Polkadot Digest 3 Feb 2023

Polkadot News

There have been quite a few upgrades to the Polkadot Wiki recently. Among these are a major revamp of the Wallets page. https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/wallets

Another feature is the automatically-updated auction schedule. https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-auction#auction-schedule

With 2 days left to vote, Referendum 98, proposing to update the parathread ID in the genesis state Wasm of @bittensor_ parachain, is passing with 99% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/98

Referendum 101, proposing to approve the Wasm smart contracts bounty (Bounty #19) is currently passing unanimously with 24 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/101

Interested in building on Polkadot, but not sure what to build? There are a variety of ideas that the W3F Grants team is looking for teams to implement and receive grants for. https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/docs/rfps.md

Kusama News

With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, Mangata X has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains/auctions

There are now 12 active OpenGov Referenda available to vote on Kusama. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/referenda

To understand how OpenGov works, it is recommended that one read the relevant Kusama Guide page: https://guide.kusama.network/docs/learn-opengov/

Some housekeeping news: next week, the Polkadot Digest will be published by Filippo, Technical Educator at W3F. I’ll be back on 13 Feb.

And finally, today marks the completion of 3 years (and 679 issues!) of the Polkadot Digest! I am looking forward to starting my fourth year and beyond..