Polkadot Digest 15 Feb 2024

Polkadot News

Parachains with asynchronous backing on Rococo testnet have been achieving consistent 6 second block time. For further details and status updates on asynchronous backing, see https://forum.polkadot.network/t/async-backing-development-updates/6176

With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, NeuroWeb has been in the lead the entire Ending period. https://parachains.info/auctions

The staking rate on Polkadot has been increasing lately and now stands at 53.33%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview

Mario Nawfal’s CryptoWeekly hosted an AMA with various people from Polkadot, including Bill Laboon, Ingo Ruebe, John Linden, Filippo Franchini, and Mark Cachia. https://twitter.com/mark%5Fcachia%5F/status/1757792782477856886

Kusama News

Referendum 343, setting the BEEFY genesis and starting BEEFY consensus on Kusama, has been whitelisted and is passing almost unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/343

Some initial analysis on the Kusama parachain block production slowdown has been published. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3314#issuecomment-1943596641

With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, Quartz has been in the lead the majority of the Ending Period. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

The staking rate on Kusama has been decreasing and now stands at 49.7%. https://staking.polkadot.network/#/overview