Polkadot Digest 3 June 2024

Polkadot News

Decentralized Voices Cohort 2 delegates will be announced this week.

With less than a day left to go in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous Parathread 3374 is in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions

The staking rate on Polkadot continues to increase and is now at 57.15%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Referendum 791, proposing to upgrade Polkadot relay chain and system parachains to runtime 1.2.4, is passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/791

Interested in learning more about JAM? Gavin Wood gave a presentation on it at Eth Prague last week. https://x.com/thewhiterabbitM/status/1796525356540932489

Kusama News

The Kusama staking rate has remained relatively steady at 52.26%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview