Polkadot Digest 14 Mar 2024

Polkadot News

Gavin Wood’s keynote at Sub0 on JAM, the Joint-Accumulate Machine, is now available online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdvqkKdFTlw&t=1s

For a quick overview of the topics covered, see Alice_und_Bob’s thread here: https://twitter.com/alice%5Fund%5Fbob/status/1767454972806074693

Web3 Foundation will shut down the W3F Registrar (Registrar #0) on 1 April. Previous identity verifications will remain valid. https://medium.com/web3foundation/web3-foundation-will-shut-down-the-w3f-registrar-registrar-0-on-both-polkadot-and-kusama-1d03c5c258a0

Users wishing to verify their identity can use one of the other Registrars registered on Polkadot and Kusama - https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-identity#registrars

Bryan Chen has posted a thread with more information and thoughts about JAM. https://twitter.com/XiliangChen/status/1768158801298067876

Referendum 545, proposing to initialize the Kusama GRANDPA light client on Polkadot, has now achieved enough support to pass on the Whitelisted track. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/545

As a reminder, all Referenda on the Whitelisted track require a minimum of all 5% support (i.e., 5% of available DOT must either vote in favor or actively abstain). https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-polkadot-opengov-origins#whitelisted-caller

There are currently 58 Referenda up for vote on Polkadot OpenGov. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/all-posts?trackStatus=all&page=1

Novasama Technologies has announced Telenova, the first-ever Polkadot self-custodial wallet built into Telegram, to be released next week. Details on testing it out here: https://twitter.com/NovasamaTech/status/1767866338477756575

Kusama News

The next parachain lease auction begins on 16 March. https://parachains.info/auctions

Referendum 354, proposing to initialize the Polkadot GRANDPA client on Kusama, has now achieved enough support to pass on the Whitelisted track. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/354