Polkadot Digest 19 Mar 2024

Polkadot News

The March 2024 OpenDev Core call is happening here now: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1nAKEaVmqjRKL

Filippo Franchini, Technical Educator at W3F, will be hosting an AMA about JAM and the Polkadot vision tomorrow at 13.30 UTC: https://twitter.com/filippoweb3/status/1769703592087183437

With four days left in the current parachain lease auction, Litentry has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. https://parachains.info/auctions

Referendum 581, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v1.1.3, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/581

This is a relatively minor upgrade which prevents a controller from becoming a stash of another ledger. For details, see https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3639

Kusama News

With one day left in the current parachain lease auction, Basilisk has been in the lead the entire Ending Period so far. https://parachains.info/auctions/kusama

Referendum 359, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain runtime to v1.1.3, is now up for vote. This is similar to Polkadot referendum 581, referenced above. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/359