Polkadot Digest 10 Apr 2024

Polkadot News

Polkadot v1.10.0 has been released. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/releases/tag/polkadot-v1.10.0

Referendum 514, a Treasury Proposal for sponsoring Conor Daly in the Indianapolis 500, passed, marking the first time a community through decentralized governance voted to do a major sport sponsorship. https://www.indycar.com/news/2024/04/04-09-daly-500-sponsor-ic

Polkadot Staking Dashboard v1.3 has been released, including major improvements when using nomination pools. https://twitter.com/rossbulat/status/1777628264590368850

Note that there was a technical issue with Referendum 514 executing. Referendum 616, fixing the technical issue, is currently confirming. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/616

The next round of parachain auctions has begun, with the Ending Period starting tomorrow. https://parachains.info/auctions

Kusama News

With three days left in the current parachain lease auction, Parathread 3350 has been in the lead the vast majority of the Ending Period so far. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 373, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain runtime to v1.2.0, is passing almost unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/373

There are a few other Referenda up for vote for the move to asynchronous backing and Coretime, all passing with over 99% approval. These include Referenda 371 (bumping parachain validation timeouts), 372 (Coretime parachain), 374 (enable async backing), 375 (enable Coretime). https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/375