Polkadot Digest 13 Sep 2022

Polkadot News

With four and a half left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread ID 2058 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

Referendum 73, proposing to upgrade the Statemint runtime to v9270, has passed and executed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/73

EasyA has published a Treasury Proposal for Milestone 2, following successful completion of their London hackathon. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/164

There is also a potential Treasury Proposal to fund community involvement at Token2049. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1223

There is a post on Polkassembly seeking feedback about increasing the minimum nomination limit (note that this does not impact the minimum to receive staking rewards). https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1224

This is to make nomination pools, which should be coming soon to Polkadot, more attractive and reduce individual nominations.

There is a post seeking feedback on a potential Treasury Proposal for a San Francisco Blockchain Week Polkadot Summit. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1238

ChainSafe has published a proposal for continuing development of the Gossamer Polkadot Host implementation (written in Go) using Treasury funds. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1260

The Polkadot Digest focuses on the Relay Chain, but there is lots of other activity happening in the Polkadot ecosystem: https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1569327104847757328

Polkadot will be represented at Stand P70 at Singapore’s Token2049 conference 28-29 September. You can sign up for a raffle for a free ticket here: https://info.polkadot.network/token2049

Kusama News

Referendum 228, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9280, is passing with 94% in favor with a few hours left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/228

Referendum 229, a proposal which was admitted to be a mistake by the originator, is still failing with 2% in favor with five days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/229

Per Treasury Proposal 164, Polkascan Explorer has been open-sourced. https://github.com/polkascan/explorer

The original Treasury Proposal is here: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/164

There is a post seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for a Polkadot Search Indexer and RPC endpoints. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1814