### Dustin Lee's Proposal for Polkadot Head Ambassador

- **Background:** Dustin Lee has 6 years of experience in the Polkadot ecosystem, working with projects like Darwinia Network and Astar Network.
- **Role:** Proposes to be the Head Ambassador for Polkadot in the U.S., focusing on business development, marketing, and community support.
- **Experience:** Previously a Polkadot Ambassador, with skills in public speaking, social marketing, and business development.
- **Activities:** Plans to promote partnerships, represent Polkadot at events, manage social media, and organize meetups.
- **Social Media:** Has significant followings on platforms like Twitter (17k followers), Odyssey (45k followers), and LinkedIn (2.2k followers).
- **Contributions:** Notable contributions include speaking at Polkadot events, creating educational content, and promoting Polkadot projects.
- **Vision:** Aims to enhance Polkadot's presence and values through structured activities and community engagement.

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Dustin Lee proposes himself as the Head Ambassador for Polkadot in the U.S. He plans to enhance Polkadot's presence in the U.S. through business development, marketing, event participation, outreach, and community support. He has extensive experience in the Polkadot ecosystem and notable contributions to key projects. He aims to leverage his skills and networks to advance Polkadot's values and presence.

Head Ambassador Proposal: Dustin Lee

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Vote Nay for this Proposal 

### Summary of Proposal

- **Proposal**: Resubmission of Referendum #1008 to decentralize the Polkadot People System Parachain.
- **Objective**: Align with the Framework for Collators on System Parachains.
- **Changes**:
  1. Set the Candidacy Bond to 1000 DOT (matching other Polkadot System Parachains).
  2. Increase Desired Candidates to 7 (opening 7 permissionless slots).
- **Effect**: New collators can join by placing a minimum bond of 1000 DOT once the referendum is enacted.
- **Submitted by**: Luca from Iceberg Nodes, on behalf of System Parachains Collators.

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WHO: System Parachains Collators, led by Luca from Iceberg Nodes. 

WHAT: Decentralize the System Parachain Polkadot People by setting the Candidacy Bond to 1000 DOT and opening 7 permissionless slots. 

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

Further decentralize collators set on Polkadot System Parachains - Resubmission of #1008

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**Motif Network Features for Nominators**

1. **Statistical Information Interface**: Shows nomination history and rewards.
2. **Statistical + Predictive Interface**: Adds predictions on nomination risks.
3. **Validator Data Interface**: Provides stats and risks for validators.
4. **Interactive Recommendation System**: Suggests validators based on current status.
5. **Chatbot for Bug Fixing**: Offers solutions based on nominator's current state.
6. **Risk Notification System**: Sends advance warnings about nomination risks.

**Contact:**
- Website: [Motif Network](https://app.motif.network/)
- Telegram: [MotifNetwork_Bot](https://t.me/MotifNetwork_bot)
- Email: [nik@motif.network](mailto:nik@motif.network)

Motif Network is considering 6 features to help nominators manage their stake more effectively, including statistical information, risk predictions, validator data, interactive recommendation system, bug fixing chatbot, and risk notification system. No price or timeframe mentioned.

(Temp Check) Milestone_2 Funding Request for Motif: vote NAY

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- **Project Overview**: The Polkadot Hub is a bar and coworking space in Barcelona, designed to be the center of the Polkadot community.
- **Location**: Barcelona is chosen for its vibrant tech scene, strategic European location, and growing economy.
- **Features**: The hub offers a Polkadot-themed bar, coworking spaces, events, workshops, and a Polkadot stand for new users.
- **Business Model**: Revenue comes from food and drink sales, space rentals, and sponsorships.
- **Profit Distribution**: Profits will pay staff, cover expenses, and be reinvested in Polkadot for staking.
- **Expansion**: Future plans include opening more locations, possibly as smaller "Polkadot Cafés."
- **Community Involvement**: Decisions will be made through community voting.
- **Marketing**: The hub will be promoted through social media, content marketing, and events.

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WHO: The Polkadot Hub team, led by entrepreneur Marc and his family with expertise in the restaurant business.

WHAT: Create a Polkadot-themed bar and coworking space in Barcelona, offering a unique experience that combines bar culture with business networking and collaboration opportunities.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The project requires an initial investment of 150,000 Polkadots for real estate acquisition, furniture, equipment, licenses, and marketing. The profits obtained will be used to pay staff, cover expenses, invest in promotions, and buy Polkadot for staking earnings. The team also plans to expand with more locations throughout Barcelona or even other parts of the country and the world.

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Please vote NAY - Resubmitted as #1014

- The call activates a node feature needed for Elastic Scaling MVP.
- Block authors will start sending core index data to the runtime.
- Referenda must be done before "core time" on Polkadot.
- Core time lets parachains have more than one core per relay block.
- Parachains with multiple cores need core index data to work.
- The referenda is listed on https://collectives.subsquare.io/fellowship/referenda/173.

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WHO: Polkadot network

WHAT: Enable a node feature for Elastic Scaling MVP to provide core index of parachain candidates to the runtime before core time arrives on Polkadot.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

[Whitelisted Caller] Enable Elastic Scaling MVP node feature

### Polkadot System Parachain Collator Bounty Proposal

- **Purpose**: To fund the top-up of System Parachain Collators on Polkadot.
- **Coverage**: Includes five Polkadot System Parachains: AssetHub, BridgeHub, Collectives, Coretime, and People.
- **Funding Request**: Covers infrastructure costs and staking rewards.
- **Duration**: 6 months, starting July 1, 2024.
- **Amount**: 26,503.51 DOT for the five System Parachains.
- **Discussion**: Open for community input on Polkassembly.
- **Related Proposals**: Supplements previous proposals for System Parachain funding.
- **Goal**: To incentivize best performance, minimize censorship, and maintain system liveliness.

System Parachain Collators propose a bounty of 26,503.51 DOT for infrastructure costs and staking rewards for five Polkadot System Parachains. The funding will cover Asset-Hub, Bridge-Hub, Collectives, Coretime, and People for a 6-month runway starting on July 1, 2024.

Proposal for Top-Up for Funding of Polkadot System Parachain Collators

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[Whitelisted Caller] Upgrade BridgeHub: v1.2.8

### Milestone 2 Proposal for Polkadot Collectives

**Summary:**
- **Features:**
  - Support for ambassador businesses, similar to fellowship features.
  - Business warnings to prevent accidental demotions or missed promotions.
  - Enhanced profile pages with detailed member information.
  - Statistics on collective spending and member activities.
  - Sub-treasury management for fellowship and ambassador funds.
  - Enhanced referenda features for collective decision-making.

- **Budget:**
  - Total estimated hours: 1960
  - Hourly rate: $90
  - Total budget requested: $176,400

WHO: The proposer team. 

WHAT: Implementing milestone 2 to support collectives (fellowship, ambassadors) on Polkadot, including features such as ambassador business support, business warnings, profile enhancement, statistics, sub treasury, and referenda enhancement. 

PRICE: $176,400. 

TIMEFRAME: Not specified. 

RESOURCES: 3 FTE for most features, 1 FTE for testing.

Subsquare polkadot collectives support milestone 2

- Polkadot has reached its 1000th referendum, marking a significant milestone.
- The community is celebrating the strengths of Polkadot, including its decentralized nature and innovative technology.
- Polkadot 2.0 is on the horizon, with a new website launch and continued focus on true decentralization.
- The network values its vibrant community of developers, projects, and users.
- Polkadot's legacy includes trailblazing innovation and being ahead of the curve.
- This milestone invites others in the crypto space to join and participate in the Polkadot community.
- The "Distractive Crew" is a part of this celebration.
- The community recently gathered at Decoded, an event for Polkadot enthusiasts.

WHO: Polkadot community

WHAT: Celebrating the 1000th referendum and honoring the core values of Polkadot 2.0

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified

A Wish for Continuity: Celebrating Polkadot's Core Values

### Polkadot Alliance Dissolution Proposal

- **Purpose**: The Polkadot Alliance was created to recognize ecosystem contributors and establish community standards.
- **Ratification**: Formed through governance in Referendum 94.
- **Inactivity**: The collective has never become operational since its formation.
- **Proposal**: Suggestion to dissolve the collective due to its lack of activity.
- **Action**: The collective should be removed from the chain.
- **Details**: More information can be found in the blog post linked in the proposal.

Dissolve the "Polkadot Alliance" collective due to inactivity

### Integritee Proposal Summary

- **Project**: Integritee is working on privacy-focused sidechains for DOT, KSM, USDT, USDC, and others.
- **Milestone**: "Test Emergency Interventions on Paseo" for Q3'24.
- **Funding**: Requesting 187,050 CHF (≃ 208,841 USD ≃ 208,841 USDT).
- **Features**: 
  - Single-click shielding and unshielding.
  - Fee payment in the same token.
  - 1-second confirmation time for private transfers.
  - Scalable to over 1 million transactions per second (TPS).
- **Privacy**: Uses Incognitee for strong privacy on L2 and k-anonymity on L1.
- **Compliance**: Aims to bring privacy to the masses, not to protect criminals.
- **Soft-Loan**: Plans to repay the treasury with 30% of gross fee revenue plus a 10% premium.
- **Context**: Integritee's CTO, brenzi, has presented on privacy at various events, including Polkadot Decoded 2023 and Polkadot Now India.

Integritee proposes to work on productive privacy sidechains for Polkadot chains and others for 187,050 CHF (~208,841 USDT) in Q3'24. They aim to offer private transactions of DOT, KSM, USDT, USDC, etc., with a one-click shielding and unshielding feature, 1s confirmation time, and scalability to >1M tps through sharding of L2. They will pay back the soft-loan with a 10% premium and 30% of their gross fee revenue until repayment.

Incognitee: Privacy Sidechains (Soft Loan Q3'24)

### Integritee Proposal Summary

- **Rejection and Adaptation**: Integritee responded to feedback on rejected proposal 868 by splitting it into a new proposal focusing on retroactive funding.
- **Live Deployment**: Demonstrated a live deployment of privacy sidechain technology on Paseo.
- **Funding Request**: Seeking 39,680 CHF (approximately 44,302.72 USD) for retroactive funding.
- **Repayment Plan**: Offering a soft-loan repayment plan, committing to return 30% of gross fee revenue until the loan plus a 10% premium is repaid.
- **Previous Approvals**: Previously received retroactive funding from the DOT Treasury (ref 617).
- **Presentations**: Integritee's CTO, brenzi, has given talks on privacy and Integritee's capabilities at Polkadot Decoded 2023 and Polkadot Now India.
- **Media Appearance**: brenzi explained the previous proposal on AAG.

Integritee proposes a retroactive funding of 39,680 CHF (≃ 44,302.72 USD/USDT) as a soft-loan, to be repaid with 30% of gross fee revenue until the loan plus a one-off premium of 10% is paid back. This is for the development of their privacy sidechain technology on Paseo.

Incognitee: Privacy Sidechain on Paseo (Retroactive)

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### Subsquid Lab Proposal Summary

- **Proponent:** Subsquid Lab Official
- **Beneficiary:** Subsquid Lab Official
- **Location:** Zug, Switzerland
- **Email:** mf@subsquid.io
- **Description:** Funding for ongoing development and maintenance of Subsquid Archives and Giant Squid API.
- **Requested DOT:** 49,257.65 DOT ($288,157.30)
- **Previous Proposal:** [Referenda 372](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/372)
- **Motivation:** 
  - **Archives:** Provide public data indexing for Substrate blockchains, supporting major projects like Polkassembly, Talisman, and RMRK.
  - **Giant Squid:** Open-source GraphQL APIs used by explorers and wallets, now maintained by LimeChain.
- **Achievements:** 
  - Enhanced query performance and ArrowSquid release.
  - Decentralized Archives testnet with 40,000 participants.
  - Supported ~650 projects in Q4 2023.
- **Statistics:** 
  - Served 1.32 billion queries in Q4 2023.
  - Highest daily total: 19.15 million responses.
- **Costing:** Combined costs for running Archives and Giant Squid, submitted to Polkadot treasury.

Subsquid Lab Official proposes ongoing development and maintenance costs for public Subsquid Archives and the Giant Squid API, requesting 49,257.65 DOT ($288,157.30) from the Polkadot treasury. The Archives provide access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot, while the Giant Squid API covers commonly used data for Polkadot, Kusama, and major parachains. The proposal includes raw data for the costs of running both services.

Subsquid - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q4 2023)

- Wei is proposed for retention at Fellowship Rank III.
- Retention is evaluated every 6 months.
- Wei has been working on `tinyjam`, a secondary implementation of JAM 2.0 for testing.
- The codebase is not public yet but will be shown before the next retention period.
- Wei faced personal challenges in the past 6 months.
- Wei has not claimed any fellowship "salary" and does not plan to until the next retention period.

WHO: Wei
WHAT: Proposal to retain at fellowship rank III
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: No salary claimed, retention period every 6 months, working on a project to streamline testing, codebase to be shown before next retention period.

Fellowship: Retain Wei at Rank III

### Luca Poggi: Head Ambassador Candidate

- **Background**: Luca Poggi has been active in the crypto space since 2014 and in the Polkadot ecosystem since 2019. He is the founder of Iceberg Nodes, a staking service provider.
- **Proposed Activities**: Focuses on business development, events, education, and community building to promote Polkadot.
- **Compensation**: Plans to allocate 80-100% of the monthly amount to pay for team activities, with a small portion for internal treasury expenses.
- **Transparency**: Will provide a public Notion page detailing all activities and hours dedicated.
- **Vision**: Strong advocate for modular scalability and fee-less chains, emphasizing the importance of Polkadot's unique functionalities.
- **Community Involvement**: Actively involved in the Italian Polkadot community, organizing events and managing multiple Telegram groups.
- **Contributions**: Has developed tools like a Telegram bot for validator elections and a bot for trading emoticons in the Kanaria community.

Luca Poggi is running for the role of Head Ambassador in the Polkadot Ambassadors Program. He proposes a range of activities, including business development, events and initiatives, education and evangelism, and community building. He plans to establish a non-profit association to manage expenses and provide a tool to track activities publicly. His compensation breakdown includes a minimum monthly engagement equivalent to full-time capacity, with a small part allocated to an internal treasury and 80-100% allocated to pay for the hours worked on the proposed activities by the HA and team members. He has contributed to the Polkadot ecosystem and is committed to attending more Polkadot events worldwide.

Polkadot Head Ambassador Application: Luca Poggi

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