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Untitled - motion #420

- This proposal is about Subscan, a tool that helps people understand the Polkadot network.
- Subscan needs money to keep running, which includes costs for servers, security, and staff.
- The proposal suggests using funds from the Polkadot treasury to pay for these costs from July to December 2022.
- They are asking for a total of $190,244 to help keep Subscan operating.
- This money will be converted to DOT, a cryptocurrency, based on a specific price on submission day.
- The proposal aims to support the growth of the Polkadot network.

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Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot & Westend & Rococo & Statemint & Rockmine  Networks (from July to December 2022)

- Polkadot Decoded’s main event will happen in Copenhagen at the end of June 2023.
- It is the biggest yearly conference about Polkadot and brings together many people interested in it.
- There will be a special event for Asia on July 15-16, 2023, in Shanghai, China.
- This China event will help the growing Polkadot community in Asia, especially in nearby countries.
- The event will have talks, workshops, and demonstrations in Chinese and English.
- Target audience includes business and technical decision-makers, developers, and Polkadot fans.
- The goal is to have 300-500 attendees, with many speaking slots and exhibition booths available.
- The event will be hosted by a Chinese agency experienced in organizing technology events.

Polkadot Decoded 2023 China (Satellite Event) July 15-16, 2023 in Shanghai China

- EasyA is asking for $104,000 to work on a project involving Polkadot, which is a blockchain system.
- They have successfully completed two important tasks called Milestones 1 and 2.
- They gathered feedback from developers to make challenges for learning and improving skills.
- They created a new design for Polkadot challenges to make them more engaging.
- Dates and locations for two hackathons have been set, and they invited developers to join.
- They are planning to encourage many people to build new projects on Polkadot before the hackathons.
- They shared a detailed report about their progress for everyone to see.

Milestone 2 Proposal: Polkadot Developer Hackathons and Crash Course for 1,000 Developers (#60DaysOfPolkadot)

- This is a follow-up proposal about funding RPC services.
- It aims to support development and maintenance costs.
- There is one main goal called Milestone 1.
- Milestone 1 includes running services in Sweden and Tunisia.
- In Q1 2023, the Polkadot RPC node had over 3 million requests daily.
- The Statemint RPC node had about 158,000 requests daily.
- The Westend RPC node had around 69,000 requests daily.

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q2 2023

- A proposal is asking for money to support the Open Runtime Module Library (ORML) from November 2022 to April 2023.
- The ORML was created by the co-founders of Acala in late 2019.
- It helps fix problems and create useful features for developers.
- The ORML is designed to be used by many people, not just one group.
- Community members are invited to review the proposal and ask questions.
- The goal is to help developers in the Polkadot and Kusama communities.

Retroactive funding for ORML maintenance Nov 22 to Apr 23

- The proposal is called “Boosting Developer Adoption for Polkadot Ecosystem Projects.”
- It is made by Missing Link, a company that helps find workers for blockchain jobs in Europe.
- The goal is to help the Polkadot ecosystem by placing 15 Rust developers in various companies.
- They want to use funds from a treasury to pay for recruiting services.
- They are asking for a total of $360,000 to help with this project.
- The funds will be given in three parts, or tranches, as the project progresses.
- They believe this will help the Polkadot ecosystem grow by providing skilled developers. 
- The proposal is open for community feedback before it is officially submitted.

Treasury Proposal for Missing Link: Boosting Developer Adoption

**Sub.ID** is a web application launched in 2021 that helps users manage their Substrate addresses, balances, NFTs, and other assets in the Polkadot ecosystem. It has connected to 40 Substrate chains and has a dedicated vision and roadmap.

In 2022, a Kusama treasury proposal was approved, leading to the development of new features. A demo and report are available to see these features in action.

**Batch Two** proposals include:
- **Alternative balances view**: Token-centric views and multi-account support.
- **Accounts grouping**: Group management and default groups like 'Followers' and 'Favorites'.
- **Transaction history**: List and filter transactions using Subsquid integration.
- **P&L analytics**: Dashboard and charts for portfolio analysis with CoinGecko integration.
- **Automated quality assurance**: Testing frameworks for various aspects like balances, crowdloans, and NFTs.

The full proposal with costs is available for review, and feedback is welcome.

Sub.ID Proposal #2: Tx history, Token-centric view, P&L analytics, and more

- A company called OnFinality asked for money to keep their public services running for different networks like Polkadot and Westend.
- They have a special service that helps people use high-quality data from these networks.
- In the first few months of 2023, they served over 4.3 billion responses to users.
- Their services help developers by providing important information and making sure everything works smoothly.
- They improved their system to add more storage automatically, so it doesn't break.
- They also worked with other companies to help more people join the Polkadot community.
- Their public API service had very high uptime, which means it was working almost all the time.
- You can learn more about their services and track their performance on their public pages online.

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2023)

Batch of HRMP Channels with Statemint

- Motion 410 is a new plan to create a special tool called a light client for Ethereum 2.0.
- This tool will work with all parachains in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- It will help Polkadot and Ethereum talk to each other, allowing people to share assets, data, and applications.
- The plan includes technical details based on official guidelines for how the light client should work.
- The proposal will need approval from the Council and then from the community to move forward.
- There is more information about costs and the team involved in the links provided.

External Motion: Development of a trustless Ethereum 2.0 Light Client as a Substrate pallet

- This proposal extends the maintenance and support contract for the Polkadot Ecosystem from January 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023.
- The Polkascan Foundation provides infrastructure services and maintains open-source software for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Their Python libraries are used by 213 GitHub repositories.
- Previous activity reports are available from October 2020 to the first quarter of 2023.
- The proposal includes links to the Social Contract Mechanism, the Python Libraries support contract, and the business plan.
- The Polkascan Foundation is ready to answer questions from the Polkadot Council.

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

- A proposal was made to improve trading for a project called Statemint by allowing fast and safe swaps for large amounts of money.
- The proposal asks for 74,785 DOT, which is about $495,000.
- It aims to help with payment processes, like giving out money for projects and salaries and managing funds for special needs.
- The current trading systems called Automated Market Makers (AMMs) can be slow and make it easy for others to interfere with trades.
- A new method called TWAMM (Time Weighted Automated Market Maker) is suggested to make it safer to trade large amounts without interference.
- The proposal includes plans for new tools, research, and security checks to ensure everything works well.
- The contact person for this proposal is William Freudenberger, and there’s a link to a discussion about it online.

Treasury Proposal by Centrifuge: On-Chain Automated Treasury Management (with TWAMM)

- Dot.alert() is a project that helps people manage their digital money safely.
- They want to get funding of 7,654 DOT, which is around $41,402.
- This funding is for the second and third quarters of 2023.
- Dot.alert() has worked with the Polkadot Treasury before to cover costs for their operations.
- They have made plans with goals for the year.
- You can find more details about their proposal and past successes online.

 Treasury proposal: Dot.alert() operational costs – Q2-Q3 2023

- Cervera is the creator of a YouTube channel called Cryptonitas.
- He started making educational videos for Polkadot and Kusama since April 19, 2021.
- Cervera helps the community by answering questions online and joining events.
- He organized a special event called Decoded 2022 in Valencia.
- The main goal of his work is to create a knowledgeable and helpful community.
- His new proposal aims to continue making over 85 pieces of content.
- He encourages everyone to read more details in his complete proposal.

Polkadot education content production extension by Cryptonitas

- Tommi, also known as Alice und Bob, creates educational content about Polkadot on YouTube.
- He developed a tool called Subscrape to help with tax reporting related to data on Polkadot.
- Tommi is building Polkalytics, a service that helps analyze Polkadot data similarly to Google Analytics.
- He wants to connect people working on data projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- He proposes to create a Github repository to list all data-related projects in Polkadot.
- A website will also be made to share this information in a clear way.
- Tommi is open to feedback to improve his project.

Proposal: A Survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem

- The proposal is to upgrade the Polkadot network to a new version called runtime v9420.
- This upgrade includes changes from earlier versions and has four migrations for the Relay Chain.
- A big part of this upgrade is adding something called OpenGov to Polkadot.
- For OpenGov to work, another proposal about collectives needs to be approved first.
- There are many improvements in the Relay Chain, such as new features and fixing some issues.
- This upgrade also helps developers by making it easier to see account balances.
- The proposal needs to be approved by the Council before the community can vote on it, which will take 28 days.

Runtime Upgrade v9420 on Polkadot Network

- The proposal is to upgrade the Collectives system to a new version called v9420.
- This upgrade includes important changes and improvements since version v9370.
- It introduces XCM v3 and the Technical Fellowship for managing votes and membership.
- The Fellowship will work with the Relay Chain to make decisions using messages.
- There are four runtime migrations for the relay chain included in this upgrade.
- The community will get to vote on this proposal after the Council approves it.
- For more details, you can check the linked release notes.

Runtime Upgrade for Collectives Parachain To v9420

- The Polkadot Community is proposing a tool to help experts and leaders get more people involved in voting and making decisions.
- This tool will make it easier for voters to understand proposals and participate in governance.
- The proposal includes forming a group of experts who will analyze and summarize the proposals for everyone.
- Voters will use a system where they can trust these expert reviews, which will save time and improve decision-making.
- There is a plan to reward these experts based on how helpful their analyses are to the community.
- The goal is to make Polkadot's governance stronger and more efficient by encouraging collaboration.
- Grabber is a platform supporting this initiative and is ready to engage more voters with its features.

Grabber, a tool that incentivizes experts and leaders within the community to boost governance engagement and voter activity.

- Integritee wants to create private transaction sidechains.
- These sidechains will work on Statemine and Statemint.
- The proposal includes two main phases of development.
- They aim to deliver a beta version of these sidechains.
- More information can be found in their blog.
- There is a discussion thread for talking about this proposal.
- A detailed proposal document is available for people to read.

Privacy Sidechains on Statemin*

- The Acala Foundation wanted to renew their parachain lease with a new parachain called 3336.
- They won the auction for this new parachain, but a bug in Polkadot stopped it from working properly.
- The plan is to swap the lease between Acala’s old parachain (2000) and the new one (3336).
- Creating the new parachain required special coding, which was difficult and took time.
- After winning the auction, they updated the new parachain's code, but a signal from the bug caused problems.
- The new parachain tried to work but failed, leading to an error because it wasn't set up correctly.
- Now, they need help from the relaychain to fix this issue.

Lease swap for Acala

- Polkadot Decoded is a big conference about Polkadot and will happen on June 28th and 29th, 2023.
- This year, it will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and will have online and in-person events.
- There will also be smaller events in the USA, Europe, Latin America, and China in July.
- The conference will feature presentations, panels, workshops, and discussions.
- The main audience includes business leaders, technical experts, developers, and Polkadot fans.
- The goal is to share important information and attract companies interested in Polkadot.
- More details about the event can be found in a linked document.
- This is the second request for funding to support the conference.

Polkadot Decoded 2023, tranche 2/3 (June, Copenhagen, DK)

- A proposal called referendum 112 wants to increase the number of validators in Polkadot to 500.
- The community discussed this and thought it was a good idea, but suggested increasing the number of validators slowly.
- They proposed increasing to 400 validators first, by adding 5 every era.
- Core developers agree and see that increasing the number to 500 will lower the amount of DOT needed for each validator.
- They plan to first increase the count by 3 to reach 400 after 20 eras.
- This proposal is submitted by a group of validators and will need community votes after the Council approves it.

1kvP Validators Initiative: Increase Validators Active Set to 400

- There is a proposal called motion 383 for costs from March to August 2023.
- The original amount requested was 16,655 DOT.
- This amount was approved, but there was a mistake in the application.
- Instead of writing 16,655 DOT, 500 DOT was written by mistake.
- Now, they are asking for the remaining 16,155 DOT.
- They hope the additional amount can be approved quickly.
- They appreciate everyone's understanding and support.

Treasury Proposal：A supplementary proposal for the 2023/3-2023/8 operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- RockX wants to provide free services to help the Polkadot community grow in 2023.
- They are asking for about $93,063 to support this project.
- RockX already offers free APIs for Polkadot and Kusama with up to 100,000 requests daily.
- They plan to add 3 new parachains every quarter until mid-2023, totaling 6 parachains.
- Developers can create up to 10 free API keys to help with their projects.
- RockX aims to make it easier for developers by providing tools and a dashboard for updates.
- They have been reliable since 2021, with 99.9% service reliability reported in late 2022.

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