Hydration Referendum 45 proposes to renew DOT incentives for an additional month with the exception of KILT (uncertain future) and vDOT (incentives will soon transition to gigaDOT).
Kusama Referendum 624, now passed, deployed the Revive PVM/EVM smart contract platform on December 29th. In addition. it introduced Elastic Scaling to the Kusama Hub, utilizing 3 cores to deliver 2-second block times.
The third workshop of OpenGuild鈥檚 Code Camp at Hue University wrapped this week, with students introduced to Polkadot Hub, Hyperbridge, and Bifrost and learning Solidity basics.
Subscan has upped the precision for average block time measurements. Now reading up to three decimal places, even marginal shifts in block production can be monitored.