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.
Congratulations to Micropay, winners of the Best of Polkadot category at Token2049鈥檚 2025 Singapore Hackathon. Their project fuses the x402 HTTP payment protocol with Hyperbridge to power cross-chain automated micropayments between AI agents.
With the assistance of the Polkadot UX Bounty, Crust is making progress on implementing Unified Address Format. Before long, we may finally have one address to rule them all.
