If passed, Polkadot Referendum 1546 and Kusama Referendum 519 will enact runtime release 1.5.0.
Notably, this release will fully deploy Elastic Scaling on the Relay Chains, completing the implementation of Polkadot 2.0.
Congratulations to Micropay, winners of the Best of Polkadot category at Token2049鈥檚 2025 Singapore Hackathon. Their project fuses the x402 HTTP payment protocol with Hyperbridge to power cross-chain automated micropayments between AI agents.
With the assistance of the Polkadot UX Bounty, Crust is making progress on implementing Unified Address Format. Before long, we may finally have one address to rule them all.
