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

medium_spender

- A proposal has been made to increase the awareness of Polkadot in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
- The proposal is presented by Odaily, a well-known Chinese media company focused on blockchain.
- They are requesting 20,000 DOT, valued at about $80,000.
- Odaily plans to enhance Polkadot's brand through media support, events, and articles.
- They have experience working with many blockchain projects and have published over 500 articles about Polkadot.
- Odaily will promote events, projects, and strategies related to Polkadot throughout 2025.
- This plan aims to reach more people and grow the Polkadot community in the Chinese-speaking market.

TimedOut

Polkadot marketing proposal in Chinese speaking areas

- The proposal asks for more money to support small meetups for Polkadot.
- Small meetups help people learn and grow the Polkadot community.
- The team has learned from their experiences in the first half of the year.
- They want to make some changes to how rewards are given to organizers.
- They plan to reach more places and help more people connect.
- They will update their documents and improve how they report their activities.
- Links to more information about the bounty and community are provided.

Executed

Proposal: Meetups Bounty #43 top-up & changes

- **Who:** DefiLlama Research is an organization focused on cryptocurrency and decentralized finance.
- **What:** They are asking the Polkadot community for $200,000 to support a campaign that includes articles, reports, and sponsorships about Polkadot.
- **Why:** The goal is to increase awareness and engagement in the Polkadot ecosystem by sharing its innovations and community efforts.
- **How:** They will create spotlight articles and custom research reports, as well as sponsor newsletters to keep Polkadot in the spotlight.
- **Audience:** Their audience is mostly active investors, with a large number being young and interested in technology.
- **Results:** They will provide a quarterly report to show how well the campaign is doing and how many people are engaged.
- **Team Contacts:** Roosa Kivisto is the Director, and Ryan Celaj is the Head of Research.

Polkadot Ecosystem Support with DefiLlama Research

**Polkadot Proposal Update (November 2024)**

- The Polkadot team thanks the community for voting and providing feedback on a recent proposal.
- They plan to revise the proposal based on community feedback to better meet needs.
- Users are encouraged to vote "Nay" on referendum 1269 to focus on new improvements.
- The proposal includes enhancements to the Staking Dashboard and introduces the Polkadot Developer Console.
- They aim to improve the user experience and developer tools for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The requested funding for this project is $215,000 USDT over a year.
- The team emphasizes their commitment to open communication and community involvement.

Rejected

[Vote Nay] Polkadot Staking Dashboard & Developer Console 2024-25 Funding

AirLyft is a special platform that helps projects in the Polkadot ecosystem grow and connect with people. Here are some important points about it:

- It is designed to help projects drive user participation and adoption using quests and rewards.
- AirLyft allows projects to create custom activities that users can do to earn rewards like tokens and NFTs.
- The platform supports both Substrate and EVM project types.
- A campaign called Polkacheiver's is proposed, where users can take part in quests to earn collectibles and win prizes.
- AirLyft aims to provide 15 Polkadot projects with free access to its tools for six months to enhance community engagement.
- The AirLyft Widget makes it easy for projects to run campaigns on their own websites.
- The team includes experienced members in data science, product management, and software development.

Unlocking Growth with a 6-Month PolkAchiever Campaign and AirLyft Enterprise Suite Access

- PolkaGate is a project that helps people use Substrate-based chains like Polkadot and Kusama more easily.
- It has two main tools: the PolkaGate Extension for browsers and the MetaMask Snap to manage digital assets.
- Over the past year, important updates have been made, including better account management and user interfaces.
- PolkaGate offers features like governance participation, asset management, and transaction signing.
- The team seeks funding to support these developments, totaling 64,311 DOT (around $267,600).
- Many users have shared positive feedback about PolkaGate's helpfulness and quick support.
- New features have been added to both tools to improve user experience and expand capabilities.

PolkaGate: One-Year Retroactive Funding Proposal (Oct. 2023 - Oct. 2024)

KodaDot is a leading NFT marketplace on Polkadot that has achieved a lot, such as over 40 successful art drops and nearly 9,000 NFT mints. They need funding to keep growing and improve their services.

Key points include:
- KodaDot wants to support secure trading of NFTs using a method called atomic swaps.
- They plan to create an offers system where users can bid on NFTs.
- They need to enhance their infrastructure to handle more users and provide better services.
- The project will cost $280,000 and be done in focused parts over a year.
- Maintaining the platform is important to ensure it continues to work well for everyone. 

This funding helps keep KodaDot working well for all users in the Polkadot community.

Infrastructure Funding for Polkadot Asset Hub #3 - Atomic swaps, Offers, Maintenance

- The proposal is about deploying Uniswap V3 contracts to the Polkadot Asset Hub.
- It asks for $105,000 to cover the costs of the deployment, to be paid to GFX Labs.
- Uniswap V3 is better than V2 because it allows concentrated liquidity, making trading easier and more efficient.
- The funds will be used for several tasks, including code recompilation and creating a bridge.
- There will be monthly maintenance costs as well, totaling $60,000 for a year.
- The proposal includes plans for providing liquidity after the deployment to encourage use.
- Different incentives will be discussed to help the new deployment succeed.
- DAOplomats, a group coordinating the plan, are not getting paid for their work, but are part of a compensation program for governance activities.

Polkadot Community proposes deploying Uniswap V3 contracts to Polkadot Asset Hub. GFX Labs will be paid $105,000 for deployment cost and UI maintenance for one year. The allocated funds will be escrowed in a multisig. Liquidity bootstrapping proposal will be submitted to Uniswap DAO to incentivize liquidity after deployment.

Deploy Uni V3 contracts to AH

NAY 

### Summary of Bounty #59 Referendum

- **Purpose**: Elect curators for the Open Source Developer Grants Program.
- **Program**: Funds up to 15 open-source projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Grants**: Each project can receive up to $30,000.
- **Eligibility**: Projects must have a proven background in open-source development.
- **Curators' Role**: Oversee the grants program and ensure successful project outcomes.
- **Background**: Detailed information on curators' backgrounds and responsibilities is available in the [full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZnFiwlRj5lX8ffK2Lk1Q4OSZgI4Q78aTxgasItrmfO4/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Rewards**: The proposal also outlines the reward scheme for the curators.

WHO: Polkadot community. 

WHAT: Selecting candidates for the curator position to oversee the Open Source Developer Grants Program #59, which aims to fund up to 15 projects with grants of up to $30,000 each.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Polkadot Open Source Developer Grants Bounty Program Curator Candidacy 

- $DED is planning a marketing campaign for Korea and Japan during the holiday season 2024/25.
- The campaign will use popular platforms like Naver Cafe and LINE.
- It will start in late November 2024 and go until the Lunar New Year in January 2025.
- This campaign follows a successful pilot ahead of KBW 2024.
- A formal proposal will be shared on Open.gov soon.

WHO: $DED
WHAT: Develop and execute a multi-pronged marketing campaign catering to the Korean and Japanese markets during the 2024 holiday season.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified. Pending thoughts from the community, a formal proposal will be initiated on Open.gov in the coming weeks.

$DED Holiday Marketing Campaign - Korea and Japan

Draper University proposes a pre-accelerator program to attract and develop startups building on the Polkadot ecosystem. The program includes a residency at Draper University in Silicon Valley, resources, education, capital, and network. The requested allocation is USDC $438,600, including $150k in grant funding for startups. The program will last for 6 weeks and target high-growth/potential startups building across Web3 in AI, real-world assets, and gaming. The program aims to accelerate the growth of startups, provide access to venture capital, and create awareness for the Polkadot chain.

- A proposal was made to give a tip to Saxemberg for their hard work in a group called Cohort 2.
- Saxemberg had a very high voting participation rate of 94.7% and helped communicate with the community.
- They are suggested to receive a maximum tip of 2,500 DOT for their contributions during the period.
- Other groups, like Chaos DAO and Lucky Friday Labs, are also being considered for tips based on their participation.
- The goal of the proposal is to recognize and reward the efforts of these participants.
- The proposal encourages other members to opt in and share how much they think they should receive. 
- This effort aims to help keep members engaged in the community.

Proposal to retroactively tip Saxemberg for their participation and communication during the Cohort, with a maximum tip of 2,500 DOT. Other DVs can opt in with their own proposals. Resources and further reading provided. Submitted by DAOplomats.

[Medium Spender] Referendum #1239 Opt-In Tip for DV Cohort 2 - Saxemberg 

Polkadot is starting a big project with Bitcoin.com to help people learn about it. Here are the key points:

- Bitcoin.com wants to make many articles and videos about Polkadot over the next year.
- They will write 7 important articles about Polkadot that everyone can read forever.
- There will be many posts on social media to tell 3 million people about Polkadot.
- Polkadot will be featured in their weekly newsletter sent to over 3 million subscribers.
- They will create podcasts with founders of Polkadot projects, sharing their stories and ideas.
- There will be live question and answer sessions with Polkadot project founders.
- This project will help more people learn about and use Polkadot in the cryptocurrency world.

Bitcoin.com proposes a year-long educational and marketing campaign to provide lifetime coverage of Polkadot in their Learning Center, weekly newsletter, and social media. The requested amount is 240,000 USDT (ERC-20). The deliverables include 7 lifetime Polkadot articles, 10 dedicated educational threads, 9 newsletter inclusions, 6 podcast series and interview articles, 6 AMA sessions, and 10 Polkadot branded spotlight stories. The campaign aims to boost brand awareness and position Polkadot as a leader in the blockchain space. Quarterly reports will be provided to track the impact and success of the campaign.

Polkadot Ecosystem Branding Exposure at Bitcoin.com 

Bitcoin.com is requesting 54,794.5 DOT ($240,000) to launch a year-long educational and marketing campaign for Polkadot. The campaign includes seven lifetime articles, 10 dedicated educational threads, nine newsletter inclusions, six podcast series and interview articles, six AMA series, and 10 branded spotlight stories. The goal is to deepen knowledge and awareness of Polkadot and its ecosystem projects. Quarterly reports will be provided to track the campaign's impact.

Vote Nay

### Subsquare Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Retroactive funding for 12 months (2023.10.01 - 2024.09.30) of maintenance and feature development in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Infrastructure Costs**: Includes servers, domains, email services, IPFS, and OpenAI, totaling $1,845.1.
- **Maintenance**: Daily server monitoring, code refactoring, bug fixes, user support, and collaboration with other teams.
- **Development Highlights**:
  - **Referendum Enhancements**: Detailed statistics, vote status, call view improvements, and stable coin support.
  - **Track Status Page**: Visualization of referenda queues and their status.
  - **Preimages Management**: Features for creating, filtering, and managing preimages.
  - **Account and Profile Enhancements**: Deposit management, delegation status, and history tracking.
  - **Treasury and Asset Support**: Features for managing treasury spends and assets.
  - **Bounty Enhancements**: Features for curators, child bounties, and claiming bounties.
- **Development Cost**: Estimated at $338,400 for 3,760 hours of work.
- **Total Cost**: $469,845.1, including infrastructure, maintenance, and development.
- **User Statistics**: Approximately 175K monthly unique visitors and 10K daily unique visitors.
- **Future Plans**: Expanding features like identity management, discussion data decentralization, and research on quadratic funding.

WHO: Subsquare

WHAT: Seeks retroactive funding for the past 12 months maintenance and common features development for the Polkadot ecosystem, including server deployment maintenance, codebase maintenance, and enhancements to referendum detail page, referenda track status page, new referenda and templates, preimages management, account and profile page, treasury spends and multi-assets treasury support, asset hub basic features, and bounty enhancement.

PRICE: $469,845.1

TIMEFRAME: 12 months (2023.10.01 - 2024.09.30)

RESOURCES: 15 FTE equivalent work per month.

[Retroactive] Subsquare 12 months maintenance and common features development

- A proposal is asking for 50,000 USDT to help Polkadot work with the Florida Blockchain Business Association (FBBA) at a big level.
- The goal is to make Polkadot better known in the U.S. and connect with important people in business and government.
- Florida has a large population of about 22.95 million people and a strong economy.
- Florida is the third-largest state by population and the fourth largest economy in the U.S.
- The proposal is led by Angela Dalton and aims to learn from previous efforts to improve Polkadot's presence.
- There will be a discussion for two weeks where the community can give feedback before the final submission.
- A link to the draft proposal is available for everyone to read and review.

WHO: FBBA account 131S1zdnMfhF1hB4sWornxLvX5SY3c8GhtFPPePUTvhphQRM on behalf of Polkadot
WHAT: Requesting 50,000 USDT to sponsor Polkadot's involvement with the Florida Blockchain Business Association at the Enterprise level to enhance Polkadot's presence in the US, leveraging connections with blockchain policy advocates, businesses, and government officials to foster growth, improve regulatory engagement, and explore new integrations.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 50,000 USDT, referendum submission after two weeks of pre-proposal discussion.

Florida Blockchain Business Association (FBBA) Sponsorship to Improve Polkadot’s Presence In the U.S.

OpenZeppelin has made progress to help build secure parachains on Polkadot. Here are the main points:

- They launched a new template for developers to use Solidity smart contracts.
- They created a guide to help move Solidity contracts from Ethereum to their new template.
- They worked with R0gue to make using their templates easier with Pop CLI.
- They added account features and pre-built contracts.

In their new proposal, they want funding for:

- Making "meta pallets" to simplify project development.
- Connecting their templates to Tanssi for quicker launches.
- Improving local chain testing with the Zombienet-sdk.
- Adding support for Snowbridge, a bridge between Polkadot and Ethereum.
- More guides for the new features.

They want to keep everyone informed and get feedback to make the Polkadot network better.

OpenZeppelin requests funding for M4 phase to create meta pallets, integrate with Tanssi and Snowbridge, improve zombienet-sdk, and provide developer guides. No specific price, timeframe, or resources mentioned.

OpenZeppelin x Polkadot Ecosystem Growth Phase M4

**JAMTON Overview**

- JAMTON is a project that connects Telegram users to the Polkadot network, making it easier for them to use different applications.
- It will help over 950 million Telegram users link up with Polkadot, allowing for better communication and interaction.
- JAMTON acts as a bridge, bringing new users and money into the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The project aims to create tools and features that simplify how users from TON can access Polkadot’s services.
- They need 251,660 USDC to develop JAMTON, which will go towards building the system and promoting it.
- With JAMTON, Polkadot can grow and become more accessible to people from different communities.

JAMTON proposes to connect TON ecosystem with 950 million Telegram users to Polkadot ecosystem. Seeking 251,660 USDC for development, deployment, marketing, outreach, support and maintenance. Development roadmap designed for 3 milestones of 3 months each.

Treasury Proposal for Funding the JAMTON Project - Bridging 950 Million Users to the Polkadot Ecosystem

**Overview of the Campaign by Chainwire**

- Nadav, the CEO of Chainwire, shared results from a marketing campaign with crypto magazines.
- The campaign worked with three main outlets: CryptoSlate, CryptoDaily, and CryptoPotato.
- It aimed to promote Polkadot and boost its visibility on social media and other platforms.

**Campaign Results**

- The campaign reached over 3 million people through articles and more than 2 million on social media.
- A total of 944,309 article views were recorded.
- Ongoing articles and posts continue to feature Polkadot branding.

**Funding Request**

- Chainwire is seeking $330,000 to continue the campaign for four more months.
- The goal is to maintain Polkadot's visibility and produce more educational content. 
- The campaign aims to engage larger audiences through various social media platforms.

Chainwire CEO Nadav presents a report on a three-month pilot marketing campaign with CryptoSlate, CryptoDaily, and CryptoPotato. They are seeking $330,000 USDC to extend the collaboration for an additional four months to enhance Polkadot's branding, SEO presence, public relations, and social media visibility. The funding will enable these platforms to maintain and enhance visibility, continue and expand content production, and enhance content strategy and social reach.

Boosting Polkadot's Branding, Tickers, Educational & News Content on major crypto media

- Mandala Chain is a blockchain project built on Polkadot, focusing on Indonesia to help governments and businesses use blockchain technology.
- They want to spend $763,000 to bring more users to Polkadot by creating useful applications like digital identification and smart government services.
- Mandala Chain has worked hard over the last year to establish partnerships with important people and organizations in Indonesia.
- They participated in big events like the Bali Blockchain Summit to promote their work and gather support.
- The main goal is to onboard millions of new users onto the Polkadot platform by developing four key projects: IDCHAIN, DJOIN, West Java SmartGov, and UnBALIvable.
- Timely funding is crucial for this project to compete with other blockchain technologies in Indonesia. 
- Supporting Mandala Chain could help Polkadot grow and become more popular worldwide.

Mandala Chain requests 763,000 USDT for the urgent delivery of 4 government use cases to onboard millions onto Polkadot. The proposal aims to drive significant user adoption into the Polkadot ecosystem, opening the door for real-world use cases and accelerating Polkadot's growth across emerging markets. The timeframe is nine months, and the budget covers all costs for development, testing, user experience refinement, and public showcasing events. The proposal is critical to establish Polkadot as a global leader in the Web3 space and capture the next wave of users.

Delivery of 4 Government Use Cases to Onboard Millions onto Polkadot

- A proposal is asking for $100,000 to create Peranto, a new app for digital identity in Latin America.
- This app will help legal professionals and is built on two technologies called KILT and Polkadot.
- The project will take eight months to complete and aims to support over 200 lawyers.
- It could also be used by countries and universities that teach finance.
- The creators have faced challenges raising money in the past and cannot get funding from certain grants or investors.
- They believe that helping to build this app will show the value of new technology in the Polkadot community.

WHO: Peranto, a decentralized application (dApp) for digital identity and legal compliance.

WHAT: Seeks $100,000 USD in funding to build an MVP over eight months, targeting legal professionals and expanding digital identity solutions across Latin America.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $100,000 USD over eight months.

Peranto: Empowering Legal Compliance and Digital Identity with KILT and Polkadot in LATAM

**Motoverse Treasury Proposal Summary**

- Motoverse is a project that wants to create a safe place for buying and selling vehicles using new technology.
- The proposal is asking for $185,000 to help pay for starting the project.
- They aim to build a marketplace for second-hand cars that accepts a special type of money called $DOT.
- The plan includes creating legal tools to make sure vehicle ownership is clear and safe.
- Steps to achieve this involve setting up a legal company and developing two main tools: one for tokenizing vehicles and another for creating smart contracts.
- They plan to start testing the project in Thailand and Mexico because these places are friendly to new technology.
- If the proposal does not get approved, the team will make changes based on community feedback and try again.

WHO: Wario on behalf of the Motoverse Project
WHAT: Proposing a treasury proposal for $185,000 USD to develop a decentralized vehicle hub and ecosystem powered by Polkadot
TIMEFRAME: 12 months
RESOURCES: Legal consulting, substrate development, UX/UI and tests, contracts legal design, IOS app development, desktop frontend development.

Motoverse - Preimage removed -- vote NAY

- Subsquid Lab is asking for money to keep archives going for public chains like Polkadot and Kusama.
- They need about $202,291 to cover their work and maintenance costs.
- Archives help collect and keep important data for many projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Some big projects using this data include Polkassembly, Talisman, and KodaDot.
- In early 2024, they started providing free data services for several public chains.
- They recently finished moving to a new system called ArrowSquid for better data handling.
- Lots of data was served in the first quarter of 2024, showing they are very busy!

SQD (fka Subsquid) - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q1 2024)

root

whitelisted_caller

wish_for_change

staking_admin

treasurer

lease_admin

fellowship_admin

general_admin

auction_admin

referendum_canceller

referendum_killer

small_tipper

big_tipper

small_spender

big_spender

Referenda Medium Spender

Origin able to dispatch a whitelisted call.

Origin for signaling that the network wishes for some change

Origin able to cancel slashes and manage minimum commission.

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

Origin for managing the composition of the fellowship.

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

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

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

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

[33] Origin: MediumSpender