Polkadot Digest 18 Jan 2024

Polkadot News

Do you really want to know what’s going on with Polkadot development? Check out the January OpenDev Polkadot Core Dev Call - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itUw-ndb-Tc

The Polkadot Technical Fellowship has also created a website covering all Polkadot RFCs, both approved and proposed. https://polkadot-fellows.github.io/RFCs/

With the Ending Period just beginning, Darwinia is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions

The Polkadot staking rate is now at 51.49%, a drop of approximately 0.45 percentage points from yesterday. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Kusama News

Reminder to Kusama validators that they need to rotate their session keys in order to activate BEEFY. A list of Kusama validator addresses which do not have BEEFY keys can be checked here: https://kusama.w3f.community/validators/beefy/dummy

With two days left to go in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathrad 3345 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 329, proposing curators for Bounty #25, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/329

Referendum 330, updating sufficient asset minimum balances on Kusama Asset Hub, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/330