Polkadot Digest 5 June 2023

Polkadot News

With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Parathread ID 3342 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions

Referendum 118, proposing to gradually increase the ideal number of validators in the active set on Polkadot to 400, is failing with 30% in favor and 2 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/118

Referendum 119, proposing to swap to perform a parachain lease swap between two different parachain IDs controlled by Acala, is passing with 66% in favor and 7 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/119

Referendum 121, proposing to upgrade the relay chain to runtime 9420 and enable Polkadot OpenGov, is passing with 99% in favor and 10 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/121

Did you know that you can access the power of the Polkadot-JS API via the command line? https://github.com/polkadot-js/tools/tree/master/packages/api-cli

Kusama News

With half a day left in the current parachain lease auction, Calamari has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 213, moving the Kabocha parachain manager to a new address, is now up for vote on the Root track. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/213

Referendum 214, aiming to decentralize the collator set on Kusama system chains, is now up for vote on the Staking Admin track. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/214

There are now 10 Referenda up for vote on Kusama OpenGov. You can see the list and vote with your KSM here: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipns/kusama.dotapps.io/#/referenda