THREAD - @Polkadot Digest 18 Jan 2021
#Polkadot News
Web3 Foundation is looking for a Formal Verification Engineer to join the team (based in Zug but remote considered). https://web3.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=87&source=other
#Polkadot News
Web3 Foundation is looking for a Formal Verification Engineer to join the team (based in Zug but remote considered). https://web3.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=87&source=other
Reminder that there are numerous places to discuss Polkadot with other interested people - https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/community
More logging info about parachains is now output, to help debug parachain issues (note: on master branch, will be included in next release). https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/2279
#Kusama News
A Treasury Proposal for Phase 2 of the Validator Resource Center has been passed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/257
A Treasury Proposal for Phase 2 of the Validator Resource Center has been passed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/257
There is one day to go in the voting period for the upgrade to Runtime 2027. It is currently unanimously passing with ~ 0.03% turnout. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/democracy
#Rococo News
Rococo now has a total of five parachains - the test parachains Tick, Trick and Track, along with Plasm and Mandala. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frococo-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains
Rococo now has a total of five parachains - the test parachains Tick, Trick and Track, along with Plasm and Mandala. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frococo-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains
#Substrate News
There is an effort to decouple the Staking and Election pallets. This is Part 1 which also links to Parts 2 and 3. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7908
There is an effort to decouple the Staking and Election pallets. This is Part 1 which also links to Parts 2 and 3. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7908
Refcounts have now been split into providers and consumers, which should make inter-account references work more smoothly. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7363
For details on this refcount split, see the original issue, https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/7343
Two SS58 address prefixes, 26 and 27, have been approved for Patract's testnet and mainnet, respectively. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7785/files