Polkadot Digest 30 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

Kian (Parity) has posted “The Future of Polkadot Staking” on the Polkadot Forum to discuss the coming roadmap of staking. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/the-future-of-polkadot-staking/1848

Anonymous parathread ID 2106 has won the most recent parachain lease auction, despite being in the lead in the Ending Period only 38.93% of the time. https://parachains.info/auctions/polkadot-33-39#timeline%5Fpolkadot-33-39

To understand how this is possible, please see the Polkadot Wiki section on candle auctions: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-auction#mechanics-of-a-candle-auction

Want to dive deep into Polkadot technology? Every week, Parity hosts Polkadot Deep Dives, live education sessions to teach people about Substrate and Polkadot. https://twitter.com/paritytech/status/1618998896054923265

Looking to build on Polkadot or Kusama, but don’t know what is needed in the ecosystem? The W3F Grants Program has numerous RFPs and other suggestions. See https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program#project-ideas

Kusama News

Kusama has upgraded to Runtime 9370. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.9.37

There are now 12 Referenda up for vote using the OpenGov system. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/referenda

Referendum 81, scheduling 2 auctions to replace the missing auctions supposed to be scheduled by Ref 72, is one of the more interesting ones. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/81