Polkadot Digest 25 Nov 2022

Polkadot News

The Web3 Foundation research team has released a formal write-up describing improvements that allow for more efficient verification for BLS signatures for individual as well as aggregated signatures. https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1611

Joe Petrowski has written a blog post about the roadmap for the Statemint (and Statemine) asset system parachains. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/statemint-update-roadmap/1200

With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Frequency has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

Referendum 85, proposing to update the Kapex parachain runtime code to allow it to upgrade, is currently passing with almost 100% in favor with 16 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/85

Referendum 86, proposing an increase in the (non-pool) nomination minimum of 100 DOT, is passing unanimously with 18 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/86

Referendum 87, to upgrade the Statemint runtime to v9320, is currently passing unanimously with 4 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/87

Kusama News

The Fellowship has been seeded with the first 45 members. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/fellowship

The Fellowship is essentially a more decentralized version of the Technical Committee, replacing it in OpenGov (Gov2). For more details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-gov2#polkadot-fellowship

There are now 6 Referenda going through the OpenGov process - you can see and vote on them here: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/referenda

Referendum 247, proposing to upgrade the Statemine runtime to v9320, is currently passing with 99% in favor and 1 day to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/247

Referendum 248, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Picasso and Statemine, is currently passing with 99% in favor and 3 days to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/248

Referendum 249, proposing to fund development of Kagome, a C++ implementation of the Polkadot Host, is currently failing with 20% in favor and 5 days left to vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/249

With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous parathread ID 2236 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions