Polkadot Digest 27 Oct 2022

Polkadot News

I will be having an interview on the topic of Polkadot governance with Christian Dirk and OAK Network this Friday at 07.30 UTC. https://twitter.com/oak%5Fnetwork/status/1584654491638431745

I will be giving an AMA with Snowfork today at 14.00 UTC, where we will discuss their Polkadot-Ethereum bridge. https://twitter.com/BillLaboon/status/1585188427343237120

I will be holding my first “metaverse AMA” with Momentum on Friday at 13.00 UTC. https://twitter.com/Web3foundation/status/1584469977796513792

Referendum 77, proposing to approve a Treasury Proposal to fund development of Gossamer, a Polkadot Host implementation written in Go, is passing with 96% in favor and 6 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/77

Referendum 78, proposing to set up initial configuration for Polkadot nomination pools, is currently passing with 99% in favor with 4 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/78

Referendum 80, seeking sufficiency for USDT on Statemint, is currently passing with 98% in favor and 16 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/80

Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, is passing with 99% in favor with 22 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/81

Referendum 82, fixing Referendum 74 which failed to execute properly, opening several Statemint HRMP channels along with a new channel to Bifrost, is passing unanimously with six days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/82

Note that Referendum 82 was fast-tracked by the Technical Committee. https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-governance#technical-committee

Kusama News

Referendum 240, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Statemine and Picasso, is currently failing w/ 3 days left to vote. It has been noted that the proposal would not work if executed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/240

Be sure to make your opinion known on which Proposal will be voted on as a Referendum next. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/democracy

To understand how a Proposal becomes a Referendum, see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/maintain-guides-democracy#endorsing-a-proposal