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Referendum 101, approving a Wasm smart contracts bounty, is passing with 99% in favor and 3 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/101

Referendum 103, a public proposal to unbrick the Zeitgeist parachain, is failing with 61% in favor. Note that the Zeitgeist team has asked people to vote against this Referendum. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/103

Referendum 104, a fast-tracked, Council-backed version of Referendum 103, is passing with 99% in favor and less than an hour left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/104

Referendum 105, proposing to update system parachains to runtime v9370, is passing almost unanimously with 5 days left to vote. This Referendum has been fast-tracked. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/105

If you are unfamiliar with fast-tracking, it is a power granted to the Technical Committee to speed up Referenda voting and enactment. For details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-governance#technical-committee

Kusama News

There are now 12 active referenda up for vote on Kusama OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.dotters.network%2Fkusama#/referenda