Polkadot News

To follow up on yesterday’s anonymous winning of a parachain lease, the winner, parathread ID 2058, was Watr Protocol. https://twitter.com/WatrProtocol/status/1571776753366093827?s=20&t=L8cG4ZD9BlhYibnFXTYpKw

With 24 days left to vote, Referendum 74, aiming to open several HRMP channels to Statemint, is passing unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/74

With 6 days left to vote, Referendum 75, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain runtime to v9820 is passing by a wide margin. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/75

Note that Referendum 75 has been fast-tracked by the Technical Committee. If passed, it will execute after only 400 blocks (~ 40 minutes). https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-governance#technical-committee

The staking rate on Polkadot has decreased a few tenths of a percentage point to 51.8%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Kusama News

Referendum 230 is currently passing with 97% in favor. This is a simple referendum making a batch call to remark “Expect chaos”. https://kusama.subsquare.io/democracy/referendum/230

It is being used as a proof of concept to test how anonymous proxies can make decisions via governance - see the link above for details.

The Kusama staking rate has increased another 0.1 percentage point over the last 24 hours, to 54.8%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking