On August 24th, Kusama stalled and ceased producing blocks for 20 minutes due to an error in the runtime code. Polkadot Referendum 1736 will deploy Runtime 1.6.2 which patches the error.
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.