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

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beneficiary

- The ink! Alliance is asking for $538,000 to help Rust developers build smart contracts on Polkadot Hub.
- This money will finish making ink! v6 ready for everyone to use.
- ink! lets developers write smart contracts in Rust, a popular programming language.
- Polkadot Hub will have two systems for smart contracts: one for Solidity and one for Rust with PolkaVM.
- Even in testing, about one-third of smart contracts on a test network were made with ink!.
- The funds will pay for fixing problems, making tools better, and teaching people how to use ink!.
- This work will happen over six months to help Polkadot Hub launch successfully.

Deciding

ink! Alliance — Enabling Rust Smart Contracts and Developer Growth on Polkadot Hub

- Polkadot Staking Dashboard helps people stake their DOT tokens to earn rewards
- It's used by thousands of people every month as their main staking tool
- New features will include DeFi options like liquid staking and token swaps
- Users will be able to pay fees with stablecoins like USDC and USDT
- The dashboard will get a visual refresh to match Polkadot's new design
- Mobile experience will be improved for better phone and tablet use
- More language translations will be added for international users
- The team provides support through Discord and email for help

Polkadot Staking Dashboard: Improvements, Upgrades & DeFi Integration 

- Chaotic is asking for $180,000 to keep the Polkadot NFT marketplace running
- They have been building NFT tools for Polkadot for 5 years
- Their system currently handles over 1 million requests each month
- The money will pay for maintaining servers, adding new features, and fixing bugs
- Without funding, the NFT marketplace will stop working in October 2025
- Important projects like Nova Wallet use their services
- They manage 90,000+ NFTs on the platform
- The new Asset Hub launches in November and needs this marketplace

Infrastructure Funding for Polkadot Asset Hub #4 - Maintenance & Continuation of Public good Polkadot NFT marketplace

- This proposal wants to make it easier to buy new Polkadot tokens with regular money
- It asks for 50,000 DOT to build a system where you can buy tokens directly from your wallet
- You could use money from Europe or Brazil to buy tokens
- Builders wouldn't need to pay expensive exchange fees to list their tokens first
- The system would find the best prices across different exchanges
- Goal is to have 10 apps using this within 6 months
- The team has experience building similar systems
- This proposal has been withdrawn for now

!Please vote no! We are engaging with a bounty program. Thanks for the feedback! 

Here's a simple summary:

- RegionX Hub helps people use Polkadot's Coretime system
- It's the only project that does this important job
- They created a marketplace where people can buy and sell Coretime
- This helps new and small projects join Polkadot
- The marketplace is already working on Kusama
- They want to bring it to Polkadot too
- They will help other teams connect to their marketplace
- This helps Polkadot grow with more projects

Rejected

vote nay

- BRC721 lets people make NFTs on Bitcoin without bridges.
- It uses Polkadot to help create and manage lots of NFTs cheaply.
- NFTs can be for games or real things, all stored on Bitcoin.
- The team has started work and needs funding to finish by early 2026.
- They are asking for 40,000 DOT to pay for work and marketing.
- The lead developer is Alessandro, with help from Toni and Alun.
- Everything will be open for anyone to use.

Bitcoin + Polkadot: Integration of the BRC721 protocol to scale Bitcoin NFT using Polkadot coretime

- Two Pebbles wants to help new companies use Polkadot.
- They plan to teach startups about Polkadot’s benefits.
- The program has two parts: an Incubator and an Accelerator.
- Startups will learn business skills and how to build on Polkadot.
- It will help lower failure rates for new businesses.
- The team has lots of experience with startups and Polkadot.
- They are asking for $108,000 to start planning the program.
- Success will bring more real-world apps to Polkadot.

Polkadot for New Ventures acceleration program #1752

- We are stopping this plan because of community feedback.
- The features will still be built and sent to users.
- This is a pause to fix how funding fits with our bigger goals.
- Please vote "NAY" for now.
- Work is still happening and updates will keep coming.
- We will return with a better plan later.
- This is about changing how we get money, not stopping the work.

—Polkassembly Team

[Proposal retracted] Please vote nay

- SubWallet is a wallet for Polkadot and Kusama.
- It works on browsers, phones, and the web.
- It has over 1 million users and supports 150+ networks.
- New features include easier swaps and staking.
- The team is asking for $795,500 from the Polkadot Treasury.
- This money is for work already done from August 2024 to March 2025.
- They lowered the budget based on community feedback.
- SubWallet helps make the Polkadot ecosystem better for everyone.

Executed

[Retroactive] SubWallet Development from August 2024 to March 2025

TimedOut

[Medium Spender] Referendum #1744 - Polkadot Unified EVM Explorer [please vote nay]

**Subsquid Labs Q4 2024 Funding Request**

**Summary:**
- **Goal:** Request $164,840.20 for maintaining public SQD Archives for Polkadot and parachains in Q4 2024.
- **Who:** Subsquid Lab Official (based in Zug, Switzerland).
- **Why:** Public archives are essential free infrastructure for developers, wallets, and parachains.
- **Changes:** Reduced costs by using community-aligned engineering rates ($27/hour instead of $100/hour).

**Key Points:**
- Public archives help developers access blockchain data without running their own servers.
- Used by projects like Talisman, Polkassembly, and RMRK.
- In Q4 2024, archives grew to 11.68 TiB of data and served over 2.3 million requests.
- Funding covers only public services, not commercial products.
- Engineering costs were lowered to meet community expectations.

**Cost Breakdown:**
- Most costs are for cloud services (like Google Cloud and OVHCloud).
- Engineering and maintenance costs were reduced to $14,009.76.
- Total request is $164,840.20, down $143,863.80 from the previous proposal.

**Conclusion:**
- Work is already done; seeking retroactive funding.
- Supports free, reliable data access for the Polkadot ecosystem.

SQD (fka Subsquid) - Public Data Indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot (Q4 2024) V2

Subscan is a tool that helps people see and understand information on the Polkadot blockchain.

- It shows data like transactions, accounts, and network activity.
- Subscan is asking for money to keep running and improving.
- The money will pay for servers, storage, and developers.
- They support 10 different Polkadot and test networks.
- They fixed bugs and added new features.
- They removed ads to make the website better for users.
- The total amount requested is $184,665.
- This helps developers, validators, and users use Polkadot easily.

Subscan Q4 2024 – Q2 2025 Funding Proposal: Basic Service Fee & Development Cost for the Polkadot and Westend Ecosystems

Correction Notice: Proposal Submitted in Error – Kindly Vote Nay

- There was a mistake in a proposal.
- The account for receiving funds was wrong.
- A new proposal has been made with a safer account.
- Please vote "Nay" on the old one.
- Support the new proposal instead.
- The team is sorry for the error.
- Thank you for your trust and votes.

The Fellowship UI project on Subsquare is asking for funding to add new features. Here are the main points:

- The team has already built basic features for the Fellowship.
- They want to add new tools like task lists, member pages, and evidence discussions.
- They plan to improve how referendums and member applications work.
- The budget request is $160,800.
- They are asking the community to vote "nay" because the project will now be handled under a Fellowship program instead.

Nay please. Fellowship will handle this proposal | Subsquare fellowship support milestone 3

Clarys.AI is a tool to help people understand and use Polkadot's OpenGov system better.

- OpenGov is a way for people to make decisions together in crypto.
- Right now, information is scattered across many websites.
- Clarys.AI brings all the information into one place.
- It helps answer questions like: Where did an idea come from? Is it new or a repeat?
- It uses AI to make voting and decision-making faster and easier.
- It can save time and money for the community.
- The team is asking for $130,000 to build the first full version.
- Anyone can test an early version online.

Resubmission: Clarys.AI - OpenGov Data Backbone & Accountability Explorer (Beta v1)

Faulty pre-image, sorry! Please disregard

- A group called JUST Ventures is asking for money from Polkadot for work they did from January to June 2025.  
- They helped with governance, technical support, and community projects.  
- They worked on things like upgrades, bounties, and improving how Polkadot works.  
- They also helped with education and events, like the Polkadot Blockchain Academy.  
- They are asking for $149,908.38 in USDC (a stablecoin).  
- This is their third request, and the past two were approved.  
- They shared a public list of their work so people can see what they did.  
- They believe this funding model is fair because their work is hard to plan in advance.

JUST Retroactive Compensation 3.0

- **Project**: Polkadot Staking Dashboard  
- **Goal**: Make staking easier and better for users  
- **Key Features**:  
  - Simple staking for new users  
  - Better rewards tracking  
  - Works on phones and tablets  
  - More languages like German and Korean  
- **Team**: Ross Bulat and Joel Kenny  
- **Funding**: $103,000 for 6 months  
- **Success**: Used by 37,000 people last month  
- **Future Plans**: Add new networks and improve security

Polkadot Staking Dashboard: September 2025 – March 2026 Funding

- Nova Wallet is a popular app for Polkadot, with 100+ networks.  
- It helps users stake, swap, and vote easily.  
- Over 13 million DOT is staked through Nova Wallet.  
- It adds new features like 1-click swaps and multisig wallets.  
- Nova Wallet is open-source and free for users.  
- The team also builds other tools for Polkadot.  
- This proposal asks for funding for past 7 months of work.  
- Users can test features before voting on the proposal.

Nova Wallet 7th Proposal: Retroactive Reimbursement: 1-Click Cross-Chain Swaps, Multisigs, Extended Ledger Support, Polkadot Vault v7.0 Support, Unified Address Format, Off-Ramps, Price Charts, DApp Browser Improvements, and more!

This proposal is about giving extra money to the people who help keep the Polkadot community safe and friendly. These helpers are called moderators. They make sure new people are not scammers and help everyone understand how things work. There are 10 moderators now, but there used to be more. They work on places like Discord, Element Telegram, and Reddit.

The proposal asks for $169,632 to keep paying the moderators for one more year, from September 2025 to September 2026. There is a document with more details about the proposal and how the moderators work. There is also a place where you can see how the money was spent before. The people who make this proposal hope you will help and give your ideas.

Moderation Team Bounty Top-up

- We are asking for money to pay for a hackathon and an accelerator program.
- The hackathon already happened, and we need to be paid back for prizes we gave.
- The accelerator will help 12 teams from the hackathon build their projects.
- We need money for marketing, program management, tech tools, and admin work.
- We also want to give small grants to the teams in the accelerator.
- This is time-sensitive because we want to start the program soon.
- More details and cost breakdowns are available in the linked documents.

Encode Club Tranche 3 Funding Request

- Snowbridge needs to fix a failed payment from earlier.  
- The payment failed because there wasn't enough USDC in the treasury.  
- The system thought the payment worked, but it didn't.  
- They can't try again because the system marked it as done.  
- The original payment was approved here: [link](https://polkadot.subscan.io/treasury_spend/29).  
- The payment looked successful on Polkadot: [link](https://polkadot.subscan.io/extrinsic/25613045-2?tab=event).  
- But it failed on AssetHub: [link](https://assethub-polkadot.subscan.io/block/8652209?tab=event\&event=8652209-7).  
- They are asking for the same amount again: **312,500 USDC**.

Replace and Recover Failed Treasury Spend

- The project will last **6 months**.  
- It focuses on growing Polkadot’s community in **Africa**.  
- So far, they have:  
  - Engaged **3,000+ people** in person.  
  - Hosted **45+ events**.  
  - Onboarded **20+ participants** to a program.  
- The goal now is **retention** (keeping people involved).  
- They updated the plan based on **feedback**.  
- More details are in the linked document.

Polkadot Africa Builder and Community growth continuation.

- WAGOI helps drivers control their car data using Polkadot wallets  
- It follows new EU rules starting in November 2025  
- First version will connect 2,500 cars and make 20,000+ transactions monthly  
- Could grow to 2.5 million wallets if 1% of EU drivers join  
- Builds a mobile app to view car data and manage permissions  
- Uses Moonbeam first, then moves to Polkadot  
- Costs $330,000 for this first phase  
- All code will be open for everyone to use

WAGOI - Empowering drivers through data sovereignty.

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Referenda Medium Spender

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

[33] Origin: MediumSpender