- A proposal called "The Ascent Cycle" was discussed but faced criticism.  
- Some liked it because it built on past success and helped the community grow.  
- Others thought it paid too much and wasn't clear about how people were chosen.  
- Many wanted smaller proposals and better transparency.  
- Changes suggested: split the proposal, make roles open, and balance the budget.  
- Links to videos, slides, and documents were shared for more details.

Rejected

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Please vote nay. Timing out.

Hello! I went to a big conference about blockchain technology at the University of Miami. I talked about something called tokenization and represented Polkadot. I didn't get paid for my time, so I'm asking the community if they think I should be. I usually charge $100 per hour for my work. I spent 5 hours on a campus tour, 8 hours at the conference, and half a day on Saturday. I'm asking for $1500 for my time. Thank you!

Executed

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Compensation for Polkadot Representation at University of Miami's 3rd Annual Business of Blockchain Conference

Subsquare is a popular governance platform for Polkadot, with over 250,000 unique visitors in the latest month. The team is seeking new funding for continuous maintenance and development of new features from 2024 Q3 to 2025 Q2. The proposal includes infrastructure costs, maintenance work, and new features development.

**Infrastructure Costs:**
- Servers, Vercel, domain, email service, IPFS pin service, AI vendors, and currency exchange, totaling $4,024.

**Maintenance Work:**
- Daily server monitoring, codebase maintenance, user support, and collaboration with other teams.

**New Features Development:**
1. New design of profile pages for better user experience.
2. Identity business support for viewing and managing identities.
3. Assethub migration support for data continuity and validity.
4. Proxy support for managing proxies and signing extrinsics as a proxy account.
5. Coretime support for better UI to understand coretime business and on-chain status.
6. Search feature for proposals, addresses, and list pages.
7. Bounties enhancement for better user actions and claim button visibility.
8. Multisig enhancement for approving, canceling, and executing multisig on account pages.
9. On-chain data explorers for proxies, vesting, and multisigs.
10. UX enhancement after UX bounty audit for better user experience.
11. Walletconnect support for mobile users.
12. Other features like address unification support, account switching, and extension metadata update notifications.

**Budget:**
- Total budget for infrastructure, maintenance, and common features development is $444,124.

**Q&A:**
1. Subsquare is dedicated to the Polkadot ecosystem and has over 260k monthly unique visitors.
2. The plan is to make Subsquare a full-featured dapp for Polkadot, helping the community understand and track Polkadot status while providing a good user experience.

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Subsquare new batch of features development and maintenance

JAMTON is a special connection that helps two big systems, TON and Polkadot, talk to each other. TON has many users from Telegram, and Polkadot has lots of cool projects. JAMTON makes it easy for them to work together.

JAMTON is like a door that lets people from TON and Telegram join the Polkadot world. This helps Polkadot grow bigger and better because more people can use it.

JAMTON has some big plans:
1. It will make it easy for TON users to join Polkadot.
2. It will bring more money into Polkadot projects.
3. It will build a place where people can trade things without a middleman.
4. It will make it easy for projects to work with JAMTON using a special wallet.

JAMTON has already done some work and has a main network and an app for people to use. They want some money to keep building and make their project even better. This will help Polkadot become a better place for everyone.

Treasury Proposal for Funding the JAMTON Project - Stage 2

The Ambassador Fellowship had a successful first phase, even with challenges. Volunteers helped the program meet its goals. The team was supposed to get a payment, but some board members left, making it hard to decide things. So, the money was given back to the main fund instead. Now, the program is still going and needs more money to keep growing. The team members who worked hard should get paid, and there's a list of how much each person should get. Thank you for supporting the Ambassador Fellowship.

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Leemo

The Ambassador Fellowship had a successful first phase, even with challenges. Volunteers helped the program meet its goals. The team was supposed to get a payment, but some board members left, making it hard to decide things. So, the money was given back to the treasury instead. Now, the program is still going and needs more funding. The team members did a good job, so they should get paid. There's a list of who should get paid and how much. Thank you for supporting the Ambassador Fellowship.

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Arash Torbati

The Polkadot Community Foundation has proposed a plan to launch a "Polkadot" branded payment card for the Polkadot ecosystem. This non-custodial payment card will be issued globally and work anywhere Visa is accepted. It will be compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay, and users will only pay a small transaction fee (under 1%). The card will be powered by smart contracts and allow users to hold and pay with USDC. The Polkadot Community Foundation has chosen Baanx as the card provider and issuer, and the card program will be managed by CL, a brand of Baanx. The card will be a debit card using the Visa network and will carry no other branding. There will be no cost to the Polkadot Treasury for the origination and setup of this card program. The card program aims to provide an alternative to traditional banking and increase the usability of the Polkadot ecosystem for payments and DeFi.

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Polkadot Community Foundation: Polkadot Payment Card

small_spender

Vote Nay - retracting following feedback - will resubmit under different terms

Gerard Murphy was a member of the OpCom team from January 20 to February 19, 2025, working on the Ambassador Fellowship until May 3, 2025. He requests a one-month payment of $50 per hour for 40 hours per week. Gerard produced several documents, including the Fellowship Onboarding & Orientation Framework V1.0, Rewards and Recognition Framework, Resources Repository, and guides to Fellowship Verticals, Ranking System, and Promotion Process. He also created a Notion platform with public and private workspaces, uploaded resources, and maintained the platform. Gerard made videos on using the Notion platform and coordinated with Distractive on updating the Polkadot.com ambassador landing page. He also developed a guide for setting up and securing funding for meetups or pop-ups and produced a social media plan for Miami Mega Week.

During the first funded phase of the Ambassador Fellowship, the team achieved success, but due to several Board members resigning, the remaining funds were returned to the treasury, and the promised payments were not made. The Ambassador Fellowship is now preparing a proposal for further funding, with Cohort Two being seeded and a waitlist for Cohort Three forming.

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Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Gerard Murphy

The Ambassador Fellowship had a successful first phase, even with challenges. The team did a great job and finished their work on time. They were supposed to get a payment, but some board members left, and the money was returned to the treasury instead. Now, the Ambassador Fellowship is still going and needs more funding. The person in charge thinks it's fair to ask for the team's payment again. You can find more information about the team and their work in the links provided. Thank you for supporting the Ambassador Fellowship.

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Adam Galloway

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Josiah Kotzur

Vote Nay - preimage not on chain. 

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Michelle

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Luke Schoen

TimedOut

The RegionX Hub is a platform that has received positive feedback and requests for improvements. This proposal aims to fund the development of features and improvements to enhance the value of the hub. The proposal focuses on creating an easy-to-use interface for managing Coretime for projects and addressing confusion about the Agile Coretime model. The hub identifies four types of users: existing teams with Polkadot projects, new project teams, Coretime resellers, and enthusiasts. The proposal includes creating user-specific dashboards and help centers, as well as other features like urgent renewals, auto-renewals, and improved transaction status tracking. Development progress can be monitored on the public GitHub repository, and results will be visible on the RegionX Hub website.

RegionX Hub – New Features & Improvements

The Big Tipper project is an extension of rfp.fund, which was funded for Kusama with KSM RFP #2. The project aims to unlock multi-sig RFPs for Polkadot, enable bounty curators to associate Child Bounties with RFPs, and deploy an "RFP Board" to consolidate ecosystem RFPs across Kusama/Polkadot Treasuries and Kusama/Polkadot Child Bounties created through the app. The project has a budget of $5,000 for development, $3,000 for UI, $1,000 for supervisors, and $500 for contingency. Supervisors include Leemo and Jay Chrawnna. Excess or unused funds will be returned to the treasury by the supervisors. The timeline includes submission on Big Tipper Track on June 8, development beginning on June 15, UI work starting on July 8, and public launch on AAG on July 16. The project has three milestones: Polkadot Multi-sig RFPs, Child Bounty RFPs, and UI & Mainnet Deployment. The project also discusses the differences between multi-sig RFPs and Bounty RFPs for Polkadot and supports a new Bounty Pallet with multi-asset and cross-chain capabilities.

rfp.fund App - Polkadot, Child Bounty Integration & Public RFP Board.

The Treasury Proposal is about a collaboration between Mubert Protocol and Pudgy Penguins, powered by Polkadot. Mubert Protocol is building the first data rollup on Polkadot, focusing on streaming and consumable data like AI-generated music. They want to work with Pudgy Penguins, a popular Web3 brand, to host events and increase Polkadot's visibility. 

The main goal is to bring new users to the Polkadot ecosystem through real-world events, AI-driven music, and Web3 culture. They plan to have AI music DJ sets, on-chain music experiences, and community activations in different countries. This will help Polkadot reach a younger audience and show its connection to real-world experiences.

This proposal is supported by the Web3 Foundation, SubWallet, and Mythical Games. It will help grow the Polkadot ecosystem, change its narrative, and bring more users and partners to the network. The events will also help Polkadot connect with other chains and mainstream audiences.

Pudgy Penguins <> Mubert Protocol Events Tour, Powered by Polkadot

The Polkadot Community Foundation (PCF) is a bridge between the Polkadot network's on-chain governance and real-world actions. It helps DOT holders influence off-chain activities. In its first year, the PCF worked on projects to grow the Polkadot ecosystem and market outreach. Now, it asks for more funding to continue its work.

The PCF has goals for its second year, like appointing two DOT directors and creating a transparent information hub. It wants to expand leadership and community engagement. The PCF also needs money for legal and insurance costs.

If the proposal is not approved, the PCF will have to wind down its operations, which could cause disruptions to ongoing projects and the need to find new ways to manage off-chain activities.

In conclusion, the PCF wants to continue helping the Polkadot ecosystem grow by connecting on-chain governance with real-world actions. Approving more funding will allow the PCF to keep doing this important work.

Polkadot Community Foundation (PCF) - Proposal for Renewed Funding for One Year

Gossamer is a team that works on Polkadot Relay Chain Validator using the Go programming language. They want to make the network better by being a full node and a validator node. They are asking for money to keep working on their project for six months. They will focus on building alternative implementations of Polkadot validator, JAM implementation, and improving Collator functionality. Gossamer has received funding before and they want to keep helping the Polkadot ecosystem grow. They will share updates on their progress every month.

Gossamer: Core Contributions to Polkadot [Q3/Q4 2025]

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whitelisted_caller

staking_admin

treasurer

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fellowship_admin

general_admin

auction_admin

referendum_canceller

referendum_killer

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Origin able to dispatch a whitelisted call.

Origin for signaling that the network wishes for some change

Origin able to cancel slashes and manage minimum commission.

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

Origin for managing the composition of the fellowship.

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

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

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

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

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

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