Polkadot Digest 19 Sep 2023

Polkadot News

Referendum 139, proposing to have Moonbeam swap slots, is passing with 99.9% in favor and 4.4% support. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/139

Note that in OpenGov a sufficient amount of approval (% of DOT voting) and support (% of all DOT) are necessary for a referendum to pass. For details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/maintain-guides-polkadot-opengov

With twelve hours left until the Ending Period, Sora is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions

Curious how decentralized your nominations are on Polkadot? The Polkawatch app lets you see how decentralized validators are, both individually and systemically, on a variety of variables. https://polkawatch.app/

User Koute has published an initial draft on PolkaVM, a new RISC-V-based VM for smart contracts with Substrate. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/announcing-polkavm-a-new-risc-v-based-vm-for-smart-contracts-and-possibly-more/3811

Kusama News

There are eight referenda open for voting on Kusama OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/referenda