Polkadot Digest 12 Jun 2024

Polkadot News

Cohort 2 of Decentralized Voices have been delegated. Kusama delegations should occur soon.

Referendum 841, proposing to upgrade Polkadot relay chain and system parachains to 1.2.5, is currently passing, with execution set for 1 July (block 21_455_000). https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/841

Note that runtime 1.2.5 includes a breaking change for transaction encoding (inclusion of the CheckMetadataHash extension). You will need to upgrade wallets and applications as appropriate. https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/releases/tag/v1.2.5

The Polkadot staking rate has increased slightly to 57.35%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Kusama News

With the runtime upgrade yesterday of Kusama to 1.2.5, the Polkadot-JS extension will need to be updated to sign transactions. The latest version is already on the Chrome store.

The Kusama staking rate has increased slightly to 52.77%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview