Polkadot Digest 1 June 2023

Polkadot News

The next parachain lease auction begins today at approximately 07.14 UTC at block 15_774_000. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.dotters.network%2Fpolkadot#/calendar

There is an interesting discussion on the Polkadot Forum about the possibility of private voting on governance matters on Polkadot. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/private-voting-on-referenda/3001

Referendum 118, proposing to gradually increase the ideal number of validators in the active set on Polkadot to 400, is now failing with 32% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/118

Referendum 119, proposing to swap to perform a parachain lease swap between two different parachain IDs controlled by Acala, is passing with 65% in favor and 11 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/119

Referendum 121, proposing to upgrade the relay chain to runtime 9420 and enable Polkadot OpenGov, is passing with 99% in favor and 14 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/121

For more information on OpenGov, see the Polkadot Wiki https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-opengov

XCM is much more than a way of transferring assets from one parachain to another. There is a growing use of XCM for non-asset transfer use cases. https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto/status/1662564364665393152

For more information on use cases of XCM, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-xcm-usecases

Kusama News

With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, Calamari Network has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama-83-89