Polkassembly is a platform for Polkadot and Kusama's governance. They have a proposal to get money from Polkadot Treasury to improve the platform in 2025. The proposal wants to make the platform better by improving things like user experience, stability, and important features. They want to make it easier to use, add support for more wallets, and make the website look better.

Some of the things they want to improve are:
1. Making it easier to set up an identity on the platform.
2. Making the website load faster and adding AI summaries for comments.
3. Improving how proposals are created and supported.
4. Adding support for more wallets.
5. Improving how the website looks and how easy it is to use.

They also want to make some technical improvements, like updating the software they use and making the platform more secure.

You can see some pictures of the new designs they are working on and some stats about how many people use the platform. They also have a budget for how much money they need to make these improvements. You can read more about the proposal in the full document.

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Polkassembly Social Contract 2025

Polkadot-API is a set of libraries that helps make decentralized applications. They want to make it easier for developers to create these apps. They have added new features and libraries to make it better. They are asking for money from the Polkadot Community Foundation to keep working on it from February 2025 to December 2025. They have a plan for how they will use the money and have shared it in a Google Doc. If they get the money, they will sign a contract, do some checks, and then get paid. They have set aside some money for the Polkadot Community Foundation's costs, and they will give back any extra money to the Polkadot Treasury. The Polkadot-API team thanks everyone for their support.

Polkadot-API 2025 Development Funding through Polkadot Community Foundation

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A new update, version 1.4.1, is being voted on for the relay chain. This update fixes a bug in the staking system that caused problems with staking and nomination pools. The changes come from a custom Polkadot-SDK branch and can be reviewed on the release page. The proposal is on the Whitelisted Caller track, and the Fellowship is voting on the whitelist. You can review and vote when you have time. For more information, check the post-mortem discussion on the forum.

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Polkadot Runtime Upgrade to v1.4.1

- 200,000 DOT was taken due to problems with a voting proposal from Parallel Finance.
- The team was surprised by Parallel Finance's lack of knowledge about Polkadot's staking.
- Parallel Finance announced they will not give all cDot back to users and will provide limited swap options.
- They also changed their CEO and are shutting down their main service by August 1, 2025.
- There are calls for the community to keep evidence of Parallel Finance's actions, as investigations are ongoing.
- The team warns about possible theft of user funds and encourages legal reporting of the issue.
- They believe the tech-fellows misunderstood the whitelist proposal which allowed this situation to happen.

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Parallel Finance Round Two; Is Polkadot Tech-fellows over-involved?

Statescan is a tool for exploring certain blockchain networks. Here are some key points about it:

- It started in 2021 and helps people track Polkadot, Kusama, and other related chains.
- Statescan is open source, which means anyone can see and use its code for free.
- It is used by many different blockchain projects, including Nexus, Litentry, and Crust.
- The tool needs servers and a domain to work properly, costing around €3,051 in total for 18 months.
- Maintenance work involves keeping the servers running smoothly and fixing any issues that arise.
- There are plans for new features, which would cost $6,400 to develop.
- The total estimated cost for everything is around $67,051.

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Statescan maintenance proposal from 2023.10 to 2025.03

The Editorial Board in Spanish Cohort #2 is requesting funding for the next six months to support the salaries of three key members. They have successfully managed the Polkadot en Español X account and marketing activities in Latin America. The proposal highlights significant improvements in social media performance and event impact compared to the previous year under centralized management. The request is for $46,000 to ensure the continuity and success of the Editorial Board in Spanish.

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Editorial Board in Spanish Cohort #2 Dec 2024 - May 2025

Bastian Köcher is a rank 6 member of the Fellowship. Here are some key points about his work and responsibilities:

- Members at rank 6 must ask to keep their rank every 6 months.
- There are no rank 8+ members to vote for Bastian, so he needs support from all token holders for approval.
- He is focused on making it faster to process blocks for parachains on Polkadot, aiming for every 500 milliseconds.
- Bastian is working on allowing proxies to be used across different chains, which is currently limited.
- He wrote a guide to help people replicate pure proxies between chains.
- Bastian has addressed issues with runtime upgrades that can cause performance problems.
- He actively participates in discussions to help others and maintains the Fellowship runtimes repository.

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Fellowship: Retain bkchr at rank 6

**Polkadot Portugal Proposal Summary:**
A person is asking for a Treasury tip to thank them for their work in managing and growing the Polkadot Portugal community since 2021. They have been helping people learn about Polkadot on Telegram, Meetup, and Twitter since 2023.

**What They Did:**
- Managed the community by answering questions and making sure everyone is welcome.
- Shared news and updates about Polkadot.
- Helped the community grow and made it easier for new people to understand Polkadot.
- Made important information about Polkadot available to people who speak Portuguese and those living in Portugal.

**Why They Need Money:**
They are asking for 250 DOT (which is about 100€ for 12 months) because they have been working hard without any money. They want to keep helping the Polkadot community in Portugal.

**Links to Their Work:**
- Telegram channel: [Polkadot Portugal](https://t.me/polkadotportugal)
- Other links: [X](https://x.com/PolkadotPortug1), [Meetup Porto](https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/polkadot-and-kusama-porto/), [Meetup Lisbon](https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/polkadot-lisbon/?eventOrigin=your_groups)

**Meetings They Organized:**
- Green Bird Series in 7 different locations in Portugal.
- A video from 2021 with weekly meetings: [Watch Here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m836C5WEy95d-ST3QIBYjh0_lbHtGB-E/view?usp=sharing)

The person is excited to keep helping Polkadot grow in Portugal and is planning a new series of meetups for non-tech people in central Portugal for the next 6 months.

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Tip for Managing Polkadot Portugal Channels

- India Unlocked is planning a 4-month program to educate and build a community around Polkadot in India.
- They want to create 60 educational videos in 6 languages, including Hindi and Bengali.
- Workshops will be held at 15 universities to teach Polkadot basics and wallet creation.
- They aim for over 250,000 impressions on social media and high engagement from participants.
- The program will address the need for multilingual blockchain education in India, which is very interested in new technologies.
- They have a funding request of approximately $69,468 in USDT.
- Feedback from the community is encouraged to improve the project.

[Small Spender] Namaste Polkadot: Education and community for Polkadot India (#1449)

This proposal is about getting money from the community's treasury to buy special computer equipment. This will help everyone in the community who has tokens to use a powerful AI language model. 

Key Points:

- Community members with tokens will have special access to the AI, encouraging them to keep their tokens longer.
- This AI will be open to all, not just big companies, promoting fairness and openness.
- Users can use the AI for tasks like writing, programming help, and research.
- Some services from the AI can be sold to others, helping the community earn money.
- As more people want to use the AI, more people will want to buy and stake tokens.
- Developers can use AI tools to improve their work and help create better projects.
- This project will help the community stand out from others using AI in the blockchain space.

The proposal aims to make everyone in the community more empowered and innovative with AI tools.

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Investment in High-Performance AI Infrastructure for Community Access

Subsquid Lab is asking for money to keep their public SQD Archives running. These archives help people find information on the Polkadot and Kusama networks. They want $264,838.09 to cover their costs. Here's what they did in the past few months:

1. They helped make the SQD Archives better by adding more storage and making it faster.
2. They launched the SQD mainnet, which helps make the Polkadot network more secure and faster.
3. They made it easier for developers to use their tools by adding new features to the Squid SDK.
4. They improved their Cloud API to help developers build better apps.

In the second quarter of 2024, they provided a lot of data and helped many people in the Polkadot community. They need money to keep doing this work.

SQD (fka Subsquid) - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q2 2024)

- An attacker added their key to a new sudo key, freezing all PARA funds.
- The attacker can’t send transactions but has started unbonding on six accounts.
- This puts 200,000 DOT at risk, and quick action is needed.
- Referenda 1424 has been submitted to solve this issue.
- A rebond call will be made to restake the DOT, giving an extra 28 days for Referenda 1424.
- Several addresses are designated for rebonding DOT.
- A link with additional information is provided.

Plan B: Rebond 200k DOT for Parallel Fi

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- Centrifuge is planning to create a new version called Centrifuge V3.
- This new version will be based on an EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and work across multiple blockchains.
- The goal is to grow the Real World Asset (RWA) market and improve the way assets and investors connect in DeFi (Decentralized Finance).
- If approved, Centrifuge V3 will change from using Polkadot to this new EVM-based system.
- The Polkadot Community Foundation is holding back funds until they are sure Centrifuge will continue to exist on its platform.
- Future choices about where Centrifuge operates will depend on the results of discussions and proposals related to this new version.

Polkadot Community Foundation: Conditions on transferring funds to Centrifuge-related instruments

- LimeChain is now in charge of GiantSquid, a tool that helps find data in the Polkadot system.
- They created a report about their work and talked to users to gather feedback.
- Based on this feedback, they have a new plan called "Phase 2 for Giant Squid."
- Phase 2 includes new features like making it easier to find cross-chain transfers and track staking and voting.
- They will also make a new table to show all account events at once, which will be easier to use.
- They are asking for **169,520 USDC** to help pay for the new features and other costs.
- Feedback from the community is very welcome, and they hope to turn it into a treasury proposal.

Giant Squid Phase 2

- A group called Bifrost and Hyperbridge is asking for 795,000 DOT.
- They want to help make it easier for people to use DOT in different places.
- They noticed that not many people or money can get into Polkadot, which slows down its growth.
- Their plan is to give rewards for providing DOT liquidity in other networks like Arbitrum and Ethereum.
- The aim is to make DOT more popular and used widely in the web3 space.
- This will help developers and users join the Polkadot ecosystem better.
- The idea started as a group project but had to be split into smaller parts.

Polkadot DeFi Singularity

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OpenGov Referenda

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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