Polkasafe Summary

- Polkasafe is a tool for managing assets securely on the Polkadot network. 
- It has reached all its project goals over the past 8 months, getting feedback from users.
- The tool is built using strong security features and offers many helpful functions.
- Some completed features include dashboards, accounting software integration, and NFT support.
- Polkasafe plans to keep improving, with open-source technology and ongoing user support.
- Future improvements include faster performance and better user experience.
- Users can visit the app at app.polkasafe.xyz for more information.

Executed

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Polkasafe completed all milestone tasks to become a complete solution for asset management using multisig on Polkadot networks. They offer a comprehensive set of tools and features for managing assets on the Polkadot network. They completed all milestones and plan to improve the product performance further. The entire tech stack for the product is open source. Read the complete proposal for more details.

Polkasafe - The 360° multisig solution for Polkadot | Last Retroactive Funding Proposal

### Polkadot Tooling Collective (PoToC)

- **Purpose**: Recognize and support developers contributing to Polkadot's tools and libraries.
- **Mission**: Maintain tools for building dApps and general development on Polkadot.
- **Structure**: Initial ranks include Candidate and Member, with potential for more ranks in the future.
- **Funding**: Proposes a bounty-centered salary structure after proving effectiveness.
- **Initial Members**: A group of developers with contributions to Polkadot tooling.
- **Phases**: 
  1. Setup (6 months)
  2. Probation Period (6-12 months)
  3. Business As Usual (after probation)
- **Tools**: Includes both fundamental and extension tools for dApp development and general Polkadot tooling.

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WHO: Polkadot token holders, Polkadot Tooling Collective (PoToC)

WHAT: Proposal for the inception of a new System Collective, PoToC, to recognize and retain developers who make significant contributions to tools and libraries that make Polkadot easier to maintain, use, and integrate.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: PoToC will request funds from the treasury to support a salary structure and sub-treasury after a formation period to establish members and display effectiveness. The salary structure will be bounty-centered, and the exact constants for the size of the bounties and baseline salary will be proposed through a secondary document in `Phase II`. The setup phase should take at most 6 months, the probation period from 6 months to 1 year, and the business as usual phase will start after the probation period.

Proposing The Polkadot Tooling Collective

A group asked for $1,337,000 to sponsor HEROIC esports on a blockchain. They started working with Polkadot community members on a marketing campaign and will have a keynote and stand at Decoded. But because the price of DOT dropped, they only got $1,231,427 and need an extra $105,573 to cover all the marketing plans they agreed to.

In Ref#762 ([https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/762),](762\),) we requested a total of $1,337,000 for an exclusive blockchain sponsorship of HEROIC esports.

Since then, we have successfully launched the partnership, established the Marketing Council with Polkadot community members (Leemo, Evan, and Olli + Nate from Distractive) to work on the first marketing campaign, and we are confirmed to do a keynote and stand at Decoded.

Unfortunately, due to a price drop, we received the payment when the price of DOT was $6.18 (29.06.24 at 10:40AM) and we are asking for a top up to cover the difference. This is to make sure we have the budget to cover all agreed marketing deliverables in the partnership agreement.

**Top up request**

-   Original requested amount: 199,260 DOT at 6.987 USD — 1,392,259 USD at the time, anything above 1,337,000 USD would be repaid
-   Received amount: 1,231,427 USD at 6.18 USD per DOT
-   Top up request: 105,573 USDT

[https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/762](762)

HEROIC esports requested a top-up of 105,573 USDT to cover the difference caused by the price drop of DOT. The original requested amount was 199,260 DOT at 6.987 USD, and they received 1,231,427 USD at 6.18 USD per DOT.

Top up | HEROIC x Polkadot sponsorship due to DOT price drop

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- Jimmy Tudeski, also known as Stakenode, wants to be the Head Ambassador for Polkadot because he loves the ecosystem and has experience in it.
- He has been part of the Polkadot community since May 2020, helping with education and governance, and has held many roles.
- Jimmy wants to unite the Polkadot community and empower new ambassadors with tools and support.
- He plans to host workshops and create guides to help everyone understand Polkadot better.
- His goal is to make Polkadot a top choice in blockchain technology and help it grow by collaborating with businesses and governments.
- Jimmy is committed to using part of his salary to support the local Polkadot community in Poland.
- He believes in leading by example and is focused on making the Polkadot ecosystem successful for everyone involved.

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Jimmy Tudeski (Stakenode) is applying to become the Polkadot Head Ambassador. He aims to empower the community, onboard new ambassadors, and build a strong network. He plans to host regular workshops and events, create practical guides, and represent the community at global conferences. He is committed to education, technical translation, governance, and community building. He also plans to focus on business development, positioning Polkadot in the European Blockchain Sandbox, and collaborating with regulators and industry leaders to refine best practices. He pledges to distribute 30% of his salary to the Polkadot Poland team.

Polkadot Head Ambassador Application - Jimmy Tudeski

- KAGOME is a C++ version of Polkadot Host that helps make the Polkadot network safer and better by allowing different versions to exist.
- This proposal asks for money to keep improving KAGOME for the next four months after previous successful updates.
- Client diversity is important because it prevents one bug from breaking the entire network.
- KAGOME has added features like new network designs, security upgrades, and a special audit to ensure safety.
- Quadrivium, the company behind KAGOME, plans to develop another client called JAM in the future.
- The proposal includes specific tasks, like security improvements and fixing features that are only halfway done.
- They are requesting 141,395 DOT for the work from Quadrivium and SRLabs.

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WHO: Quadrivium and SRLabs

WHAT: Requesting funding for the next 4 months to continue development of KAGOME, a C++ implementation of the Polkadot Host, with additional features such as security improvements, grid and cluster topologies, and disabled validators mechanism.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting a total of 141,395 DOT. Full breakdown available in the proposal.

KAGOME – the C++ implementation of Polkadot Host milestone 3

- The person is applying for the Head Ambassador for Gaming position.
- They have experience in the Polkadot ecosystem since 2019.
- They worked with the Web3 Foundation to help Polkadot with regulations.
- Polkadot is now recognized as software, not a security.
- The application includes a proposal for a bounty called Dot Play.
- If funded, they want to support streamers and influencers in gaming.
- They plan to educate them about Polkadot.

![](https://i.ibb.co/8gFXYFY/A-Dalton-Head-Ambassador.jpg)

Hello! I am excited to apply for the position of Head Ambassador for Gaming. I have been in the Polkadot ecosystem since 2019, when I was hired by Web3 Foundation as Lead Advisor on the three-year regulatory process with the SEC, which concluded with a statement that Polkadot was no longer a security - it is simply software. This was a true team effort that continues today as we strive to maintain such status. I am submitting my application for the Head Ambassador for Gaming in conjunction with our Dot Play bounty proposal. Any funds received from the treasury for the position of Head Ambassador of gaming would be used to fund a selection of streamers and influencers in gaming, after we educate them on Polkadot!

Here is a link to my proposal: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12et\_7fsdesB4K0l0DMzfOTvqxbpoQ11uBTTfWYrFP74/edit

WHO: The applicant is applying for the position of Head Ambassador for Gaming in the Polkadot ecosystem.

WHAT: The applicant is submitting a proposal for the Dot Play bounty, which aims to educate streamers and influencers in gaming about Polkadot and fund their selection.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal does not mention a specific price, timeframe, or resources needed for the Dot Play bounty.

Polkadot Head Ambassador for Gaming Application - Angie Dalton

Cancelled

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The Games Bounty which was originally started as an experiment is proving to be extremely ineffective. The idea of having a large crowd of curators reach a super majority to decide on specific projects seems to be ineffective. On the other hand I observe that bounties with a small set of curators that are highly experienced (like for example DeFi Bounty) seem to be extremely effective Hopefully some new leadership will take over this bounty or if not it's better to abandon it completely

Removing curators from Games Bounty [38]

- Tokenguard is creating a special tool to help wallets and apps grow better by tracking and measuring users.
- The Polkadot Community has spent over 3 million $DOT on getting new users, but they didn't have a way to see if it was working.
- Previous tools focused on data but didn't help in understanding how to turn people into users.
- Tokenguard will use available data and respect user privacy, helping apps understand their users and improve features.
- It can track how users come in and out of different parts of Polkadot and who the best users are.
- The tool will be free for everyone in the Polkadot Community.
- Support from various companies shows that there is interest in this tool to improve user engagement and retention.
- Tokenguard aims to help wallets and apps build better connections and grow their use in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Tokenguard proposes to build a free public good wallet segmentation & conversion growth tool for Polkadot community. The tool will allow DeFi, Wallets and Parachains to engage users more to increase revenue and maximize TVL. The proposal is supported by more than 3M $DOT and will be based only on publicly available on-chain data. The tool will enable tracking of $DOT user inflow and outflow from the ecosystem, analyze cross-parachain activity, determine user interests in XCM, CeXes and bridges, and identify attractive parachains for users.

Polkadot User Segments & Conversions 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 for Ink!, Pallets & XCM 

Retracted

Marketing Bounty Drama: https://x.com/giottodf/status/1809311849726321033 Reports: https://www.marketing-bounty.com/ https://bit.ly/m/reports It looks like DOT community doesn't like the idea of automatic monthly refills \[ref 822\] so we are going back to one off refills as needed

Refill for marketing bounty number #33 - 500k DOT

The Spanish bounty has been criticized for being ineffective and self-serving. Some people think there should be bounties for other countries too, like China, India, and France. Many activities in the Spanish bounty are already covered by other bounties, like events and marketing bounties, which are managed better. People suggest cleaning up the Spanish bounty because it's not working well and has problems. They also think some curators should be replaced with more effective ones. The person who wrote this wants to talk to the current curators to see if the bounty can be fixed or if it's better to end it. They propose removing the curators first, which could lead to either replacing them or ending the bounty later.

This bounty has always been very criticized as ineffective and self-serving. I see no apparent reason why there should be a specific Spanish bounty, then we should also have a Chinese bounty, Indian Bounty, French bounty, etc. Most of the activities covered by this bounty are already covered by other bounties like events bounty, marketing bounty, etc with much better management and oversight. I think it's time to clean up this bounty because of its ineffectiveness and controversy in the ecosystem. We could also consider replacing the curators with more effective ones (I'm not saying that all of them are ineffective, I'm sure that some of them in the current bounty are very effective but they may be slowed down by ineffective ones, similar to old events bounty). I'm happy to have a conversation with the current curators to understand if this bounty can be salvaged or it's better to terminate it since anyway all the actions it is undertaking already exist under more generic bounties Instead of killing the bounty directly I am proposing to remove the curators so this is like a prelude to either replacing the curators or terminating the bounty in a second referendum

WHO: The proposal does not mention any specific organization or individual.

WHAT: The proposal suggests cleaning up the Spanish bounty due to its ineffectiveness and controversy in the ecosystem. It proposes removing the curators and replacing them with more effective ones.

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

Removing curators from Spanish bounty

- The FHE-WASM project wants to use Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) in the Polkadot system to keep data private and secure.
- FHE allows people to work with encrypted data without needing to unlock it, enhancing privacy for sensitive information.
- The team plans to develop tools that help other developers use FHE easily, focusing on making it work with the WASM programming language.
- Key benefits of FHE include better data privacy, compliance with rules about data protection, and enabling innovative new applications like secure payments and voting systems.
- The project team is made up of four researchers from different cities with expertise in cryptography.
- They aim to create a reliable system for sharing keys safely and to ensure that different parts can work together well.
- The project seeks funding of $189,750 to support their research and development efforts.

WHO: FHEWASM Team, a group of 4 Ph.D researchers and developers.

WHAT: Develop an FHE-WASM module that accepts compiled .wasm files, public key 'pk', and specified input data as inputs, and outputs encrypted output data.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requested allocation of $189,750 (33,884 DOT) with a timeline of 6 months for completion.

PROPOSAL -  FHE-WASM Research and Development for the Polkadot Ecosystem

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A new proposal to refill Game Bounty (#38) will be submitted shortly

Dot Play Bounty

JobStash is proposing a new initiative called PolkaDotJobs, a job platform for the Polkadot ecosystem. They aim to provide a free service for distributing, discovering, and applying to job opportunities while prioritizing quality applicants. JobStash is a crypto-native job site that has indexed data for over 6,500 organizations and tracked approximately 3,000 live jobs across the crypto ecosystem. They do not charge job posting fees, placement fees, or interview fees and only allow organizations to feature their job posts for extra visibility if desired.

The PolkaDotJobs platform will bridge the gap between talent and opportunity in the crypto space by providing a comprehensive, safe, and data-complete dataset of all job opportunities within the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform will offer visibility, transparency, and safety by vetting all organizations and providing APIs for job data.

The requested budget for this project is $98,900 in USD and 17081 DOT. The estimated duration of the project is 6 months, with the initial delivery of the launched portal 3 months after engineering kickoff. The team behind JobStash has experience in web development, data infrastructure, and design. They are committed to open-source principles and will make the PolkaDotJobs platform open-source from the beginning of its development.

**Proponent:** David (DuckDegen) from JobStash

**Requested USD:** $98,900

**Requested DOT:** 17081 DOT (EMA7 DOT price on 16:20 Jun 25th ‘24 @ DOT/USD 5.79). Any excess funds at the time of exchange will be returned to the treasury.

**Estimated Duration:** 6 months, with initial delivery of the launched portal 3 months after engineering kickoff.

## **Introduction and Key Considerations**

This proposal from the JobStash team introduces a new initiative for ecosystem-specific job indexing within the Polkadot network. Our mission is to offer ideal tooling for distributing, discovering, and applying to job opportunities, maintaining a free service that curates job listings while safeguarding the interests of both organizations and applicants. We will always prioritize quality applicants over quantity of applicants.

## **Organization Background**

JobStash ([http://JobStash.xyz](http://JobStash.xyz)) is a crypto-native job site operating as a public good. Over the past 1.5 years, our platform has leveraged AI to structure data and scrape websites, indexing data for over 6,500 organizations and tracking approximately 3,000 live jobs across the crypto ecosystem. Our primary funding sources include public good funding from platforms like GitCoin and RetroPGF3.

**Why We Exist:** Traditional job sites and talent sourcers are value extractive and gatekeep information as it is their only edge, and operate with misaligned incentives that do not serve the ecosystem well. This results in fragmented job opportunities, confusion for job seekers, and multiple fees for companies. We fix this by being an unbiased, neutral public good that curates a comprehensive, safe, and data-complete dataset of the entire crypto ecosystem. We do not charge job posting fees, placement fees, or interview fees, and only allow organizations to feature their job posts for extra visibility if desired.

Furthermore, since the Polkadot treasury is currently funding lots of projects, lots of these are looking to hire new talent, yet there is no place where this can be accomplished in a way that both gives proper exposure+distribution and which also attracts new talent into the ecosystem. The pie needs to grow.

**What We Are:** JobStash.xyz is a crypto-native job site provided as a public good, indexing data for over 6,500 organizations and tracking approximately 2,500 live jobs across the ecosystem. Our goal is to achieve near-complete coverage of the crypto ecosystem. Our funding comes almost entirely from public good funding sources like GitCoin and RetroPGF3.

## **Our Impact (Year to Date):**

-   Facilitated an average of 150 job applications per day.
-   Over 20,000 job applications, 28,000 job card expansions, and 137,000 pageviews since the beginning of this year.
-   Community includes 7,000+ Telegram subscribers and approximately 1,000 weekly website visitors.
-   Platform indexes several companies active in the Polkadot ecosystem.

## **What Value We Provide:**

-   **Visibility:** Equal platform with access to talent for all organizations, regardless of size or budget.
-   **Transparency:** Combat information asymmetry by prominently featuring all available information about organizations, including fundraising, financials, deployed protocols, hacks, audits, and more.
-   **Safety:** Safeguard talent by not publishing anonymous job posts and curating the dataset to exclude malicious actors.

## **How We Are Different:**

-   We pull jobs from career sites regularly, using bespoke generalized AI based scraping infra we built ourselves, rather than requiring organizations to inform us about vacancies.
-   We structure job posts using AI to make them easily understandable
-   We publish/unpublish jobs automatically, with no input required by organizations.
-   We can import data from almost any web source thanks to our AI based scraping infra.
-   We import and list organizations and their jobs for free.
-   We have open APIs and are composable by definition.
-   We distribute jobs to an audience of over 7,000 subscribers on Telegram (@jobstash) for free and have additional 10k in partner channels which periodically redistribute our content
-   We do not charge placement or referral fees.
-   Most companies do not know we exist; we index them and send candidates without requiring their input or needing action from them.

This approach positions us as curators rather than matchmakers, focusing on data correctness, accuracy, and safety rather than quick monetary gains from job placements.

## **Project Description and Context of Proposal**

PolkaDotJobs ([https://polkadotjobs.com](https://polkadotjobs.xyz)) will be a dedicated job platform for the Polkadot ecosystem, aiming to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity in the crypto space by providing a comprehensive, safe, and data-complete dataset of all job opportunities within the ecosystem. The underlying data will be fully integrated with all our other projects, so it will not be an isolated website, but rather part of a growing and well visited suite of platforms (on Telegram alone we have over 17k combined subscribers across our distribution channels, plus 4k unique visitors per month on our website) which all operate as public goods, further increasing reach, visibility and discoverability.

**Current Situation:** There are a few job sites servicing the polkadot ecosystem. None of them operate as public goods, and none of them are really good. Let’s take a look.

[https://careers.substrate.io/jobs](https://careers.substrate.io/jobs) and [https://polkadot.getro.com/jobs](https://polkadot.getro.com/jobs) are Getro.io embedded job boards, which charge a monthly fee based on the count of organizations which are included in the index. They are a generic Web2 solution, and have absolutely no awareness of categorization of protocols, networks or finer details.

Here is a screenshot of careers.substrate.io :

![careers.substrate.io](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9123/0z4gi5.png)

Here is a screenshot of polkadot.getro.com :

![polkadot.getro](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/5822/KLDKPn.png)

The three major web3 job boards service polkadot as well.

[https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co](https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co) and [https://cryptojobslist.com](https://cryptojobslist.com) currently list 15 and 3 jobs for polkadot respectively.

[https://Web3.careers](https://Web3.careers) has a higher job count, but their product never removes filled or killed vacancies, and can thus be considered a graveyard of jobs.

Here is a screenshot of web3.careers:

![web3.careers](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3747/D7Pabi.png)

Here is cryptocyurrencyjobs:

![cryptocurrencyjobs](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/782/nEqDbJ.png)

Here is cryptojobslist.com:

![cryptojobslist](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9213/2Rnuwz.png)

These three platforms fundamentally do the same thing: they import jobs from greenhouse/lever/workable APIs, do not improve the data or the user experience at all, and hope that companies they do not cover will come to them to add their own job listings and will then charge fees to post jobs for a certain period of time. The ecosystem coverage such an approach offers is pretty low, and even assuming all companies would pay the fee once, their information will be lost the moment the publishing period ends.

We differ from any of these because we perform organization and job discovery on our own, and that is one of our core value propositions. Our aim is to maintain a comprehensive and as complete as possible dataset, and thus we spend a considerable amount of time extending our dataset and maintaining it.

Having us maintain a Job Board means that the burden of identifying which organizations are part of the polkadot ecoystem is shifted from parity / polkadot to us, and organizations don't strictly have to come and identify themselves to us, we find them on a regular basis.

Lastly, these job boards come with a common downside: they are mainly frequented by non crypto natives, and in general the applicant quality is pretty low.

**Problems we aim to solve:** Traditional job sites are rent-seekers and focus on pay-per-job post fees, creating barriers for small organizations. Information asymmetry and lack of transparency often lead to candidates handing over their private data to middlemen, contrary to crypto ethos. Additionally, crypto job boards targeting all ecosystems miss the nuanced knowledge required by Polkadot-specific tools and protocols.

Traditional job sites are unable to import data from smaller organizations which do not pay hundreds of dollars per month for an ATS (applicant tracking system) which has open APIs. This means that smaller orgs receive no coverage, and this is evidenced by performing a quick search for “polkadot” on most career sites.

Even a specialized job board like JobStash is currently unable to capture the full breadth and scope of the Polkadot ecosystem, and we would love to tackle this problem from the ground up building an ecosystem job board that is worthy of such a great community, while maintaining a high quality of talent that applies through our distribution channels.

**Our Solution:** PolkaDotJobs will be a fee-free, crypto-native job board provided as a public good. We curate a comprehensive dataset of job opportunities, ensuring transparency and safety by vetting all organizations. Job listings are imported from primary sources only, regardless if as an ATS API integration or if imported by a custom website template, and additionally organizations will directly be able to input and manage their listings. We provide APIs for our job data for others to use, and distribute jobs across our distribution channels, increasing the reach of opportunities within the Polkadot ecosystem. The backend service which powers these APIs is OSS and already published at [https://github.com/jobstash/middleware](https://github.com/jobstash/middleware) .

We also provide a permanent index of organizations and projects within the ecosystem, which comes with full metadata, financials, and other custom metadata which we manually research. This can be seen here for example on JobStash.

This is how we display jobs:

![jobstash jobs](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5286/ZuS1o6.png)

This is how we display an organization:

![jobstash organization](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/3749/2CdK6m.png)

This is how we display a project:

![jobstash project](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/5481/oSciDD.png)

## **Solution Proposal**

PolkaDotJobs will provide a dedicated job portal for the Polkadot ecosystem, indexing every hiring organization, project, and available job. Our platform will offer:

-   **Visibility**: Equal access to talent for all organizations.
-   **Transparency**: Detailed information about each organization.
-   **Safety**: Strict organization vetting processes to ensure legitimacy and safety.

### **Key Features:**

-   **Job Indexing**: Regularly pull job listings from career sites.
-   **Free Listings**: No fees for job postings or placement.
-   **Open APIs**: Easy integration for various platforms wishing to consume our data
-   **Community Distribution**: Jobs distributed to over 8,000 Telegram subscribers.
-   **Specificity**: Polkadot specific metadata will annotate the chain type for added clarity
-   **Organization / Project / Chain presentation**: Our platform has a unique taxonomy which connects organizations, their projects, and the chains they deploy on, to the jobs an organization is hiring for.

### **Workflow for Organizations:**

1.  **Registration or Discovery:** Organizations register or are proactively discovered and indexed.
2.  **Job Listing Import:** Custom AI-based scrapers ingest job data on a daily basis
3.  **Data Structuring and Enrichment:** Job data is structured and enriched using GPT-4o.
4.  **Publication:** Job listings are published and distributed.
5.  **Continuous Monitoring:** Our ETLs keep the database updated on a daily basis

![](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1787/LDRtzG.png)

## **What's in it for the Community**

Having a specialized job board for the Polkadot ecosystem which is integrated into a larger distribution ecosystem will:

-   Grow the developer community of the Polkadot ecosystem by attracting new talent
-   Increase visibility of projects within the ecosystem.
-   Provide coverage for every organization hiring within the Polkadot Ecosystem, regardless of size and budget, for free.
-   Offer granular information about chain protocols, enhancing informational value for job seekers and others.
-   Ensure free flow of information & talent thanks to no commissions, no publishing fees, and no gatekeeping of talent or information.
-   Distribution of new job opportunities across dedicated and generic distribution channels, across multiple platforms (telegram: [https://t.me/jobstash](https://t.me/jobstash)) , twitter: [https://x.com/jobstash\_xyz](https://x.com/jobstash_xyz) , warpcast: /jobs and /jobstash , our webapps: [https://jobstash.xyz](https://jobstash.xyz) & [https://ecosystem.vision](https://ecosystem.vision) (in active buidling) & soon [https://polkadotjobs.xyz](https://polkadotjobs.xyz) )

## **Current Traffic and Metrics**

**Website Traffic Year to Date:**

![traffic source stats](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/4833/Os3LVS.png "image_tooltip")

**Applicant Stats Year to Date:**

![Applicant stats](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/2645/9tGDIc.png "image_tooltip")

**Telegram Stats past 3 months:** (Subscriber spike caused by Telegram “similar channels” algo)

![Telegram subscriber stats](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/5733/eMzUcT.png "image_tooltip")

![Telegram follower sources](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/8605/cRNkpE.png "image_tooltip")

**Telegram follower stats past 3 months with “similar channels” disabled:**

![telegram followes no suggested chans](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4369/FaieBh.png "image_tooltip")

## **Open Source Commitment**

We are committed to open source principles and have two repositories that will be foundational for this project:

-   [Middleware Repository](https://github.com/jobstash/middleware): This repository exposes public APIs providing a list of all jobs, organizations, and projects.
-   [Ecosystem.Vision Repository](https://github.com/jobstash/ecosystem.vision): This repository will serve as the base to build PolkaDotJobs. We will opensource PolkaDotJobs from the beginning of its development.

Both repositories are licensed under GPLv3, ensuring that the software remains free and open for the community to use, modify, and distribute.

## **Development Tasks and Budget**

-   **Implementation ($48,400):**\- Rewrite JobStash with the new NextJS App Router to build PolkaDotJobs.com
    
    -   Implement the new designs and landing pages.
    -   Add support for common Polkadot wallets (Nova, Talisman, Subwallet) for sign-in. Sign-in is optional but necessary to gatekeep jobs which should only be made available to talent which needs to meet certain minimum requirements as to not overwhelm companies with spam applicants. It also allows for bookmarking of jobs and a more customized experience, as well as to let talent create a profile which is only visible for internal recruiters at verified crypto organizations.
    -   Extend current backend and frontend to accommodate organizational signup.
    -   Extend the current backend and frontend to accommodate organizational profiles.
    -   Extend current backend and frontend to accommodate direct job input by verified organizations.
-   **One time fee for Integration, DevOps, Hosting & LLM ($12000):**\- Set up and maintain dev-staging-prod environments, including a contribution to cost for other data pipelines and backend services.
    
    -   OpenAI costs to power automatic data structuring on a daily basis pinging every jobsite daily
-   **Design, Polishing and Testing ($12,500):**\- Design new PolkaDotJobs-specific landing pages in accordance with Polkadot ecosystem brand guidelines ([https://polkadot.network/ecosystem/brand-hub/](https://polkadot.network/ecosystem/brand-hub/))
    
    -   Refine the user interface and experience.
    -   Additional design refinement.
    -   Conduct extensive testing and bug fixing.
-   **Marketing and Outreach ($14,000)**\- Cross platform social media campaigns to spread awareness of the platform among job seekers performed by a Marketing Consultant ($14,000)
    
-   **Organization & Project Data Acquisition ($12,000)**\- Organization + Project Discovery & Processing & Ingestion (Every organization in the ecosystem needs to be added to our registry, and needs to be manually processed to correctly import its full range of metadata, projects and career pages ($12,000). This is a manual process and consumes tons of time.
    

**Total Budget in USD:** $98,900

**Total Budget in DOT:** 17081 DOT (EMA7 DOT price on 16:20 Jun 25th ‘24 @ DOT/USD 5.79)

## **Timeline**

**Month 1:**

-   Project planning & kickoff.
-   Design UI.
-   Extend Project & Organization Taxonomy & Integrate into ETL.
-   Begin engineering of PolkaDotJobs.xyz by porting jobstash a new codebase optimized for SEO.
-   Begin integration into existing data infrastructure.
-   Start building signup, organization, project and job administration features.
-   Begin organization onboarding and importing efforts.

**Month 2:**

-   Continue engineering and integration.
-   Continue building signup, organization, project and job administration features.
-   Ongoing organization onboarding and importing efforts.
-   Onboard marketing staff & Begin marketing research

**Month 3:**

-   Finalize organization signup flows and integration.
-   Begin marketing and awareness efforts
-   Launch online advertising campaigns.
-   Continue marketing and awareness efforts.
-   Ongoing organization onboarding and importing efforts.

**Months 4-6:**

-   Beginning of month 4: Launch PolkaDotJobs.xyz
-   Continue marketing and awareness efforts.
-   Ongoing organization onboarding and importing efforts.
-   Bug fixing, testing, and refinement of the solution.

**Months 6-12:**

-   Ongoing organization onboarding and importing efforts.
-   Continue Marketing and awareness efforts
-   Bug fixing, testing, and refinement of the solution.

## **Team Members**

-   **David L (DuckDegen), Technical CoFounder:** A veteran consultant with almost 20 years of Web2 industry experience, multiple own enterprises behind, exposure to large corporates \[ING, ABN, Equens\], agencies \[Reaktor, MediaMonks\] and Microstartups \[soup.io\], from fintech to blockchain \[Connext Protocol, Gearbox\]. He’s worn many hats, from Dev to Sales Director, DevRel and Engineering Manager. Builds and maintains the AI pipelines as well as some of our data ingestion services.
-   **Enrico B, Technical CoFounder:** MSc in Data Science & AI from University Cote d'Azur. Is maintaining all our data infrastructure.
-   **Obafemi T, Lead Backend Engineer:** Loves functional programming and would rather code in Scala than in Typescript. Currently maintains all our backend services.
-   **John B, Lead Frontend Engineer:** UI builder supreme, is a veteran dev with a dedication for building high performance and low bundle size webapps in React/Next
-   **Cristiano C, Senior Frontend Engineer:** Our Pixelfucker, crafter of flawless UI and experiences
-   **Deniz K & Gintare K, UI Designers:** Our design team. Deniz is referred to as the “king of dribble” as he used to be in the top % of users on the platform. Gintare is our Design queen.

## **References**

-   [JobStash.xyz](https://www.jobstash.xyz/)

JobStash proposes to create PolkaDotJobs, a specialized job platform for the Polkadot ecosystem, indexing every hiring organization, project, and available job. They request $98,900 or 17081 DOT for a 6-month project, including implementation, design, testing, marketing, and organization and project data acquisition. The platform will offer visibility, transparency, and safety, with no fees for job postings or placement. PolkaDotJobs will be a fee-free, crypto-native job board provided as a public good, with open APIs and distribution of new job opportunities across dedicated and generic distribution channels.

Referendum for PolkaDotJobs.xyz: A Polkadot Native Job Board Provided as a Public Good

- A request was made for $165,000 to develop a Coretime Marketplace for Polkadot.
- The team reached their first milestone and is close to finishing the second.
- They launched the parachain on Rococo and will soon support Coretime trading.
- The payment received was less than expected due to a drop in the price of DOT.
- They received $116,446 instead of the full amount.
- They are asking for an extra $48,554 to cover the price difference.

WHO: The proposal was made by the Coretime team.

WHAT: The team is requesting a top-up of $48,554 USDT to cover the price difference for the development of a Coretime Marketplace for Polkadot.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The initial request was for $165,000 at 9.478$ per DOT. The team received $116,446 at 6.69$ per DOT. The top-up request is for $48,554 USDT. No timeframe or additional resources were mentioned.

Top Up | RegionX Coretime Marketplace for Polkadot

### Summary of Adam Steeber's Tutorial

- **Creator**: Adam Steeber
- **Content**: A two-hour tutorial titled "[Polkadot Bounties, Multisigs, & Proxies]"
- **Platforms**: Published on YouTube and Twitter
- **Purpose**: Educates on using bounties and multisigs in the Polkadot ecosystem
- **Audience**: Bounty curators and multisig managers
- **Features**: 
  - Detailed explanations
  - Split into easy-to-navigate lessons
  - Includes demonstrations, examples, and quizzes
- **Impact**: Saves time for ecosystem agents and improves UX
- **Promotion**: Embedded in OpenGov.Watch guides and recommended to future users

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WHO: The proposal aims to tip Adam Steeber. 

WHAT: Adam Steeber created and published a two-hour-long tutorial on Polkadot bounties, multisigs, and proxies. 

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

Ecosystem Agent Tip for Adam Steeber's bounty & multisig tutorial

Referendum 912 posted on the wrong track

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WHO: The author of the message is requesting Head Ambassadors who have won their bid to disclose their sponsors.

WHAT: Disclosure of sponsors, including wallet addresses and transaction IDs.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Full Disclosure for Head Ambassador Sponsorship - Whistle-Blower Series Part 1

Galaniprojects GmbH, a Berlin-based company, has proposed developing a user-friendly interface for interacting with Polkadot Bounties. This interface aims to simplify processes for curators, proposers, and beneficiaries, making it easier for non-technical users to manage bounties. The company is seeking funding for the first milestone of the project and plans to request additional funds for the second milestone after completing the first. Updates on the project's progress can be found in their reports from December 8, 2024, and September 20, 2024.

### Context of the proposal

This proposal details the development of a user-friendly interface to interact with Polkadot Bounties without the need to use the developer oriented polkadot.js apps. The interface will be useful for curators, proposers and beneficiaries, simplifying all processes and actions necessary for the user. The idea was formed after hearing complaints from curators, that it has been difficult to navigate and properly manage their bounties, because the currently available tools are not created with non-technical users in mind.

### About us

Galaniprojects GmbH was established in 2006 and is situated in Berlin, Germany. We offer development, project management, quality assurance and UI/UX design to clients across various industries, including Media & Publishing, Telecommunication, Automotive and Transport, as well as working on various projects for the Polkadot Parachain Kilt.

Visit our website [here](https://galaniprojects.de/eng.html).

### Proposal

We are initially requesting funding for the implementation of the 1st mileston as described in our proposal document attached bellow.

We will request funds for the second milestone after implementing and reporting on the first.

You can read our full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Ao3AUZbiY5j82wxlr5BlW4OgjyxcU2dEM6y-Y53OfE/edit?pli=1).

You can view the original discussion [here](../post/2365). 

### Update 12.08.2024

Please find our first report [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/124n0fVhbkH6eS4qlEDX-8Dc01kGeS42DiCat6aCQUdY/edit?usp=sharing).

### Update 20.09.2024

Please find our second report [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxJ3rFeCaC0R9RPhPRRrGoWthCNP-Ps1VHPUxqyadgo/edit?usp=sharing).

WHO: Galaniprojects GmbH

WHAT: Develop a user-friendly interface to interact with Polkadot Bounties without the need to use the developer-oriented polkadot.js apps.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Funding for the implementation of the 1st milestone initially requested, with a request for funds for the second milestone after implementing and reporting on the first. Full proposal available in the attached document.

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot Bounty Manager UI Development

- OpenGuild is a community that helps connect talent in Southeast Asia with the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The core team has three main members: Cris Nguyen, Tin Chung, and Patricia Arro, each with experience in blockchain and community building.
- They aim to apply for the Head Ambassador role to strengthen relationships with key players in Web3.0 in Southeast Asia.
- Cris Nguyen is known for organizing events and building partnerships in the region.
- Tin Chung has experience as a software engineer and organizes technical workshops and hackathons.
- Patricia Arro focuses on community marketing and has worked with various blockchain startups and organizations.
- The team believes their skills and local connections make them strong candidates for the Head Ambassador role.
- They aim to enhance the presence of Polkadot in Southeast Asia with more resources and collaboration.

OpenGuild core team members apply for the Head Ambassador role in Southeast Asia to build relationships with Web3.0 builders, organizations, and influencers in the region to elevate the Polkadot ecosystem and techstack. They have a ready-made resource, connections, partners, and diversified skills within their team. They have dedicated over 3 years of full-time commitment to contributing to the ecosystem through various initiatives, building relationships, creating mutual values, and partners are always ready to activate most activities related to Polkadot. They are confident that they can elevate their work to the next level with the Head Ambassador role officially and appropriate resources allocated by collaborating with All Ambassadors in the program.

Polkadot Head Ambassador Application | Cris, Patricia, Tin

Polkadot Head Ambassador Application:  Rish

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