Polkadot Digest 15 May 2023
Polkadot News
Polytope Labs has published a way of efficiently verifying the Ethereum Beacon chain's Casper FFG consensus proofs using a SNARK-based approach, based on W3F research. This would help with zk-bridges between Polkadot and Ethereum. https://twitter.com/seunlanlege/status/1656637884718362626
Referendum 115, proposing to open three new HRMP channels between Statemint and Bitgreen/Subsocial/Manta, is passing with 99% in favor and 1 day left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/115
Referendum 117, seeking a force_transfer back to the Treasury from a previous Treasury Proposal, is currently failing with 73% in favor and 13 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/117
Referendum 118, proposing to gradually increase the ideal number of validators in the active set to 400, is currently passing with 97% in favor and 23 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/118
The Polkadot staking rate continues to slowly increase, and is now at 41.9%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview
Kusama News
Bit.Country has been in the lead during the entire Ending Period of the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama
ParaID 2’268 has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains
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