Polkadot Digest 25 Oct 2023

Polkadot News

With the Ending Period beginning in approximately 15 hours, Interlay is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions

Interested in experimenting with Agile Coretime on Rococo? Santi Balaguer from Parity has posted details and instructions here: https://twitter.com/SantiBalaguer/status/1716796073182724405

Please note that there is no need for individual users to issue crowdloan.refund extrinsics. There is generally no action needed by individual users; the crowdloaned DOT should already be in the original crowdloaning account. https://support.polkadot.network/support/solutions/articles/65000177342-crowdloans-faq

For more details on how this process works, please see the Polkadot Wiki: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-crowdloans#withdraw-crowdloaned-tokens

Referendum 211, to upgrade Polkadot to runtime v1’000’000, is now up for vote. However, no DD has yet been placed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/211

Kusama News

With slightly under three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Zero has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 297, to upgrade Kusama to runtime v1’000’000 is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/297

Note that as it is on the Whitelisted Track, it will also need to be whitelisted by the Polkadot Technical Fellowship. For details, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-polkadot-opengov#the-polkadot-technical-fellowship

There are now 9 active Referenda up for vote on Kusama OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fksm-rpc.stakeworld.io#/referenda