Polkadot Digest 3 Nov 2020

Polkadot News

Learn how to add your own Substrate pallets to a blockchain (increasing its functionality) with Bruno Škvorc, today at 14.00 UTC. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/substrate-pallets/

Bruno is also a Polkadot and Kusama Councillor; this is his most recent Transparency Report about how he voted and why. https://bruno.id/council-participation-report-02112020/

Patract Hub’s treasury proposal for Elara v0.2 has passed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/33

Council Voting on Motion #34 , "OpenSquare's treasury proposal for a knowledge tip authoring tool" has begun. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/34

Council Voting on Motion #35 , for Polkascan operating expenses, has begun. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/35

Discussion on restricting validator commission changes is still ongoing. Raul recently left a good summary of discussion on the Polkadot Direction channel in the issue. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/6920

Substrate News

Various collator improvements were added in this PR, including a README on how to run a collator. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/1896

Tips and Tricks

Did you know you can contribute to the Polkadot Wiki? There are open issues here and content is all written in Markdown. https://github.com/w3f/polkadot-wiki/issues