Polkadot Digest 31 May 2023

Polkadot News

Interested in trying things out on Rococo, the most popular Polkadot testnet for testing parachains? There is a ROC (Rococo token) faucet available here: https://paritytech.github.io/polkadot-testnet-faucet/

Polytope Labs has announced the alpha release of substrate-ismp, an implementation of the Interoperable State Machine Protocol. This allows parachains to interoperate via state proofs. https://twitter.com/PolytopeLabs/status/1663519460475510787?s=20

Referendum 120, proposing to upgrade the Collectives parachain to runtime v9420, has passed. This will also enable the Polkadot Technical Fellowship on this parachain. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/120

The next parachain lease auction begins at approximately 07.11 UTC tomorrow, at block 15_774_000. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.dotters.network%2Fpolkadot#/calendar

Kusama News

Parathread ID 2267 has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama-83-89#kusama%5Fauction%5F85

A new parachain lease auction has begun. With approximately 13 hours until the Ending Period begins, Calamari Network is in the lead. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama-83-89