Polkadot Digest 9 Jul 2024

Polkadot News

There is an RFC for a flexible unbonding mechanism from Jonas Gehrlein which could significantly reduce unstaking time on Polkadot. https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/97

The latest Polkadot-JS extension for Firefox is now available. https://x.com/KarimJDDA/status/1810326709448908957

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. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/416

The Kusama staking rate has slightly increased to 52.67%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview