Polkadot Digest 14 Sep 2022

Polkadot News

With three and a half left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread ID 2058 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

Nomination pools on Polkadot are scheduled to go live with the activation of runtime 9290, approximately mid-late November. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/nomination-pools-integration/361

Kusama News

Referendum 228, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9280, has passed and executed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/228

Referendum 229, a proposal which was admitted to be a mistake by the originator, is still failing by a wide margin with four days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/229