[Proposal: MB11] Proposal to Swap Lease Slots with Parachain ID 3342

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UPDATE:

To complete the “swap” process, a similar swap authorization is required to be made on behalf of the Moonelement parachain (ID 3342). The Moonbeam team had planned to start the Moonelement parachain and initiate a similar XCM message to be sent to the relay chain.

Unfortunately, there was a misconfiguration in the genesis head that was submitted along with the WASM when the parachain was initially registered. The Moonbeam technical team has determined that starting Moonelement will not be possible.

For this reason, the Moonbeam Foundation has created Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 139 which, when passed, will execute the registrar.swap extrinsic on behalf of the Moonelement parachain.

See forum post here:

[Polkadot Ref #139] Moonbeam: Swap Leases with Parachain 3342

This post relates to a governance referendum on the Polkadot Relay Chain to complete Moonbeam’s lease swap with Parachain 3342. DOT holders can vote for the referendum by following the link below: I have pasted the content of the proposal here (with a few slight tweaks) as well for convenience: Abstract Moonbeam’s current lease period on the Polkadot network will expire in October 2023. In June 2023, the Moonbeam Foundation successfully secured a new parachain slot on Polkadot covering leas…