Polkadot expressed: “Data availability is a crucial component to make sure that the data necessary to check a parachain block can be recovered for the purposes of fraud detection.”

Those who are interested in knowing more about this might have to check an exhaustive blog:  Polkadot v1.0: Sharding and economic security.

They have elaborated on the technology powering Polkadot. It explains sharded blockchain with heterogenous shards.  They also talk about parachains, state-transition function, purpose-built for specific use cases. Polkadot facilitates security and messaging functionality for all the attached parachains. The rest are technical stuff worth understanding by investors too.

Community response:  Polkadot is beginning to look like another ICP

Cryptocurrency has followed a boom & bust cycle so far I have been through 3 bear markets We need the other side of this cycle to balance out the excesses of the bull Separating the wheat from the chaff More is built during the bear as evolutionary pressure creates diamonds

More is built during the bear as evolutionary pressure creates diamonds – true, supposed to be this way, then a new winner appears, ready to participate.

In your opinion is Polkadot worth to buy and HODL for few years? Maybe better go to Solana or Avalanche AVAX? They say DOT connects all chains and more of blah..blah..blah..but actually all it does is connect altcoins which nobody never needs anyway.

The Web 3 foundation has been dumping tokens on the market relentlessly for the past 3 months.

Otherwise, Bill Laboon spoke about how to deal with Polkadot Parachain slot Auction:

The next Polkadot parachain slot auction has begun. Interlay is in the lead with another day to go before the Ending Period starts.

As a refresher on how candle auctions work, I recommend reading the relevant Polkadot Wiki article.

Polkadot Decoded is returning 29-30 June as a hybrid event, with events in Berlin, Mexico City, New York, and either Singapore or Shanghai (TBD). If you are interested in presenting, there is a call for proposals.

Motion 153, setting the curator for the anti-scam bounty, has been approved. The curator is a 3-of-4 multisig consisting of several representatives from W3F and the community.

Motion 154, setting the curator for the Polkadot Pioneers Prize bounty, is under consideration by the Polkadot Council.

The proposed curator is a multisig consisting of representatives from W3F, Astar, Acala, and the community.

For those who are new to the concepts, might have to check in to elaborate internal links.