Polkadot Digest 21 Oct 2024

Polkadot News

Shawn Tabrizi gave a talk at Tech Forum Argentina on the topic “The Resilience of Polkadot”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATGj5vyIrEA

Did you know that Polkadot Vault allows you to see exactly what you are signing on an air-gapped device? https://vault.novasama.io/

Referendum 1200, proposing to increase the validator set size from 400 to 500, is currently passing with 99.6% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1200

Referendum 1217, proposing to unify the Polkadot ecosystem address format, is passing with 99.4% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1217

Did you know Kusama has two proxy types that don’t exist (yet) on Polkadot? Society for Society interactions and Spokesperson for remarks. https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/blob/91a44989ceade7809397d5cc504b731ae8990882/relay/kusama/src/lib.rs#L1118