Polkadot Digest 15 Oct 2024

Polkadot News

Referendum 1160, proposing to close the Wasm smart contract bounty, is passing with 96.8% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1160

Referendum 1166, proposing a new Marketing Bounty, is passing with 58.6% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1166

There is a new issue to allow multiple accounts to place a decision deposit in OpenGov. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/6041

The Polkadot staking rate has decreased slightly to 58.03%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview

Kusama News

The Kusama staking rate has been remaining relatively steady at 52.2%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview