Polkadot Referendum 1645, if passed, will upgrade the runtime to v1.6.1. This release prepares the chain for the launch of Elastic Scaling by patching the bugs that caused finality issues on Kusama.
David Sedacca (Polkadot Capital Group) participated in a panel at InnovateDenver on February 18th, exploring the shift from speculation to utility in the crypto market.