Polkadot Digest 19 Sep 2024

Polkadot News

Agile Coretime went live today and with it ended the era of parachain lease auctions on Polkadot. There is a Twitter/X Space on the topic here: https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1836704552592310326

A post-mortem on the temporary block production slowdown and finality lag on Polkadot has been published: https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2024-09-17-polkadot-finality-lag-slow-parachain-production-immediately-after-runtime-upgrade-post-mortem/10057

Web3 Foundation is now accepting applicants for Cohort 3 of Decentralized Voices. Several changes have been made to the program. https://medium.com/web3foundation/decentralized-voices-program-cohort-3-f1061ad4ba14

Referendum 1169, proposing to perform a “Spammening” of the Polkadot Relay Chain to showcase Polkadot’s scalability, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1169

Referendum 1098, cleaning up several obsolete/unneeded Bounties, is now confirming. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1098

Referendum 1162, granting authority to register .DOT identities, is passing with 99.4% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1162

Kusama News

Referendum 455, increasing the AsyncBacking.max_candidate_depth parameter from 3 to 6, is now up for vote. This is necessary for the Elastic Scaling MVP. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/455

Referendum 454, reimbursing some accounts that were victim of an XCM bug, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/454