### Summary

- **Objective:** Facilitate easier opening of XCM channels between Polkadot parachains by depositing DOT into the relaychain "Child" accounts of fourteen parachains.
- **Background:** Opening XCM channels requires depositing DOT into parachain Child accounts, which can be complex and time-consuming for non-DeFi chains.
- **Problems:** Many parachains have few XCM channels, limiting interoperability and accessibility of tokens on DEXs like Hydration.
- **Proposed Solution:** Deposit 2261 DOT from the Polkadot Treasury into the Child accounts of several non-DeFi parachains to simplify the process of opening XCM channels.
- **Benefits:** This would increase XCM traffic, make more parachain tokens accessible on DEXs, and remove a technical barrier to integration.
- **Feedback:** 72% of voters support this initiative, suggesting it could accelerate channel openings.
- **Next Steps:** Submit the proposal as an official Polkadot referendum after any suggested tweaks.

Deposit DOT into parachain child accounts to accelerate opening XCM channels

- A marketing bounty refill for Polkadot has failed, which may end KOL/Creator marketing activities.
- A proposal has been made for a new bounty to continue Creator Marketing.
- The proposal document is available for anyone to read and comment on.
- Qualified individuals are needed as curators for this initiative.
- If interested in becoming a curator, leave a comment in the document.
- The criteria for curators are detailed in the document.
- This effort aims to ensure the continuation of valuable marketing activities.

KOL Management Bounty

### Summary of Proposal

- **Objective**: Elevate Polkadot's brand and raise awareness through high-impact marketing opportunities.
- **Proposal**: Polkadot to be a Bronze Sponsor at GitHub Universe '24.
- **Target Audience**: Developers, tech entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.
- **Location**: San Francisco, USA.
- **Visibility**: Polkadot logo will be prominently displayed at the event.
- **Cost**: Estimated at 7,500 DOT, including booth setup.
- **Support**: Distractive to lead event management for brand consistency.
- **Access**: 3 passes for US ambassadors to host the sponsor booth.
- **Expense Management**: Any additional costs will be returned to the Treasury with a detailed report.

Github Universe '24 Sponsorship Opportunity (only 2 spots left) - October 29-30

**Crypto Cobra YouTube Channel**

- Focuses on cryptocurrency education and updates.
- Offers content for both beginners and experienced investors.
- Covers blockchain basics and advanced trading strategies.
- Provides high-quality, in-depth analysis.
- Caters to a wide audience with easy-to-understand tutorials.
- Helps navigate the complex world of digital currencies.
- Stands out as a top resource for cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
- Keeps viewers informed and up-to-date in the fast-changing crypto world.

Cryptos Cobra Is a Powerful Channel

### Summary:
Our project uses advanced AI to help researchers quickly understand academic papers, blogs, and proposals. The tool offers real-time explanations, concise summaries, and key point extraction, making complex literature easier to read. It also includes an AI-powered search engine for finding relevant resources.

### Key Features:
- **Real-Time Text Explanation**: AI clarifies highlighted text instantly.
- **Intelligent Summarization**: Provides short summaries of papers or sections.
- **Key Point Extraction**: Highlights important information quickly.
- **AI-Powered Search Engine**: Finds and summarizes research papers and articles.

### Impact:
- **Efficiency and Productivity**: Speeds up reading and understanding academic papers.
- **Enhanced Understanding**: Makes complex concepts easier to grasp.
- **Research Advancement**: Helps in faster literature reviews and innovation.
- **Real-Time Explanations**: Gives immediate, context-aware explanations.

### Why Polkadot?
Polkadot is chosen for its interoperability, scalability, and advanced security, making it ideal for integrating with other research tools and ensuring data security.

### Join Us:
We are partnering with Polkadot, Microsoft, and the MLOps community to bring this tool to the academic and research community. Check out our [sample demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZfOZB5WASA&feature=youtu.be) and read the [full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZmuBQ041-R2v4co1TBxdbeo8Sc7twNxNB9v3o5yxfeI/edit?usp=sharing) for more details.

AI-Powered Interactive Assistance for Efficient Research Paper Reading

Empower Polkadot Playground is a weekend program for high school and university students to learn about blockchain technology, especially the Polkadot ecosystem. Here are the key points:

- **Interactive Tutorials:** Learn blockchain basics through engaging lessons.
- **Gamified Activities:** Make learning fun with games and challenges.
- **Hands-on Workshops:** Build real projects and discuss ideas.
- **Community Engagement:** Connect with peers and experts in the field.
- **Certification:** Earn a certificate to show your new skills.
- **Objective:** Teach students about blockchain and Polkadot to help them join the blockchain industry.
- **Previous Meetups:** The program builds on past events with the Polkadot and Ethio-Blockchain communities.

Empower Polkadot Playground - Educate With Game For Highschool and University

### Summary

- **Interlay's Role**: Interlay operates as the main Bitcoin bridge and DeFi hub in the Polkadot ecosystem, handling significant BTC volume and providing iBTC to the ecosystem.
- **iBTC Demand**: High demand for iBTC from hodlers, DEXs, and money markets has led to a shortage of spare capacity to mint more iBTC.
- **Proposed Solutions**: Interlay plans to add new lending markets, vault collaterals, and research improvements to the vault model to increase iBTC capacity.
- **Treasury Proposal**: The Interlay community proposes that the Polkadot Treasury support incentivizing 40 iBTC capacity.
- **Options for Treasury Support**:
  1. **DOT Grant**: The Treasury could grant DOT to pay out as vault rewards, boosting vault rewards and attracting more vault operators.
  2. **VDOT Staking**: The Treasury could loan DOT, convert it to VDOT, and use staking rewards to perpetually increase vault rewards.
  3. **DOT Collateral Loan**: The Treasury could loan DOT to trusted vault operators to create iBTC minting capacity, with a conservative collateralization ratio.
- **Community Feedback**: The Interlay community invites feedback on the proposed options and alternative strategies.

Incentivize Interlay iBTC capacity as Polkadot common good

**Technical Support Bounty**

- **Objective:** Reward developers for providing technical support in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Key Features:**
  - Developers with Polkadot expertise can apply and be listed for support tasks.
  - Curators help maintain support quality (voluntary role, limited to 15 spots).
  - Community members can contribute ideas and feedback.
- **Benefits:**
  - Improves technical support infrastructure.
  - Supports project growth and success.
  - Encourages community collaboration.
- **How to Participate:**
  - Developers: Apply [here](https://forms.gle/S3q9DtnL4eaTyay77).
  - Curators: Apply [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ke66gsuQlAozqM8szM28DPicp3LXYM-f/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=100103674716658944157&rtpof=true&sd=true).
  - Community: Join the TG chat [here](https://t.me/+Vwmj9zmGB9cxODk0).

Polkadot Support Bounty

Add iBTC to treasury

### PolkaBot.AI - Decentralized AI Education Hub on Polkadot

- **Introduction**: A pre-proposal for PolkaBot.AI, aiming to revolutionize AI-based education within the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Launch Date**: Scheduled for March 26, 2024.
- **Features**: Utilizes Generative AI to minimize challenges like hallucination and data ownership issues.
- **Collaboration**: Crowdsourced knowledge about Polkadot, with rewards in DOT and NEURO for contributors.
- **Accessibility**: Free AI-powered interfaces on website, X profile, Discord, and Telegram.
- **Education**: Partnership with Trace Alliance Academy for a Polkadot-focused course.
- **Goals**: Aim to achieve 5M+ impressions, 20,000 unique users, and 50,000+ bot replies.
- **Sponsors**: Proposed by Trace Alliance, with a detailed roadmap and budget plan for transparency.

PolkaBot.AI - Decentralized AI education hub on Polkadot 

### Polkadot Hydration Campaign

- **Goal**: Attract liquidity to the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Amount Requested**: 500,000 DOT.
- **Purpose**: Fund a liquidity mining program.
- **Incentives**: Provide rewards for providing liquidity to major Polkadot assets.
- **Assets Included**: DOT, iBTC, vDOT, and native stablecoins.
- **Expected Impact**: Increase trading efficiency and ecosystem health.
- **Governance**: Proposal will be voted on by HydraDX token holders and then put to a referendum on Polkadot.
- **Full Proposal**: Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vmE5w4iW17nVwbuuR-4sk5T3ASlZOSIEcTfsEXQunDA/edit#heading=h.n0cfe387x86x).

Polkadot Hydration: Liquidity Incentives

### Summary
- **Goal**: Increase DOT liquidity on HydraDX Omnipool to benefit the Polkadot 2.0 ecosystem.
- **Amount**: Requesting 500,000 DOT from the Polkadot Treasury.
- **Method**: Non-custodial and decentralized, with funds controlled by Polkadot Protocol and OpenGov.
- **Current Liquidity**: Over 690,000 DOT and 560,000 vDOT already in the Omnipool.
- **Benefits**: Improved trading for DOT users, including ecosystem projects and Treasury grant recipients.
- **Related Proposal**: A parallel proposal suggests allocating 500,000 DOT for liquidity incentives.
- **Full Details**: Available in the [full proposal document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f66CtFkJZmvVeAbKc_ivBRrmcR0FnG63QGUgywca_x8/edit).

Polkadot Hydration: Treasury LP

Proposal

**AmharicChain Polkadot Academy App**

- **Objective**: Create educational resources in Amharic for learning about Polkadot and blockchain technologies.
- **Target Audience**: Users in Ethiopia and across Africa.
- **Problem**: Lack of accessible educational content in local languages about blockchain and Polkadot.
- **Solution**: Develop an app with structured lessons, interactive exercises, and localized support in Amharic.
- **Impact**: Enhance diversity and accessibility within the Polkadot ecosystem, fostering deeper understanding and contribution.
- **Measuring Success**: Use quantitative metrics and qualitative indicators to track progress and impact.
- **Feasibility**: Proven track record in app development and education technology, with plans for pilot programs.
- **Current Status**: Project is in the planning stage, with no development yet initiated.

AmharicChain Polkadot Academy App

### Summary of OpenSquare's Proposal

- **Beneficiary**: OpenSquare (12sNU8BXivMj1xQmcd4T39ugCyHjmhir8jkPqfAw5ZDESrx4)
- **Date**: 09/18/2023
- **Requested Allocation**: $275,620 (67,438 DOT)

#### Key Points:

1. **Maintenance**: Includes server costs, domain fees, and labor for code refactoring, bug fixes, and UI enhancements for products like Subsquare, Dotreasury, Statescan, and Off-chain voting.
2. **New Features**: Development of new functionalities such as off-chain discussion decentralization, delegation UI enhancements, on-chain governance deposit management, and whale statistics for Subsquare.
3. **Budget Breakdown**: Maintenance costs $65,700, with additional $209,920 for new feature development across Subsquare, Dotreasury, and Off-chain voting.
4. **Long-term Vision**: OpenSquare aims to build decentralized collaboration networks in the Polkadot ecosystem, focusing on data indexing, analysis, and visualization.
5. **User Metrics**: OpenSquare's products have a significant user base, as evidenced by their traffic metrics.

OpenSquare infrastructure products maintenance(2023 Q2 and Q3) and a new batch of features development

- **Organization**: Conducts scholarship exams, provides free vocational training, and plans blockchain & crypto awareness programs.
- **Blockchain Program**: Aiming to distribute 6,000 T-shirts with blockchain logos to interested individuals.
- **Three-Day Classes**: Offering free classes on blockchain and crypto, with free breakfast provided during the sessions.
- **Free Certificate**: Participants will receive a certificate upon completing the three-day course.
- **Future Plans**: The organization has more plans in the pipeline for future initiatives.
- **Contribution**: The author hopes for small contributions to help change lives.
- **Contact**: Hamid Raja, Assistant Manager, India.

Small Co-operation 

### OpenSquare Proposal Summary

- **Beneficiary:** OpenSquare (12sNU8BXivMj1xQmcd4T39ugCyHjmhir8jkPqfAw5ZDESrx4)
- **Date:** 04/24/2022
- **Requested Allocation:** $168,320 (36,969 DOT)

#### Retroactive Work
- **Collectives Support:** Developed features for Subsquare to support Polkadot Alliance business, including announcements, motions, voting, and member roles.
- **Dotreasury:** Implemented a pie chart to show OpenGov spent proposals by different tracks.
- **Subsquare Enhancements:** Added features like batch seconding of public proposals, nested comments, and collective motion closing.

#### New Features Plan
- **Subsquare:**
  - **Governance Statistics:** Planned to add detailed statistics for OpenGov and democracy referenda, including delegation rankings and turnout trends.
  - **User Governance Participation:** Planned to track user voting activities and manage vote records.
  - **New Design:** Proposed a redesign with improved UI/UX, including a left sidebar navigation and customizable elements.
  - **Other Enhancements:** Planned features like democracy vote extrinsics, image uploads, and scam reporting.
- **Dotreasury:**
  - **Dark Mode:** Proposed to add a dark theme for better night viewing.
  - **Treasury Spend Statistics:** Planned to add charts showing treasury spend trends by periods.
  - **More Filters:** Planned to add sorting and filtering options for easier data access.

#### Budget
- **Total Estimated Hours:** 2,104
- **Fiat Cost:** $168,320

Subsquare and dotreasury new features development plan including governance statistics, dotreasury dark mode, etc

### Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Create a community and investor hub to summarize Polkadot-related media, bridging the information gap between DOT and the broader crypto space.
- **Context**: Current knowledge management in crypto is suboptimal, with important developments often overlooked. This proposal aims to provide trustworthy information directly from primary sources.
- **Goals**:
  - Summarize all Polkadot-related videos and audio pieces to keep the community updated.
  - Disseminate high-quality, accurate information to build trust.
  - Empower users to quickly identify relevant Polkadot news.
  - Engage with content creators to amplify their work.
  - Share concise summaries via Twitter for real-time updates.
- **Example Work**: The team has already summarized 15 long-form podcasts and presentations, available on their [Notion page](https://cryptoaccess.notion.site/b94e455f523841f8a701c079141c0fe7?v=96be986723704bb181134d25bfeadec4).
- **Vision**: Build an extensive repository of summaries, making it easy for anyone to access and understand Polkadot developments.

Community and Investor Hub - Pilot Program (Feedback Requested!)

### Motif: User Behavior Research Tool for Polkadot

- **Purpose**: Develop a web3 user-research tool to analyze and score user behavior on-chain, aiding developers in improving dApps and identifying synergistic partnerships.
- **Features**: Offers three main tools: Parachain and Relay Chain Overview, Individual Wallet Analytics, and Batch Scoring of User Sets.
- **Methodology**: Uses an event-based extraction method to gather and analyze transaction data, enabling user profiling and dynamic research.
- **Benefits**: Helps dApps improve user experience, ecosystems grow organically, and community members receive rewards for engagement.
- **New Use Cases**: Includes updatable Web3 IDs, decentralized digital IDs (DID), and Web2 scoring using Web3 data.
- **Stakeholders**: Beneficiaries include dApps, parachains, and the Polkadot community, all of whom can leverage the tool for better user insights and ecosystem growth.
- **Research Experience**: The team has completed studies on dYdX and Astar, and is currently working on Lido, demonstrating the effectiveness of their methods.
- **Feedback**: The team welcomes feedback and ideas for improving the tool to better serve the Polkadot ecosystem.

Motif: Web3 user research platform

### Web3 Festival Proposal

- **Proposal Submitted by**: Hao Ding, founder of Web3Go, on behalf of Moonbeam, Phala, SubQuery, Web3Go, SubWallet, Litentry, CESS, and Gear.
- **Event**: Web3 Festival, Asia's largest event this year, expecting over 10,000 attendees.
- **Objective**: Enhance Polkadot's presence and brand recognition in Asia.
- **Participants**: Teams from the listed projects will either attend or visit Hong Kong for the event.
- **Event Plan**: Organize a Polkadot-focused event, inviting both Polkadot team members and non-Polkadot ecosystem members.
- **Goals**: Strengthen the Polkadot brand and demonstrate ecosystem unity.
- **KPIs**: 
  1. 300+ registrations
  2. 200+ attendees
- **Full Proposal**: Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OFMA8zcKLMNIZAbtfCBlS6xoOn9A3uQZRH7Eqhkl270/edit?usp=sharing).

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