Polkadot Digest 20 Jun 2024

Polkadot News

Jonas Gehrlein and Alistair Stewart, researchers at W3F, have issued an RFC proposing to significantly reduce unbonding time on Polkadot (variable, but down to a potential minimum of 2 days) https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/97/files#diff-71dccfdb0385b8bda8de6a0974c88836210d5021b595d55ebdede5fddc490377

Preliminary work to scale the active set on Polkadot to 500 validators is ongoing. For details, see https://forum.polkadot.network/t/update-polkadot-validator-set-size-increase/8682

The Rococo test network will be deprecated in October 2024. You can use Westend or Paseo testnets. FOor details, see https://forum.polkadot.network/t/rococo-to-be-deprecated-in-october/8702

Alex ‘Birdo’ Bird wrote up a blog post about his trip to Consensus 2024 representing Polkadot. https://www.parity.io/blog/birdo-at-consensus

Kusama News

Referendum 409, proposing to upgrade Kusama Relay Chain, Asset Hub, and People Chain to Kusama runtime 1.2.6, is currently passing unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/409

Note that this is a relatively minor update for Kusama, mostly cleaning up some errors from the initial People Chain launch and preparing Asset Hub for an upcoming change to Asset indices.