With the passing of Referendum 1161, Polkadot parachain auctions will cease and Coretime sales will commence at block 22602000, just after 09:00 UTC on September 19th 2024.
Lurpis (Bifrost) has chimed in with his opinion on reducing DOT inflation. He believes that as lower inflation reduces staking yields, a phased DeFi incentives program can provide a buffer mechanism to help migrate capital into LSTs and the broader DeFi ecosystem.
Birdo revealed in the July update for the Polkadot App that it has received approval on the Apple and Google stores, and should be ready for launch after auditing of an additional piece of code.
