Polkadot Digest 19 Jan 2024

Polkadot News

With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, Darwinia has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions

Applications for the Thousand Validators Programme (both Polkadot and Kusama) are currently on hold, for a planned re-launch in February or March. Current validators will continue to be nominated at this point. Questions can be directed to [email protected].

Referendum 428, updating sufficient asset minimums on the Polkadot Asset Hub, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/428

Referendum 431, proposing a monthly governance incentive, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/431

I will be hosting a space today at 15.30 UTC to discuss use cases in DeSo, Music and Metaverse in Polkadot. https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1748047714124792118

Polkadot-JS’s open-source phishing site blocklist now has over 30’000 URLs and 274 addresses listed. Be careful out there! https://polkadot.js.org/phishing/

Kusama News

Note - with the new runtime upgrade scheduled for 24 Jan, the balances.transfer extrinsic (which has been deprecated for some time) will be removed. If you are issuing extrinsics directly, use transfer_keep_alive or transfer_allow_death instead.

With less than a day left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread 3345 has been in lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama