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:

1. 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.
2. Comments AI summary & load speed improvement.
3. Comments for Proxy and Multisig accounts revamp.
4. 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.
5. Add support for more wallets including Nova, Mimir, Polkagate Snap, Signet.
6. Improve hardware wallet connectivity and functionality across all features.
7. Redo the landing page to improve discovery and site navigation.
8. Improve the proposal’s detailed view layout to make information more accessible
9. Site-idle connectivity issues and data loading.
10. Reduce steps in proposal creation & bundle decision deposit.
11. Create a proxy management dashboard and explorer Improve UX and platform navigation.
12. Add product walkthroughs for new user onboarding.
13. Add support for OpenGov Nomination Pool wallet voting for all wallet types.
14. Add comment filtering (DV, Proposer, Verified Accounts, Wallet linked).
15. Improved Preimage management and add option to convert pre-image into proposal directly through all wallet types.

Technical Improvements

1. Upgraded to Next.js 15 with Turbopack support for improved development experience
2. Node 20 support (compared to Node 18 in v1)
3. Revamped Editor
4. Better organized component architecture. Overhauled state management with Jotai Atoms.
5. New design system Integration along with shadcn/ui component system.
6. Overhauled project configuration with focus on security for easier open-source contribution.
7. The API architecture has been overhauled to improve data organization and facilitate easier integration for community members.
8. The API now offers expanded content delivery capabilities, enabling the return of data in markdown, block and HTML formats.
9. 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.