Polkadot Digest 8 Sep 2022

Polkadot News

Referendum 73, proposing to upgrade the Statemint runtime to v9270, is currently passing with 99% in favor with four days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/73

Kusama News

With approximately four days left in the current parachain auction, both BitCountry Pioneer and Quartz by Unique have been in the leading during the Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

Referendum 227, seeking to lift restrictions on nomination pools (thus allowing 256 pools and 1024 members/pool), is passing with 95% in favor with almost four days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/227

Referendum 228, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9280, is passing with 94% in favor with five days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/228