Kusama
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Doing the Lord’s Work
Lolmcschizz has initiated a discussion on Kusama OpenGov proposing that 33,333 KSM from the treasury be added to the Hydration Omnipool. This move aims to address the longstanding issue of KSM liquidity throughout the Polkadot ecosystem, which has forced many to resort to centralized solutions.
Kusama Delivers a Frosty Favor
Bifrost’s request for a 50K KSM loan to boost the KSM-vKSM liquidity pair on Bifrost Stable Swap has been granted by Kusama governance. This will provide valuable vKSM liquidity as Bifrost prepares to bring vKSM to Polkadot via the KusamaPolkadot bridge, and across numerous other chains with its new SLPx protocol.
Make Kusama Chaotic Again
In his latest Polkadot Forum post, Shawn Tabrizi has proposed to bring Kusama back to its cypherpunk roots, embracing anonymity, activism, and a DIY ethos. One potential Kusama enhancement in his proposal is the introduction of ZK primitives for privacy-preserving applications. In addition, he believes that Kusama could become the Web3 Cloud for the dark renaissance. The conversation is ongoing and ideas are flowing in the forum, so head on over to have your say.
Calm Down Lads, It's Just a Test Run
Round Two of the Kusama Spammening commenced at 16:00 UTC on November 4th 2024. This time the community was enlisted to help initiate transactions through the Spammening dashboard. With 23 cores utilized, initial readings suggest a peak of 128,184 TPS, a world record for a live production network. Expect a more detailed analysis in the coming days.
Spotty and Frosty Foreign Assets Coming To Kusama
Pull Request 421 to allow Polkadot, Kusama, and Ethereum assets across the Polkadot Kusama bridge is nearing completion and isexpected to make it onto the Runtime 1.3.1 released around October. This will give the Kusama ecosystem access to Polkadot USDC, USDT, and Snowbridge Ethereum bridged foreign assets.
The oldest DePIN project in the ecosystem wins the latest Polkadot Auction slot.
Robonomics have won the 75th auction with a self-funded bid and will be coming to Polkadot. The team will still be committed to Kusama where a freeium offering of their Web3 cloud IoT service will be offered. Much of the learning from Kusama will be applied to Polkadot, where the first commercial Roboservice will be launched in October and used by mult-apartment projects in Cyprus. Collators can still decide to support both implementations with block rewards in XRT. Additionally, the Polkadot Kusama bridge will make it easier to move tokens.
Polkadot Runtime 1.2.4
Polkadot Runtime 1.2.4 has been released on the polkadot-fellows repository. This runtime initiates the new Polkadot Ambassador Program as defined in Referendum 487. Other highlights include: -Allowing arbritrary XCM execution on Kusama. -Upgrading the xcm pallet to facilitate moving bridged assets around the ecosystem. -A vesting pallet for Asset Hub.
Coretime Sales Delay on Kusama
During v1.2.0 Kusama Relay Chain upgrade, the XCM program designed to migrate existing Kusama leases to Coretime failed to send. The issue has already been fixed by a runtime upgrade, however the start of Coretime Sales has been delayed until block number 137,346 on April 30th 2024.
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