request #97 · polkadot-fellows/RFCs · GitHub
The latest Polkadot-JS extension for Firefox is now available. x.com
Kusama News
Referendum 416, proposing to increase the maximum number of parachain validators to 500 and max_validators_per_core to 5, is now up for vote. Increase max_validators to 500 and max_validators_per_core to 5 | Polkassembly
The Kusama staking rate has slightly increased to 52.67%. Polkadot Staking Dashboard | Polkadot Staking (DOT)