Polkadot Digest 5 Jan 2023

Polkadot News

Referendum 91, increasing the maximum number of nomination pools from 64 to 128, is currently passing with 99% in favor with only a few hours 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 3 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 7 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 9 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/96

Referendum 97, proposing to unbrick the Bitgreen parachain, is currently passing unanimously with 11 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/97

Note that Referenda 91, 94, 96, and 97 have all been fast-tracked by the Technical Committee and will activate (if passed) soon after the vote ends. https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-governance#technical-committee

Daniel Schoenberger, CLO of Web3 Foundation, along with Josh Klayman (Linklaters) and Angela Dalton (Signum Growth Capital) was interviewed on Web3 Wednesdays, about DOT morphing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-fzE4PXZG8

Kusama News

There are now seven Referenda up for vote using the new OpenGov process on Kusama. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/referenda