Polkassembly Social Contract 2025

Polkassembly serves as Polkadot and Kusama's primary governance hub, enabling participation in on-chain governance, delegation, proposal discussions, and community voting.

This proposal seeks funding from the Polkadot Treasury to support Polkassembly's 2025 maintenance and key improvements in stability, user experience, and core features. It focuses on essential upgrades such as better UX/navigation, enhanced identity management, technical stability, and spam prevention – that will strengthen the platform’s reliability and usability for the community

What’s our focus with this proposal?

The primary focus for improvement is summarized as below:

Identity -
1. Increase stability in core flow.
2. Simplify things for multisig account identity setup and fix issues.
3. Add support for proxy-identity setup.
4. RPC connectivity issues to be resolved on priority.
Comments AI summary & load speed improvement.
Comments for Proxy and Multisig accounts revamp.
Proposal creation
1. Improve support for multi-asset proposals.
2. Improve the proposal creation process for different tracks and scenarios.
3. Add support for proposal creation through proxy and add support for multisig proposal creation.
Add support for more wallets including Nova, Mimir, Polkagate Snap, Signet.
Improve hardware wallet connectivity and functionality across all features.
Redo the landing page to improve discovery and site navigation.
Improve the proposal’s detailed view layout to make information more accessible
Site-idle connectivity issues and data loading.
Reduce steps in proposal creation & bundle decision deposit.
Create a proxy management dashboard and explorer Improve UX and platform navigation.
Add product walkthroughs for new user onboarding.
Add support for OpenGov Nomination Pool wallet voting for all wallet types.
Add comment filtering (DV, Proposer, Verified Accounts, Wallet linked).
Improved Preimage management and add option to convert pre-image into proposal directly through all wallet types.

Technical Improvements

Upgraded to Next.js 15 with Turbopack support for improved development experience
Node 20 support (compared to Node 18 in v1)
Revamped Editor
Better organized component architecture. Overhauled state management with Jotai Atoms.
New design system Integration along with shadcn/ui component system.
Overhauled project configuration with focus on security for easier open-source contribution.
The API architecture has been overhauled to improve data organization and facilitate easier integration for community members.
The API now offers expanded content delivery capabilities, enabling the return of data in markdown, block and HTML formats.
The authentication mechanism has been updated to utilize HTTP cookies for session management, replacing the previous implementation that relied on local storage and JWT.

Other technical improvements and details can be found within the proposal document.

Proposal 2024

Here’s the OG tracker ref link for our 2024 proposal and a detailed self report with features and product updates from last year’s proposal. We worked with some amazing video designers to create a Polkassembly 2024 roundup. Users can watch the video here.

Implementation Gallery

Several UI/UX enhancements are actively being developed to refine navigation, improve usability, and ensure a better governance experience.

Revamped Proposal Listing View

Revamped Proposal Detail view

Revamped Profile Page

Spam Proposal Detailed View

Spam Comments

Delegation Dashboard & Chat with delegates

Bounty Dashboard

Batch Voting

Proxy Dashboard

Analytics Dashboard

Our stats reflect our continued dominance in the ecosystem

Theme Product Metric Engagement on Polkassembly

Number of users

Last 30 days visits - 145K
Total API Requests - 92M/month (Source: Cloudflare)
MAU - 97k (Source: Google analytics)

Number of comments

Total Number of Comments on Polkassembly - 13695
Total Percentage of comments in governance on Polkadot - 82.66% (6288/7607)
Total Percentage of comments in governance on Kusama - 68.2% (502/736)

Number of disucussions

Total Number of Discussions on Polkassembly — 2206
Total Percentage of discussions in governance on Polkadot - 93.69% (698/745)
Total Percentage of discussions in governance on Kusama - 76.19% (32/42)

Number of Proposals

Total Percentage of proposals in governance on Polkadot - 39%+
Total Percentage of proposals in governance on Kusama - 20%

Source: Polkassembly Firebase

Views

Total Views last 4 months: 750K+ (Polkadot + Kusama)

Source: Polkassembly Firebase

Identity Verification

Number of Judgements provided

Total Percentage of judgements Polkadot - 52.22% (1216/2327)


Category	Amount (US$)
Infrastructure & Maintenance (12 months)	$203,659
Development Budget	$327,012
Total	$530,671

The budget calculations can be found here.

Refer to the full proposal document here.

Polkassembly is a platform for Polkadot and Kusama's governance. They have a proposal to get money from Polkadot Treasury to improve the platform in 2025. The proposal wants to make the platform better by improving things like user experience, stability, and important features. They want to make it easier to use, add support for more wallets, and make the website look better.

Some of the things they want to improve are:

Making it easier to set up an identity on the platform.
Making the website load faster and adding AI summaries for comments.
Improving how proposals are created and supported.
Adding support for more wallets.
Improving how the website looks and how easy it is to use.

They also want to make some technical improvements, like updating the software they use and making the platform more secure.

You can see some pictures of the new designs they are working on and some stats about how many people use the platform. They also have a budget for how much money they need to make these improvements. You can read more about the proposal in the full document.