Some disruption is expected this as Bifrost migrates vMANTA staking from Manta Atlantic to Ethereum. Minting and redemption will be paused from October 27th to November 5th.
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.