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 robotics on Kusama. It did not reach a majority but was not rejected. Thus it is back in the proposal queue along with the Subscan operating expenses proposal. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/297

The third and final Treasury-sponsored film on Kusama by Miguel Marques, "The Third Generation", has been released. https://twitter.com/MiguelMarques70/status/1323676300368891904

Interested in getting funding for your Polkadot or Kusama project? Bruno walks through all the different ways you can finance its development. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/web3funding

Bruno is also a member of Polkadot and Kusama Council. He explains his recent votes. https://bruno.id/council-participation-report-05112020/

Motion 234, to upgrade the Kusama runtime to v2026, has passed. Note that a referendum still needs to take place for the upgrade to take place. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/234

Rococo v1 is getting close - see this tweet for a very simple example of a parachain advancing. https://twitter.com/rphmeier/status/1324371974555082753

Tips and Tricks

Remember that you have to unlock your tokens after your democracy locks expire! https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/maintain-guides-democracy#unlocking-locked-tokens

Do you know who your Councillors are? Polkadot and Kusama use an approval voting mechanism to determine who represents passive stakeholders. Vote here: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/council

One of the best places to see what's happening in the Polkadot ecosystem is to see what grants are being given by the W3F. Latest acceptances from the general grants program are here: https://github.com/w3f/General-Grants-Program/blob/master/grants/accepted_grant_applications.md#wave-8

Acceptances into the Open Grants Program are here: https://github.com/w3f/Open-Grants-Program/tree/master/applications

Want to contribute to a Polkadot or Kusama project, but not sure what to do? The Grants program has outlined their priorities here: https://github.com/w3f/General-Grants-Program/blob/master/grants/polkadot_stack.md

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