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.
On August 29th, the Origin Trail On Trac(k) podcast returns as the founders discuss the Metcalfe Convergence Phase as the DKG moves toward autonomous knowledge publishing and inferencing capabilities.