Polkadot Digest 6 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

Referendum 91, increasing the maximum number of nomination pools from 64 to 128, has passed and will execute today. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/91

Referendum 93, proposing a new registrar but including no other contextual information, is currently failing with 3% in favor and 2 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/93

Referendum 94, proposing to seed the Polkadot Alliance, is currently passing with 97% in favor and 6 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/94

Referendum 96, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9340, is currently passing almost unanimously (>99.9% in favor) with 8 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/96

Referendum 97, proposing to unbrick the Bitgreen parachain, is currently passing unanimously with 10 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/97

There are currently 17 Tips outstanding. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/treasury/tips

The staking rate on Polkadot has increased slightly to 44.5%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Kusama News

A new parachain lease auction has begun. Luhn Network is currently in the lead with 15 hours to go before the Ending Period begins. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

Note that this is a self-funded bid - Luhn Network is not operating a crowdloan. To understand the difference between an auction and a crowdloan, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-crowdloans

A new referendum, 52, from Subscan, is proposing to add a new registrar to the system. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/52

The staking rate on Kusama has remained consistent at 49.9%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking