Polkadot Digest 21 Oct 2022

Polkadot News

With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, Crust has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

The staking rate on Polkadot has been trending downwards recently, and is now at 51.%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Referendum 77, proposing to approve a Treasury Proposal to fund development of Gossamer, a Polkadot Host implementation written in Go, is passing with 96% in favor and 12 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/77

Referendum 78, proposing to set up initial configuration for Polkadot nomination pools, is currently passing with 99% in favor with 10 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/78

Referendum 80, seeking sufficiency for USDT on Statemint, is currently passing with 98% in favor and 22 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/80

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Kusama News

With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, Crust Shadow has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains/auctions

Referendum 238, proposing to set the minimum validator commission to 8.5%, is failing with 65% in favor and 3 days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/238

Referendum 239, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain to runtime v9300, is currently passing with 96% in favor and 4 days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/239