Polkadot Digest 16 Oct 2023

Polkadot News

With two and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread ID 3353 has been in the lead almost the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions

Filippo Franchini, Technical Educator at W3F, was recently interviewed by KryptosChain about coretime, staking, and more Polkadot topics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnimxXoB5eY&ab%5Fchannel=KryptosChain

The staking rate on Polkadot has remained relatively steady over the last week at 48.81%. https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1713825492439121928

For more details on staking on Polkadot, see Filippo’s Bi-Weekly Staking Snapshot. https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1713825492439121928

This Polkadot Forum post goes into detail about the potential timeline for agile coretime (tl;dr - Westend by EOY; Kusama in Q1 2024; Polkadot in Q2 2024) https://forum.polkadot.network/t/timeline-on-agile-coretime/4274

Kusama News

Genshiro has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

The Kusama staking rate has remained relatively steady over the last week at 48.73%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview