Paving the way for the Hub and JAM, Parity has commenced the monumental task of migrating staking, governance, and balances from the Kusama Relay Chain to the Kusama Asset Hub. Migration is expected to be completed by June 30th.
Lurpis (Bifrost) has chimed in with his opinion on reducing DOT inflation. He believes that as lower inflation reduces staking yields, a phased DeFi incentives program can provide a buffer mechanism to help migrate capital into LSTs and the broader DeFi ecosystem.
Birdo revealed in the July update for the Polkadot App that it has received approval on the Apple and Google stores, and should be ready for launch after auditing of an additional piece of code.