PANews reported on August 14 that according to Polkaworld, the Polkadot network passed the RFC97 proposal, which aims to significantly shorten the unlocking period of DOT tokens. The proposal was approved by the Fellowship after review and discussion, and its code or design has been merged into the main code base.

The new mechanism will change the original fixed 28-day unlocking period to a flexible 2-28 days, and the specific duration will be dynamically adjusted according to the size of the unlocking request queue. When the queue is relatively idle, the unlocking can be completed in as fast as 2 days; when the unlocking request (measured in staked amount) exceeds a certain threshold, the unlocking period will be extended to 28 days. The proposal recommends implementing and testing the model on the Kusama network first to evaluate its effectiveness and stability before considering integration into the Polkadot mainnet.