Polkadot Digest 7 May 2025

Polkadot News

There is currently an issue resulting in longer and less consistent parachain block times on Polkadot. The Polkadot Technical Fellowship is aware and looking into the problem. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/8414

Jonas Gehrlein, researcher at W3F, would like to discuss his new coretime market redesign proposal with any coretime purchasers. https://x.com/GehrleinJonas/status/1919718392568701205

Kusama News

Referendum 519, proposing to upgrade Kusama relay chain to runtime 1.5.0 (including support for elastic scaling), has passed. It will execute Friday (9 May) morning UTC. https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/519

Referendum 521, setting a DOT/KSM asset conversion rate, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/521