Kusama News
If you are a KSM holder, please be sure to vote on Referendum 88. If passed, this would start the journey to 1,000 validators on Kusama, increasing the number of validators in the active set by one each era for 400 eras. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/democracy
It appears that Kappa Sigma Mu will be moving past 20 members in the near future... https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/society
Congratulations to the SubstraTEE team, whose Treasury Proposal just passed. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/111
The Rococo testnet endpoint is currently down, so you won't be able to view it through Polkadot-JS. This is a known issue and being worked on. Expect a restart soon. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frococo-rpc.polkadot.io#/explorer
There is a new Kusama Treasury Proposal for "VOXEL BRIDGE - A Sensory Journey Through the Kusama Network" - https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/315
There is a new Kusama Treasury Proposal to use Kusama for academic robotics. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/297
There is currently a vote on the referendum to update the Kusama runtime to v2025. Among other things, this would reduce the number of max nominators per validator to 128 and introduces Bounties. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/89
Bruno Skvorc has released his latest Kusama Council Participation Report - this is a great resource to see what is happening in the Kusama Council and how he makes his decisions. https://bruno.id/kusama-council-participation-report-08102020/
Tips and Tricks
Interested in applying for a Treasury Proposal to help develop the Polkadot or Kusama ecosystem? You can find instructions here: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/learn-treasury#creating-a-treasury-proposal
Need to convert a Polkadot address to a Kusama address or vice-versa? The Polkadot wiki has a tool for that: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/learn-accounts#address-changer
Polkadot and Kusama hosts are built with Substrate, but changes to the runtime only occur as the result of a runtime upgrade via referendum. You may see updates in the "Substrate News" section that only come to the mainnets after a long time, or even not at all if they are not relevant to them.
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