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- There was a hacking incident at Starlay Finance that affected many users.
- The hacker took around 200,000 DOT from the system.
- They used a special account to exploit the system and took more money than they deposited.
- The problem happened because of a mistake in calculating liquid funds in the USDC pool.
- The pool had no money for a long time, which caused calculation errors.
- Starlay Finance is asking the Polkadot community for help to recover the stolen funds.
- The team is working to fix the issues and prevent future hacks.

TimedOut

WHO: Starlay Finance

WHAT: Seeking support from the Polkadot community to explore viable measures to transfer all the DOT from the hacker's account to Starlay's account, following a significant hacking incident compromising Starlay Finance.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Request for transferring all the DOT from the hacker's account to the Starlay's account

- The Polkadot Ambassador Program helps promote Polkadot and introduce new people to it.
- There are four ranks in the program: Head Ambassador, Senior Ambassador, Ambassador, and Candidate Ambassador.
- Head Ambassadors are the top leaders and are responsible for representing Polkadot and making decisions.
- Senior Ambassadors help out and have proven their experience with Polkadot.
- Ambassadors support the community by teaching new users and creating tutorials.
- Candidates are new members who aim to become Ambassadors after approval.
- The program has its own budget, where Head Ambassadors get paid and others can request funds for projects.
- The Ambassador Program works to make Polkadot more popular and successful.

Executed

**WHO:** Polkadot network  
**WHAT:** Proposes an on-chain, rank-based, decentralized Polkadot Ambassador Program to represent Polkadot outside its existing sphere and bring new entrants into the ecosystem. The program will have four ranks: Head Ambassador, Senior Ambassador, Ambassador, and Candidate Ambassador. The Head Ambassador track will have up to 21 members, who will receive a salary of 10,000 USDT per month. The program will have an on-chain Treasury for salaries, events, and other expenses.  
**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** Not specified.

Polkadot Ambassador Program

USDT and USDC Acquisition for the Treasury

De-register parachain ID 2057

Error! Please vote NAY

**Proposal for Deregistration of Equilibrium Parachain**

- There are worries about a recent change from a project called Equilibrium, which may mislead investors.
- Equilibrium is suggesting a new token, called Q, which could harm current investors by reducing the value of their tokens.
- Only a small amount of the original tokens will be available to swap for the new Q tokens.
- The proposal claims that decisions are not clear or honest, affecting trust among investors.
- To fix these problems, the proposal suggests removing Equilibrium from being a Polkadot parachain and giving back funds to those who contributed to it.
- Polkadot token holders can vote on this proposal to help decide what happens next. 
- The goal is to protect everyone involved and keep the Polkadot ecosystem fair.

WHO: Polkadot token holders

WHAT: Proposing the deregistration of Equilibrium as a Polkadot parachain and early refund of crowdloaned funds due to concerns over a potentially deceptive tokenomics adjustment and lack of transparency in decision-making.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Proposal for the Deregistration of Equilibrium Parachain

- The Polkadot Technical Fellowship helps improve the Polkadot network.
- There is a need for better money planning for fellow salaries.
- A plan is suggested to change DOT (a type of crypto) into USDT (another type of crypto) regularly.
- This change will happen every day using something called the HydraDX Omnipool.
- The full plan has more details that can be read in a document.
- The plan involves special steps to make the changes happen smoothly.

Polkadot proposes to accumulate USDT for the Technical Fellowship's salary by placing DCA orders to swap DOT for USDT using the HydraDX Omnipool to establish a daily conversion. Full proposal details can be found in the provided link.

Polkadot Treasury USDT Acquisition

[Root] Referendum #208

Please vote against

Ameer Omar is part of the CryptoEQ team. Here are some key points about him and the company:

- CryptoEQ offers research and ratings for digital assets.
- They started in 2020 and help various clients, including companies and investors.
- Ameer is connecting with the Polkadot community to support their projects.
- They want to focus on three topics: XCMv3, OpenGov, and Blockspace.
- XCMv3 looks at how different blockchains can work together.
- OpenGov is about new ways of governance in Polkadot.
- Blockspace deals with how Polkadot creates high-quality blocks.
- Ameer shared resources to help explain their work better.

CryptoEQ proposes to provide comprehensive fundamental research on three topics to benefit the Polkadot ecosystem and the wider market. The topics include XCMv3, OpenGov, and Blockspace. The proposal's complete details are available at Polkadot | CryptoEQ Proposal. The proposal's resources include a deck showcasing reports, a DOT report, an example of a CORE+ report, and a one-pager providing an overview of the network. The proposal's value and commitment to long-term monitoring of the Polkadot ecosystem are compared to other proposals.

Featured Research Proposal: Empowering the Polkadot Ecosystem [CryptoEQ]

- Circle is a company that creates digital money called USDC.
- USDC is a stablecoin, meaning it's always worth the same as a real dollar.
- There are over $25 billion USDC coins being used right now.
- Circle checks and shares how much USDC is backed by real money every week and month.
- The company wants USDC to be used easily on a platform called Polkadot.
- This change would help more people use USDC and do transactions without needing other tokens.
- Making USDC easier to use could help Polkadot grow and attract new projects.

Circle requests Polkadot Relay Chain governance to make USDC sufficient on Polkadot, allowing it to be used to pay transaction fees and exist on accounts without DOT. This proposal can attract mainstream users and simplify user experience, expanding access to USDC liquidity and helping the ecosystem grow. No price/timeframe/resources mentioned.

Proposal for USDC Sufficiency on Polkadot Asset Hub

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- Moonbeam's lease on the Polkadot network will end in October 2023.
- They got a new parachain slot that covers from lease periods 13 to 20.
- To keep operating until June 2025, Moonbeam needs to swap lease periods.
- If the swap isn't done by October 2023, Moonbeam will stop working.
- There is a current dummy parachain called Moonelement that occupies the needed lease.
- Moonbeam has a plan and a referendum to finish the swap.
- A mistake made it impossible to start Moonelement, so they've created another referendum to help complete the swap.
- Once both referendums are passed, Moonbeam can keep operating for about 96 weeks.

Moonbeam proposes to extend its lease period on Polkadot network through June 2025 by executing a "swap" of lease periods with Moonelement. Moonbeam has created a referendum to authorize the swap from its side, and another referendum (Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 139) will execute the swap on behalf of Moonelement. The proposal needs to be completed before October 2023, and once the parachains swap leases, the Moonbeam Network will be able to continue operation without interruption for the remainder of the full lease period (approximately 96 weeks from August 1, 2023).

Moonbeam: Swap Leases with Parachain 3342

- The Nodle Parachain stopped working after a failed upgrade.
- To fix it, they want to use a special code on Polkadot to restart the parachain without losing any past transactions.
- The problem occurred because the upgrade took too long and made it hard for the validators to accept new blocks.
- A new version of the code was created to solve the problem by removing the slow updates.
- They tested the solution by creating a local version of the system to check if the same issue could be repeated.
- After testing, they confirmed the fix worked and the parachain could start producing blocks again.
- They plan to work on better testing tools to prevent similar problems in the future.

Nodle's Parachain is bricked after a failed upgrade. Proposal to use forceSetCode functionality on Polkadot to restart it. A new runtime has been prepared and tested. Prevention strategy includes improving testing tools and enforcing benchmarking of migration code.

Unbrick Nodle

- The proposal is from Women in Blockchain Canada.
- They are asking for about $35,000 to build a new security tool using artificial intelligence.
- The tool will help find problems in network security by using machine learning.
- It will look for unusual behavior and send alerts if something seems wrong.
- The team has a lot of experience in web development, with over 60 years combined.
- Danny Kovach, a key developer, has worked with NASA and has created his own AI technology.
- They are also working on a connected website for learning about technology.

Women in Blockchain Canada requests approximately 35,000 USD on July 29th, 2023 to develop a proof-of-concept machine learning tool for security on a network level using adaptive A.I. and unsupervised machine learning algorithms. The project team includes frontend and backend developers, a project manager, and a lead developer with experience in artificial intelligence.

Proposal: Artificial Intelligence for security monitoring on a network level 

DrCAO proposes to build an AIWeb3 Chinese community unit to support Chinese content creators in Dotsama, build connections for different parachain projects, and provide the latest information. The proposal has received positive feedback and is open for further community discussion and feedback.

- This proposal is about fixing the size limit for codes in Polkadot.
- The current on-chain size limit for codes is 10 MiB, but it should be 3 MiB.
- Keeping it at 10 MiB causes issues with consistency checks in the system.
- The proposal suggests changing the limit back to 3 MiB to prevent problems.
- Parachain and Parathread developers need to make sure their code sizes are under 3 MiB.
- Current checks show that most code sizes are already below this limit.

WHO: Polkadot network

WHAT: Modify the on-chain configuration to set the `max_code_size` to 3 MiB from the current 10 MiB.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Fix HostConfiguration

whitelisted_caller

wish_for_change

staking_admin

treasurer

lease_admin

fellowship_admin

general_admin

auction_admin

referendum_canceller

referendum_killer

small_tipper

big_tipper

small_spender

medium_spender

big_spender

Referenda Root

Origin able to dispatch a whitelisted call.

Origin for signaling that the network wishes for some change

Origin able to cancel slashes and manage minimum commission.

Origin for spending up to 10,000,000 DOT from the treasury as well as generally administering it.

Origin for managing the composition of the fellowship.

Origin able to spend around 250 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend around 1,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend around 10,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend around 100,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend up to 1,000,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

[0] Origin: Root