DotLeap 103 - Gov2 arriving on Kusama

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Polkadot Updates

šŸ”“ ā­•ļø Relay Chain

total supply - ~1.25b DOT | staking - 49.5% | parachains & crowdloans - 11%

  • Polkadot 0.9.32 has been released with LOW upgrade priority.
  • An extensive analysis of recent Polkadot releases has been posted to the Polkadot Forum - worth checking out to know whatā€™s coming and what has come out recently.
  • Ajuna has won the most recent parachain lease auction.

šŸ”“ šŸ› Governance

  • Referendum 80, seeking sufficiency for USDT on Statemint, has passed
  • Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, is passing with 100% in favor.
  • Referendum 84, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v9300, has passed.
  • There are now 64 nomination pools live (out of a currently possible 64). Learn how to join nomination pools on Polkadot, and start collecting rewards with as little as 1 DOT.
  • Motion 290 to fund Centrifugeā€™s FUDGEā€”core library for local integration tests in Substrate that aims to provide a simple and generic way to interact with and manipulate the database of a substrate-based blockchainā€”has been approved by the council.
  • Motion 292, to fund LimeChainā€”aiming to diversify the runtime development process on Polkadot by creating a framework for building Go Runtimesā€”is up for a vote.

Kusama Updates ā‚‘ā‚“ā‚šā‚‘cā‚œ cā‚•ā‚ā‚’ā‚›

šŸ¦… ā­•ļø Relay Chain

total supply - ~12.9m KSM | staking - 52.4% | parachains & crowdloans - 4%

  • Darwinia Crab has won the most recent parachain lease auction.

šŸ¦… šŸ› Governance

  • Referendum 241, proposing to fund development of Soramitsuā€™s Fearless Wallet, did not pass.
  • Referendum 242, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Statemine and Kintsugi, is currently passing with 99% in favor.
  • Referendum 243, proposing to extend Encointerā€™s common-good parachain lease slot another 48 weeks, is passing with 99% in favor.
  • Referendum 244, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain runtime to v9320, is passing with 99% in favor and 10 days left to vote.

Note that upgrading to runtime v9320 will activate Gov v2. However, the current version of governance on Kusama will initially run in parallel.

  • Motion 568, aiming to put forward the creation of a Spanish Content and Event Production Bounty and create a mechanism with a focus on speed, effectiveness and control for content audits, has passed the Council vote.
  • Motion 571 to un-brick the Basilisk parachain (ID 2090) has passed Council vote: the proposal is now up for community vote as Referendum 245.
  • There are 12 public proposals vying to be the next referendum to vote on.

For instructions on endorsing proposals that you want to see voted on, refer to this Polkadot Wiki article.


ā›“ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains


šŸ”— Candidate Parachains, dApps, and others

projects that are not yet connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains


šŸŒŽ Community & Ecosystem


šŸ›  Tools

  • Polkadot-JS Apps v0.122.2 has been released.
  • Polkadot-JS API v9.7.1 has been released.

šŸŒ  NFT Review

A weekly newsletter keeping up with the evolution of NFTs in the Dotsama ecosystem.

Read more


šŸ‘·ā€ā™‚ļø Jobs in Web 3.0

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That's it for this week - I hope this was as useful for you to read as it was for us to write!

Many thanks to Bill Laboon for his daily digestā€”which helps us not miss some important updatesā€”and Raul Romanutti for helping us ensure that the governance news is accurate.

DotLeap is put together by Bruno Å kvorc and gbaci.

Got any links for Bruno for the next edition? Find Bruno on Riot at @bruno:web3.foundation, on Twitter, or via email at [email protected].

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A fortnightly-ish newsletter about all things Web 3.0 from the Polkadot side