Polkadot Digest 22 Oct 2024

Polkadot News

A patch release for Polkadot, Stable2409-1, has been released. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/releases/tag/polkadot-stable2409-1

Referendum 1217, proposing to unify the Polkadot address format across parachains, is passing with 99.4% in favor. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1217

The Polkadot staking rate has decreased to 56.78%. This is a drop of approximately 1 percentage point since last week. https://staking.polkadot.cloud/#/overview

Kusama News

A new Wish-for-change Referendum, proposing to make the Kreivo parachain a system parachain, is now up for vote. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/464

There are no candidates for Kappa Sigma Mu this era. You can make a bid here to join the 168 current members. https://ksmsociety.io/explore/bidders