Polkadot Digest 24 Apr 2024

Polkadot News

With four and a half days left in the current parachain auction, LAOS is in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions

There are several new proposals on the new “Wish for Change” track. This allows users to vote on remarks (not code) to influence the development of Polkadot.

Referendum 702, proposing to not allow delegations on the Root, Wish for Change, and Treasurer tracks, is currently failing with 0.6% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/702

Referendum 704, proposing to approve a new Polkadot EVM Collective, is passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/704

Referendum 705, proposing to reduce the duration of spending periods, is passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/705

Referendum 706, proposing to reduce inflation according to a new algorithm and targeting a fixed supply of 2.1 billion DOT, is failing with 1.5% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/706

Referendum 693 is seeking a decision deposit for itself on the Root track (100’000 DOT), in order to unlock PINK tokens from the Phala sovereign account. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/693

Kusama News

Coretime has now been live for almost one week. Coretime sales have been delayed by one week due to a technical issue - for details, see https://forum.polkadot.network/t/kusama-v1-2-0-coretime-migration-xcm-failure-a-postmortem/7536