Polkadot Digest 16 Nov 2023

Polkadot News

Web3 Foundation has announced the Decentralized Futures program, which will allocate US$ 20 million and 5 million DOT to innovative teams building the future of Polkadot. https://futures.web3.foundation/

The next parachain lease auction begins tomorrow at approximately 03.00 UTC. https://parachains.info/auctions

A release analysis of Polkadot 1.3.0 has been released and published on the Polkadot Forum. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-release-analysis-v1-3-0/4614

Nikhil Ranjan has produced an application for inscribing/viewing images on the Polkadot Relay Chain. https://twitter.com/BillLaboon/status/1725113752079552515

The staking rate on Polkadot has decreased slightly to 50.3% (was 50.41% on Monday). https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Kusama News

Referendum 308, expanding the invulnerables set among Asset Hub Kusama collators, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/308

Referendum 305, setting the relay chain’s safe XCM version to v3, currently has 100% in favor. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/305