Polkadot Digest 16 Aug 2022

Polkadot News

Referendum 70, proposing to increase the maximum number of HRMP channels from 10 to 30, is currently passing by a wide margin with 10 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/70

Anonymous parathread 2057 has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.polkadot.io#/parachains/parathreads

There is a post seeking feedback for continued maintenance and operation of Polkawatch, a tool for Polkadot decentralization analytics. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1212

There is a post seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for Ziggurat, a network testing and stability framework. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1207

There is a post on Polkassembly seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for YieldBay, a new listing platform. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1171

There is a post on Polkassembly seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for PolkaWorld operations and maintenance. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1201

Kusama News

GM Parachain has won the most recent parachain lease auction has already onboarded. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains

With 16 hours to go until the Ending Period begins, Snow Network is in the lead in the current parachain auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains/auctions

With five days remaining to vote, Referendum 222, proposing to extend the Statemine common good parachain lease, is passing by a wide margin. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/222

Referendum 220, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Statemine and Calamari, has passed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/220

Referendum 221, proposing to upgrade the Encointer common good parachain runtime to v8, has passed and executed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/221

There is a very detailed discussion on Polkassembly for the proposed WagMedia bounty (child bounty of Bounty #12). https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1757

After increasing quite a bit recently, over the last few days the staking rate has stabilized at 52.2%. The ideal staking rate is now 50.5%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/staking