Polkadot Digest 12 Jan 2024

Polkadot News

Web3 Foundation has announced the recipients of Wave 20 of the Grants Program. https://medium.com/web3foundation/web3-foundation-grants-wave-20-recipients-e9adb0b80056

As a reminder, there are numerous programs available via W3F and the broader ecosystem for funding for Polkadot projects. For details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/grants and https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/decentralized-futures

A new network validation protocol will be rolled out starting with polkadot-v1.6.0. This will require upgrades from all active validators nodes before the optimizations can enact. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/raising-awareness-new-network-validation-protocol-version-v3-coming/5639

The next parachain lease auction will begin on 16 Jan. https://parachains.info/auctions/polkadot-60-66

Kusama News

With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, Darwinia Crab has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 328, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain to runtime 1’001’000, is currently passing unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/328