Polkadot Digest 1 Feb 2023

Polkadot News

With 4 days left to vote, Referendum 98, proposing to update the parathread ID in the genesis state Wasm of @bittensor_ parachain, is passing with 99% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/98

Referendum 101, proposing to approve the Wasm smart contracts bounty (Bounty #19) is currently passing unanimously with 26 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/101

The latest Substrate Seminar covered building a voting dapp with ink!, by Brushfam. https://twitter.com/substrate%5Fio/status/1620429723900973056

@Brushfam_io has produced several other ink! smart contract tutorials. See https://youtu.be/Rp5XvMM7ba8 for onboarding to ink!

The Polkadot staking rate has increased slightly to 45.67%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Kusama News

A few hours into the Ending Period of the current parachain lease auction, and parathread ID 2256 is in the lead. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.dotters.network%2Fkusama#/parachains/auctions

OpenGov Referendum 85, fixing the Kusama auction schedule, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/85

OpenGov Referendum 86, to free up KSM that was locked during an earlier migration, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/86