Polkadot Digest 28 Sep 2023

Polkadot News

The Polkadot and Kusama runtimes have been removed from the polkadot-sdk monorepo and are now in control of the Polkadot Technical Fellowship. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1731

Polkadot relay chain data is now indexed and queryable via Google BigQuery.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/data-for-11-more-blockchains-in-bigquery-public-datasets

The next parachain auction begins on 30 September. There are already three crowdloans active for this auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2F1rpc.io%2Fdot#/parachains/crowdloan

Over 7 million DOT are now nominating validators via nomination pools. https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1707019583310209492

Kusama News

Kusama OpenGov Referendum 276, proposing to upgrade the Encointer system parachain, has now been whitelisted. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/member-referenda/49

The Kusama staking rate has increased to 54.96%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview