Polkadot Digest 18 Apr 2024

Polkadot News

Gavin Wood will give a talk today at Token 2049 at 08.20 UTC on “Polkadot’s Future: The Big Jam”. https://checkout.token2049.com/agenda/session/1313446

Fatemeh Shirazi, Research Coordinator at W3F, has posted an overview of elastic scaling on the Polkadot Forum. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/elastic-scaling/7185

Reminder that Polkadot Decoded is taking place 11 - 12 July in Brussels, Belgium. Registration is available here: https://events.polkadot.network/event/polkadot-decoded-2024?ref=parachains-info

Referendum 648, proposing to upgrade Polkadot relay chain and system chain runtimes to v1.20, is currently passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/648

Kusama News

Coretime sales will go live today at block 22_793_600 (~ 15.00 UTC). https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/375