Polkadot Digest 29 Aug 2024

Polkadot News

The next parachain auction begins tomorrow, 30 Aug. https://parachains.info/auctions

I will be debating Mariana de la Roche Wills and Tara Park on the topic “Blockchain: Hype or Revolution?” in Berlin at a Thomson-Reuters event for journalists on 12 Sep. https://x.com/Marianadlrw/status/1828771064681472425

Find out about all the different ways to learn Substrate and Polkadot on our Developers Courses page here: https://polkadot.com/developers/courses

Kusama News

There is a new Wish-for-change Referendum up, 449, proposing to add a new LBP pallet to Asset Hub. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/449

Referendum 448, a Wish-for-change to decrease the amount of reserved KSM needed for registering parathreads, is up for vote (but lacking a DD). https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/448