Kusama is a blockchain network designed for risk-taking and radical innovation, built using (almost) the same code as the Polkadot network. This blog was run by Web3 Foundation and is now closed. All proceeds from tips have been donated to She256.org in these two transactions: https://etherscan.io/token/0xd46ba6d942050d489dbd938a2c909a5d5039a161?a=0xed11e5ea95a5a3440fbaadc4cc404c56d0a5bb04 https://etherscan.io/token/0xa0246c9032bc3a600820415ae600c6388619a14d?a=0xed11e5ea95a5a3440fbaadc4cc404c56d0a5bb04
18 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News Motion 253 (to issue a referendum for upgrading the Kusama runtime to v2027) is currently up for vote by the Kusama Council. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/council/motions The motion to issue a prop...
11 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News The Kusama Digest has been off for a couple of weeks, so this will be a high-level review of some VERY exciting times in the Polkadot ecosystem. There has been quite an upsurge in scams recently. Please be aware, THERE IS NO DOT AIRDROP....
14 Dec 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Web3 Foundation
Kusama News From Dec 9,The maximum number of Kusama validators in the active set has started to increase by 1 each era until it reaches 900 validators (increasing from 700). Polkadot-JS now has a page to view bounties. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?...
7 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News Referendum 93, increasing the number of validators gradually to 900 from 700, has passed and will go into effect this week. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/93 The current referendum is once again asking for a redenomination. No...
30 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News Council member @bitfalls explains his votes in this Council term: https://bruno.id/council-participation-report-13112020-2/ With the v2026 runtime being on Kusama a bug (https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/356) that caused immature slash...
23 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News ArtProject.io, a virtual art and technology expo, was shown in Vancouver, Nov 11th to Nov 15th, and featured a discussion panel on NFT progress on Kusama. See a recording of the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lep5PWTiKJg The...
16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News The default node for Westend was down on Monday for a while. It is once again available and you should be able to access Westend from Polkadot-JS. If you are interested in being a validator on Kusama, check out the Thousand Validators...
9 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News Referendum 91, to redenominate KSM by 100x, has failed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/91 There was a lot of discussion in the Kusama Direction channel and Polkascan about Motion 233, the Treasury Proposal for academic robotic...
2 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News Please be aware of scams! Note that Web3 Foundation, Polkadot, or Parity are NOT giving away DOT or KSM! There is currently a non-binding (system.remark) referendum to redenominate Kusama 100x, just as Polkadot was (1 "old KSM" → 100 "ne...
26 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Web3 Foundation
Kusama News Interested in winning KSM or DOT while learning about Kusama and Polkadot? Check out Hello World! by Polkadot - https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/polkadot Jaco (developer of Polkadot-JS) has been approved as the curator for the first bounty o...
