Polkadot Digest 26 May 2023

Polkadot News

Parachain lease auction 44 will begin Thursday of next week (1 June). https://parachains.info/auctions/polkadot-44-45

A new launch period will begin in two days, which means that a new referendum will be up for vote. You can endorse current proposals to determine which will be voted on next. https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/maintain-guides-democracy#endorsing-a-proposal

Referendum 117, proposing a force_transfer of locked DOT back to the Treasury from a failed previous Treasury Proposal, is failing with 76% in favor and 2 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/117

Referendum 118, proposing to gradually increase the ideal number of validators in the active set to 400, is currently passing with 82% in favor and 12 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/118

Referendum 119, proposing to swap to perform a parachain lease swap between two different parachain IDs controlled by Acala, is passing with 66% in favor and 17 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/119

Referendum 120, proposing to upgrade the Collectives parachain runtime to v9420, which would also enable the Fellowship on this parachain, is passing almost unanimously with 4 days to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/120

Referendum 121, proposing to upgrade the relay chain to runtime 9420 and enable Polkadot OpenGov, is passing with 99% in favor and 20 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/121

Kusama News

With four days left to go in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread 2267 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

The Kusama staking rate has increased to 53.17%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Non-Parity contributions to Substrate, Cumulus, or Polkadot codebases can be rewarded with KSM tips via Kusama OpenGov. As an example, see https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/199