Polkadot Digest 24 Jan 2024

Polkadot News

Darwinia has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions

Referendum 426, proposing retroactive funding for private transfers for DOT, is passing with 80.5% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/426

Integritee has opened their testnet for users to test the Incognitee product referenced in Referendum 426 above. https://twitter.com/integri%5Ft%5Fe%5Fe/status/1749761838949015871

Kusama News

Kusama relay chain has been upgraded to runtime 1’001’000. https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Kusama parachain block production has been unstable for the last few hours. Polkadot Technical Fellowship Developers are aware of the problem and looking into it.

With this latest runtime upgrade, Ledger users will require to update their relay chain and Asset Hub/Statemine Ledger applications. Zondax/Ledger has released both. https://github.com/zondax/ledger-kusama

With two days left in the current parachain auction, Sora has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 330, adjusting sufficient asset minimum balances, has confirmed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/330

Referendum 329, proposing curators for Bounty #25, is passing with 55.7% in favor. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/329