Polkadot Digest 5 May 2025

Polkadot News

I will be moderating a panel at Decentralized Lugano on Thursday 8 May, “Building the Future of Web3 with Substrate (Polkadot SDK)” https://x.com/decentrallugano/status/1918300435435208768

Birdo has released some updates about the Polkadot Mobile App on the Polkadot Forum. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-mobile-app-updates/12770

The first piece of the new proof-of-personhood mechanism has been merged into the Polkadot SDK. For more information, see the Forum post here: https://forum.polkadot.network/t/the-people-registry/12749

Kusama News

Referendum 519, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain to runtime 1.5.0, is passing unanimously. https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/519