Polkadot Digest 21 Sep 2023

Polkadot News

With three and a half days left in the current parachain lease auction, parathread 3351 is in the lead, but parathread 3344 has also been in the lead for a ~ 1% of the time. https://parachains.info/auctions

Sub0 has wrapped up. For a summary of the last day, see this Twitter thread - https://twitter.com/paritytech/status/1704545355008803119?s=19

There is an interesting Polkadot Forum post on improving the developer experience on Polkadot. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/developer-experience-must-be-our-1-priority/3957

The Polkadot staking rate has increased slightly to 48.93% of DOT total issuance staked. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Kusama News

With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, parathread 2284 is currently in the lead. However, it did not bid until late in the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

If the ending block ends up being before the block where they initially submitted a bid, they will not win a slot. https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-auction