Algem Liquid Staking v1.5 on Astar is heading for retirement, so it’s time to upgrade to v2. Users should unstake nASTR and closing lending positions on Sio2 then restake to xnASTR on the v2 platform.
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’s 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.