Polkadot Digest 30 Aug 2023

Polkadot News

The transition to the Polkadot-SDK monorepo is complete. The former separate polkadot, substrate, and cumulus repos are now archived. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk

With one and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, Astar has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions

Referendum 110, proposing to update the parachain validation config in several ways, is currently passing with sufficient support and almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/110

Referendum 122, proposing to register KSM as an asset on the Polkadot Asset Hub, is currently passing with sufficient support and with greater than 99.9% approving. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/122

Referendum 130, proposing to cancel the old (obsolete) parachain lease auction schedule, is passing almost unanimously and with sufficient support. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/130

Kusama News

With four and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, Kabocha has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 260, proposing to set DOT as an asset on the Kusama Asset (a retry of Ref 258), has reached the minimum 5% support necessary to pass on the Whitelisted Track. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/260