Polkadot Digest 17 Mar 2025

Polkadot News

Erin from Parity will lead a workshop on building test infrastructure from the ground up at Protocol Berg in Berlin. https://x.com/protocol%5Fberg/status/1900983174236102786

Referendum 1468, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot Asset Hub and Collectives parachains to runtime 1.4.2., is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1486

Referendum 1480, proposing to increase the PoV size limit to 10 Mb, thus allowing parachains to build larger blocks, is now up for vote. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1480

The staking rate on Polkadot is now 53.75%. This is an increase of about 0.4 percentage points in the last week. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview

Referendum 505, proposing to upgrade the Kusama Asset Hub to runtime 1.4.2, is currently passing unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/505

The staking rate on Kusama continues to increase. It’s up about 1 percentage point over the last week to 46.8%. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview