Polkadot Digest 19 Jun 2024

Polkadot News

Raffael Hueber (Amforc) and Jonas Gehrlein (W3F) have produced a report analyzing the positive impact of the Decentralized Voices program. https://medium.com/web3foundation/empowering-the-community-the-positive-impact-of-decentralized-voices-on-opengov-c681e017628b

Referendum 890, proposing to make the WETH (ERC-20 Wrapped Ether) token sufficient on the Asset Hub, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/890

Referendum 888, proposing to approve making voting protocol improvements as a prerequisite for increasing the number of validators in the active set to 500, is currently passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/888

Kusama News

The Kusama staking rate has increased slightly to 52.86%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview