Polkadot Digest 3 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

Gavin Wood has published the Polkadot 2022 Roundup. https://polkadot.network/blog/polkadot-2022-roundup/

Videos from the 2022 Sub0 Conference are now all available online. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOyWqupZ-WGvywLqJDsMIYdCn8QEa2ShQ

Pendulum has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/polkadot-33-39#timeline%5Fpolkadot-33-39

Anonymous parathread ID 2097 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period of the current parachain lease auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/crowdloan

Referendum 91, increasing the maximum number of nomination pools from 64 to 128, is currently passing almost unanimously (> 99.9% in favor) with two days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/91

Referendum 93, proposing a new registrar but including no other contextual information, is currently failing with 3% in favor and four days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/93

Referendum 94, proposing to seed the Polkadot Alliance, is currently passing with 97% in favor and 9 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/94

Referendum 96, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9340, is currently passing almost unanimously (>99.9% in favor) with 11 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/96

The staking rate on Polkadot has decreased over the last two weeks to 44.4%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fpolkadot.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking

Kusama News

Robonomics has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama-59-64

Bittensor and anonymous parathread ID 2243 have both been in the lead during the ending period of the current parachain lease auction. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/parachains/auctions

Bittensor has submitted a Referendum to change the genesis Wasm blob for their parathread. https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/referendum/48

Four OpenGov referenda are currently up for vote. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/referenda

The staking rate on Kusama has increased slightly to 49.9%. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/staking