- Polkassembly helps with the governance of Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- A new plan suggests regular payments every three months for maintenance and operation costs.
- The funds will cover things like upgrades, maintenance, and infrastructure.
- The proposal will alternate between Polkadot and Kusama networks for funds.
- This payment request is for the months of October, November, and December 2022.
- The proposal shares past work and future plans.
- More information can be found in the provided document and discussion links.

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Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury

- There is a new update for parachains called "v9320."
- The update includes some small changes and bug fixes.
- The word "Anonymous" has been changed to "Pure" in the proxies.
- Two links are given for authorizing upgrades and sending from Polkadot.
- A proposal hash is provided for reference.
- The proposal needs to be approved by the Polkadot Council first.
- After approval, the community will vote on the proposal.

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Statemint Runtime Upgrade to v9320

- Chris Veselinov is the CTO of LimeChain.
- He wants to create a Go Runtime to help with blockchain development.
- The goal is to make it easier and more friendly for beginners.
- They aim to make a framework in Go, which is different from Substrate.
- This framework would allow other developers to reuse parts of it.
- LimeChain has a grant to check if this project is possible.
- They have worked on some challenges and shared their efforts online.
- LimeChain is a company that builds blockchain tools and apps.

Framework for building Substrate-compatible Runtimes in Go (Parachains & Solochains)

Polkadot is introducing nomination pools to simplify staking for DOT-holders. Currently, nominators can stake a minimum of 10 DOTs and up to 50,000 nominators can participate. The top 22,500 are chosen for each era's election process and may receive staking rewards. Nomination pools aim to make staking easier and are designed to address two main concerns:

1. Encourage waiting nominators to join pools, which is mainly a task for Wallet/UI development.
2. Prevent too many waiting nominators from being created, as most may prefer joining pools instead.

To achieve these goals, the minimum nomination limit could be increased to 100 DOTs, based on the current requirement of around 200 DOTs to be an active nominator. This change would help prevent nominators from being created if they are likely to end up in the waiting queue. However, keeping a buffer of waiting nominators is important for Polkadot's economic security, so the 50,000 nominator limit should remain. With nomination pools, anyone with less than 50 DOTs should be directed to join pools instead, and their nominate transaction should be rejected.

Proposal: Slightly higher nomination limits

- A new plan is being discussed for Statemint, which involves collators.
- The number of "invulnerable" collators will be reduced from four to two.
- There will be six new positions that anyone can apply for by placing a bond.
- The bond amount will be set at 1,000 DOT.
- A total of six non-invulnerable collators will be allowed.
- This change needs approval from a majority of 13 councillors (7 votes).
- If people think this plan is controversial, it can be changed to a public vote.
- The plan will be open for discussion to help everyone prepare their Statemint nodes.

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Open Permissionless Collator Registration on Statemint

- A proposal was made by Centrifuge to get money from the Polkadot treasury.
- They want $172,500 to help develop a tool called FUDGE.
- FUDGE helps people work with the databases of certain blockchains more easily.
- It allows users to build and change blocks without needing to connect to a network.
- This tool is very useful for testing and running commands related to these blockchains.
- Centrifuge has already created an early version of FUDGE and is using it for their own tests.
- More information about the proposal can be found through a link they provided.

Treasury Proposal by Centrifuge: FUDGE - Core library for local integration-tests in Substrate

- The proposal asks for money from the Polkadot Treasury to help a Chinese group.
- This group wants to create better Chinese content about Polkadot, using easier language.
- They plan to help Chinese people learn more about Polkadot and its projects.
- The goal is to get more people interested in Polkadot and its community.
- Since March 2022, they have already received funding to operate.
- They are asking for about $104,760 to cover costs for six months.

Treasury proposal: The 2022/9-2023/2 operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- Patika web3 started in March 2022 to help developers in Turkey learn about web3.
- The platform has over 109,000 developers already learning.
- They plan to create a free online training for beginners called "Polkadot Rust&Substrate Practicum."
- Participants will learn together and support each other.
- The goal is to help 2,000 developers join the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They hope for at least 100 project submissions by the end of the training.

Activating developer ecosystem in Turkey for Polkadot

- A proposal to upgrade Polkadot's system called "runtime" to version v0.9.30 has been made.
- The new proposal replaces an earlier one because there can be only one idea discussed at a time.
- The last proposal was about changing rules for special groups called nomination pools.
- There are several small tasks being worked on, like improving safety and making changes to how things are named.
- Some tasks have finished reviews, while others are still being checked.
- After the council votes, everyone in the community will also get to vote on this proposal.

Runtime v9300 Upgrade On Polkadot

- Motion 286 is a proposal for Polkadot.
- It wants to remove limits on members in nomination pools.
- This change will help with the goals of Referendum 78.
- There was a mistake in the original proposal that didn't lift the limits.
- Voting on this motion is important for the community.
- Make sure to vote soon so it can be considered!

Removing members' limit for the community to join nomination pools

- A new proposal is to upgrade Polkadot's system to version v0.9.30.
- The upgrades include many changes that are checked and almost ready.
- Some changes are about making the payments better and using storage wisely.
- There are new features related to ranking validators and fast-unstaking.
- The proposal has a special hash that you can check to see what changes are made.
- After the Council votes, the community will also need to vote on the proposal.

**High Performance Public Infrastructure Proposal**

- The proposal was made on October 6, 2022, for funding of $112,454.80.
- It aims to maintain strong and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot and its related networks.
- Over the past three months, they provided a free service that helps users access public nodes easily.
- Key goals included making it easier for new projects to join and helping existing projects grow.
- They successfully reduced costs for customers by up to 40% and added new features to improve their service.
- New API services and better data insights have been added to help users understand their applications.
- They achieved a high uptime of 99.94% for Polkadot and expanded their service to include new networks like Avalanche and Juno.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022)

**Summary of Fix for Referendum 74**

- Fixes a previous failed execution of Referendum 74.
- Uses a batch of `Transact` instructions instead of a single `batch` call.
- Adds a sixth pair with ParaId 2030 (Bifrost) to the original five requests.
- Includes a `force_transfer` of 22 DOT: 20 for the new parachain and 2 for XCM fees.
- Requests fast tracking if it passes the Council.

Statemint HRMP Channel Establishment

<<Should Reject>> Establish Statemint HRMP Channels

- The Treasury Proposal is about continuing a support contract from July 1, 2022, to September 30, 2022.
- Polkascan Foundation helps maintain tools for the Polkadot Ecosystem.
- These tools are Python libraries funded by Web3 Foundation.
- Many projects use these libraries in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- There are activity reports from previous months and quarters available online.
- The foundation invites questions from the Polkadot Council.

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

- Sequester is a special tool for Polkadot chains to use transaction fees to buy carbon-backed assets.
- This helps make every transaction on Polkadot good for the environment, or "carbon negative."
- Sequester will gather fees, trade them for eco-friendly tokens, and retire carbon offsets quickly.
- Bitgreen is a partner helping with carbon credits in a sustainable way.
- The project will be tested with other teams like Acala and will also be featured in a White Paper.
- It is funded by a grant to create a chain that changes tokens into eco-friendly assets.
- The team will share more information through documents and videos.

Sequester Common Good Chain - Milestone 1

- A new proposal wants to add a special group called a "common good parachain" to Polkadot, which will help collectives.
- The first group will probably be called the Polkadot Alliance.
- This parachain will help other groups in the Polkadot network too.
- There won't be a similar group for Kusama, but Kusama may join some collectives.
- There will be votes to approve the creation and use of the parachain.
- The first steps include registering the parachain and allowing it to start working.
- More details will come when the official plans are released.

Polkadot Collectives Common Good Parachain Proposal

- The proposal is about getting more money to keep working on important computer services for Polkadot.
- The goal is to keep running the Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend services on special computers in Sweden.
- In the third quarter of 2022, Polkadot handled 2,690,000 requests every day.
- Statemint managed 74,300 requests daily, while Westend had 43,700 requests on average each day.
- They also started using a new Polkadot computer that has been tested and is helping the community.
- There is a full proposal that can be read for more details.

 Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q4 2022

- Polkadot will represent itself at the Web Summit this year.
- They want money from the Treasury to help pay for some of the costs.
- Other costs will be covered by companies that are joining.
- The event has over 70,000 attendees and big tech companies.
- Polkadot aims to promote web3 and get more people interested.
- Their goals include attracting investors and building a strong community.
- They are inviting more projects to join them in this effort.

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot on WebSummit

- A group is working on a grant application for a conference.
- The conference was very successful and exceeded expectations.
- People learned about cryptocurrencies, especially Polkadot.
- The event helped connect communities in the Czech Republic.
- A link to the updated grant application is provided for review.

UTXO.22

- Nicholas Hong and the StackUp team proposed a project in October 2022 to continue their Learn-and-Earn campaign for the Polkadot Hackathon.
- They requested $30,000 USD, which is about 4699 DOT, to complete phase 1 of the project.
- The campaign aims to teach 150 developers how to create projects on the Polkadot platform.
- StackUp offers rewards to learners for completing small tasks, called quests.
- They successfully finished the first part of the campaign and produced a report showing the results.
- After receiving $50,000 USD earlier, they now want the remaining funds to finish their project.
- StackUp plans to keep helping developers learn about Polkadot in the future.

Request for Second Allocation: Learn-and-Earn for Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2022

- Tether has registered a new token called USDT on Polkadot's Statemint platform.
- They want Polkadot governance to make USDT able to pay transaction fees without needing DOT tokens.
- There are two types of assets on Statemint: Sufficient (which can be used freely) and Non-Sufficient (which need DOT to exist).
- If USDT is approved as Sufficient, users won't have to hold DOT to create accounts.
- This change would help USDT users have more flexibility on Polkadot Network.
- The stablecoin can support various transactions and boost the ecosystem, especially for decentralized finance (DeFi).
- Tether and Polkadot both announced this proposal through their official channels.

Proposal for USDT Token Sufficiency on Statemint

- The Gossamer Development Grant is a proposal to help ChainSafe Systems improve its software called Gossamer, which works with the Polkadot blockchain.
- ChainSafe, a company started in Toronto in 2017, has a team of around 100 people and focuses on building technology for various blockchain systems.
- They want $1,998,117.60 to continue Gossamer's development for another year and make it better for users.
- Gossamer helps create blockchain nodes that can connect and communicate with networks like Polkadot and Kusama.
- The proposal includes goals like creating a full-node client, improving how transactions are managed, and supporting new programming languages.
- They plan to hire more engineers and enhance Gossamer's performance to make it more appealing to the community.
- The Web3 Foundation will assist in checking the work done by ChainSafe.

Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant

- The proposal plans to update Polkadot's and Statemint's systems to new versions, v9291 and v9290.
- It includes several improvements and fixes for Polkadot, like making some types public and fixing rewards.
- Statemint will also get updates to help with performance and prepare for new features.
- The proposal is submitted for review and must be approved by the Council and then voted on by the community.
- There are specific tasks listed in the proposal, which have different priority levels (low, medium).
- Users can vote on the proposal when it’s time.

Runtime Upgrade v9291 on Polkadot + v9290 on Statemint

- This proposal is from three teams in Polkadot: Bitgreen, Sequester, and Evercity.
- They want to measure the carbon footprint of the Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- The goal is to offset emissions using carbon credits from their own ecosystem.
- The proposal includes creating a dashboard to show electricity use and emissions for each parachain.
- Some parachain teams, like Acala and Astar, support this project and want to help.
- The project will be completed by November and will start in early 2023.
- The information will be available for everyone to see and use.

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