Polkadot Digest 7 Mar 2023

Polkadot News

Referendum 107, upgrading the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v9370, has passed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/107

SubWork in Bled, Slovenia, will be hosting the PolkadotBled NFT Hackathon from 17 April to 7 May. For details, see https://polkadotbled.xyz/

Referendum 106, proposing to open new HRMP channels between Statemint and HydraDX, Kapex, Ajuna, Pendulum, and Litentry, is passing with 99% in favor and 3 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/106

Referendum 108, seeking to fix the genesis registration for the Manta parachain, is currently failing with 35% in favor and 26 days left to vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/108

Kusama News

With a little less than three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Krest has been in the lead the entire Ending Period. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains/auctions

There are now 12 referenda up for vote with Kusama OpenGov. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/referenda

Interested in working at Web3 Foundation? There are current job posting for a site reliability engineer, spec engineer, and technical educator. https://web3.bamboohr.com/jobs/