Polkadot Digest 18 Sep 2023

Polkadot News

A new parachain auction has begun and with a day and a half before the Ending Period begins, Sora is in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions

There is a Polkadot forum post discussing potential ways to improve the mechanism for unbricking parachains while maintaining decentralization. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/proposed-solutions-for-unbricking-an-enterprise-parachain-with-opengov/3796

User VinceCorsica has put together some common Substrate security “gotchas” on the Polkadot Forum. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/common-vulnerabilities-in-substrate-polkadot-development/3938

There are 22 active referenda up for vote on Polkadot OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc-polkadot.luckyfriday.io#/referenda

The staking rate on Polkadot has remained relatively steady at 48.76% over the last week. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Kusama News

There are eight active referenda up for vote on Kusama OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fksm-rpc.stakeworld.io#/referenda

The Kusama staking rate has decreased slightly since last week to 54.67%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview