Polkadot Digest 25 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

With 2 days left in the current parachain lease auction, Parathread ID 2104 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 increased over 2 percentage points since the last era, to 47.9%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Kusama News

With less than a day to go in the current parachain lease auction, Moonriver has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpublic-rpc.pinknode.io%2Fkusama#/parachains/auctions

There are now 16 Referenda available to vote on in the OpenGov system. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpublic-rpc.pinknode.io%2Fkusama#/referenda

There is a post seeking feedback on increasing the validator minimum commission rate on Kusama (from 3% to 10%). https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1993

There is a post seeking feedback for a Treasury Proposal for Subsquid integration with the Polkascan block explorer. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2157

There is a post seeking feedback for a Treasury Proposal for maintenance of the substrate-api-client by Supercomputing Systems. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2159

There is a post seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for funding GMI crypto media, a network public service podcast series. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2158

There is a post seeking feedback on renewing funding for the NFT Content Creators initially funded by Bounty 12. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2101

On the Gov1 side, Referendum 261, which has provided no contextual information on what it is proposing, is currently failing with slightly over 0% in favor and 6 days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/261