Polkadot Digest 13 Dec 2022

Polkadot News

Referendum 92, cancelling Referendum 89, has passed and executed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/92

Referendum 88, proposing to approve a Treasury Proposal for Snowbridge, a trustless Polkadot-Ethereum bridge, is passing with 99% in favor and 15 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/88

Referendum 91, proposing to increase the maximum number of nomination pools to 64, is currently passing with 99% in favor and 23 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/91

Referendum 93, proposing a new registrar but with no other contextual information, is failing with 5% in favor and 25 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/93

Kusama News

With the passing and execution of Referendum 16, a new validator election has taken place and the longest era in Kusama history has ended. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/staking

For the details on the fix, see the Polkassembly link: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/16

The staking rate has also decreased by 1 percentage point to 49.1%. If necessary, please re-nominate any validators that you were nominating. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/staking/actions

Referendum 255, proposing to swap parachain slots for Shiden, is failing with 88% in favor. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/255

Note that this Referendum is obsolete, as Shiden has already swapped slots via XCM and thus does not need governance to do it.

There are nine active Gov2 Referenda up for vote, which you can vote on here: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/referenda

Among the more interesting ones are Referendum 17, proposing to upgrade Statemine and Encointer,and Referendum 18, funding a Treasury Proposal for a new multisig solution by InvArch.