Polkadot Digest 23 Jul 2024

Polkadot News

A new parachain auction has begun and Frequency is currently in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions

Treasury outflows were 14x inflows in June. https://x.com/BillLaboon/status/1815335316548407413

I will be giving a talk, “The Prehistory of Blockchain”, at Web3 Summit 19-21 August in Berlin. https://web3summit.com/

Referendum 1007, enabling a node feature required for elastic scaling, is now up for vote on the Whitelisted track. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1007

Kusama News

The Kusama staking rate has increased slightly to 53.03%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview