This is a referendum is part of the upgrade path to enable Elastic Scaling. It contains the polkadot-sdk 2503-7 update which adds support for slashing/disabling validators that that dispute valid candidates and validator re-enabling. This is expected to significantly improve how the system handles dispute spam and allows us to enable RFC103 without causing finality issues we have seen on our first attempt .
For the full list of changes, please read the fellowship 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 release notes.
Enactment is set at block 26902523 estimated time: 2025-07-16 08:07:45 (UTC)
Whitelist: https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/368