Polkadot Referendum 1645, if passed, will upgrade the runtime to v1.6.1. This release prepares the chain for the launch of Elastic Scaling by patching the bugs that caused finality issues on Kusama.
With the deployment of runtime 1.5.0, Elastic Scaling is now live on Kusama.
Parity announces that an early version of elastic scaling is now being tested on Kusama, with deployment on Polkadot expected for Q1 2025.