Polkadot Digest 9 Aug 2023

Polkadot News

The next parachain auction begins around 23.13 UTC on Saturday, at block 16_819_200. https://parachains.info/auctions

You can watch a recording of yesterday’s Polkadot Pioneers AMA, focusing on Web3 Gaming, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pNrAIeFknw

Referendum 83, proposing to update system parachain collator sets to further decentralize them, is currently passing with 98.8% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/84

There are now 26 active Referenda on Polkadot OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/referenda

Kusama News

With a day and a half left in the current parachain lease auction, DAO IPCI has been in the lead the majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

There are six active Referenda on Polkadot OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/referenda