**Polkadotters Community Proposal Summary**

- Founded in August 2020, Polkadotters is the largest Polkadot community in the Czech/Slovak region.
- The community aims to go international, using the Polkadotters brand and publishing content in English.
- The founder left a full-time job to become a Polkadot ambassador, focusing on promoting Polkadot and Web 3.0.
- Social media presence includes:
  - Facebook: 4.3k members
  - Twitter: over 1.5k followers
  - Medium: over 600 followers
- Content creation includes:
  - Over 60 original articles in Czech and English
  - YouTube: over 20k views on Polkadot videos in Czech
- Other activities:
  - Founding the DOT Validator Alliance
  - Education on Substrate and development
  - Participation in hackathons and cryptocurrency events
  - Support for testnets and project launches
- The proposal requests 2,736 DOT (~$41,280) to cover community activities and content creation.
- The founder is open to adjustments and welcomes feedback from the Polkadot council.

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 Funding of Polkadotters community

- **Proponent**: 12WarfbFeUm5L9Fs5zkTaQQH7L5hqaGPEgM9vQ1UFK8kiUSK
- **Date**: June 16, 2021
- **Requested DOT**: 829 DOT (~ $25,000)
- **Objective**: Address the lack of a comprehensive, non-technical book on Polkadot.
- **Proposal**: Create a book focused on Polkadot from a non-technical perspective.
- **First Draft**: 90% complete, available for feedback.
- **License**: Creative Commons License (CC BY).
- **Edited**: October 6, 2021.

Proposal to expand the Polkadot ecosystem with a book for blockchain beginners

### Metis: Wasm Contract Standard Library

- **Developed by**: Patract Labs
- **Purpose**: To create a Wasm contract standard library similar to Openzeppelin-contracts for the Solidity ecosystem.
- **Features**:
  - Implements common contract components like ERC20, ERC721, and others.
  - Provides security, access control, and governance components.
  - Supports contract expansion and combination.
- **Languages**: Primarily for ink! and Ask! based Wasm contracts.
- **Audits**: Code will be audited by professional institutions.
- **Roadmap**:
  - **M1**: Basic component macros and testing support.
  - **M2**: Complete component development support.
  - **M3**: Rich component library for governance and financial mechanisms.
- **Cost**: Estimated at $31,500 for the first milestone (M1).

Patract's treasury proposal about Metis M1 (ink! and Ask! Standard Library)

### Summary of Polkadot Treasury Proposal with MIDLDEV OÜ

- **Service Provider**: MIDLDEV OÜ, an Estonian company.
- **Service**: Provides daily blockchain database snapshots for Polkadot network.
- **Features**:
  - Daily snapshots in 7z format.
  - Website at [polkashots.io](https://polkashots.io/) with download links.
  - Snapshots available on IPFS for 3 days.
- **Context**: Service operational for 6 months, benefiting validators.
- **Future**: May switch to native snapshot formats if supported by Polkadot.
- **Expenses**: 1000 EUR/month for labor, 300 EUR/month for cloud costs.
- **Funding**: Requests every 6 months from Polkadot treasury.
- **Budget**: 8,700 EUR bi-annually, with a 5% slippage.

Polkashots.io maintenance + improvements

### Proposal Summary

- **Purpose**: Seek funding from the Polkadot Treasury for the operating costs of the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute.
- **Duration**: June, July, and August.
- **Objective**: Create high-quality, original Chinese content to explain Polkadot in a user-friendly way.
- **Audience**: Chinese users to increase their understanding and interest in Polkadot.
- **Additional Goal**: Keep track of and report on the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Funding Request**: Approximately 1,883.18 DOT, based on the current exchange rate.
- **Details**: Full details are available in the linked document.
- **Feedback**: Open to questions and feedback from councillors.

Treasury proposal: The June/July/August operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

### Summary of Proposal

- **Increase in Nominator Limits**: The proposal aims to raise the number of people who can nominate others.
- **Time-Sensitive Action**: This change is urgent because current nominators can't change their status.
- **Pull Request**: A specific change (Pull Request #9193) will ensure existing nominators are not affected by new limits.
- **New Limits**: The proposal increases the total nominator capacity to 22,500 and sets a minimum stake requirement of 40 DOTs.
- **Stability Consideration**: If too many people try to nominate quickly, the stake limit might need to be raised again to keep the system stable.
- **Preimage**: A detailed document explaining the proposal is available [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pp8mkUkFCkYiauUAe2RXFBhzk5wgulGV/view?usp=sharing).
- **Voting**: Everyone is encouraged to vote on this proposal at their convenience.

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Upgrade the nomination limits on Polkadot

- The proposal limits the number of validators to 1200.
- It keeps other parameters the same for nominators.
- The proposal needs approval from the Council and then a community vote.
- Discussions about minimum DOT stake limits for validators are ongoing.
- These limits are for network safety and will increase as the network grows.
- The proposal's details can be found in the preimage link.
- More context and explanations are available in the last runtime upgrade post.

Limit on the maximum number of validators, based on scaling issues

### Polkadot Runtime Upgrade Proposal (v9050)

- **Proposal**: Upgrade Polkadot's runtime to version 9050.
- **Purpose**: Address scaling issues in staking.
- **Changes**: Introduce hard limits on the number of nominators, configurable by governance.
- **Details**: Full release notes and changes are available [here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.9.5).
- **Previous Discussions**: Discussions on the Polkadot Direction channel can be found [here](https://matrix.to/#/!OwgojQyBzTlUQGGLhq:matrix.parity.io/$EVsIkHKQaZHNrnOCSrLWwE918yPa3u6srpziFs4usvo?via=matrix.parity.io&via=matrix.org&via=corepaper.org).
- **Staking Issues**: Wei’s post on staking problems and solutions is available [here](https://corepaper.org/polkadot/staking/).
- **Blogpost**: Polkadot's explanation of staking changes is available [here](https://polkadot.network/polkadot-and-kusama-staking-changes/).
- **Vote**: Please vote at your earliest convenience!

Runtime v9050 on Polkadot Network

Subscan is a blockchain explorer for Substrate-based chains like Polkadot, Kusama, and Westend. It has been growing rapidly, but this growth has led to high infrastructure costs. Subscan is seeking financial support from the Polkadot Treasury to cover these costs, which totaled $20,786.73 from March to May 2021. The main expenses were for services like Compute Engine, Stackdriver Logging, and Cloud SQL on Google Cloud Platform. Subscan is requesting 780 DOT (around $18,000) to continue improving its service.

The Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot Network from March 2021 to May 2021

- Polkassembly is a key part of Polkadot and Kusama governance.
- This proposal asks for a quarterly payment to cover maintenance and operational costs.
- Costs include general maintenance, runtime upgrades, and infrastructure.
- Polkassembly supports both Kusama and Polkadot networks.
- The proposal alternates networks every three months.
- This submission covers costs for July, August, and September 2021.
- Funds are requested from the Polkadot treasury.
- The full proposal and discussion are available online.

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury

**Figment DOT Proposal Summary**

- **Proponent:** 142hWpBmGsePS1tSopxg4JWaRirGgVpZubz5h251m31KJXdf
- **Date:** 06/08/21
- **Requested DOT:** 1,300 DOTs
- **Purpose:** Incentives for developers to grow the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Platforms:** Figment Learn and DataHub.
- **Learn:** Educational platform for Web 3 developers.
- **DataHub:** Infrastructure for building and scaling DApps.
- **Full Proposal:** [Link to full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GkgnwLhjVCCrKY43uRgzg6vFI6yN_aoD_TCxBdkNAg8/edit#l)

Figment Treasury Proposal: Figment Learn & DataHub Milestone 5

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### Summary

- Validator nodes on Polkadot sometimes encounter a "memory allocation" error during staking elections.
- The error happens in an offchain worker thread, which shares memory with the main runtime.
- To fix this, the team proposes increasing the overall WASM runtime memory pages, which affects both the main runtime and offchain worker.
- This change is expected to have no significant impact on the main runtime's performance.
- The memory increase is measured in "heap pages," and the current default is 1024 pages.
- This proposal is temporary; a permanent fix is being developed by Kian from Parity.
- The team recommends rejecting this proposal as it has been included in an upgrade.

Increasing the WASM heap pages.

- Polkadot Ecology Research Institute is a nonprofit organization in China.
- They have published 16 professional articles about Polkadot, which have received over three million page views.
- The institute is seeking support from the national treasury to continue producing high-quality content.
- They aim to expand media channels to reach more people and educate them about Polkadot.
- More details about the proposal can be found in the provided document.
- Feedback and questions are welcome from all councillors.
- The institute appreciates any support they can receive.

Treasury proposal: The April operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

### Europa

- **Europa** is a sandbox environment for running `Pallet-Contracts` in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Developed by **Patract Labs**, it helps contract developers debug `ink!` contracts.
- Europa provides detailed debugging information and supports minimal service components for Runtime execution.

### Features

- **v0.1**: Independent runtime environment for expansion.
- **v0.2**: Enhanced contract module for more information.
- **v0.3**: Improved usability with UI interface, binary packages for distribution, and compatibility with other runtime modules.

### Future Plans

- **UI Interface**: Visualize contract execution, show relationships between contracts, extrinsics, and accounts, and operate special RPC functions.
- **Binary Packages**: Distribute Europa as a binary executable for easier setup on different platforms.

### Development Timeline

- **May 6 - Jun 17**: Refactor code, build UI, integrate, test, and release binary packages.

### Cost

- Total cost: $39,500, equivalent to 1,091 DOT.

Patract's Treasury proposal for Europa v0.3 (contract and runtime sandbox)

### PolkaWorld Social Contract Proposal

- **Objective**: Establish a Social Contract between PolkaWorld and the Polkadot Treasury.
- **Purpose**: Fund PolkaWorld to continue contributing to the Polkadot community.
- **Activities**: Publish articles, interview eco-constructors, organize events like Meetups and Hackathons.
- **Duration**: 3 months (June, July, August).
- **Funding Request**: Approximately 1885.98 DOT.
- **Community**: Aim to build and maintain a strong, decent, and neutral Chinese community.
- **Details**: OKR details available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ocWQuGWJ50JW3y00DG5pZhhZA3_eoIgZnmt07kkEfR8/edit?ts=6062dd8e&pli=1).
- **Feedback**: Open for comments and suggestions.

A Social Contract between PolkaWorld and Polkadot Treasury - Ops and Maintenance proposal

- Encode Club aims to educate and support university students in blockchain technology.
- They organize educational programs, hackathons, and accelerators across 75 universities worldwide.
- After a successful Polkadot-themed hackathon, they propose a year-long program to involve students in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The program includes an education series, a dedicated hackathon, and an accelerator.
- Funding is requested in five tranches, totaling around £140,000.
- The first tranche of £30,000 will cover the education series and curriculum, aiming to involve 50 universities and 1,000-2,000 students.
- Additional tranches will fund the hackathon, accelerator, prizes, and grants for participating teams.

Encode Club - university engagement programme - Phase 1 (out of 5)

Runtime v30 on Polkadot

- OnFinality is a platform that helps developers build apps on Polkadot and Substrate blockchains.
- They recently launched a shared node API service and are listed in the Polkadot.js app.
- They need funding to run two pools of Polkadot nodes for three months (April, May, June).
- The cost for this is about $9,714.86 each quarter.
- In the first quarter of 2021, they handled over 666 million requests.
- They offer a free tier with 500,000 requests per day to make Polkadot accessible to everyone.
- They also provide a one-click deploy dedicated node service for those who need more.
- You can access their public API service by creating a free account or using Polkadot.js.

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Ongoing Costs for Q2 2021)

M1-1: Private Assets

### Redspot Overview

- **Purpose**: Redspot is a tool for developing Wasm contracts, aiming to simplify the development process.
- **Features**: It hides compilation details, integrates various plugins, and offers a smooth development experience.
- **Usage**: Used by teams like Acala, Plasm, Litentry, and OpenSquare.

### Recent Achievements

- **Hackathon Success**: Tools like inkBridge and SkyePass used Redspot to win prizes.
- **Version Updates**: Redspot has completed versions 0.1 to 0.3, with 0.4 in progress.

### Future Plans for v0.4

1. **Multi-Contract Support**: Improve support for compiling multiple contracts.
2. **Docker Compilation**: Use Docker to ensure consistent compilation across different environments.
3. **Web Interface**: Introduce a user-friendly web interface for contract deployment and operations.
4. **Additional Plugins**: Add features like file change monitoring and chain type support.

### Development Timeline

- **Weeks 1-2**: Implement Docker support and multi-contract compilation.
- **Weeks 3-4**: Develop the web interface.
- **Week 5**: Create plugins for balances and blockchain types.

### Cost and Verification

- **Cost**: Approximately $33,200, with a monthly average of $36 per DOT.
- **Verification**: Test on GitHub for multi-contract support, Docker compilation, and web interface functionality.

Patract’s treasury proposal for Redspot v0.4 (Wasm contract scaffold)

### Summary of M2 Development Tasks

1. **Multiple Account Interaction**: Allow users to interact with multiple accounts on different networks.
2. **Push Notifications**: Provide basic support for push notifications to alert users about important events.
3. **Role-Based Notifications**: Offer different types of push notifications based on user roles.
4. **Customization**: Enable users to customize the granularity of push notifications.
5. **Governance Dashboard**: Enhance the governance dashboard by adding missing views, such as Referendum and Treasury details.

For more details, see the [proposal document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZoYFv6hVodf-hTYZofNZ37ShkcNU97LXDaFlg0ouSs/edit?usp=sharing).

Milestone 2 of Governance-focused Mobile App for all Substrate-based networks 

### Dotreasury Project Summary

- **Project Overview**: Dotreasury is a platform that provides detailed accounting information and allows community members to comment on expenses. It was initially developed for Kusama and is now being extended to support Polkadot.
  
- **Work Completed**:
  - **Code Refactor**: The code is being refactored to support multiple chains, with a single domain for both Kusama and Polkadot.
  - **Price Tracker**: A price tracker will be added to rank metrics by fiat cost rather than token amount.
  - **Other Improvements**: Deployment of a Polkadot archive sync node, collection of expense links, and user interface enhancements.

- **Cost and Delivery**:
  - **Cost**: The project will cost $11,300, requiring 376 DOT tokens.
  - **Delivery**: The work will be completed within one month, with Polkadot integrated into Dotreasury.

- **Future Plans**:
  - **Credit Model**: The team plans to develop a credit model for Kusama and then Polkadot, after fully discussing the rules.
  - **Discussion**: A draft document for the credit model will be posted on Polkassembly for community feedback.

- **Team**: The project is being developed by the OpenSquare team, which focuses on facilitating collaboration between projects and developers.

OpenSquare's treasury proposal for doTreasury polkadot integration

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### PolkaWorld Proposal Summary

- **PolkaWorld** is the largest Chinese community for Polkadot, currently operating on WeChat.
- **Problem**: Limited by WeChat's daily article restriction, valuable content cannot be timely published.
- **Current Issue**: Information is only accessible via WeChat mobile, limiting broader reach.
- **Proposal Goal**: Develop and enhance the polkaworld.org website to allow more content forms (e.g., real-time news, live streams).
- **Deliverables**: A website upgrade enabling instant content posting and adding real-time news and video sections.
- **Funding Request**: 647.07 DOT (approximately $22,250 based on current rates).
- **Milestones and Budget**: Detailed information is available in the linked document.
- **Feedback**: Open to questions and clarifications from councilors.

Council Motions