Polkadot (DOT) price performance is closely tied to its current ecosystem milestones. Polkadot is changing hands at a spot price of $6.42, up 3.77% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.

Based on the current outlook, the world’s 11th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is paring minor losses from the past week. In a recent ecosystem update, Bill Laboon and the duo behind the Polkadot protocol shared some impressive milestones that deserve full attention.

While Laboon highlighted the release of Kagome 0.9.0, a Polkadot host implementation written in C++, it demonstrates steady support for the new system to support core protocol users.

Several parachains in the Polkadot network have also recorded impressive integrations over the past few weeks. Although Astar Network made history by becoming the first parachain to support EVM and WASM VM smart contracts.

However, Acala Network recently released the cross-chain token library xtokens for cross-chain token transfer functions. The prospects for the Polkadot protocol are further enhanced as more parachains gain large partnerships, which helps strengthen the overall use case of the protocol.

Frustrations at Work While there’s enough positive news happening in the Polkadot ecosystem, a key governance protocol that was proposed not too long ago is currently facing resistance.

The proposal, Referendum 112, proposes to immediately increase the number of validators in the active set from 297 to 500. The proposal is currently failing, with just 26% of votes cast in favor, with about 19 days left until the vote.

While it is known that the higher the number of validators, the more secure the protocol, ecosystem members appear to see friction ahead, explaining the current lack of support for the proposal.

If the referendum fails, nothing will change, but it will highlight the power of the Polkadot governance ecosystem.