Polkadot Digest 2 Nov 2022

Polkadot News

A day after nomination pools were enabled on Polkadot, there are now 48 pools to choose from. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking/pools

With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, Ajuna Network 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

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 a few hours left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/77

Referendum 80, seeking sufficiency for USDT on Statemint, is currently passing with 98% in favor and 10 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/80

Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, is passing with 99% in favor with 16 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/81

Referendum 82, proposing to fix Referendum 74 and open 6 HRMP channels from Statemint, is currently passing unanimously with 8 hours left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/82

Kusama News

Referendum 241, approving a Treasury Proposal for development of the Fearless Wallet, is currently passing with slightly over 50% in favor and 5 days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/241

Note that this Referendum is a simple “majority-carries” (no adaptive quorum biasing). https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-governance#simple-majority