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

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Encode Club and Polkadot have teamed up for an initiative that includes educational series, hackathons, and an accelerator. They are requesting £40k in DOT for the second online hackathon prizes, running the third online hackathon, and running the accelerator. The second online hackathon, Polkadot Ink! Hackathon, will focus on ink!, a programming language for smart contracts on Substrate-based blockchains. Workshops will be held on various topics related to ink! smart contracts. In Q4, they plan to hold a final online hackathon and an accelerator to support high-quality hackathon projects into startup ideas. The accelerator will be an eight-week online program to help early-stage projects transition into startups. They have already held the Encode x Polkadot Spring Online Hackathon and the Polkadot Decoded Hackathon, with over 400 participants and 30 winners respectively.

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# Summary of Encode Club x Polkadot Initiative

Our Encode Club x Polkadot initiative employs a three-part strategy: an educational series, dedicated hackathons (both virtual and in-person), and a specialized accelerator. The proposal was split across five funding tranches, each focused on different aspects of the programme as agreed by Treasury in our initial proposal [here](../treasury/226). This report provides an overview of our progress on the Encode x Polkadot Spring Hackathon and Polkadot Decoded Hackathon and request funding for the following: Funding for the second online hackathon prizes (£10k in DOT) Funding for running the third online hackathon (£15k in DOT). Funding for running the accelerator (£15k in DOT).

This funding request amounts to a total of £40k in DOT. We propose utilising the funding allocated for the 4th tranche scheduled for Q4 of 2023 from the initial agreement outlined [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1msKUzE5xK6Y1pV3b0dA_J2pWJt3ecYiG0OXjFpz5K6Y/edit?usp=sharing).

# Second Online Hackathon - Polkadot Ink! Hackathon powered by Encode Club

Commencing in early October, we will run our second online hackathon. We are set to conduct a 4-week online hackathon with a specific focus on ink!, a sophisticated programming language tailored for smart contracts, notably adaptable to Substrate-based blockchains.

The first two weeks will feature technical workshops exclusively centered on ink!. This will be succeeded by subsequent workshops dedicated to practical use cases, offered in conjunction with community bounty partners, including Aleph Zero, Azero.ID, Astar, Zeitgeist, and Getblock.

Website link -> [here](https://www.encode.club/polkadot-ink-hackathon)

## Workshops include:

Safe and Robust Smart Contracts in ink! (Scheduled for Oct 4th) A Deep Dive into Storage of ink! Smart Contracts (Scheduled for Oct 5th) Scaffold your dApp with ink!athon (Scheduled for Oct 5th) Different testing strategies for ink! Smart contracts (Scheduled for Oct 9th) Integrate AZERO.ID in your dApp (Scheduled for Oct 9th) Interaction between the ink! smart contract and its execution environment (Scheduled for Oct 10th) How to deploy a contract on Astar using ink!? (Scheduled for Oct 10th) ink! Championship: learn how to build a full-stack dApp (Scheduled for Oct 11th) Calling into the Zeitgeist core protocol (Scheduled for Oct 12th)

# Q4 Programmes: Third Hackathon and Accelerator

In Q4, we aim to complete the Encode x Polkadot Education Initiative with the final online hackathon and an accelerator to further support high quality hackathon projects into start-up ideas.

## Polkadot Online Hackathon

We request funding for our final 4-week online hackathon that encourages the exploration and building of new use cases of Polkadot. In addition to welcoming back previous participants from both online and in-person events, we also plan on actively scouting new talents in the space who are interested in building innovative solutions and competing for attractive prizes. This hackathon serves as an exemplary platform for both seasoned and budding developers to showcase their abilities. We aim to achieve the milestone of delivering the hackathon in full, having 500 individuals sign up and 100 teams finishing the hackathon.

### Hackathon Structure:

Lasts 4 weeks Weekly technical workshops given by bounty partners 1-1 mentorship meetings with Encode dedicated Programme Manager Support with finalist pitch practice

### Polkadot Accelerator

After our final online hackathon, we're focusing on supporting projects from our events and the broader Polkadot community. Building on our previous initiatives, including the [Women Build Web3 Accelerator](https://medium.com/encode-club/women-build-web3-accelerator-with-encode-summary-67cc905de63c) and [Polkadot Accelerator 2021](https://medium.com/encode-club/polkadot-accelerator-summary-3f35a7023dd2), we're launching the Encode x Polkadot 2023 Accelerator.

This eight-week online program, starting on 28th November, is designed to help early-stage projects transition into startups. Participants will receive guidance, mentorship, and insights on areas like product development and fundraising.

The accelerator follows our Encode x Polkadot Spring 2023 Hackathon and the upcoming Polkadot ink! Hackathon. We encourage past Polkadot programme participants to apply, especially with projects they've worked on during our events, but applications are open to everyone in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Website link to accelerator is [here](https://www.encode.club/encode-polkadot-accelerator-2023) Website link to announcement post is [here](https://www.blog.encode.club/announcing-the-encode-x-polkadot-2023-accelerator-apply-now-e1f6511e0525)

### Accelerator Structure

Starts on the 28th Nov, 2023 and lasts 8 weeks Weekly workshops on building your project such as Marketing, Grants and Pitch Practice. A summary of the curriculum can be accessed here. YC-Format Dedicated 1-1 mentorship meetings Ends with a Pitch Day for follow-on funding

# Summary of our progress:

## (Tranche 2 and 3 request here)

## Encode x Polkadot Spring Online Hackathon (April, 2023)

The [Encode x Polkadot Hackathon](https://medium.com/encode-club/encode-x-polkadot-spring-2023-hackathon-prizewinners-and-summary-3919e78a42d0) started after the Educate Series, running from April 11th for four weeks. It aimed to foster Polkadot ecosystem advancements. The event featured tailored mentoring and technical workshops for developers, building on past successes like the Educate series, University Hackathon, and Accelerator.

Over 400 participants had four weeks to create and submit projects. Beyond development, the event facilitated learning, networking, and engagement. Sponsors including Acala, Zeitgeist, Subsocial, and more, formulated challenges and rewards for hackers. All teams received their prizes, recognizing and rewarding their efforts.

### [Key Hackathon Events included](https://www.encode.club/polkadot-hackathon):

Launch Event: A dynamic kick-off providing guidelines and inspiration. Technical Workshops: Sponsors like Acala, Astar, and many more offered workshops spanning diverse Polkadot-related topics. Mentorship Sessions: Personalized one-on-one guidance from Encode's Programme Manager for project refinement.

## Polkadot Decoded Hackathon (June, 2023)

The [Polkadot Decoded Hackathon](https://medium.com/encode-club/encode-x-polkadot-decoded-hackathon-summary-and-prizewinners-445822b32be9) was a two day in-person event hosted in Copenhagen. The event brought together participants globally, including hackers from our online Polkadot Spring Hackathon!

Support from partners like Moonbeam, Subquery, Getblock, Ajuna, Bifrost, Interlay, Vara Network, and Zeitgeist played a crucial role in supporting the event. They provided resources, expertise, and challenges that enriched the participants' experiences.

Over 30 winners emerged from this event and prizes have been successfully paid to the successful teams. Hosting an in-person hackathon provided a platform for learning, networking, and skill enhancement. We anticipate continuing to facilitate such gatherings that drive innovation within the Polkadot ecosystem.

WHO: Encode Club and Polkadot

WHAT: Requesting funding for the second online hackathon prizes, funding for running the third online hackathon, and funding for running the accelerator, totaling £40k in DOT.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Funding allocated for the 4th tranche scheduled for Q4 of 2023 from the initial agreement outlined here. Second online hackathon to commence in early October, third hackathon and accelerator to be completed in Q4.

Encode latest tranche request

- OneBlock+ and Parity Asia organized Hackathon competitions from 2021 to 2023.
- Over 800 developers and 200 teams participated in these events.
- The 2023 Shanghai Hackathon had 80 projects and 15 winners, showing significant growth.
- OneBlock plans to host another Hackathon from November 2023 to January 2024.
- The aim is to promote developer involvement in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They are requesting $368,499 to reward winners and cover hosting costs.
- A final demo day is planned for mid-January 2024 in Hong Kong.

OneBlock+ requests $368,499 USD | 90,540 DOT from the Treasury to continue the Polkadot Hackathon program from November 2023 to January 2024. The proposal aims to promote Substrate as an open-source framework for developers and encourage long-term involvement in the Polkadot ecosystem. 5/6 of the fee is to reward the hackathon winners, and 1/6 is to reimburse for operating expenses.

Proposal：Polkadot Hackathon 2023 Winter in HongKong

Polkassembly is a key part of how Polkadot and Kusama are governed. This proposal asks for money from the Polkadot treasury to help pay for things like keeping Polkassembly running, making updates, and paying people who work on it. The money will be used for things like fixing problems, making the system better, and buying things the website needs to work. 

Some new things they want to add include:
- Ways to make voting easier and more private
- A summary of proposals using AI
- Ways to give tips to other users
- Better looking and working website features

They also want to work with other groups and make the website work better overall. These changes will help make Polkassembly better for everyone who uses it. You can read the full proposal by clicking [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFFRSIvtsa0fuzpzeESyrippWT3emkjIkiVAUMnh2kU/edit?usp=sharing).

Polkassembly is an integral part of Polkadot and Kusama governance.  
  
This submission proposes a recurring payment (half yearly) as part of our social contract with the Polkadot & Kusama treasury to cover maintenance, operations and human resource costs for Polkassembly, including general maintenance, runtime upgrades changes and could/infrastructure cost.  
We have transitioned to a half yearly method to improve on the scope of our deliverability and execute larger changes to our platform. This submission covers costs for Q3 & Q4 of 2023. The maintenance proposal alternates between Polkadot & Kusama treasury and we are requesting the Polkadot treasury to provide funds.  
  
This recurring proposal aims to secure the continuous operation and sustainability of Polkassembly, a vital component of Polkadot and Kusama governance. To ensure the smooth functioning of Polkassembly, we request a payments to cover essential expenses such as maintenance, operations, and human resources. The funds are allocated towards general maintenance, runtime upgrades, and infrastructure costs, guaranteeing the reliability and efficiency of Polkassembly.  
  
Attached below are key highlights of our proposal:  
  

Voting & Transparency Upgrades:

-   Voting Details on Referendum (Live): Enhance the proposal page to show users' self vs. delegation vote split, detailed breakdown of delegators, and more.
-   Vote History in Profile (Live): Display voting history in user profiles, including self vs. delegated votes.
-   Reason for Voting (Live): Enable users to add voting reasons immediately after casting their votes.
-   Vote Anonymously: Allow users to hide their identity while voting.
-   Share reason for voting: Enable users to share voting reasons on social media.
-   Unlocking token locks: Simplify unlocking locked tokens.

New Features:

-   AI Summary (Live): Provide a quick summary of proposals.
-   Tooltip & Tipping: Allow users to tip others and view tipping history.
-   Statistics: Display on-chain balances and user activity details.
-   Microfeatures: Enhancements to existing features.
-   Markdown <> Rich Text Editor Support: Toggle between markdown and rich text editors.
-   See more proposals: Recommend and display related proposals on detail pages.

Partnerships:

-   Moderation (Live): Enable Polkadot & Kusama forum moderators to moderate on Polkassembly.
-   Polkasafe Integration: Utilize multisigs and proxies for governance interactions.

Maintenance & Site-wide Migrations:

-   Husky Setup: Implement Git pre-commit hooks for code quality.
-   Redux setup & remove contexts: Optimize state management for performance and debugging.
-   Remove Styled Components; implemented CSS modules: Refactor components to improve performance and eliminate hydration errors.

Additional Upgrades:

-   Optimistic Updates: Improve user experience and speed for actions like reactions and comments.
-   V2 DS & Routed APIs: Simplify and optimize APIs.
-   Timeline UI upgrade: Enhance the timeline for on/off-chain events and proposal progress.
-   Navigation bar: Improve visibility and accessibility.
-   Open any profile: Allow viewing of any on-chain account.
-   JSDoc: Provide documentation for functions to facilitate open-source contributions and development.

These upgrades aim to enhance user engagement, transparency, and the overall experience on Polkassembly while streamlining development and maintenance processes.  
  
Please [click here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFFRSIvtsa0fuzpzeESyrippWT3emkjIkiVAUMnh2kU/edit?usp=sharing) to view the full proposal.

WHO: Polkassembly team

WHAT: Proposing a recurring payment from the Polkadot treasury to cover maintenance, operations, and human resource costs for Polkassembly, including general maintenance, runtime upgrades, and infrastructure costs. The proposal covers costs for Q3 & Q4 of 2023 and aims to enhance user engagement, transparency, and the overall experience on Polkassembly while streamlining development and maintenance processes.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Polkassembly Social Contract | Maintenance proposal Q3 & Q4’23

- A new Multi-Wallet user interface and Polkawatch analytics have been created.
- A test integration with the Polkadot Staking Dashboard was successful, helping more people analyze staking choices.
- The team plans to fully connect Polkawatch Analytics to the Staking Dashboard.
- Improvements to the Staking Dashboard Plugin system are underway to involve more community projects.
- A new way to track location data is needed because of changes in the network.
- Support for AURA parachains will help find more funding and reduce reliance on Treasury money.
- The ongoing monthly cost to keep analytics running is about $2.9K. 
- Community feedback is encouraged and a detailed proposal is available for more information.

Polkawatch proposes to fully integrate its analytics service into the Polkadot Staking Dashboard and improve the plugin system for other community projects. They also plan to implement a different GeoLocation strategy and provide support for AURA parachains. The milestone will cost **2.9K USD per month** and will be funded through continued operation and potential parachain support.

Polkawatch, Decentralization Analytics, Continued Operation and Development

- Polkascan wants to improve their block explorer, which shows information about blockchain events.
- They plan to add new features, like a better dashboard and easier-to-understand data.
- The updates will help people who are not very technical to use the explorer more easily.
- Improvements will benefit parachain teams that use the explorer.
- The team is looking for feedback from the community on their proposal.

Rejected

WHO: Team Polkascan
WHAT: Extend Polkascan open source block explorer with more features, such as an improved dashboard and user-friendly descriptive representations of events and calls.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Beyond Raw Data: How Polkascan Transforms Subsquid Aggregates into a User-Friendly Polkadot Experience (Polkadot Treasury Proposal)

Dot Leap is a newsletter that shares news about the Polkadot ecosystem. They want to keep growing and helping the community. They have a plan with three main parts: improving their website, adding AI integration, and continuing their newsletter. They need money to make this happen and have a list of costs. They also have goals for how many people they want to reach and how they will do it. If they don't get the money they need, they might have to find sponsors or shut down. You can contact them if you have questions.

## Problem Statement

For the past three years, [Dot Leap](https://newsletter.dotleap.com) has been keeping the community in the loop about all governance, technical, and ecosystem news surrounding the Polkadot ecosystem.

Our [last proposal](1410) has helped us remain in operation, and we would love to be able to stay free of ads for products and services, and credibly neutral going forward, while renewing focus on growth.

It is no secret (real, human) users have been stagnating across web3 - the community has been scared off, and the echo chambers are saturated.

Metrics-wise, the newsletter had 3310 subscribers at the time of our last proposal, with a 30% open rate and 10% average clickthrough rate, which is almost unheard of in newsletter success metrics. However, fast forward almost a year, and our subscriber base is 3390, with the same open rate, but slightly lower clickthrough rate at 7.5% on average.

![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ry4EqVPl6.png)

This is also why we have chosen not to request the followup milestone and instead take a different approach entirely.

Being fully cognizant of the fact that the bear market which drove these users off into hybernation might extend well into 2025, we decided to uproot the Dot Leap effort and focus on aggressive growth going forward. Our aim is to help Polkadot get the necessary userbase and developer base, and to expand global awareness of Polkadot's innovations which - currently - get sadly overlooked.

Now more than ever, due to new terminology like coretime, Polkadot 2.0, async backing and other new concepts, we need to provide the wider ecosystem with good explanations, clarifications, tutorials, and branding assistance, all of which is only possible through good journalism, technical education, and community growth.

For all this, we need your help.

## Proposal Solutions and Objectives

The growth plan consists of three major pillars.

1.  Dot Leap website
2.  AI integration
3.  Newsletter continuation, reformatting, and growth

### Dot Leap Website

The Dot Leap website started out as a static website with some basic explainers by Bruno Skvorc. This effort will be revived.

What the fabled Polkadot.com education portal was supposed to be will now find its home on Dotleap.com:

-   explainers of basic concepts
-   very basic user guides for essential Polkadot functionality
-   very basic user guides for individual parachain functionality
-   illustrated and enhanced versions of certain high-impact Wiki content (will also be PRed upstream where it makes sense)
-   open source AI-powered search of the Dot Leap archive for natural language searching of previous content (e.g. "I remember there being some tool to track council performance a few months ago, what was it?" or "When was the biggest voting turnout bump registered, between which Dot Leap editions?")

Per community vote, however, most emphasis will be placed on newbie friendly guides for using various parachain core functions and their dapps.

![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1tFcNPlp.png)

The website will have optional web3 user profiles which will grow in reputation based on feedback given and actions taken, later evolving into a system for internal governance, clarified a little lower in the proposal.

### AI Integration

An OpenAI powered app is being built to assist with the creation of link-heavy newsletters.

It can automatically process and summarize information, detect relevance, and proceeds to generate social media materials for sharing the content in easy to consume snippets.

It automatically reads staking rates and treasury balances from chain and generates social-media friendly graphs that will also be embedded into the newsletter editions.

This application is being developed specifically for Dot Leap and NFT Review (which is not part of this proposal).

AI integration will also be added to the Dot Leap website in order to make the archive searchable with natural language (basic OpenAI wrapper with custom data training).

The application will also be able to ingest links from a telegram bot configured **specifically for parachain and dapp teams**, as well as independent active community members, to submit links to. The bot will reply with information about the link, its assessed quality and relevance, and whether or not it was already submitted by someone else.

### Newsletter

The newsletter will be reformatted to be less "😐🥱" (ugh) and more "😳🤯😲" (wow). So far, some of the problems were the following:

1.  **Github links were rarely clicked on unless controversial.** To really explain those, the writer must understand what they do, and follow them meticulously. Under more technical leadership which can break these technical changes down in an easy to consume way, there is a good chance that these links will be made appealing to click on again.
2.  **Governance links lost clickthrough rates** despite controversy because the outcomes have become predictable, while no interesting explanation is given for votes and outcomes. The lack of creativity in the proposals seems to also be a contributing factor. These need to be more thoroughly explained, but in a short and soundbitey way so that they do not look like skippable walls of text - people have enough to read and pay attention to already. Conclusions - economical, technical, and social - also need to be laid out, as not everyone is in Polkahaus :)
3.  **Focus is on the wrong metrics across all ecosystems.** TX count or TVL are often mentioned, either in staking or governance locks, but real user count or actual transaction intents across parachains are rarely discussed (likely because they paint a worrying picture when [not gamed](https://cryptotrafficmarket.com/)). By shedding light on the problems, we believe we can make Dot Leap incredibly engaging to read again, while also helping solve some of those issues.
4.  Announcements, while they do sometimes lead pumpamentals and clicks, are ultimately meaningless. Dot Leap will only publish shipped collaborations, ignoring press releases and "partnerships".

The initial plan was thus to create a subletter for Governance, Technical, and Ecosystem.

Each version would mention key points of the other, but go into detail only about its own content. However, the readership seems divided on this topic, so this is still in the air.

![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r1yi54vx6.png)

**_If_** it happens, we will pilot this in a way that does not dilute the content, and we will ask for feedback on every edition. The goal is to make the readers happy - the newsletter makes no sense otherwise - so if the community decides against it, they are in charge.

Per majority vote, each version will also contain commentary on that week's most pressing or notable issues.

![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkTI5Vwla.png)

Per majority vote, each edition will also have a short video recap, for those who prefer to consume news in a video or audio format, auto-formatted and sliced in such a way that makes it easy to share the whole thing of parts of the video on social media.

![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Syvw5VDxa.png)

Per community vote, each edition will also have a "dogfood of the day" section, guiding readers through something they should DO in Polkadot's side of web3.

![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryxd9Eve6.png)

Finally, each newsletter will contain a simple link to a feedback form at the end to gauge people's satisfaction with our work and solicit feedback or requests for changes of direction. This will be non-invasive, a simple 1-5 grade with a text input.

## Fee and Payment Terms

| Item | Expense | Duration | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Website Growth, Expansion, Content | 20000 | 12 months | Web3 profiles, feedback mechanism |
| Website Maintenance + AI tools | ~5000 | 12 months | Mostly hosted on IPFS, this comes down to pinning and alternative hosting costs |
| Newsletter Continuation | 80000 | 12 months | Daily research, keeping track of Github PRs and governance proposals across the ecosystem's many chains, commentary, event and community coverage, social media |
| AI Integration | ~38000 | 12 months | Helper application for edition generation, social media conten |
| Ad Spend | ~12000 | 12 months | Purchasing placed ads on search engines and social networks. |

**Beneficiary Address**

-   1QjuTEKebQ3au8bxQC6iwYSPCA2iZn3YHwX8VABCauKtwRk

[EMA7 rate by Subscan](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price) will be used to calculate the allocation on the day of submission.

The expenses cannot be more accurately predicted or broken down any further, anything else would be **misleading** the OpenGov community.

There are many things to take into consideration, from salary and level of expertise of involved people, to tax ramifications (as an example, in Croatia the total comes down to something like 60% tax on these gross amounts), so these budgets are proposed in the minimum amounts needed to guarantee a successful outcome.

This is a full time job, and despite the integration of AI (which itself might need a part time employee), **at least one** person fully embedded in this ecosystem will be monitoring it, parsing it, editing it, developing the helper tools and integrations, generating content for the website, and more. As such, this ask is mainly for _salary funds_ (incl. tax) which will be distributed amongst the people working on this, and used to cover whatever infra expenses are incurred.

**Work done so far includes a new template for the newsletter, reader feedback research, and an MVP of a helper application for link-heavy newsletters which auto generates summaries and social media threads along with growth hacking scenarios and data analytics.**

We believe our track record and general favor of the community speak for our dedication and quality of work. The bear is the time for building, and we could not be more excited about telling the world about new Polkadot concepts, as well as keeping everyone up to date on all the upcoming changes.

## KPIs

-   15000 total subscribers before November 2024, Substack, X, Youtube, and Telegram Readership channel combined. On X, only Verified accounts will count as subscribers.
-   20%+ open rate on the emails
-   5+% average clickthrough rate

We believe this is in the realm of possibility. The open rates and clickthrough rates generally go down with subscriber base growth, and the more comprehensive a newsletter is, the less incentive there is to click through a link, but as we prune inactive emails (those that have not interacted with an email after several editions), these numbers should be attainable.

The Telegram output and social media output, as well as the video recap might all nerf our numbers a little since those cannot count clicks, and there might be some duplicates (an X follower might also be an email subscriber) but this is why we are comfortable raising the subscriber count KPI target to almost 500% of the current number.

### How will we grow?

Which methods will be utilised for user acquisition and retention? How exactly do we plan to achieve such growth?

#### Active Communication

-   Notes and X: Regular thread-versions of the newsletter's editions will be published on X and Substack Notes immediately after publication, tagging relevant parties and prompting discussion. Both for X and Notes, most of the initial content will be automatically generated by AI, prompting passive growth, while active engagement will be used as a followup. This will include changes in staking %, governance info and numbers, and all the general content from the newsletter's edition, abbreviated and summarized, encouraging clickthrough.
    
-   Feedback form: The feedback form at the end of each edition will be useful to optimize future content according to the wishes of current readers. This alone should significantly increase retention and reduce unsubscribes.
    
-   Announcement Channel and Link Group: Two Telegram groups will be set up: announcement channel for edition recaps, in case people prefer to consume the newsletter out of inbox, and a submission channel where DMing a bot will automatically insert a given link into the dedicated helper AI application. The application will keep score of submitted links, encouraging users to report fast and often.
    

#### Additional Reach and Ad Campaigns

Due to publishing short form video content for every edition, we expect growth on Youtube and X. A tiktok presence will also be established and attempted. May Odin help us all.

$1000 per month will be spent on Ad campaigns, A/B testing platforms, content, and copy text. We intend to leverage social media network ad placement for targeting audiences, as well as search engine ad placement to hijack popular search keywords.

#### Gamification

While not for everyone, gamification has proven to be noticeably effective in certain demographics and user personas. Our aim is to give each reader who provides feedback a web3 profile on the Dot Leap website, and grow their profile with an evolving NFT, introducing reputation into the mix.

Over time, these users will be the governing layer of Dot Leap, shaping more than just the content of the newsletter. As Dot Leap matures, it might take on additional roles - like validating or a nomination pool - and, inspired by ChaosDAO, these key actors will have an important voice in matters of governance.

#### Collaboration and User Cross-pollination

The Polkadot community is small and fragmented. A fabled legion of Asian devotees exists, yet they barely register on the western radar. The various outspoken entities already present in the ecosystem (Kusamarian, Polkaworld, Kryptoschain, Bill Laboon, Rob…) have their audiences, but generally these audiences are not shared.

Our aim is to proactively seek out and collaborate with all of these entities and more - should they be willing - to encourage cross-consumption of material and grow the ecosystem's attention span together, rather than fragment it further. Dot Leap 2 is not a vampire attack on other media, but an augmentation.

#### Looking For Trouble

We intend to actively seek out discussions touching on the Polkadot outside the Polkadot ecosystem. We will look for discussions around concepts similar to what Polkadot has or is working on, and insert our content into the conversation, hopefully also gradually improving Polkadot's brand at the same time.

We will publicly report on these attempts and ask our community for (non trolling, patient, and collaborative) help.

## FAQ

I will attempt to frontrun some questions.

### Who will be doing this?

At first, Bruno will be doing most of this, with some help from his brother on development matters. Someone more techincal and data-and-AI minded is needed to take the newsletter to its next level in terms of organic growth, and so we need to make staffing changes as much as infrastructural/content changes to get this growth in an honest way.

### How can you do this while running RMRK?

I am barely useful at RMRK these days. As ops/admin, I am de-emphasizing my position there in favor of writing code again (any code - both RMRK-adjacent code and other stuff which includes Dot Leap related development) and getting more familiar with the technical side of various ecosystems, which is also a part of what I must do for RMRK's benefit as it expands.

I am plugged into web3 18 hours a day as is, and dedicating time to making Dot Leap into the behemoth I know it can be is a worthy challenge that can benefit all parties. I will, however, aim to replace myself at the first opportunity.

Dot Leap is a separate entity, and hopefully one I can pass on to someone else after setting it up **the way I would like to be reading it.**

### Aren't you a Polkadot hater now?

I have my gripes with the brand and various entities in the ecosystem. None of that means I disregard the tech that comes out of this ecosystem, or that my journalistic integrity is compromised. I have been in tech writing and journalism for well over 12 years now, 9 of those in web3, always delivering objective reports. This will continue.

I am still deeply invested in this eco, in more ways than one, and I like to be kept in the loop on things as much as the next tokenholder. I might as well do a good job of forwarding the information while absorbing it.

### What happens to Dot Leap if this proposal fails?

I will attempt to seek out sponsorship and integrate ads. Failing that, I will shut down Dot Leap and NFT Review.

### Why not request this in milestones or as a bounty?

The planned changes are truly vast, and their expenses unpredictable. A smaller amount at first might not be enough to get critical mass of development early on, and the uncertainty might dissuade people we might want to hire from applying.

In theory, this could be done in smaller instalments, but these are not constraints under which I would personally be comfortable with leading this.

### Will you just marketdump?

The funds will be staked and only sold as necessary for expenses. For the most part I will pay for everything out of pocket and reimburse my costs periodically, in an effort to gain as much as possible from the stake.

## Contact

Telegram: t.me/swader

email: [bruno@bitfalls.com](mailto:bruno@bitfalls.com)

Dot Leap proposes to focus on aggressive growth by reviving their website, integrating AI, and reformating their newsletter. They aim to help Polkadot get the necessary userbase and developer base, and to expand global awareness of Polkadot's innovations. The proposal requests a total of $75,000 for 12 months to cover salary funds, website growth, expansion, content, website maintenance, AI tools, newsletter continuation, AI integration, and ad spend. They aim to have 15,000 total subscribers before November 2024, with a 20%+ open rate on emails and 5+% average clickthrough rate.

Dot Leap 2: Let's grow!

The Polkadot Gaming Group, which includes members from various supporting parachains and teams, is requesting funding for the verification of the Polkadot Unity SDK in the Unity Asset Store. This SDK aims to increase Polkadot's visibility in the web3 gaming space and help onboard new users onto Polkadot and its ecosystem of parachains and dApps. The group is seeking $175,000 from the treasury, with $150,000 allocated for Unity's verification and publishing process and $25,000 for SDK maintenance for 12 months. The SDK is designed to be versatile and model-driven, facilitating the rapid generation of customized C# SDKs compatible with various chain types. The initiative is expected to boost Polkadot's brand recognition among game and app developers, empowering them to initiate projects in the web3 games and decentralized applications sectors within the Polkadot ecosystem.

**Short Description:** Verified Solution Polkadot Unity SDK in the Unity Asset Store

**Project Category/Type:** Infrastructure

**Beneficiary Address:** 16Fa8QRqAWS5BFxZVTKHN1qsAmMEwDVUCBft43a1BMTtmasJ (Parity)

**Funding Amount:**  42685 DOT = 175’000 USD

To DOT Holders,

My Name is Nicholas Douzinas from Ajuna Network and I am authoring this proposal in the name of the Polkadot Gaming Group. Currently, this is composed of over 20 members from supporting parachains and teams including Ajuna, Apilon, Astar, Aventus, Gear Technologies, Moonsama, Moonbeam, Opendive, Tanssi, Unique, and Parity Technologies.

We are asking you to consider releasing funding through the treasury, for the cost of Verification of the newly created Polkadot Unity SDK. In the proposal below we explain how an ecosystem-wide solution, branded as Polkadot Unity SDK can produce long-term value for dot holders, significantly increase the visibility of Polkadot as a contender in the web3 gaming space and tangibly help with onboarding new users onto Polkadot and our ecosystem of parachains and dApps.

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The TLDR:**

-   **Background:** At present, the Unity Asset Store does not feature any Polkadot-based solutions for its extensive user base of game and application developers. The platform does, however, offer verified solutions for other blockchain ecosystems such as Ethereum, Solana, Aptos, Flow, and Algorand. This omission represents a significant gap in the market and an untapped opportunity for Polkadot to establish itself within the burgeoning web3 gaming vertical.   
    ([https://assetstore.unity.com/decentralization-hub)](https://assetstore.unity.com/decentralization-hub\))
    
-   **Collaboration:** Ajuna, Apilon, Astar, Aventus, Gear Technologies, Moonsama, Moonbeam, Opendive, Tanssi, Unique, and Parity Technologies—have been actively working to address these challenges.
    
-   **Funding Request:** We are seeking total funds of $175,000 from the treasury. Of this amount, up to $150,000 will be allocated to cover the cost of Unity’s verification and publishing process for an ecosystem-specific Polkadot Gaming Software Development Kit (SDK) on the Unity Asset Store. It should be noted that these are straight pass-through costs to Unity Technologies. This transaction will be executed with Parity Technologies as the counterparty. In the case that the cost of Verification is below the requested $150,000, the remaining funds will be returned to the Treasury. The $25,000 will be allocated to cover the maintenance of the SDK for a period of 12 months. You will find a full breakdown in the sections below.
    
-   **Opportunity:**  The integration of a Polkadot Gaming SDK into the Unity Asset Store offers a substantial opportunity to bolster Polkadot's brand recognition among game and app developers. This will empower Unity and C# developers to initiate projects in the web3 games and decentralized applications (dApps) sectors, specifically within the Polkadot ecosystem.
    
-   **Technical Specifications:**  The proposed SDK is designed as a versatile, model-driven solution. It will facilitate the rapid generation of customized C# SDKs compatible with various chain types—including relay-, para-, and solo chains. This enables effortless integration with Unity, obviating any further requirements and effectively unlocking the entire C# development stack.
    
-   **Part 2: BD/Marketing:** To ensure the success of this project, comprehensive efforts are essential from both Business Development (BD) and Marketing. Hence, we have divided the proposals into Technical (Part 1) and BD/Marketing (Part 2). Once Part 1 is approved, a distinct proposal for Part 2 will be submitted. Discussions pertaining to Part 2 can be followed through this link. This approach enables the Technical Teams to commence implementation promptly, allowing 4-6 weeks for verification, while Parachain and Parity teams can concentrate on Part 2.
    

We are confident that this initiative will significantly contribute to the growth and diversification of the web3 gaming vertical on Polkadot, providing both immediate and long-term benefits to all stakeholders involved.

We look forward to your support in realizing this transformative project.

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Importance and Implications of a Verified Polkadot Unity SDK**

Unity is the preferred engine for 60% of games created across all platforms, and over 50% of Web3 games \[[ref1](https://webinarcare.com/best-game-engine-software/game-engine-statistics/), [ref2](https://webinarcare.com/best-game-engine-software/game-engine-statistics/)\]. Additionally, the Unity Asset store is used by over 1.5 mio developers for a wide variety of applications in the creator economy, such as animation and architecture. By becoming a Verified Unity Partner, we can offer a reliable and trusted solution for Unity developers who want to build on Polkadot.

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Advantages of Verified Partnership?**

1.  **Trust and Credibility:** A Verified Unity Partner status would establish Polkadot as a reliable, trusted option for Unity's extensive developer community.
2.  **Widespread Adoption:** Being featured on the Unity Asset Store would dramatically scale the adoption of Polkadot SDK for both Polkadot and its parachains.
3.  **Exclusive Features:** Verification grants access to specialized features like custom End-User License Agreements (EULA), thereby enabling subscription-based product offerings.
4.  **Focused Marketing Strategy:** A Verified Unity Partner status allows for more effective and concentrated marketing initiatives.
5.  **Ecosystem Synergy:** The verification of a parachain-agnostic SDK provides a foundation upon which individual parachain projects can build their unique offerings.

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Problem: The Existing Gap**

Currently, Unity developers lack an avenue for creating Web3 applications within the Polkadot ecosystem. This absence effectively sidelines a potential 1.5 million developers from considering Polkadot and its associated projects (relay-, para-, and solo chains) as viable platforms for Web3 applications.

Moreover, the financial and resource investment required for individual projects to develop and verify their Unity SDKs would be substantial and would not benefit the ecosystem at large, creating inefficiencies and redundancies.

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Collaborative Effort for a Unified Solution**

Initiated in April of this year, our collective group—comprising over 20 members from organizations like Ajuna, Apilon, Astar, Aventus, Gear Technologies, Moonsama, Moonbeam, Opendive, Tanssi, Unique, and Parity Technologies—has been actively working to address these challenges through a unified approach to SDK development.

We believe that our proposed initiative will significantly enhance Polkadot’s standing within the Unity community, offering both immediate and long-term benefits to all stakeholders.

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Proposed Solution**

Objective

Our primary goal is to introduce a verified Polkadot Unity Software Development Kit (SDK) into the Unity Asset Store. This initiative aims to provide game and application developers with a robust set of tools that will enable seamless integration of their current and forthcoming projects with the Polkadot ecosystem.

This toolkit is not merely a software asset; it serves as a comprehensive development framework built on C#. It is designed to streamline the efforts of relay-, para-, and solo chain teams, enabling them to build, verify, and deploy blockchain-based solutions with ease.

The technical development phase is already complete. What remains is to gain verification status in order to join the ranks of other notable SDKs in the [Unity Asset Store](https://assetstore.unity.com/decentralization-hub), such as:

-   Solana SDK for Unity
-   Tezos SDK for Unity
-   Metamask
-   Flow SDK
-   Aptos SDK
-   Truffle
-   and more

By achieving this, we aim to position our ecosystem Polkadot Unity SDK as a go-to resource within the Unity Asset Store, elevating its stature to that of existing, reputable solutions. The cost, as priced by Unity Technologies and equally applicable to all Verified solutions, is $150,000.

**Technical Specifications**

Polkadot Unity SDK

We propose to maintain and improve the Polkadot Unity SDK as a common foundational layer for all relay-, para-, and solo chain builders. This SDK will be generic to its full extent, thereby ensuring its reusability by any chain. Source code access: GitHub - [Substrate.NET.API](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.NET.API)

Dynamic SDK Customization

The SDK has the capability to generate a customized version for individual relay-, para-, and solo chains in a matter of seconds. Each customized version will enable seamless interaction with the specific chain's extrinsic functions, storages, errors, constants, and all the RPC-available features. Published projects so far: GitHub - [Substrate.Chains.NET](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.Chains.NET)

Project-Specific Layers

On top of the base SDK, developers can create project-specific layers to add unique features or functionalities tied to a particular relay-, para- and solochain.

Technological Advantages

The SDK will be akin to Polkadot.js but written in C#, thereby leveraging the Microsoft C# stack and the entire Unity stack for enhanced capabilities.

Verification and Subsidies

While the foundational SDK remains co-owned and reusable, individual parachain teams can apply for subsidies to add layers of verification or to create project-specific features. This approach ensures that the value derived from verification justifies the costs involved, and it keeps the competitive spirit intact among developers.  
  
Open-Source

The development of the SDK is open-source, and feedback and suggestions on GitHub are welcome, making it a co-owned asset in the gaming vertical.

Features and Capabilities

1.  **Streamlined Development:** The SDK is designed to simplify and expedite the development process for teams working on relay-, para-, and solo chains, allowing for the efficient creation, verification, and deployment of blockchain-based applications.
    
2.  **Interoperability:** With its parachain-agnostic architecture, the SDK will offer a foundational layer that can be customized by individual teams to add unique functionalities.
    
3.  **Inclusion of Comprehensive Tools:** The SDK will include a wide array of tools and resources to assist developers at every stage of the application development lifecycle.
    
4.  **Ease of Adoption:** Due to its compatibility with Unity and the C# language, the SDK will be easily adoptable by a broad range of developers with varying levels of expertise.
    

By successfully implementing this solution, we anticipate significant advancements in Polkadot's standing within the broader Unity and web3 development communities. The initiative will serve as a crucial step towards consolidating Polkadot's presence in these burgeoning markets, thereby offering immediate and long-term advantages to all stakeholders involved

**Maintenance of SDK (12 months)**

**SDK Maintenance for 12 Months**: An estimated $25,000, equivalent to a 20-25% Full-Time Equivalent (FTE), will be allocated for ongoing maintenance and updates to the SDK.

-   Maintain Unity Asset Store package, including mandatory security updates to remain a verified solution by Unity, additionally maintaining substantial changes on the [Substrate.UnityDemo](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.UnityDemo) project.
-   Maintain the underlying SDK framework [Substrate.NET.API](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.NET.API), including updating dependencies on the core level like [StreamJsonRpc](https://github.com/microsoft/vs-streamjsonrpc), and its underlying dependencies. (quarterly update schedule)
-   General maintenance of issues & features on GitHub [SubstrateGaming](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming) and the underlying Repositories

**Benefit for Dot holders**

The overarching goal of this proposal is to facilitate the onboarding of game developers and studios onto parachains and the Polkadot ecosystem at large. The proposed initiative promises several long-term benefits for DOT holders, including:

1.  **User Onboarding at Scale:** Introducing gaming decentralized applications (dApps) can attract a large user base, as exemplified by Mythical Games [https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1701143714184233156?s=20)](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1701143714184233156?s=20\))
2.  **Increased On-Chain Transactions an****d Engagement:** Successful implementations like the Awesome Ajuna Avatars (BAJUN) have contributed close to 15% of Talisman TXs in the last 90 days \[\*talisman\_90days\]
    
3.  **Visibility and Competitive Standing:** Being featured in the Unity Asset Store alongside other Layer 1 and Layer 2 solutions like Solana and Polygon provides a strategic advantage Decentralization | Unity Asset Store)
    
4.  **Ecosystem-Wide Value Capture:** Rather than benefiting only individual parachains, the proposed SDK can bring value to the Polkadot ecosystem as a whole.
    
5.  **Expanded Business Development and Marketing Opportunities:** A partnership between Polkadot and Unity can lead to co-branded marketing initiatives, such as press releases, and the possibility of inviting Unity to Decoded or Sub0 conferences to promote this collaborative venture.
    

\*talisman\_90days

![Talisman 90 days](https://i.ibb.co/5rFRvGH/talisman-AAAlast90days.png)

**Final Thoughts**

The individuals and parachains representing this proposal are taking this collective approach in line with Polkadot’s focus on the Gaming Vertical, as a key strategic decision for the future of Polkadot. This is one of many steps this group will support to make Polkadot a top 3 destination for web3 gaming in the next 5 years.

**Next Step: Proposal for funding for Polkadot Unity SDK Adoption (Part 2)**

_A message from the Polkadot Gaming Group_

_This proposal outlines all requisite steps to achieve the technical milestone of Unity Verification. We firmly believe that for Polkadot's Web3 gaming to truly succeed and achieve mass adoption, securing this milestone must be succeeded by substantial efforts in Business Development and Marketing. Achieving this is more than just delivering technical solutions; it’s crucial to promote and expose it to both the Web3 and the prevalent Web2 gaming communities through various platforms like Gamescom or the GDC._

_Hence, a meticulous and impactful BD/Marketing strategy is indispensable, aiming to effectively onboard game studios, game developers, and end users to the Polkadot ecosystem. The realization of these promotional and exposure goals is inherent in Part 2 of our proposal, which is contingent upon the successful approval and implementation of this initial technical proposal. A subsequent proposal, intertwining with the success of the first one, will be presented for the Treasury's consideration, addressing the crucial components of branding, communication, and market penetration. By navigating through these structured phases, we aspire to forge a path that leads to not just technical integrations but also to widespread acknowledgment and acceptance in both Web2 and Web3 gaming spaces. Our conviction is that this approach is pivotal to unraveling the full potential of Polkadot in the gaming sector._

Polkadot Gaming Group proposes to create a verified Polkadot Unity SDK for game developers. They request $175,000 from the treasury, with $150,000 allocated for Unity's verification and publishing process and $25,000 for maintenance. The SDK will be designed to facilitate the rapid generation of customized C# SDKs compatible with various chain types. The group aims to position the Polkadot Unity SDK as a go-to resource within the Unity Asset Store, elevating its stature to that of existing, reputable solutions. The initiative promises several long-term benefits for DOT holders, including user onboarding at scale, increased on-chain transactions and engagement, visibility and competitive standing, ecosystem-wide value capture, and expanded business development and marketing opportunities.

Polkadot Unity SDK proposal to become a Verified Solution (Part 1)

SubQuery has proposed a treasury allocation of 46,122.04 USD for Q1-Q2 2023 to cover the maintenance costs of the SubQuery <> Nova Wallet Common API infrastructure. This API is a valuable tool for client applications, providing easy access to pre-indexed data from the blockchain. The partnership between SubQuery and Nova Wallet has led to the integration of public SubQuery projects, which index transfers from various pallets and provide staking and governance data. The SubQuery Common API supports 74 Substrate-based networks and is hosted by Novasama Technologies. It is developed and maintained in open source, with various projects and wallets leveraging its capabilities. For more details and cost breakdown, refer to the full proposal.

**SubQuery <> Nova Wallet Common API: Maintenance Cost For Q1-Q2 2023**

**![](https://i.ibb.co/KGrkjrt/PECAPI.jpg)**

**Beneficiary**: [121kSSsSRJAu84ZA2T1j8Lff7f1HzKGPu2kYTm26YJe8RJuh](121kSSsSRJAu84ZA2T1j8Lff7f1HzKGPu2kYTm26YJe8RJuh) (SubQuery)

**Requested allocation**: 46,122.04 USD for Q1-Q2 2023 (6 months)

**Date**: 25 Sept 2023

**Project Category / Type:** Infrastructure and Network Operations

**Previous treasury proposals**: [https://kusama.subsquare.io/treasury/child-bounty/13\_135](https://kusama.subsquare.io/treasury/child-bounty/13_135)

**Short description**: SubQuery is the Universal data indexing toolkit facilitating the construction of Web3 applications of the future. This proposal seeks funding to cover expenses associated with maintaining the SubQuery <> Nova Wallet Common API infrastructure in Q1-Q2 2023.

**Full proposal can be found here:**

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtp4Go1-qHy7OU4DV05S6CIQUTGzSgVpmXF4ql9jy\_I](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtp4Go1-qHy7OU4DV05S6CIQUTGzSgVpmXF4ql9jy_I/edit?usp=sharing)

**Context of the proposal:**

In continuation of our commitment to fostering the growth and development of the Polkadot ecosystem, we present a treasury proposal for Q1-Q2 2023 to fund the reimbursement of the costs for running the SubQuery Common API infrastructure. The SubQuery Common API has proven to be an invaluable tool for client applications, enabling seamless access to pre-indexed data that would otherwise be resource-consuming or challenging to query directly from the blockchain, such as operation history, staking analytics, and more.

[The partnership](https://subquery.medium.com/nova-wallet-builds-common-api-for-polkadot-9e56e28af4c7) between SubQuery and Nova has flourished over time, exemplifying a collaborative spirit that has enhanced the Polkadot ecosystem. Notably, Nova Wallet has seamlessly integrated support for the public SubQuery projects, specifically tailoring them to index transfers from both the "assets" and "ORML" pallets, as well as providing Staking & OpenGov data. This innovative integration has enabled easy access and querying of this vital data not only for Nova Wallet but also for any stakeholders within the ecosystem. Whether utilizing the free hosted projects or by running the relevant SubQuery project locally, the ability to glean insights from transfers across parachains has become both accessible and efficient.

This proposal outlines the infrastructure costs incurred for Q1-Q2 2023 that have played an instrumental role in ensuring the availability and accessibility of invaluable data to the Polkadot community. This symbiotic relationship, wherein SubQuery charges Nova for hosting services, signifies the collaborative synergy propelling this initiative and setting a path for future funding requests initiated by the SubQuery team themselves.

**SubQuery’s Common Good API features:**

-   Supports **74 Substrate-based networks** of Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem
-   The [Nova Wallet SubQuery projects](https://api.novasama.io/) are grouped based on the following supported features, each using a standard API:
    -   **Operation History:** Transfers and Extrinsics for Utility (main) token of the network
    -   **Multi-asset transfers:** Support for transfer history for tokens from ORML and Assets pallets
    -   **Staking rewards:** Rewards history and accumulated total rewards, support both Staking and ParachainStaking pallets
    -   **Staking analytics:** Queries for a current stake, validators statistics, and stake change history
    -   **OpenGov:** Queries for Aye/Nay votes, agile delegations
    -   **Multistaking:** Queries for gettings total rewards, APY/APR, stake and status simultaneously across all supported networks
-   **Hosted** on **SubQuery infrastructure** by Novasama Technologies:  
    Link: [https://api.novasama.io/](https://api.novasama.io/)
-   **Developed & maintained** by Novasama Technologies, available in open source:
    -   Operation history: [https://github.com/novasamatech/subquery-nova](https://github.com/novasamatech/subquery-nova)
    -   OpenGov: [https://github.com/novasamatech/subquery-governance](https://github.com/novasamatech/subquery-governance)
    -   Multistaking: [https://github.com/novasamatech/subquery-staking](https://github.com/novasamatech/subquery-staking)
-   The SubQuery Common API extends its accessibility to a wide array of teams and projects. Notable examples of those leveraging the capabilities of the SubQuery Common API include:
    -   Nova Wallet: [https://novawallet.io/](https://novawallet.io/) (full integration)
    -   SubWallet: [https://subwallet.app/](https://subwallet.app/) (full integration till January 2023, partial till today)
    -   Variety of different individual projects based on data from SubQuery

Please make sure to check the [full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtp4Go1-qHy7OU4DV05S6CIQUTGzSgVpmXF4ql9jy_I) for more information and the costs decomposition:

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtp4Go1-qHy7OU4DV05S6CIQUTGzSgVpmXF4ql9jy\_I](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtp4Go1-qHy7OU4DV05S6CIQUTGzSgVpmXF4ql9jy_I)

WHO: SubQuery

WHAT: Requesting 46,122.04 USD for Q1-Q2 2023 to cover expenses associated with maintaining the SubQuery &lt;&gt; Nova Wallet Common API infrastructure.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 46,122.04 USD for Q1-Q2 2023 (6 months)

SubQuery <> Nova Wallet Common API:  Maintenance Cost For Q1-Q2 2023

### OpenSquare Proposal Summary

- **Beneficiary**: OpenSquare (12sNU8BXivMj1xQmcd4T39ugCyHjmhir8jkPqfAw5ZDESrx4)
- **Date**: 09/18/2023
- **Requested Allocation**: $275,620 (67,438 DOT)

#### Key Points:

1. **Maintenance**: Includes server costs, email services, domains, and labor for code maintenance and bug fixes.
2. **Infrastructure**: Hetzner servers, Ali email service, IPFS pin service, and domain costs.
3. **Code Maintenance**: Focuses on Subsquare, Dotreasury, Statescan, and Off-chain voting products.
4. **New Features**: Development of off-chain discussion decentralization, delegation UI enhancements, on-chain governance deposit management, and more.
5. **Budget Breakdown**: Maintenance costs $65,700, with additional budgets for new features in Subsquare, Dotreasury, and Off-chain voting.
6. **Total Budget**: $275,620, including both maintenance and new feature development.
7. **Long-term Vision**: OpenSquare aims to build a decentralized collaboration network in the Polkadot ecosystem, focusing on infrastructure and data indexing.
8. **User Metrics**: OpenSquare's products attract a significant number of users, contributing to the ecosystem's growth.

OpenSquare infrastructure products maintenance(2023 Q2 and Q3) and a new batch of features development

Polkadot's nomination system is important for the network's security and decentralization. Nominators choose the best nodes and are rewarded for their actions. However, some nominators behave suboptimally and risk losing rewards. To help nominators improve their actions, a solution called Motif is proposed. Motif includes leaderboards for nominator rewards and validator payouts, which will help nominators learn from the best and make better decisions. This will benefit the Polkadot ecosystem by improving decentralization and onboarding new nominators.

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**Reseath overview**

Nominators hold a crucial role in Polkadot owing to the innovative NPOS approach. They fortify the economic security of the system with genuine decentralization through their constant actions to select the best nodes and personal commitment.

This approach demands significantly more involvement and decisions from them compared to any other staking yield (L1, farming, etc.). To incentivize their contributions, economic tools are employed: nominators receive the highest APY in the market for successful actions, while strict disincentivization tools (loss of reward or slashing of personal stake) ensure adherence to the system's stability.

This blend, along with the platform's openness, enables the realization of a high level of decentralization, offering true freedom of action for participants and full permissionlessness. Any DOT holder can enter the system, undertake tasks, and earn rewards for their successful completion.

However, the attributes of decentralization, openness, and permissionlessness mean every potential or existing nominator must engage in continuous self-education and perpetual optimization of their role. The complexity and dynamism of the system, key actions specific to the Polkadot ecosystem, necessitate proactive engagement from the nominator's side with almost zero feedback loop (because of decentralization).

Indirect data (that was partially available before this research) show that nominator behavior is somewhat suboptimal. We have conducted an extensive analysis of the structure of the nomination system from the nominators' behavior perspective and its dynamics. 

**Key findings** ([full details are available in the full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1)):

-   The staking ensemble is currently "decentralizing," with the contribution of "regular accounts" growing at the expense of a transition from "whales."
-   The growth in the role of regular nominators correlates with competition among them. Moreover, the closer the personal stake of the nominator is to the disincentivization level (min-reward), the higher the competition.
    -   ![Graph 9](https://i.ibb.co/2ZK4jts/9.png) ([Zoom in new window](https://i.ibb.co/2ZK4jts/9.png))
-   A significant number of accounts are near the disincentivization border, with 50% in the min-reward growth zone of 100%.
    -   ![Graph 6](https://i.ibb.co/34zzFjN/6.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/34zzFjN/6.png)) 
-   These accounts risk falling into the potential disincentivization zone (or are already in), possibly not receiving a reward while having staked funds if their actions are not optimal.   
    -   ![Graph 19 ](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png)([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png))
-   Our research showed that, in their mass, nominators indeed behave suboptimally. This concerns both stake size control and validator set control. Therefore, during the system's transformation, a significant number of accounts lose the active set – disincentivization occurs.
    -   ![Graph 26 ](https://i.ibb.co/SxgGfKx/26.png)([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/SxgGfKx/26.png))
    -   ![Graph 19](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png))
-   The non-receipt of rewards as a disincentivization tool works harshly: currently, 40% of nominators do not return (dropout) to the active set after its loss, a number that is increasing.
    -   ![Graph 17](https://i.ibb.co/ThFc33z/17.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/ThFc33z/17.png))
    -   ![Graph 16](https://i.ibb.co/9qSnd0Z/16.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/9qSnd0Z/16.png))
-   Simultaneously, our research showed that there is a set of super-effective regular nominators in the system (not just basically performing target tasks in the system, but doing it super-effectively).
    -   ![Graph 25](https://i.ibb.co/drmr2xd/25.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/drmr2xd/25.png))
-   These accounts proficiently manage both stake size and validator choice over the long term. A nonzero number of them even never missed the active set for the last 500 eras with growing median reward. 
    -   ![Graph 24](https://i.ibb.co/rmBdm70/24.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/rmBdm70/24.png))
    -   ![Graph 31](https://i.ibb.co/HTdmmwZ/31.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/HTdmmwZ/31.png)) 
-   Their actions are easily observable and visible on-chain ([data can be found in the full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1)).

**Proposed solution**

Given the presence of these efficient nominators, we can implement benchmarking based on their activities, continuously showcasing optimal actions and outcomes. By utilizing unbiased on-chain data in an open-source format, this method demonstrates superior strategies without necessitating centralized actions or permissions.

Benchmarking works as a self-learning tool for nominators (what the best nominators do, when they increase the stake, which validators and when they choose), as well as a feedback loop in the nomination process (the nominator can understand their effectiveness, compare it with the best, etc.).

We propose the implementation of nominator leaderboards – dashboards that visualize nominator behavior, offering a comprehensive view of actions and results within the system. The leaderboard allows showing the entire range of actions and results that exist in the system.

These leaderboards serve as a user-friendly interface over the core incentivization mechanism, aiming to prompt nominators to act before facing disincentivization, thus softening the tool's impact without compromising its efficacy.

By centering on regular accounts, this tool amplifies the decentralization effect, making it universally accessible and comprehensible, regardless of language, location, or depth of blockchain/ecosystem knowledge.

**Key components** of the system include:

1.  Nominator Dashboard: A leaderboard for nominator rewards with insights and behavior analysis.
2.  Validator Dashboard: A leaderboard for validator long-term rewards and real payouts with insights and trends.
3.  Nomination Pool Dashboard: A leaderboard for nominator rewards and payouts with insights and trends.

**Team and traction**

Our team specializes in researching user behavior in the web3 ecosystem. We have a track record with research in the blockchain industry, specifically in DeFi traders' behavior, dApp user experience, and utilizing AI&ML. Our team already has relevant experience with different methods of blockchain research. We have conducted research to determine the most suitable method for this case. Astar, dYdX, Lido done and methods that were tested ([Samples can be found in the Appendix.1 at the end of this proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1)).

**Interface sketches**

The implementation of the interface will take the form of a “desktop” webapp, providing users with a convenient way to explore the system's capabilities. The design will follow the style of "Similarweb," known for its user-friendly and visually appealing approach. The following is a basic layout and visual example of an internal project page. Please note that the dataset provided in the [full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1) is illustrative and subject to change.

**Benefits for Polkadot ecosystem from Motif**

The Motif platform empowers key stakeholders with valuable data, insights, and educational resources. It aligns interests, optimizes engagement, and fosters a stronger and more collaborative Polkadot community.

-   Benefits for Nominators:
    -   Nominators self-education and benchmarking
    -   Higher stickiness of system participants due to Confidence and Understanding of the system's operation
    -   Nominating based on data-driven insights (not just the minimum stake or a known name)
-   Benefits for Validators:
    -   Competition Beyond Low Fee
    -   Data-Driven Strategy:
    -   Optimized Engagement
    -   Potential reward growth due to improving the work of nominators in the system.
-   Community-Wide Benefits
    -   Decentralization focus
    -   Onboarding newcomer nominators and Retaining Members

Also, an open-source platform for the ecosystem. Based on this solution, additional elements or separate products can be based, which will improve the effectiveness of the feedback loop.

**Thanks for support** 

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to those who have significantly assisted us during the nine months we prepared this proposal: Bill Laboon, Jonas Gehrlein, Raul Romanutti, Bryan Chen, Otar, Anaelle, Alex Promoteam, Tim, Denis Pisarev, Kirill Pimenov, Alice Faultcore, Subsquid guys and Dmitry, Jay Chrawnna, Tugy and Ra from Amforc, Tom, Ilhan, CoinStudio, Greg from Ryabina, and many more members from our community.

Motif proposes to implement nominator leaderboards, dashboards that visualize nominator behavior, offering a comprehensive view of actions and results within the Polkadot system. This tool aims to prompt nominators to act before facing disincentivization, thus softening the tool's impact without compromising its efficacy. The proposed solution will include Nominator, Validator, and Nomination Pool Dashboards. The team has relevant experience with different methods of blockchain research and will implement the interface in the form of a desktop web app.

Polkadot Nominator Insight Hub. Spreading the Best Nominator Strategies through TOP Nomination Leaderboards

- The proposal is about a bounty program to improve how people can buy cryptocurrencies with regular money (fiat) in the Polkadot community.
- It aims to help 20 different parachains and integrate an on-ramp service with the Polkadot Asset Hub.
- There are current challenges like high costs and difficulties for new users to enter the ecosystem.
- A previous bounty for a similar service on Kusama was successful, and now the same idea is being brought to Polkadot.
- The program will involve 15 assets with a total funding request of $326,040.
- This will allow users to easily buy assets and put them straight into their accounts without extra steps.
- The team seeks support from the community to make this idea happen.

Interlay proposes a bounty program to fund the fiat on-ramp service for 20 parachains and on-ramp integration for Asset Hub in the Polkadot ecosystem, costing $326,040. They aim to bridge the gap between traditional payment systems and the Polkadot ecosystem and encourage widespread adoption. The proposal has been successful in Kusama.

Polkadot Parachain Assets Onramp Bounty Program

Hello there! We have a new idea to share with you. We want to make a program called Polkadot Live that will help people use a special kind of computer network called blockchain on their computers. This program will let people get messages and do things right from their computer without needing to go on the internet.

A man named Ross showed how this could work at a big meeting in 2023. We want to get money to hire a very good computer programmer to help make this program a reality. This person will work with Ross to make the program better and better.

We are asking for 24,937 DOT (which is like money) to make this happen. We will use the money to pay the person we hire and to help manage the project. We also want to share the computer code for Polkadot Live with everyone on the internet so they can use it too.

We hope to start this project on September 27, 2023. If you want to learn more, you can read our full plan on a website called Google Doc. We also talked about this idea with other people and you can see what they said on a website called Polkassemby.

Hello community!

We are posting this proposal to move Polkadot Live development into the community and aim to get funding for 1 full-time senior software engineer for a 12 month period.

**Overview**

Ross Bulat (Parity Technologies) [demoed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78SZZ_ZA64&t=530s) a new blockchain user experience at Polkadot Decoded 2023, showing how Polkadot interaction can happen on the desktop.

The app, named Polkadot Live, is centred around 2 key fundamentals:

-   Notifications that are delivered directly to the user, as they happen, in a decentralised manner (node RPC & light client driven), The ability to quickly respond to those notifications, by submitting extrinsics, directly on the desktop. These “quick actions” should be complementary to existing dapps, and not act as replacements.
-   Readers of this document are encouraged to watch the entire presentation for the rationale of the product, the problems it solves, what has been achieved thus far with the prototype demoed, and the general roadmap of the app.

This proposal in an effort to secure funding to onboard **one full-time senior developer** to contribute to the Polkadot Live product and bring it to an initial release. This full time developer will report directly to Ross, who leads and oversees the direction of the app.

This will primarily be an engineering effort, but promotion / marketing efforts will also be explored when the product is ready for a beta release, in order to receive feedback from the community and shape the product to community expectations.

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Proposal Details:

**Proposal Start Date:** 27th September 2023

**Proposal Submitted By**: Joel Kenny, JKRB Investments / [Website](https://jkrbinvestments.com/) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/11080617)

**Advisor, Technical Direction**: Ross Bulat, Parity Technologies

**Requested Funds**: 24,937 DOT ($100k @ $4.01 / 1 DOT)

**Planned Fund Allocation**:

-   15% / $15,000: to JKRB Investments (manager of contractual agreement(s), onboarding of software engineer, milestones and project management oversight). Paid in bulk upon successful proposal approval, with immediate commencement of works.
-   80% / $80,000: 12-month allocation of monthly salary for 1 full-time senior software engineer. $6,666 / monthly salary, $50 per hour / 6 hour days.
-   5%: Contingencies, unforeseen expenses. To be held in DOT until if / when contingency expenses come about.

**Deliverables:**

-   Initial release of Polkadot Live app, for macOS and Windows.
-   Open sourcing of Polkadot Live codebase on Github.

**Full Proposal Document:** [Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BVNIob4QOuv0hVGjEqYqgtz3pvsyTyqPb-wGuputgUs/edit?usp=sharing)

**Pre-Proposal Discussion with Feedback**: [Polkassemby Link](../post/1915)

Polkadot Live development seeks funding for 1 full-time senior software engineer for 12 months. The engineer will report to Ross Bulat and work on the Polkadot Live app, which aims to improve the blockchain user experience. The requested funds are 24,937 DOT ($100k @ $4.01 / 1 DOT), with 15% going to JKRB Investments and 80% for the engineer's salary. The deliverables include an initial release of the app for macOS and Windows and open sourcing of the codebase on Github.

Polkadot Live: Proposal for funding community driven development to initial release.

AIWeb3 is a group that wants to help grow the Polkadot community in China. They create educational content, build communities, and help people understand Polkadot projects. They have 10 content creators and a Discord community with over 690 members. AIWeb3 got support from Kusama but now they want to get support from Polkadot too. They have a plan to make a Polkadot Academy in Chinese and have talked to Parity about it. The team includes people like DrCAO, Neo, Giki, and Xiucai, who all love web3 and Polkadot. They are asking for your support and feedback to help the Polkadot community grow.

After careful consideration and discussions with various peers in the wider Polkadot community, AIWeb3 has decided to resubmit its opengov proposal following a recent miss: [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261.](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261.)

We believe that there is value in fostering the growth of Chinese content creators to continue enhancing awareness, as well as growing the Polkadot Chinese community.

Although we previously missed out we garnered significant support with 283 voters in favour versus 82 voters against, thus, we shall now be taking our proposal to Polkadot opengov instead.

Founded in February 2023 and supported by the Kusama treasury for an intitial 6 month period, AIWeb3 can be considered a play on words Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the decentralized web. While we anticipate that the future of web3 will harmonize the principles of "the law of code," AI, and decentralization, our name holds a more fitting significance. In Chinese, "AI" symbolized by "爱" translates to the word love, giving rise to "Love Web3". The name may have bought about some misunderstanding about what AIWeb3 is all about, furthermore, given we came from the WagMedia intiative then naturally most people just associate us with content production.

AIWeb3 covers Chinese educational content creation,community-building, AMA events in Chinese, provides native language asistance to ecosystem builders, and more.

For instance, we hosted a spaces AMA in August that had over 500 people tune in live, which isn’t bad considering how difficult it is to attract live audiences during the bear. Here is the recording, which has gone on to successfully attract decent listening figures: [https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084](https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084)

You will often find us being involved on the Chinese discord channels for many of the ecosystem projects, where we will offer assistance as well as educate newbies by providing them the Chinese content that has been created.

From a community perspective, we currently have 10 active content creators, we also have our own dedicated discord with custom bots to make it easier for our growing Chinese language community of over 690 members. This isn't just about numbers, we want to establish an environment that grows genuine connections between users, creators, and our ecosystem builders.

We have educated our community on Polkadot projects not commonly known by Chinese audiences. For instance, not many have heard of Ajuna Network and would have missed out on all the fun with season 2 Awesome Ajuna Avatars. Recently, we have been tasked by Hashed Network to help them with hiring Chinese ambassadors to support their growth.

Whilst the Kusama funding was to cover a 6 month period, we have managed funds judiciously, in addition, we secured additional funds from parachains and ecosystem projects.

We're now working on the possibility of a comprehensive Polkadot Academy in Chinese, reflecting our commitment to education. We have reached out to Parity, and whilst this is still in the early stages, we have received materials and resources that we can use for a more structured pathway.

AIWeb3 is a passionate group of enthusiasts who have a love for web3 and Polkadot. Our team includes:

DrCAO, an ambassador for various parachains, a member of ChaosDAO, one of the pioneering WagMedia language content directors, a prolific educational content creator who supports the ecosystem in many ways (you can verify his wallet address: 5CkWjh9tdPkJCFVmbSknjDk8MVuUinhu6fCnbu6DVxggLpbv and twitter: [https://twitter.com/cao\_lab](https://twitter.com/cao_lab) ).

Neo, our tech expert with an extensive history of over 10,000 xcm transactions.

Giki, who has produced numerous quality videos, manages our community wechat video channels, and serves as our AMA event host.

Xiucai, shall oversee the ambassador program and Polkadot Academy initiative, he also boasts a solid following on YouTube ([https://www.youtube.com/@xiucai-finance](https://www.youtube.com/@xiucai-finance)). There are many others that help shape our community, all united by the love of our ecosystem and unwavering belief in holding DOT/KSM as well as various ecosystem tokens.

Please support us, your DOT vote matters, your feedback is welcomed, and we hope you join us in growing the Polkadot community.

Full proposal can be found here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slcn2X8YYFICwJYLzpHPUSuqTB\_Va\_MfuWC59ya-IoY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slcn2X8YYFICwJYLzpHPUSuqTB_Va_MfuWC59ya-IoY/edit?usp=sharing)

经过与波卡社区中的同行讨论以及慎重的考虑，AIWeb3决定重新提交我们的提案，这是之前的提案：[https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261。](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261。)

我们认为培养中文内容创作者对于继续增强以及增长Polkadot中国社区是有价值的。

尽管我们之前提案被否决，但我们获得了相当大的支持，有283名选民支持，与此相对的是82名选民反对，因此，我们现在将提议提交给波卡的opengov。

AIWeb3成立于2023年2月，并得到了Kusama基金会的初次为期6个月的支持。AIWeb3可以被视为“人工智能”(AI)与去中心化网络的双关语。我们预期web3的未来将和谐地融合 AI和去中心化的原则，但我们的名字具有更为贴切的意义。在中文中，"AI"（爱）的意思是“爱”，产生了“Love Web3”这一名字。这个名字可能已经产生了一些误解，再加上我们来自WagMedia，因此大多数人自然地将AI与内容制作联系了起来。

AIWeb3涵盖了中文教育内容的创建、社区建设、中文AMA活动，为生态系统建设者提供本地语言的帮助等。

例如，我们在8月份主持了一个AMA活动，吸引了超过500人实时收听，考虑到在熊市期间吸引实时观众的难度，我们对这个数字还是很满意的。这里是相关的录音，已经成功地吸引了相当多的人收听：[https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084](https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084)

您经常可以在很多平行链的中文discord频道中发现我们的身影，我们会提供帮助，并提供创建的中文教程来帮助新手。

从社区的角度看，我们目前有10位活跃的内容创作者，我们还有自己的discord频道，有定制的机器人来方便服务我们不断增长的中文社区，社区已经有超过690名成员。数字并不能代表全部，但我们希望建立一个能够促进用户、创作者和我们的生态系统建设者之间真实联系的良好环境。

我们已经在我们的社区提供了很多关于波卡项目的知识，其中的一些项目在中国受众中并不常见。例如，很少人听说过Ajuna，如果没有我们，他们可能就错过了与第二季Awesome Ajuna Avatars相关的所有乐趣，同时我们也正在为hashed network招聘中文大使。

尽管Kusama的资金是为了覆盖6个月的周期，但我们一直在谨慎地管理了资金，此外，我们还从平行链和生态系统项目中获得了额外的资金。

我们现在正在考虑用中文创建一个波卡学院，这反映了我们对教育的承诺。我们已经联系了Parity，尽管这还处于初级阶段，但我们已经从Parity那里获得了可以用于结构化的材料和资源。

AIWeb3是一群对web3和Polkadot充满热情的爱好者。我们的团队包括： DrCAO，他是多个平行链的大使，ChaosDAO的成员，WagMedia的中文社区负责人，他是一个多产的教育内容创作者，从多个方面支持Dotsama生态系统（您可以验证他的钱包地址：5CkWjh9tdPkJCFVmbSknjDk8MVuUinhu6fCnbu6DVxggLpbv 和 twitter: [https://twitter.com/cao\_lab）。](https://twitter.com/cao_lab）。) Neo，我们的技术专家，有超过10,000次的xcm交易记录。 Giki，他制作了大量的高质量视频，管理我们的社区微信视频频道，并担任我们的AMA活动主持人。 Xiucai，将负责大使项目和Polkadot Academy倡议，他在YouTube上也有很大的关注度。 还有许多其他人帮助塑造我们的社区，所有人都被我们的生态系统的热爱和对持有DOT/KSM以及各种生态系统代币的坚定信念团结在了一起。

请支持我们，您的DOT投票很重要，我们欢迎您的反馈，希望您加入我们，共同发展Polkadot中文社区。 大家可以查看中文版的提案： [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15T-gkRUxYxEG4aOicoMGg\_11T3pJluB94KPcHppJFvE/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15T-gkRUxYxEG4aOicoMGg_11T3pJluB94KPcHppJFvE/edit?usp=sharing)

WHO: AIWeb3

WHAT: Resubmitting opengov proposal to foster growth of Chinese content creators, provide Chinese educational content creation, community-building, AMA events in Chinese, native language assistance to ecosystem builders, and more.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Supported by Kusama treasury for initial 6 month period, managed funds judiciously, secured additional funds from parachains and ecosystem projects. Working on possibility of a comprehensive Polkadot Academy in Chinese. Full proposal can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slcn2X8YYFICwJYLzpHPUSuqTB_Va_MfuWC59ya-IoY/edit?usp=sharing

AIWeb3 Chinese Unit proposal (爱Web3 中文社区提案) - September, 2023 - March, 2024

### Moderation Team Bounty Curators

- **Curator Account**: An anonymous proxy controlled by a multisig account.
- **Multisig Account**: A ⅔ multisig controlled by three signatories.
- **Signatories**:
  - Abdulbee: 15cZn8K1DaE7qiBWK6mGFJMKYKjFrALTVwe5urpD9PzKSsPY
  - Grizzly: 12wnTQnY3qUTCofi792fTdf9HpQQ6jmyxrVdwyT6X2Jed4Yg
  - Elodie: 13QA4oQ9zcD11DmS4fFKtd54Erj15fafQmhUu8kjEW28oBZo
- **Purpose**: To manage the Moderation Team Bounty, rewarding community moderators.
- **Proposal Document**: Contains detailed information about the signatories.

WHO: The Moderation Team

WHAT: Proposing curators for the Moderation Team Bounty

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Moderation Team Bounty Curator Proposal

- PolkaWorld made changes to their proposal after it was rejected.
- They are asking for funding to help them operate from October 2023 to March 2024.
- The proposal includes their story and important ideas they've followed for four years.
- They have improved their tasks to include content creation and marketing.
- They shared answers to questions the community had.
- People are encouraged to review the proposal and vote.

WHO: PolkaWorld
WHAT: Proposal for community operational funding from October 2023 to March 2024, including adjustments and optimizations to work tasks and expanded marketing efforts.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2023.10 - 2024.3

Lucky Friday is asking for 45,074 DOT from the Polkadot Treasury to improve Teddy DAO and work with the Polkadot brand. Teddy DAO is a project that helps people give to charity using the Polkadot network. They want to use the money to make the project better and tell more people about it. 

Teddy DAO has already worked with JustGiving, a big online donation platform, and has raised almost $13,000. They give all the money to charity, and only a small fee goes to JustGiving for payment processing. Teddy DAO is a registered charity.

The Lucky Friday Team believes in Polkadot and wants Teddy DAO to be a big part of Web3, which is a new way of using the internet. They hope that people who have Polkadot tokens will help them with their mission.

![](https://i.ibb.co/yqbHJZh/Banner-Teddytw.png)

_**TL;DR**_

Lucky Friday seeks a medium spender disbursement from the Polkadot Treasury in the amount of 45,074 DOT in order to improve the Teddy DAO product and co-market it alongside the Polkadot brand. The requested amount will be delivered to, and administered by, a multisig account. Once received, Teddy DAO can use these funds to directly support the future development of the project as well as marketing initiatives aimed at bringing new users to the Polkadot ecosystem, including traditional Web2 donors.

All details regarding our team, its past achievements, as well as the plan for how we will use the funding can be found in the complete proposal [_**HERE**_](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c_Anh4Cll-W_6csfGGUiIWkBG47k0kkuyLVV9mcGm9M/edit?usp=sharing)

Key highlights from the proposal:

-   We have partnered with JustGiving, one of the largest online donation platforms in the world that has raised over £6bn for charity
-   100% of funds are used to support charity; 1.9% B2B fee goes to JustGiving for payment processing, and the remaining 98% goes to the charity of the donor’s choice The Teddy DAO Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3)
-   With nothing beyond organic marketing, Teddy DAO has already raised nearly $13K and seen 4 new users to the ecosystem win a Teddy as well as multiple others joining the community to learn more about the ecosystem
-   Our all time high donation thus far was 5000 GLMR or ~ $1200 USD at the time 

We are ecosystem agents who believe in the power of Polkadot and its future promise. We believe that Teddy DAO has the potential to become the most widely recognized brand for charitable giving in all of Web3, and we hope the token holders will help us accomplish this mission on behalf of our entire community.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, comments, and support.

Gratefully,

The Lucky Friday Team

Lucky Friday requests 45,074 DOT from the Polkadot Treasury to improve Teddy DAO product and co-market it with Polkadot brand. The funds will be used for future development and marketing initiatives to attract new users to the ecosystem. Full proposal can be found in the link provided.

Polkadot & Teddy DAO: A New Way to Leverage Charitable Giving in Web3

Parachains.info is a website that gives information about parachain projects and auctions in the Polkadot ecosystem. They want to get money from the Polkadot Treasury to keep their website running and make it better. They are asking for 92,160 USD (22,400 DOT) to cover their costs for a year. They have been on the Kusama network before and now they want to be part of the Polkadot network too. You can find more details about their proposal on their website and social media pages.

**Proponent:** PARACHAINS.INFO  
**DOT address:** 1pzhyYR9gLk3GmwRtQESLkJCUXazFsAESgcbTRLc9q9hNuy  
**Requested Allocation:** 92,160 USD (22,400 DOT)

[Parachains.info](Parachains.info "Parachains.info") provides users of the Polkadot ecosystem with a centralised repository of unbiased information regarding parachain projects and auctions. Our previous proposals were on the Kusama network in [November 2021](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1091) and [October 2022](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/child_bounty/30). Since the project brings value to both networks, we are presenting the current proposal to the Polkadot Treasury. This proposal seeks to obtain funding for the continued operations, maintenance and development of the website. The proposal covers 9-month period postpaid (December 2022 - August 2023) and 3-month period prepaid (September 2023 - November 2023).

Please view the full proposal here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GJETDh\_OO2AJauG3J0jY\_ovLGr7b8y6HFbpOC0K4xw/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GJETDh_OO2AJauG3J0jY_ovLGr7b8y6HFbpOC0K4xw/edit?usp=sharing)

Website: [https://parachains.info](https://parachains.info)  
Twitter: [https://twitter.com/parachains](https://twitter.com/parachains)  
Youtube: [https://www.youtube.com/parachains](https://www.youtube.com/parachains)

![](https://i.ibb.co/ZTxKs19/L1500x500.png)

WHO: Parachains.info
WHAT: Obtain funding for continued operations, maintenance, and development of a central repository of unbiased information regarding parachain projects and auctions in the Polkadot ecosystem.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 92,160 USD (22,400 DOT) for a 9-month period postpaid (December 2022 - August 2023) and 3-month period prepaid (September 2023 - November 2023).

Retroactive and future maintenance/development of Parachains.info

Hello Polkadot ecosystem community! We are excited to share our work on the proposal approved on March 23, 2023, and we are asking for more funds to develop OpenBrush's milestones 8-9 and 11.

**Context:**
Our proposal was approved by 79.4% of Kusama OpenGov, but the second funding installment did not pass. We don't think there are any problems with our work or OpenBrush, which is used by many projects like AlephZero, Astar Network, and Phala Network. Some tokenholders suggested we ask for funding on Polkadot.

**Summary:**
OpenBrush helps grow the WASM smart contracts field. WebAssembly is the future of smart contracts, and OpenBrush is a key tool for ink! dApps. Over 15 teams and 3 parachains use OpenBrush, and this proposal will help us add more features that developers need.

**Stakeholders and Users:**
AlephZero, Astar Network, Phala Network, SubWallet, Artzero, Abax Finance, and many others.

**Delivery:**
You can read our delivery report and the full proposal here: [Google Doc Link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_gPHNn1L3lDEglil3S7t-xdl00Gz66dUHKkfNM51a8/edit?usp=sharing)

The requested amount is 14,833.623 DOT.

Hey Polkadot ecosystem community!

We are happy to deliver our work on the proposal approved on the 23rd of March 2023 and are requesting a second allocation of funds for the development of 8-9, 11 milestones of [OpenBrush](https://openbrush.io/).

**Context**

Proposal was initially approved on Kusama OpenGov by a majority of 79.4%. [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/138](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/138)  
However the delivery proposal failed by a small majority (second installment) — [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/262](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/262)  
There was no indication of any delivery problems, so we assume the prorblem wasn't about delivery itself. Also, we assume the problem isn't about the importance or the quality of OpenBrush. OpenBrush is a widely used tool being leveraged my numerous projects (AlephZero, Astar Network, Phala Network, SubWallet, Artzero, Abax Finance).  
Consequently we were suggested by some of the tokenholders to request retroactive funding on Polkadot.

**TL;DR**

The purpose of OpenBrush is to grow the emerging WASM smart contracts field. As Gavin mentioned in this [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/05/25/polkadots-gavin-wood-webassembly-is-the-future-of-smart-contracts-but-legacy-evm-is-right-now/) article, WebAssembly is the future of smart contracts. Also, as was mentioned in the approved [WASM smart contracts bounty](../post/1491) currently smart contracts parachains lead the ecosystem in terms of market adoption. However, despite WASM tech having a lot to offer, it's not being widely used at the moment simply because of lack of proper tooling and ecosystem infrastructure products

OpenBrush is a core infrastructure product, a starting point, and a base for every ink! dApp. 15+ production-grade teams and 3 parachains currently use OpenBrush. This proposal is a continuation of the development of the successful product, proposing the most developer-needed features, validated by market feedback.

**List of OpenBrush stakeholders & users:**

AlephZero, Astar Network, Phala Network, SubWallet, Artzero, Abax Finance, AZERO.ID, Panorama Swap, Andromeda Swap, ink!Whale, Interlock, ArthSwap, ZapFi, Liberum DAO, Kagla Finance, Starlay, Paras, Koda Dot, Pink Robot, Zstake and 100 + unnamed devs and teams in our Discord.

**Delivery**

You can find our delivery report here: (feel free to find the initial fulll proposal there as well)

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o\_gPHNn1L3lDEglil3S7t-xdl00Gz66dUHKkfNM51a8/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_gPHNn1L3lDEglil3S7t-xdl00Gz66dUHKkfNM51a8/edit?usp=sharing)

The amount was calculated as follows: 60720$/4.093=14833.623 DOT

WHO: OpenBrush development team
WHAT: Requesting a second allocation of funds for the development of 8-9, 11 milestones of OpenBrush, a core infrastructure product for ink! dApps in the Polkadot ecosystem
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 14833.623 DOT

ink! OpenBrush 8-9, 11 milestone delivery

Notifi Network is a cross-chain communication and messaging infrastructure for web3 builders. They offer devtools for web3 projects to send real-time alerts to users. Notifi is asking for a grant from the Polkadot Treasury to provide their services to the Polkadot relay chain and its ecosystem parachains. They believe their platform can help increase the use of Polkadot-native platforms.

The problem Notifi is solving is the difficulty of building notifications and alerts within web3 due to the decentralized nature of user onboarding. Notifi's solution is a customizable, white-labeled communication platform that can be embedded into web3 dApps. They can monitor and parse smart contract events to create custom notifications like loan health, governance proposals, and staking alerts.

Notifi has worked with Parity and received interest from 16 parachains, wallets, and ecosystem partners for their notification services. They want to work closely with the Polkadot community and receive feedback on their proposal.

This is V2 of the proposal we submitted a few weeks back. You can find the complete details here:

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A\_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing)

**Summary:**

Notifi Network ([https://notifi.network)](https://notifi.network\)) is a cross-chain communication and messaging infrastructure designed specifically for web3 builders. Notifi’s platform offers the devtools designed for web3 projects to start sending near real-time alerts to end users. This allows web3 developers and marketers to create highly custom messages, enabling web3 teams to identify who to message and how the message is delivered. We are proposing a grant from the Polkadot Treasury that can cover the full cost of providing our services to both the Polkadot relay chain itself and its core ecosystem parachains. We believe that our platform can facilitate the increase in adoption of the Polkadot-native platforms by new and existing users in web3.

**Problem Statement**

Notifi is Solving Building notifications and alerts within web3 is a key pain point for all B2C platforms given the decentralized nature of user onboarding experience via wallets. As soon as end users onboard onto web3 dApps, the connection between the business and the consumer are immediately disintermediated, where the web3 project is not able to contact the users directly to provide useful information. We’re solving problems for two key groups of users: 1) web3 users, and 2) web3 builders and communities.

**Offering**

Notifi's Solution Notifi’s platform bridges the communication gap between web3 projects and its communities by providing the dev toolkit and infrastructure designed specifically for web. Notifi’s solution is a highly customizable, white-labelled communication platform that can be embedded natively into web3 dApps. Additionally, we’re able to monitor and parse smart contract events at a very granular level, enabling custom notifications, including loan health, governance proposals and staking alerts that are unique to parachains / dApps, while also doing it at scale. Improved notifications and communications to end users ultimately drives user activation, engagement, and retention, which is crucial for the broader Polkadot ecosystem to continue growing and remain competitive.

Over the last several months, we worked closely with Parity to engage with the core Polkadot ecosystem parachains and wallets, and we received tremendous interest from the broader community to provide our notification services to power dApps and parachains. 16 parachains, wallets and ecosystem partners have confirmed their need for Notifi’s services and committed support for Notifi’s grant proposal.

We hope to work closely with the Polkadot community at large to receive feedback on our proposal. We also appreciate that the Polkadot ecosystem is a truly community-driven ecosystem and welcome and invite feedback from the community to let us know which parachains should be included in the first batch.

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Please review our full draft proposal here:

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A\_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing)

WHO: Notifi Network
WHAT: Providing cross-chain communication and messaging infrastructure for web3 builders, with a highly customizable, white-labelled communication platform that can be embedded natively into web3 dApps. 
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Proposing a grant from the Polkadot Treasury to cover the full cost of providing services to both the Polkadot relay chain and its core ecosystem parachains. 16 parachains, wallets, and ecosystem partners have confirmed their need for Notifi's services and committed support for the proposal.

Notifi - Communication & Notification Tooling for Polkadot's Broader Ecosystem V2 Proposal

Ignore / Nay (Duplicate Ref) 

Subsquid Lab is requesting funds to cover the ongoing development and maintenance costs for public Subsquid Archives and the Giant Squid API. Subsquid Archives provide on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot, while the Giant Squid API is a set of open-source GraphQL APIs that cover commonly used data for Polkadot, Kusama, and other parachains. The requested amount is 58253.66 DOT, which is approximately $233,014.67. The funds will be used to support the operation of these services, which are critical to the Polkadot ecosystem and are used by various projects such as Polkassembly, Talisman, RMRK, and others. The proposal includes detailed statistics and costing data, which can be found in the provided links.

**Proponent:** [Subsquid Lab Official](https://polkadot.subscan.io/account/13bfKSQXoBn3AMLtZaW6BKv797fqZzsD3PYF6xpJDir3tdoE) - 13bfKSQXoBn3AMLtZaW6BKv797fqZzsD3PYF6xpJDir3tdoE

**Beneficiary:** [Subsquid Lab Official](https://polkadot.subscan.io/account/13bfKSQXoBn3AMLtZaW6BKv797fqZzsD3PYF6xpJDir3tdoE) - 13bfKSQXoBn3AMLtZaW6BKv797fqZzsD3PYF6xpJDir3tdoE

**Contact Details:** Subsquid Labs GmbH, 6302 Zug, Switzerland - [mf@subsquid.io](mailto:mf@subsquid.io)

**Short description:** Ongoing development and maintenance costs for public Subsquid Archives and the Giant Squid API

**Archive raw data:** [Archive Infrastructure Metrics - April, May, June](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQqax-cS0HO8iECupffOlhQnarfMO4ry_ML1arn_4kif6Ykei-bs-LqUpmdWHXT1c13IVfVB-MednjO/pubhtml)

**Giant Squid raw data:** [Giant Squid Infrastructure Metrics - April, May, June](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSzBVpkSUqr9vof92Th7xdbQiHYpuqhnSLM1Rpa8P_ABwZzGYcNm3I7QTWKE5bw4lIZA3YtOATg55cV/pubhtml)

**Requested DOT:** 43995.35 DOT + 14258.31 DOT **\= 58253.66 DOT = $ 233,014.67**

**Previous proposals:** [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/15](15)

### Motivation

**A) Archives**

Archives are an important piece of Polkadot and Kusama data infrastructure provided by Subsquid. They provide access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot, with more chains getting support as the ecosystem grows. They are being used as a data source for [Squids](https://app.subsquid.io/squids) and for efficient data exploration and ad-hoc queries. An up-to-date list of Archives is kept in a public [Archive Registry](https://github.com/subsquid/archive-registry/blob/main/archives.json).

The Archives, as performant data sources of historical on-chain data, are critical to the operation of backend APIs run by major projects in the Polkadot ecosystem (the list is not exhaustive):

-   Polkassembly
-   Talisman
-   RMRK
-   SubWallet (+ GiantSquid API)
-   KodaDot
-   Phala dApp
-   Subsocial + Polkaverse
-   Stellaswap
-   Beamswap
-   Polkascan (+ GiantSquid API)
-   Calamar (+ GiantSquid API)
-   Moonsama/Exosama
-   Reef
-   Manta Wallet
-   ZooDAO
-   Zenlink

All archives can be accessed and queried via an web intuitive GraphQL interface and are often used as developer friendly replacement of a block explorer.

For example, here’s a query for the last ten transfers on Kusama blockchain run against the [Kusama Archive endpoint](https://kusama.explorer.subsquid.io/graphql).

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/u/0/docs/ADP-6oF28QRWrAQx4x6nJNPA_fSg4c73ukxfq-ATwlJOaeMkFcveUEN3abJyXlkg0M5tgxMSU9_hY00ovl7JB0PIaZV25wlpNy9QiYTah8HYt1QcfnmUiLPz61vWbAjWe6yEsIrl_dVS68yi_skDsIhpTHtk0NqWhZ2HakawVgzv13cB0Zz2GFF1uD4WduGKh1cT71w21kf8XhbV9NU8bYkYjJht4UPz5CEmrc-J8V-1g6zjdMK0TWcbRtZE469tyZurbsR6hrxtz3AgcT-yBnIaFSR1RjuDt9cU4ON1EuhAYFfbt_hxKS5eJAmkJnoRN9b98lm3z-ENAW4F4lGD4eaefmLjW0Ni96jVwyx2-0qpj_FCU8M4Jv-ADArSOogQU6E4WMjJ0IXO0G0wvqcpJritTjnVfaMg1BWVP4coevffowL396wjU7-php3xXPT1cYJHRi9hob4LQQUYXeBz_oGA2mcZ-VTw8fonH_Q5H3MWRqaaPttS618JzrkVaeEGScCMF9qJ5tMwBeMFQ9rcG9njN1frHKgaco97oSsZsSygw-OsuCAyBta90ZmHWeHo3ZJqtRNBdE33rEzJlBvlVo4uCVbMnjE_64s5bz2-OQczY8bEdjD6v7g4awrLXZXwx1zdRnHkc5TZsnG65LhbYXzLus-n-drRCSuk-67GihaJrMul5IoKRgHaUJekuQVaFNnL4YhKAGOotb7tvvNCLdDtpfnwZdg_bhGrALNf8b4hGBfJL1_cHPeTeKj2IrsCBVz1cm7EQp6fx5VTXD3oJnwLkx09vmauHqlftCgqfzYjSvL5E2yWRHI5NZa5igjdV9UNPUvj_LB4-NvVx_RCofmUNjC62qj8AUYJH8z7RhIvGmpvpdesVlFgFqlB-VMhPd8emdb6l1089w7jrc3bODqhQuNtEbM)

Over the seconf Quarter of 2023 we've provided a free public data indexing service for ~95 Substrate blockchains (some archives have been dismissed, new ones have been added), so that everyone interested in the projects can publicly access indexed data on Substrate Events, Extrinsics, Storage Items and EVM logs. Here are projects (parachains and mainnets aiming for future parachains slots) we currently support:

-   acala
-   agung
-   aleph-zero
-   aleph-zero-testnet
-   altair
-   amplitude
-   astar
-   astar-evm
-   bajun
-   basilisk
-   bifrost
-   bifrost-polkadot
-   bitcountry-pioneer
-   calamari
-   centrifuge
-   cere
-   clover
-   collectives
-   composable-finance
-   crab
-   crust
-   darwinia
-   debionetwork
-   dorafactory
-   efinity
-   elysium
-   elysium-testnet
-   equilibrium
-   exosama
-   foucoco
-   frequency
-   frequency-testnet
-   gear-testnet
-   gemini-2a-testnet
-   gmordie
-   hashed
-   heiko
-   hydradx
-   imbue
-   integritee-network
-   interlay
-   invarch-tinkernet
-   joystream
-   kabocha
-   karura
-   khala
-   kilt
-   kintsugi
-   kusama
-   kylin
-   litentry
-   litmus
-   mangata-x
-   manta
-   moonbase
-   moonbase-evm
-   moonbeam
-   moonbeam-evm
-   moonriver
-   moonriver-evm
-   origin-trail
-   pangolin
-   parallel
-   peaq
-   pendulum
-   phala
-   picasso
-   pichiu
-   polkadex
-   polkadot
-   polymesh
-   reef
-   reef-testnet
-   robonomics
-   rococo
-   shibuya
-   shiden
-   snow
-   soonsocial
-   sora
-   sora-testnet
-   statemine
-   statemint
-   subsocial
-   t0rn
-   tanganika
-   ternoa
-   tidechain
-   turing
-   vara
-   westend-collectives
-   xsocial
-   xx-network
-   zeitgeist

**B) Giant Squid** Giant Squid is a set of open-source GraphQL APIs built with Squid SDK and maintained by Subsquid Labs. The APIs cover the most commonly used data for Pokadot, Kusama and a growing list of major parachains and is used by explorers (such as [Calamar](https://calamar.app/) and [Polkascan](https://explorer.polkascan.io/)) and wallets (e.g. [SubWallet](https://www.subwallet.app/)).

The Giant Squid currently consists of two families of endpoints outlined below. The API endpoints for each network and the current status are available at the [Status page](https://docs.subsquid.io/giant-squid-api/statuses/).

**Explorer API. The endpoint URLs follow the convention [https://squid.subsquid.io/gs-explorer-${network}/graphql.](https://squid.subsquid.io/gs-explorer-${network}/graphql.) Support queries on:**

-   Blocks
-   Events
-   Extrinsics
-   Calls

**Statistics API. The endpoint URLs follow the convention [https://squid.subsquid.io/gs-stats-${network}/graphql.](https://squid.subsquid.io/gs-stats-${network}/graphql.) Support queries on:**

-   Validator/Collator data
-   Account balances
-   Staking statistics
-   Nomination pools statistics
-   Transfers statistics
-   Extrinsic statistics

### Achievements

-   Subsquid Network in private testnet
-   Powering ≈ 550 live projects in Q1 2023 ( ≈ 650 as of August 2023) including substrate and evm
-   Archive requests increased by 6.5x (from ~160 million to ~1.05 billion)
-   Arrow Squid release: The main feature introduced by the ArrowSquid update is the new ability of the processor to ingest unfinalized blocks directly from a network node, instead of waiting for the archive to ingest and serve it first. The processor can now handle forks and rewrite the contents of its database if it happens to have indexed orphaned blocks. This allows Subsquid-based APIs to become near real-time and respond to the on-chain activity with subsecond latency.Another major feature introduced by ArrowSquid is the support for transaction execution receipts, traces and state diffs.

### Statistics and data

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/gifFP-DbmhdP_A-8mJ9wnLpL5BhMSEPFZcskNZVswYTSDNcbYF5eKEBBq4soKcb70-HDxbbYi4gZOrsUUEjA5SSEtXVcELRIMq_Rj74y76zmzr5y9JKse0KtSX-0vCMdoXJwrTiSeQhoJaXlOHfFPCM)

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dUxinCvs3irjanC5b16Out7ZPF_YHl53oVSLDMDAQn_w3qP2m5mzdPxvYJRMn4qF73IhlsJypK5vMGDiwy2njv21ktJRr1OunRyfEkobURM2dx7HsclaKBkKgRutiZHdAhkk_SbwnyB62qMwUVqjtRk)

**Over the course of Q2 2023:**

Over the course of Q2 2023: Served a total of 1,048,730,936 (~1 billion) queries to the substrate based archives. The highest daily total responses have been 13.6m in a single 24 hour period for substrate. The daily queries confirm a growing trend.

Giant Squid is a service we introduced in Q1 2023, and has been launched in mid-January, here are two charts showing its quick adoption by the community, as an index of its success:

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cziWhB9mPDdGxzn3f1lTxQunm-tHifzRttcXBbwQXBVKpDVwa2qiAZu1nL-tnPxgwbID98QNrz1unkL0lqI3E3HwqQPQyAZK2qwbStK-01RsKczomSv__f6-0aVEp8bK8Z5fJE1yCr7yDhusbD-vjl0)

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/SY8LpEMYcJO99eGJzX0myyqUivNa2V6Q5cQDazv1u0Ml4Ysy9iYPL-U3dh7qlb2Zk0yt5qRDFqPeqDBxhrjoUV1g9hdXATyDyhiucIV7RxR-ZGQvzQTB7s72QWskrOhNrVOFFWBNQZwBFmflRHk2Smo)

### Costing

This proposal includes the combined costs for running Giant Squid and Archives for Polkadot, Kusama and their Parachains,which amounts to a total of **58253.66 DOT**. Raw data for Archives can be seen [here.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQqax-cS0HO8iECupffOlhQnarfMO4ry_ML1arn_4kif6Ykei-bs-LqUpmdWHXT1c13IVfVB-MednjO/pubhtml) Raw data for Giant Squid can be seen [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSzBVpkSUqr9vof92Th7xdbQiHYpuqhnSLM1Rpa8P_ABwZzGYcNm3I7QTWKE5bw4lIZA3YtOATg55cV/pubhtml).

The proposal is submitted towards the Polkadot treasury. Here is a summary of the running costs for Archives, in a tabular format:

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0W89VtHm9oPhU-MYCztyFb2jZJm80bKnQIhUz6VGZ7yW5iukf_92fnVQ6q7gxoESKl49xvFYd43IknvvqN_Lyqm544pprHGmwrZKYt3HiTOYS5bWnloW9290lVzjl6DUr_Q56NuZmPzpblKE-tGSr3Q)

Giant Squid running costs:

![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Vbg9RdfW_V1EiKWmzQ5k9Tl8HbGHGvIlWOKbEzON8lRVPG0a59ejiW2W8JlkK7UOzzk0klZYTCZikGfJiCWMQoTFi9XYPevHDwLZO6N9BhQBz7p02LqbFOckvlNoqvFW-UGDw9YgGLOhZZHucllPfAQ)

You can read the full report [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRJlrLGnUVlaXnMBUGbbD450pOcockxe5Ld5jhfM1fo-K8Pxt4jE6FuHSy_nOKXRyyR_W81r_x6b1PX/pub).

WHO: Subsquid Lab Official
WHAT: Development and maintenance costs for public Subsquid Archives and the Giant Squid API
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 58253.66 DOT = $233,014.67

Subsquid - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q2 2023)

This proposal aims to help teams in the Polkadot ecosystem by making their hiring process more efficient and effective. The goal is to save time and resources by providing guidance, workshops, and access to a hiring platform. The funds will be used to help find at least 7 talented people for key positions in Polkadot teams. Each team will get support with hiring best practices, a web3 Application Tracking System, and at least one high-quality hire. The proposal has been well-received at Polkadot Decoded 2023, an important event for the Polkadot community. The request for treasury funds is considered an investment in the future of the ecosystem, and the benefits are expected to last beyond the initial expenditure. The proposers are looking forward to feedback and working with more teams in the Polkadot ecosystem.

# Introduction

[READ THE FULL PROPOSAL HERE](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Jx1spXTv79X_cT2ABooj6mkGd5uAoNEHt4lGQ4UknM/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1)

[Attempts At Governance - Interview](https://www.youtube.com/live/KUP7k5GzuE4?si=XyD413ti_XrcdN9J&t=4724)

Talent Acquisition takes a significant amount of time, resources and mental capacity from teams that should rather spend their time building. The effects of a bad hire are long lasting and can add an additional burden to teams. We propose to solve this issue by guiding teams through a streamlined, optimized hiring process and multiple workshops to demonstrate best practices, fill the talent pipeline, provide access to our hiring platform and add up to 7 high-quality hires into the ecosystem. 

Funds from the treasury will cover the service of sourcing, interviewing, strategizing, and placing at least 7 talent positions in key Polkadot ecosystem teams. 

What each participating team gets:

-   Consulting and support on hiring best practices, setting up best-in-class job profiles, interview processes, professional outreach and improving long-term team building strategies.
-   Free access to TrufflePig, a web3 Application Tracking System
-   Growing the Polkadot talent base by funneling talent into the ecosystem
-   At least 1 hire using Missing Link’s guidance and expertise

Each team will benefit from:

-   A success-oriented long-term hiring strategy
-   Generating less monetary and cultural waste by avoiding bad hires
-   Boosting their output with experienced talent
-   Saving time by utilizing Missing Link’s highly personalized sourcing, screening and pre-interview process

## A part of the Polkadot Ecosystem

Our journey in the Web3 space has been enriched by years of collaboration and partnership with prominent players in the Polkadot ecosystem. As a trusted ally to organizations like Parity, Web3 Foundation, and others, we have placed top-tier talent in key positions, contributing to their groundbreaking achievements. Our engagement with these projects has granted us deep insights into the unique requirements and dynamics of the ecosystem. We have honed our expertise in identifying talent that complements the values and objectives of the Polkadot community, laying the foundation for future success.

## Polkadot Decoded 2023: A Catalyst for Collaboration

In June 2023, we had the privilege of attending Polkadot Decoded, an event that served as a melting pot of leading minds in Polkadot. There, we engaged in many conversations with dozens of forward-thinking teams seeking to elevate their projects to new heights. We understood that hiring is an ongoing pain point that needs a holistic solution. Our approach of guiding companies through a hiring process, thereby teaching them best-practices along the way received overwhelming interest and support. Many teams agree with us that it would solve a problem that could unlock future growth and ensure success of the ecosystem as a whole.

## Building a Sustainable Future with Treasury Funds

Our funding request of only **1.6 Treasury Income Days Spent** to the Polkadot treasury is an investment in the future of the ecosystem. While we seek support upfront to initiate our talent placement program, we understand the gravity of handling treasury funds with utmost responsibility and respect. Our well-established reputation in the industry speaks for itself, backed by a history of nurturing Web3 adoption since 2017. 

## Return on Investment

Each participating team would be set up for long-term hiring success, with an actionable pipeline of candidates and best practices implemented plus the commitment to at least one hire per project. The goal is that after our engagement the hiring speed and quality will be increased and there will be less of a need for external support and resources in the future. 

**We strongly believe that the gains generated by this proposal will not only surpass but endure well beyond the immediate treasury expenditure.**

We are looking forward to hearing the community’s feedback on our proposal and working with many more teams in the Polkadot ecosystem.

[READ THE FULL PROPOSAL HERE](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Jx1spXTv79X_cT2ABooj6mkGd5uAoNEHt4lGQ4UknM/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1)

Missing Link proposes to guide Polkadot ecosystem teams through a streamlined hiring process, providing access to their hiring platform, and adding up to 7 high-quality hires. The service will be covered by funds from the treasury, costing 1.6 Treasury Income Days Spent. Each participating team will receive consulting and support on hiring best practices, access to TrufflePig, and at least 1 hire using Missing Link's guidance and expertise. The proposal aims to generate long-term hiring success, less monetary and cultural waste, and boost output with experienced talent.

Increasing Hiring Success in Polkadot by Missing Link

- A mistake was made in a proposal about funding; it was labeled wrong and needs a new vote.
- Zhixi from Interlay is sharing a plan to create a bounty program to help with buying and selling digital money on Polkadot.
- This program aims to make it easier for new users to join Polkadot by solving problems with buying and selling different tokens.
- They previously started a successful project on a similar network called Kusama.
- The new target is to help 15 assets on 14 parachains in Polkadot, including popular tokens like DOT and USDT.
- The plan includes integrating a service called Banxa to allow people to buy tokens directly with real money.
- The total cost of this project is 326,040 USD, and they are asking for community feedback and support.

Interlay proposes a bounty program to fund the fiat on-ramp service for 20 parachains and the onramp integration for Asset Hub in the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal includes 15 assets on 14 parachains, with a total cost of 326,040 USD. The integration of Banxa's fiat onramp service with the Polkadot Asset Hub is a highlight.

(VOTE NAY!!) Polkadot Parachain Assets Onramp Bounty Program 

OnFinality is a SaaS platform that provides infrastructure services for the Polkadot/Substrate community. They aim to support blockchain developers by providing core infrastructure so they can focus on building decentralized applications (dApps). OnFinality has requested $54,862 to cover ongoing and advanced costs for running high-performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, Collectives, Westend, Encointer, Bridgehub Polkadot, and Bridgehub Westend in Q3 (July, August, September).

Public RPC services are important for the Polkadot ecosystem as they reduce barriers to entry for accessing high-performance nodes and allow development teams to focus on innovation. OnFinality provides free public API services for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Collectives, and Encointer, and has recently added Bridgehub Polkadot and Bridgehub Westend.

OnFinality focuses on three key areas: performance/reliability, providing more value from their Ultimate API service, and cost optimization. They strive for a minimum of 99.99% reliability, offer advanced features like geolocation insights and Trace API support, and have added support for 14 more Polkadot parachains and various other networks. They also provide advanced rate limiting controls and a 'Paid API Revenue Share Discount' scheme to support service sustainability.

In the last three months, OnFinality's Polkadot API service has served a total of 2.7 billion responses, with a rolling 7-day average of over 21 million responses per day. The 90-day uptime for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Encointer, and Collectives was 100%, 100%, 99.66%, 99.99%, and 99.99%, respectively. The total combined running cost for Q3 is $54,862, which is less than requested in Q2 due to ongoing cost optimization efforts.

**Proposer:** [OnFinality](https://onfinality.io/) is a SaaS platform providing infrastructure services for the Polkadot/Substrate community. Our mission is to support all blockchain developers in the world by providing core infrastructure so they can focus on building the next dApp. 

**Proponent:** 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf

**Date:** 31 August 2023

Requested: USD $54,862.00 (DOT 12,153.7439)

**Short description:** Ongoing & advanced costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure in Q3 (July, August, September) for Polkadot, Statemint, Collectives, Westend, Encointer, Bridgehub Polkadot and Bridgehub Westend. 

**Full Report:** [Polkadot Q3 2023 Full Treasury Report](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gml3w_sHxiE-XEM4oQv-lGG0Erf6NubPqkCVyRZRSmM/edit?usp=sharing)

**Raw Data:** [Polkadot Data Q3 2023](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x3AT2v21PUlDCYlL495gvDNxBxIgVhoRqiOhSRVqjNs/edit#gid=745398439)

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# Why are Public RPC Services Needed in Polkadot

RPC services are critical to growing the Polkadot ecosystem by reducing the barriers to entry to access high performance nodes, and to allow development teams to focus on innovation rather than running infrastructure. Without them innovation may slow in Polkadot, as developers incur real costs to find and secure access to scalable and reliable public endpoints.

Wallets, indexers, governance tools, and other applications that we take for granted rely on these free public endpoints to power their applications, and without a diverse set of RPC providers, the Polkadot community will become more centralised and at risk of outages.

# OnFinality's RPC Service

As Polkadot's largest and most cost efficient infrastructure provider, we provide scalable free public API services for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Collectives, Encointer and have recently added Bridgehub Polkadot and Bridgehub Westend

Since our inception in November 2020 we have a long track record focussing on three key areas; performance/reliability, providing more value from our Ultimate API service, and cost optimisation.

### Performance/Reliability

OnFinality is operationally striving for a minimum of 99.99% reliability, which means less than an hour of downtime each year. We are the only RPC provider to guarantee this with actual financial penalties (see appendix A). We proudly display and share our [90 day uptime statistics](https://status.onfinality.io/) for each network publicly [here](https://status.onfinality.io/uptime/r40wwpclbwzm).

We have invested hugely into a team dedicated to optimising our application gateway and caching layer to ensure that we provide the fastest possible service for our customers. We run clusters in 5 different regions (North Virginia, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Australia) and across 4 different cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Alicloud, and our own dedicated hardware) to ensure that we are fault tolerant to any single region or cloud provider ceasing service.

### Providing more value from our Ultimate API service

For customers that do sign up for API keys, we've been adding more and more features to provide a better experience. [Geolocation insights](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-adds-geolocation-insights-for-dapps-and-api-apps/) provide statistics about where in the world communities are to help influence decisions around where to expand infrastructure and to view the effectiveness of regional BD initiatives.

OnFinality is the only provider with [Trace API](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-launches-trace-api-for-unprecedented-visibility-into-your-dapps/) support, a huge and essential enhancement allowing unprecedented visibility for dApp builders. Trace API captures and records vital information otherwise not available through regular RPC methods and extrinsics (such as complete XCM transfer records and complete list of balance changes). These APIs are essential in order for [developers like Polkaholic](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinalitys-new-trace-api-helping-colorful-notion-get-trace-data-from-over-40-substrate-chains/) and Parity's data team to parse and understand XCM transactions.

We've recently added support for 14 more Polkadot parachains as well as Osmosis, Evmos, Harmony, Arbitrum, Optimism, Fuse, DFK Chain, Celo, and Klaytn from outside the ecosystem. With over 100 supported networks, OnFinality is now the largest RPC provider worldwide (in terms of networks supported), and our ongoing expansion helps to bring more and more developers  into the Polkadot ecosystem.

### Cost Optimisation

OnFinality is very conscious about providing a strong level of support for Polkadot/Kusama at an extremely competitive price. In Q2 as we had the lowest cost per million responses across all of the major RPC providers that lodged a proposal to the Polkadot treasury ([source](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Utw2HfS7I5Gpyhrl9ejuj0CrQ4AcChGFteXdw0a8tro/edit#gid=0)).

Cost saving measurement has been a significant focus on behalf of our customers, with advanced rate limiting controls implemented. We can, for example, rate limit each client on a burst and sustained basis and based on the request methods that they are calling (e.g. each state_traceBlock request is rate limited 45x more than chain_getBlock), [read more about these advanced rate limiting tools that we've developed here](https://documentation.onfinality.io/support/public-rate-limits).

We continue to provide generous public API endpoints for over 40 different networks for common-good applications, while restricting access to high volume users that abuse the free service funded by this treasury.

We've [developed and shared our approach towards service sustainability](1270), with the introduction of a 'Paid API Revenue Share Discount' scheme. In this scheme OnFinality pools the revenue from customers that pay for higher API pricing plans and distributes this revenue pool to partners that currently pay for and own each API endpoint proportionally based on the number of paid API requests that go to that API endpoint. The scheme was introduced in Q1 of 2023 and recently resulted in a discount to [Polkadot's Q2 treasury proposal](82) of $1,364.38. The discount for Q3 will be calculated at the end of the quarter and applied to the Q4 treasury proposal.

# Service Details

In the last 3 months (2023-05-01 and 2023-07-31) our Polkadot API service has:

-   Served a total of 2.7 billion (2,678,938,975) responses
    
-   Accumulated over 41400 GB of data egress 
    
-   The highest daily total was 66  million responses in a single 24 hour period for Polkadot only
    
-   Our rolling 7 day average at the end of this period was over 21 million responses each day
    
-   Westend had over 207 million API responses in the period
    
-   Statemint had almost 80 million API responses in the period
    
-   Encointer  had over 32 million API responses in the period
    
-   Collectives had over 50  million API responses in the period
    
-   All time totals for Polkadot is 101,260,668,321 (101 Billion) since November, 2020
    

At the end of this period the 90 day uptime for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Encointer and Collectives was 100%, 100%, 99.66%, 99.99%, 99.99% respectively. You can always see live data of our API service on our public [status page](https://status.onfinality.io/).

# Costings

We are using a fixed price to allow us to bill in advance and to simplify the administration of this proposal, as well as provide cost clarity to both parties. This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Encointer and Collectives for all of Q3 plus Bridgehub Polkadot and Bridgehub Encointer for August and September.  
  
**The total combined running cost is USD $54,862.00 — thanks to our ongoing cost optimisation efforts, this is considerably less than requested in Q2.**

**For breakdown of costings and more detail, read the full report here:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gml3w\_sHxiE-XEM4oQv-lGG0Erf6NubPqkCVyRZRSmM/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gml3w_sHxiE-XEM4oQv-lGG0Erf6NubPqkCVyRZRSmM/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality requests USD $54,862.00 (DOT 12,153.7439) for Q3 2023 to cover ongoing costs for running high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, Collectives, Westend, Encointer, Bridgehub Polkadot, and Bridgehub Westend. They provide RPC services with a focus on performance/reliability, providing more value from their Ultimate API service, and cost optimization.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2023)

Hey Builders! We have a proposal for the Polkadot Treasury to create Swanky, a tool to help developers work with ink! smart contracts on Polkadot and Kusama. Swanky has two parts: Drink library and drink-cli command line tool. We want to make it easy for new developers to start and manage projects. We are asking for funding from September 2023 to February 2024. We will show our progress and complete tasks to get the funding. We already talked about our plan with the Astar community. You can find more details in the links below:

- Astar Forum: [link](https://forum.astar.network/t/swanky-roadmap-open-discussion/4801)
- ink!Hub Roadmap: [link](https://github.com/orgs/swankyhub/projects/2/views/1)
- Public discussion: [link](../post/1872)
- Full Proposal: [link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xn87R0VWuB4i3Txxxw-zwaILrk-WV6TSKnZycuLG5MA/edit?usp=sharing)

**Hey Builders!**

### [Full Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xn87R0VWuB4i3Txxxw-zwaILrk-WV6TSKnZycuLG5MA/edit?usp=sharing)

**This proposal represents a strategic opportunity to collaborate with Astar Network, AlephZero, and Phala Network on ink! tooling.**

We are excited to submit our proposal to the Polkadot Treasury for the development of Swanky, a comprehensive developer tooling solution designed to facilitate and streamline ink! (Rust) smart contract development within the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Drink! aims to provide support for ink! developers. It comes in two parts: 1. Drink library, which provides a minimal Substrate runtime allowing for ink! contracts development, together with a facade interface for interacting with it. 2. drink-cli command line tool, which puts Drink behind a friendly TUI. Our goal is to attract new developers to this space by simplifying the process of starting and managing projects.

**This proposal aims to claim funding from the Polkadot Treasury for work on the Swanky Suite tool, Drink! Tool, ink! examples, and educational content in the period from September 2023 to February 2024.**

**To ensure transparency and accountability, we propose a task-based approach to funding. Our roadmap clearly outlines each stage of ink!Hub's development, with defined objectives and deliverables. Funding will be released upon the successful completion of each task (and after review and approval through Multisig), demonstrating tangible progress and value to the Polkadot community.**

We value your feedback on the roadmap, which we've already shared with the Astar community on the:

-   [Astar Forum](https://forum.astar.network/t/swanky-roadmap-open-discussion/4801) 
-   [ink!Hub Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/swankyhub/projects/2/views/1)
-   [Public discussion](../post/1872)  
-   [Full Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xn87R0VWuB4i3Txxxw-zwaILrk-WV6TSKnZycuLG5MA/edit?usp=sharing)

WHO: Astar Network, AlephZero, and Phala Network

WHAT: Development of Swanky, a comprehensive developer tooling solution designed to facilitate and streamline ink! (Rust) smart contract development within the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Funding from the Polkadot Treasury for work on the Swanky Suite tool, Drink! Tool, ink! examples, and educational content in the period from September 2023 to February 2024. Funding will be released upon the successful completion of each task.

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