To prepare for the Polkadot People campaign, Hydration Referendum 232, if passed, will open HRMP channels with the People Chain. In addition, it will open HRMP channels with the Coretime Chain and enable core auto-renewals.
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.