Polkadot Digest 22 Sep 2023

Polkadot News

Parathread 3351 has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/polkadot

Referendum 159, setting the moderators bounty curator to a 2/3 multisig, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/159

The Polkadot Technical Fellowship notes from the 21 September meeting are now available. https://hackmd.io/bqsIcahCQnW21UT2w%5Fax3w?view

Interested in really understanding how Polkadot works? Check out the Polkadot Deep Dives video series, which has 30 videos (and growing) of topics such as the contracts pallet, FRAME benchmarking, and weight calculation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPs7aTZGWgo&list=PLOyWqupZ-WGsfnlpkk0KWX3uS4yg6ZztG

Kusama News

A detailed postmortem for the stalled parachain issue that Kusama experienced on 1 September has been released: https://forum.polkadot.network/t/stalled-parachains-on-kusama-post-mortem/3998

Anonymous parathread 2284 has won the most recent Kusama parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama-104-110#timeline%5Fkusama-104-110