Polkadot Digest 9 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

With the passing of Referendum 91, the number of potential nomination pools has doubled from 64 to 128. There are now 71 active nomination pools. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking/pools

Referendum 93, proposing a new registrar but adding no contextual information, has failed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/93

A new referendum, 98, proposing to update the genesis Wasm blob for Bittensor to change the para ID, is passing with 99% in favor and 26 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/98

Referendum 94, proposing to seed the Polkadot Alliance, is currently passing with 97% in favor and 3 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/94

Referendum 96, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9340, is currently passing almost unanimously (>99.9% in favor) with 5 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/96

Referendum 97, proposing to unbrick the Bitgreen parachain, is currently passing with 98% in favor and 7 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/97

Over the weekend, the staking rate has increased 0.5 percentage points to 45.0%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Kusama News

With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, Bittensor is in the lead, but anonymous parathread ID 2243 has also been in the lead for part of the Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

This means that either of these parathreads has a chance to win the auction. For a refresher on how candle auctions work, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-auction#mechanics-of-a-candle-auction

Over the weekend, the staking rate has increased 0.2 percentage points to 50.1%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking