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

treasurer

The Spanish bounty has been criticized for being ineffective and self-serving. Some people think there should be bounties for other countries too, like China, India, and France. Many activities in the Spanish bounty are already covered by other bounties, like events and marketing bounties, which are managed better. People suggest cleaning up the Spanish bounty because it's not working well and has problems. They also think some curators should be replaced with more effective ones. The person who wrote this wants to talk to the current curators to see if the bounty can be fixed or if it's better to end it. They propose removing the curators first, which could lead to either replacing them or ending the bounty later.

Rejected

This bounty has always been very criticized as ineffective and self-serving. I see no apparent reason why there should be a specific Spanish bounty, then we should also have a Chinese bounty, Indian Bounty, French bounty, etc. Most of the activities covered by this bounty are already covered by other bounties like events bounty, marketing bounty, etc with much better management and oversight. I think it's time to clean up this bounty because of its ineffectiveness and controversy in the ecosystem. We could also consider replacing the curators with more effective ones (I'm not saying that all of them are ineffective, I'm sure that some of them in the current bounty are very effective but they may be slowed down by ineffective ones, similar to old events bounty). I'm happy to have a conversation with the current curators to understand if this bounty can be salvaged or it's better to terminate it since anyway all the actions it is undertaking already exist under more generic bounties Instead of killing the bounty directly I am proposing to remove the curators so this is like a prelude to either replacing the curators or terminating the bounty in a second referendum

WHO: The proposal does not mention any specific organization or individual.

WHAT: The proposal suggests cleaning up the Spanish bounty due to its ineffectiveness and controversy in the ecosystem. It proposes removing the curators and replacing them with more effective ones.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal does not mention any specific price, timeframe, or resources.

Removing curators from Spanish bounty

# Following some discussions within the community and players from the ecosystem, we have decided to put on hold this refereund. Updates will follow soon, in the meanwhile kindly vote NAY.

(EDIT) VOTE NAY 

Referendum #822 - Refill for marketing bounty number #33

- **Request**: 1,000,000 DOT top-up for the Events Bounty.  
- **Purpose**: To fund events like meetups and larger industry events, focusing on Polkadot's image and impact.  
- **Changes**:  
  - Increase curators from 5 to 7.  
  - Faster proposal reviews and clearer curator tasks.  
  - New roles like "Fishermen" and "Advisors."  
  - A system to remove curators who don’t do their job.  
- **Goal**: Improve efficiency and address community feedback.  
- **Linked to**: Referendum #758 and #765 for curator changes.

Executed

**WHO:** The proponents of the Events Bounty V3 proposal.

**WHAT:** Requesting a 1,000,000 DOT top-up for the Events Bounty, with a change in operating structure and compensation.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** Not specified.

Events Bounty Top Up Proposal 

- Curators may try to sabotage the bounty by not renewing their positions.
- This could cause the removal and replacement process to fail.
- To prevent sabotage, a parallel referendum is being run.
- The parallel referendum only proposes new curators.
- It does not remove the current curators first.
- Both referendums need to pass.
- This ensures that curators are replaced whether they sabotage or not.
- The strategy aims to secure the bounty's future regardless of curators' actions.

Proposal: Run a parallel referendum to elect new curators without removing the current ones, in case they sabotage the original referendum. Both referendums should pass. No specific price, timeframe or resources mentioned.

Replacing curators for event bounty 17 (backup)

Replacing curators for events bounty 17

VOTE NAY

The Polkadot Community Foundation is a proposed organization that aims to represent Polkadot tokenholder interests off-chain. It will be incorporated in the Cayman Islands and directed by DOT holders through Polkadot OpenGov. The Foundation will carry out activities delegated to it by OpenGov proposals, allowing Polkadot governance to manage off-chain assets, enter into legal contracts, make fiat payments, engage service providers, diversify the treasury, enforce IP, and expand the ways in which the treasury can be used to benefit the ecosystem. The proposal requests funding to incorporate the foundation and operate it for one year.

The Foundation will have a supervisor and a five-member Board of Directors, with two seats reserved for future directors to be appointed by Polkadot governance. The Foundation's bylaws ensure special voting rights and protections for DOT tokenholders, including the ability to withhold future funding, delegate specific activities to the Foundation, and vote to remove the supervisor or directors who are not serving appropriately.

The requested budget for the establishment and one year of base operations of the Foundation is $600,000. The funds will be released to a "transition team" multisig, and once the Foundation is established, the funds will be released from the transition team to the Foundation's control.

Proposal: Establish the Polkadot Community Foundation to represent DOT holders IRL

vote NAY

TimedOut

This is a ReferendumV2 post. It can only be edited by the proposer of the post .

- The Treasury now has USDT and USDC.
- A proposal system uses the Asset Rate pallet to decide how much money can be spent.
- Three asset rates are created: one for DOT, one for USDT, and one for USDC.
- The rate for DOT is 1 (DOT to DOT).
- The rate for USDT and USDC is set to 10 USD(X), shown as 1000 in the proposal.
- This rate helps decide if a spending proposal is small, medium, or big.
- In the future, rates will update automatically using the Asset Conversion pallet.

**WHO:** The proposal is made by an unknown individual. 

**WHAT:** The proposal creates three asset rates, one for DOT and two for USDT and USDC (each). 

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** Not specified.

Set Asset Rates for Treasury Assets

- A new program called the AMI Bounty Program has been created to help with marketing for the Polkadot brand.
- The program is run by passionate community members who want to share good ideas for marketing.
- They have changed some plans, like removing $1 million Treasury refunds and increasing administrative spending.
- The total funds requested have been lowered to 94,156 DOT.
- There will be refunds to the Treasury if marketing money is spent outside of this program.
- More details and documents about the program are available for review.
- The program is inspired by a previous project called referendum 323 on Kusama.

The AMI Bounty Program proposes to curate marketing, media, and advertising for the Polkadot brand. The total requested amount is 94,156 DOT (EMA 30= $9.534724), and the excess DOT will be refunded to the Treasury. For more details, refer to the provided links.

AMI Bounty Program

Replaced by Proposal #551 Amharic Chain Polkadot Academy to Small Spender Track

- There is a plan to clean up some bounties on Polkadot.
- Ten bounties are being considered to close.
- The reasons for closing them include:
  - They are inactive or outdated.
  - They don't have enough information.
  - The curators' time has expired.
- Closing these bounties will return leftover money to the treasury and remove any curators.

WHO: Polkadot

WHAT: Cleanup of 10 bounties (#13, #18, #20, #21, #23, #25, #26, #29, #34, #35) due to inactivity, lack of information, and expired curators.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Bounty Cleanup Proposal

- A group is planning to assign a Curator soon.
- This is because they expect a referendum to pass in 9 days.
- They want the Curator ready by the end of January.
- The proposed Curators are FrankyWild, Tim Jansen, and Husni.
- Two out of three signatures will be needed to approve the Curator.
- These people are part of the System Parachain Collator on Kusama.
- They have shown they can do their jobs well according to rules set in a proposal.

WHO: System Parachain Collator bounty members FrankyWild, Tim Jansen, and Husni.

WHAT: Proposal to assign a Curator for timely payouts after the passing of referendum 363.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Assigning a Curator to Bounty 32 (System Parachain Collator Bounty)

The proposal aims to upgrade Kusama to v9370, which includes improvements to staking admin track, contract address derivation, and weights. The proposal is submitted as a referendum in OpenGov, and the Kusama community needs to approve it. The resources and timeframe are not specified.

- Polkadot network is upgrading, ending Governance 1.0.
- Deposits from Treasury Spend Proposals will be unlocked.
- Some teams want their deposits back immediately.
- A new rule will slash deposits to prevent double spending.
- Proposers with pending OpenGov proposals might lose deposits.
- Gov 1.0 tips and treasury deposits will also be affected.
- Deposits will be refunded to those not matching the criteria.
- The list of recipients was made with help from Otar.

WHO: Polkadot network

WHAT: Proposal to slash treasury deposits and Gov 1.0 tips for proposers who have pending OpenGov proposals requesting or incorporating same, and refund treasury deposits to those not matching criteria.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Rejecting Gov1.0 Treasury Proposals and Facilitating Bond Reimbursement where applicable

- GenesisDAO is a special blockchain for creating and managing groups called DAOs.
- It got $100,000 to help build its main features.
- The team finished the back-end and is working on the front end for better user experience.
- GenesisDAO is currently running on a test network.
- The team's code is open for everyone to see and use.
- They are also making tools that allow other developers to customize their blockchain.
- Deep Ink Ventures is the group behind GenesisDAO, focused on helping blockchain startups.

GenesisDAO received a $100,000 grant from the W3 Grants Program to develop a Substrate-based blockchain for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). They have completed the backend and Substrate development and are now perfecting the frontend flow. GenesisDAO is already operating on testnet, and the code is open source. They are currently working on a hook point framework to build plug-ins and extensions to customize the core functionality of a substrate-based chain. Within this treasury proposal, they are introducing the first components for this.

[11] Origin: Treasurer