In Referendum #177, the Fellowship is now voting to approve RFC 97 (Unbonding Queue) from the Web3 Foundation's Jonas Gehrlein and Alistair Stewart.
If passed, we could soon see staked DOT unbonding time reduced to as little as two days.
At Protocol Berg on June 12th, Bastian Köcher (Parity) presented an overview of CorePlay, described as an actor-like framework for blockchains built on top of JAM.