Polkadot Digest 18 Aug 2023

Polkadot News

With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, InvArch has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions

Today’s Polkadot Deep Dive at 14.00 UTC covers XCM integration. https://twitter.com/paritytech/status/1692138575305777286

The PR for on-demand parachains (f/k/a parathreads) has been merged into the Polkadot master branch. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/6969

The staking rate on Polkadot has continued to increase, and is now at 47.5%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

An increase in the staking rate has effects on staking rewards, inflation, and funding for the on-chain Treasury. For details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-staking-advanced#inflation

Kusama News

With four and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, Robonomics has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama