Polkadot Digest 3 Apr 2023

Polkadot News

Moonsama has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/polkadot

Referendum 112, proposing to immediately increase the number of validators in the active set from 297 to 500, is currently failing with 71% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/112

Referendum 108, proposing to fix the genesis registration for the Manta parachain but was superseded by Ref 110, did not pass. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/108

The Encode Club Polkadot Hackathon begins on 11 April. For details and registration, see https://encodeclub.typeform.com/polkadothackq1?typeform-source=t.co#source=polkadot

Shawn Tabrizi gave a talk on “What is Shared Security?” at EthDenver 2023. For a recording of the talk, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwF6KNQghpc

Kusama News

There are now 10 Kusama OpenGov referenda up for vote. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.public.curie.radiumblock.co%2Fws#/referenda