- There will be an NFT event at UNESCO HQ in Paris on November 25-26.
- It will showcase NFT experiences using the Polkadot Network.
- The event includes an exhibition in person, online, and on 1,600 video billboards in France.
- There will be discussions about the environment, art, and blockchain technology.
- Over 8,000 visitors are expected to attend.
- Many important people from 193 countries and various cultural institutions will be there.
- Technologies like Unique, Moonbeam, and RMRK will be part of the experiences.

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NFT exhibition about environment at UNESCO HQ, Paris

- The minimum amount to join a nomination pool in Polkadot should be 1 DOT, not 5.
- A new proposal is currently being voted on to set this correct minimum.
- Nomination pools will help DOT-holders stake their tokens more easily.
- To create a nomination pool, 200 DOTs are needed, which will earn rewards.
- There will be a maximum of 64 pools and 16,000 members across all pools.
- These limits can be changed later if everything works well.
- The proposal has been submitted for community vote after Council approval.

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[PLEASE REJECT] Polkadot Nomination Pools Initial Configuration

- Polkadot is launching new nomination pools for DOT-holders to make staking easier.
- You can join a pool with just 1 DOT, making it accessible for more people.
- Creating a pool will require 200 DOTs as initial collateral, which can earn rewards.
- There will be a limit of 64 pools and 16,000 members in total, but these limits can be increased later if needed.
- The proposal aims to ensure that Pools can scale up as needed.
- The community will vote to decide if this proposal is approved after council approval.

Polkadot Nomination Pools Initial Configuration

- Sota, the founder of Astar Network, is organizing the Polkadot Summit.
- The event will take place on November 3rd in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center.
- There will be two tracks: a business track and a technical track.
- The summit is to educate people about the Polkadot Network's developments.
- Confirmed speakers are from well-known teams like Parity, Astar, and Acala.
- The goal is to raise awareness of Polkadot in the US.
- The event will last all day, from 9 AM to 5 PM.
- The estimated cost for the event is about $47,215, which can be paid in DOT tokens.

Proposal: San Francisco Blockchain Week Polkadot Summit 

- The proposal is about funding a project called Gossamer.
- Gossamer helps build and run nodes for different blockchains using a programming language called Go.
- It is designed for the Polkadot ecosystem, which is a system of interconnected blockchains.
- The project will take 12 months to complete after getting support from the Web3 Foundation Grants Program.
- The goal is to make the Polkadot ecosystem have different types of clients.
- The proposal needs to be approved and then voted on by the community.
- More details about the budget and plans are available in the post.

External Motion: #168 Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant

- A new open-source font is being created for the Dotsama ecosystem.
- It will be made for small screens and will have light, regular, and bold versions.
- There will also be italics and a special coding version of the font.
- The font will include icons and support both Latin and Cyrillic letters.
- It will be packaged as a modern variable font in one file.
- This font is different from the Polkadot brand font, which is for larger sizes.
- The goal is for the font to help users all over the world.

Opensource UI font for the Dostama ecoysystem

### Kusama Runtime Upgrade Proposal

- **Purpose**: Upgrade Kusama’s runtime to version v9281 to fix a previous issue.
- **Key Fixes**:
  - Fixes a vulnerability affecting block authoring.
  - Includes several low-priority updates and minor fixes.
- **Audits**: Some changes have been audited, while others are pending.
- **Community Involvement**: Requires approval from the Council and a community vote.
- **How to Vote**: Community members should vote at their convenience.
- **Details**: Full release notes and runtime changes are available [here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/releases/tag/v0.9.28).
- **Proposal Hash**: `0xe9a09ca478bb39406f131a5fd4dab46edbf75d9ae3a9950eb0a74094943be4be`

Runtime v9281 Upgrade On Polkadot

- YieldBay is a project started 9 months ago to help people who provide money to earn from tokens in the dotsama ecosystem.
- It aims to make it easier for these people and for protocols (projects) to find and join liquidity pools and yield farms.
- Many people have similar questions about finding these pools, so YieldBay wants to help by creating a central platform for listings.
- The project has already built a working example of this platform called YieldBay List, which has attracted over 350 visitors.
- Many protocols, like Tapio and BeamSwap, have requested to be listed on YieldBay List.
- The goal is to reduce confusion and make it easier for everyone involved, helping new projects succeed.

YieldBay Proposal: Listing platform for all dotsama liquidity pools and yield farms

- A person named 12uokSRn2hmEWPZuzHK1xqnFxRgyoApLtXRBd4jFan2x2T1P wrote a proposal on December 9, 2022.
- They want to request 2,493 DOT, which is about $18,840.
- The proposal is about the DotSama ecosystem, which has many complex technologies.
- These technologies can be tricky and have risks like mistakes in money transfer and hacks.
- Dot.alert() is a knowledgebase that helps people learn to manage their assets safely in this ecosystem.
- The proposal aims to get funding from the Polkadot Treasury to help keep Dot.alert() running.
- More details about the proposal can be found in a linked document.

Treasury proposal: Dot.alert() operational costs

- A proposal wants to upgrade the Polkadot Runtime to version v9280.
- The upgrade includes changes and new features that can be found online.
- One important change is the addition of nomination pools.
- These nomination pools will need to be set up through governance.
- Several other low and medium priority updates are also included in the proposal.
- If the Council approves it, the community will get to vote on it.
- Everyone is encouraged to participate in the voting process.

Polkadot Runtime Upgrade to v0.9.28

- EasyA is asking for $40,000 for a hackathon they held with Polkadot.
- The event took place in London on July 30-31, 2022.
- 250 students from 30 universities participated and created 27 projects.
- They taught students how to build on the Polkadot platform.
- The hackathon helped many new developers learn about Polkadot.
- EasyA wants the money to give prizes and cover costs for the event.
- They have documented the event for future hackers to learn from.

Milestone 2 Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon for 200 Students and Educators

- Sota Watanabe, founder of Astar Network, is asking for $25,000 to help with a Polkadot event in Asia.
- The event is called Token2049, and it's a big deal in Asia with over 3,000 people expected to attend.
- 21 projects, including Astar, Acala, and Moonbeam, are teaming up to make Polkadot more popular in Asia.
- The goal is to make Polkadot stronger and show how everyone in the ecosystem works together.
- They hope to get 300+ people to sign up and 200+ to come to the event.
- The event page is already up, and over 300 people have signed up so far.

Proposal: Polkadot Singapore Event During Token2049

- A new motion corrects mistakes from previous proposals related to channel requests between Statemint and parachains.
- Five parachains (2021, 2031, 2032, 2035, 2046) want to connect with Statemint.
- The motion accepts these requests and opens return channels.
- Important treasury addresses and account IDs are provided for reference.
- The proposal requires a vote from the Council and then the community.
- It includes specific encoded call data needed for execution.
- The call hash for this proposal is `0xfa5da8a4d9ef08dd22dfbc189861cbb9275dc8c52e4ce9b04f21cc830b3d5617`.

Second Batch Of Statemint HRMP Channels (replacing motions 256 and 257)

- A new motion is being proposed to accept five parachains that want to connect with Statemint.
- This motion fixes an earlier mistake about the proposal weight but still has an incorrect origin.
- The parachains wanting to connect are numbered 2021, 2031, 2032, 2035, and 2046.
- The Treasury will spend 100 DOT to help create these connections and pay some fees.
- Statemint will receive and handle the requests for opening channels.
- Once the Council approves the proposal, the community will vote on it later.

[PLEASE REJECT] Second Batch Of Statemint HRMP Channels 

- A proposal was made for five new parachains to connect with Statemint.
- The proposal was rejected because it didn’t have enough support.
- The new parachains are numbered 2021, 2031, 2032, 2035, and 2046.
- Statemint needs to send a message to the Relay Chain to accept these requests.
- Statemint's message has to go through a process called XCM.
- The Relay Chain will take some DOT (a type of currency) from the Treasury to pay for this.
- After the Council approves the proposal, the community will get to vote on it next.

[PLEASE REJECT] Second Batch Of Statemint HRMP Channels

- The project is called Kampela, named after a Finnish fish.
- It aims to create a low-cost device for secure storage of digital keys.
- The device looks like a flat card and has an e-paper screen.
- It is similar to an existing tool called Parity Signer but is designed to be simpler and cheaper.
- Kampela can read information using NFC and shows results on its screen.
- It does not work like a wallet, as it cannot track money or create transactions.
- The proposal focuses on development, not actual production, hoping for competition in the market.

Hardware signer and key storage Kampela: Milestones 1&2

- A Ziggurat is a tall, stepped tower made of rectangles.
- It has three important layers for testing networks: Conformance, Performance, and Resistance.
- Conformance checks if the network follows the right rules.
- Performance sees how well the network works under a lot of pressure.
- Resistance checks if the network can handle attacks.
- Tools named Ziggurat help developers test these layers.
- This testing is important to keep networks safe from hacks.

Ziggurat: The Network Testing and Stability Framework

- SubWallet is proposing to support NFTs on Kusama and Statemine.
- They want to allow cross-chain transactions and show transaction history and staking details.
- They added a donation button to support charities, focusing on Ukraine.
- SubWallet can send and receive NFTs and has integrated with other tools to improve the user experience.
- As of June 2022, SubWallet supports over 60 networks and has more than 5,000 users.
- By August 2022, they increased support to over 70 networks and gained 15,000 installs.
- They are part of the Substrate Builders Program and collaborate with over 70 teams.

Milestone 2: SubWallet Proposes to Build the Web3 Multiverse Gateway for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem

- The v9270 runtime is used by Polkadot and Kusama.
- It allows buying and selling NFTs, which are special digital items.
- This change was added to something called the Uniques pallet.
- Statemine can now use certain assets to pay for XCM fees.
- Statemine will get this feature first, before Statemint. 
- Statemint does not have enough assets for this change yet.
- Not having the feature on Statemint does not affect how it works right now.

Upgrade Statemint to v9270

- This proposal is about updating the Polkadot Runtime to a new version called v9270.
- The new version has release notes and changes that can be checked online.
- A special code called a proposal hash (0x55507b53f5c37e97e3faf9a9274dba0c5eace970aa5c653c179126f679ed496e) is included.
- If the Council approves the proposal, the Polkadot community can vote on it.
- Voting is important, and everyone is encouraged to participate when they can.

Polkadot Runtime Upgrade to v9270

- PolkaWorld is a community in China that focuses on Polkadot and has over 50,000 followers.
- They have worked with Polkadot and Web3 Foundation since 2019.
- PolkaWorld received a W3F community grant from 2019 to 2021.
- They made a social contract with Polkadot Treasury in June 2021.
- They are asking for money to cover community operation costs from September to November 2022.
- Details about their goals, tasks, and budget are available in a shared document.
- They welcome community advice and feedback.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2022.9 - 2022.11

- Polkadot uses special technology called Substrate to create decentralized systems.
- Depending on how these systems are set up, they can be more or less decentralized.
- A tool named Polkawatch helps check how decentralized Polkadot is by looking at different factors.
- Currently, Polkadot's network is quite centralized, with few operators and regions handling most of the work.
- Polkawatch started working in the second quarter of 2022.
- There is a plan to keep improving Polkawatch and its software in the third quarter of 2022.
- The community can provide feedback on these plans through a discussion post.

Polkadot decentralization analytics, Continued Operation and Improvements.

- Daniel is a leader in building technology and is working on a project called Fido, which helps people use blockchain more easily.
- Fido is a special wallet designed to make Web3 simple for everyone, avoiding complicated words that might confuse users.
- It uses a friendly chat system to interact with users and can be installed on different devices like computers and small hardware.
- The team wants to build Fido in three stages, focusing on the design, core functions, and then adding more features.
- Their goal is to help people do everyday things, like buying items or ordering food, using blockchain technology without needing to understand all its complexities. 
- They are asking for feedback from early users to improve the software before it's ready for everyone to use.

Fido Wallet(s)

- A proposal was made on August 11, 2022, asking for $100,383.24 to support public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- The service is focused on providing reliable and high-performance operations.
- There were many activities for Polkadot, with over 224 million responses in one day.
- The uptime for the networks was very high, reaching 99.98% over the last 90 days.
- In total, the Polkadot API served over 12 billion responses.
- For Westend and Statemint, there were also many responses, totaling over 609 million and 353 million, respectively. 
- The goal is to improve service availability to 99.99%, which means less downtime.

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