Polkadot Digest 17 Oct 2024

Polkadot News

Referendum 1217, proposing to unify the Polkadot ecosystem address format, is now passing with 96.6% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1217

There has already been a lot of discussion on the Polkadot Forum about potentially referring to parachains as rollups. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/renaming-parachains-to-a-more-generic-term/10467

The staking rate on Polkadot has decreased slightly over the last week to 57.56%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview

Kusama News

The staking rate on Kusama has decreased slightly over the last week to 52.16%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview