Polkadot Digest 26 Jan 2024
Polkadot News
I will be holding Polkadot Office Hours today at 14.30 CET (13.30 UTC) - feel free to stop by and ask anything about Polkadot. https://twitter.com/BillLaboon/status/1750781859431116973
It has been recommended to vote down Ref 428 (update to sufficient asset minimum balances) by the original proposer, as it superceded by Referendum 443. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/428
Referendum 443, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot Asset Hub to runtime 1’001’001 and update sufficient asset minimum balances, has been submitted. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/443
Starting next week, 1KV Validators will no longer receive extra points for voting on OpenGov referenda.
The staking rate on Polkadot has continued to increase this week and now stands at 52.23%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview
Decentralized Futures has announced the next grantee, Evan Thomas, to decentralize Polkadot’s social media operations. https://twitter.com/Web3foundation/status/1750496444379697524
W3F’s Decentralized Futures is using 20 million USD and 5 million DOT to help build and dencentralize Polkadot. For details and to apply, see https://futures.web3.foundation/
Kusama News
Starting next week, 1KV validators on Kusama will require BEEFY activation in order to be nominated. You can check if your validator has BEEFY keys here: https://paranodes.io/beefy
BEEFY is a secondary protocol to allow efficient bridging between consensus systems. For details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-consensus#bridging-beefy
For details on the issue with Kusama parachains not producing blocks for a session yesterday, see the analysis here: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3058
With less than an hour left in the current parachain lease auction, Sora Kusama has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama
After the 1’001’000 runtime upgrade, parachain-parachain XCM transfers are not working. Relay chain - parachain is still working. For details, see https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3070
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