Polkadot Digest 12 Aug 2022

Polkadot News

With only a few hours left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous para ID 2057 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

With 14 days, Referendum 70, proposing to increase the maximum number of HRMP channels from 10 to 30, is passing by a wide margin. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/70

Kusama News

With two days and 16 hours left in the current parachain lease auction, GM Parachain has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

Referendum 220, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Statemine and Calamari, is passing by a wide margin with slightly less than 3 days left to vote.https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/220

Referendum 221, proposing to upgrade the Encointer common good parachain’s runtime, is currently passing by a wide margin with slightly less than 3 days left to vote.https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/221

The staking rate has increased by 0.5 percentage points over the last 24 hours, now standing at 52.2% (ideal = 51.0%). https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Note for Kusama validators - starting with the next runtime upgrade, nodes raising invalid disputes will be slashed. https://paritytech.github.io/polkadot/book/runtime/disputes.html

Some validators, likely due to underperforming hardware, have been raising invalid disputes on a regular basis - see Will’s list here to make sure you’re not on it, as it will mean slashing going forward. https://gist.github.com/wpank/9bdf0bf9a13191bf305ab459f188dfa1