### OpenSquare Proposal Summary

- **Beneficiary**: OpenSquare (12sNU8BXivMj1xQmcd4T39ugCyHjmhir8jkPqfAw5ZDESrx4)
- **Date**: 09/18/2023
- **Requested Allocation**: $275,620 (67,438 DOT)

#### Key Points:

1. **Maintenance**: Includes server costs, email services, domains, and labor for code maintenance and bug fixes.
2. **Infrastructure**: Hetzner servers, Ali email service, IPFS pin service, and domain costs.
3. **Code Maintenance**: Focuses on Subsquare, Dotreasury, Statescan, and Off-chain voting products.
4. **New Features**: Development of off-chain discussion decentralization, delegation UI enhancements, on-chain governance deposit management, and more.
5. **Budget Breakdown**: Maintenance costs $65,700, with additional budgets for new features in Subsquare, Dotreasury, and Off-chain voting.
6. **Total Budget**: $275,620, including both maintenance and new feature development.
7. **Long-term Vision**: OpenSquare aims to build a decentralized collaboration network in the Polkadot ecosystem, focusing on infrastructure and data indexing.
8. **User Metrics**: OpenSquare's products attract a significant number of users, contributing to the ecosystem's growth.

Executed

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OpenSquare infrastructure products maintenance(2023 Q2 and Q3) and a new batch of features development

A substrate PR tip is a reward given for contributions to the Substrate code. To get a tip, you can follow these steps:

1. Visit the Polkadot.js Treasury website: [https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/treasury/tips](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/treasury/tips)
2. Check the Substrate GitHub page for PRs: [https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13800](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13800)
3. Look at an example of a tip on Polkadot Assembly: [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/tip/0x7045b376f208b9102cde994054c7772cb8ba5f297f3d96e42c3d21fd88c2606d](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/tip/0x7045b376f208b9102cde994054c7772cb8ba5f297f3d96e42c3d21fd88c2606d)

These tips are rewards for people who help improve the Substrate code.

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Get tip for substrate PR.   
  

See these:

-   [https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/treasury/tips](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/treasury/tips)
-   [https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13800](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13800)
-   [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/tip/0x7045b376f208b9102cde994054c7772cb8ba5f297f3d96e42c3d21fd88c2606d](../tip/0x7045b376f208b9102cde994054c7772cb8ba5f297f3d96e42c3d21fd88c2606d)

It is just an old tip issued at gov1 stage but not executed because opengov. I think that's the all info. It just a reward of contribution for substrate code.

The proposal suggests checking out a tip for substrate PR, which is a reward for contribution to substrate code. No specific information is given regarding WHO will receive the reward, WHAT the reward is, or the price/timeframe/resources involved.

Get tip for substrate PR

**Coinsider Proposal Summary**

- Kevin, the founder of the Coinsider YouTube channel, is proposing to create three educational videos about Polkadot.
- He is asking for funding of 5,000 DOT, which is about $20,000, to help produce the videos.
- His team includes a researcher, an editor, a designer, and himself.
- The videos will discuss Polkadot’s decentralization, highlight important projects in its ecosystem, and explore future milestones in 2024.
- Each video will include links to the official Polkadot Discord channel to encourage community engagement.
- Kevin aims to deliver high-quality content and believes this campaign could benefit the Polkadot project, especially during the current bear market. 
- He has been consistently producing content and sees potential for growth by covering Layer 0s like Polkadot.

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COINSIDER, a YouTube channel, proposes to create 3 high-quality educational videos about Polkadot and its ecosystem for around $20,000, including fees, in a timeframe of around 6 weeks. The team consists of 1 researcher, 1 editor, 1 thumbnail designer, and the writer/host. The proposal aims to bring exposure to certain parts of Polkadot that will benefit the project and the community.

Coinsider Media Campaign for Polkadot

Rejected

See [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/tips/15649605\_0x7045b376f208b9102cde994054c7772cb8ba5f297f3d96e42c3d21fd88c2606d](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/tips/15649605_0x7045b376f208b9102cde994054c7772cb8ba5f297f3d96e42c3d21fd88c2606d)

Need to get tip which is not executed in old gov

- Patrice is a French Polkadot ambassador and runs a blog called Tendances Crypto.
- He wants to create a content hub for the French Polkadot community.
- France has growing interest in web3, but many brands don’t know much about Polkadot.
- His plan includes a newsletter, articles, a chatbot for questions, and LinkedIn posts.
- The goal is to promote Polkadot and help French companies use its technology.
- Patrice is seeking feedback from the Polkadot community before finalizing his proposal.

WHO: Patrice - Tendances Crypto

WHAT: Create a Polkadot content hub for the French community, including weekly and monthly newsletters, thematic articles, a chatbot, and LinkedIn posts.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 5,233 DOT for 44 weeks.

A French content hub for Polkadot Ecosystem

- Polkascan Foundation maintains Python libraries for Polkadot, Kusama, and Substrate-based chains.
- They have developed extensions for Polkascan Explorer and Subsquid, and a new runtime interface.
- They added support for ink! v4 and SCALE type definitions for upcoming Substrate updates.
- They improved contract interface support and updated metadata docs.
- They provided technical support on GitHub, Matrix, and Substrate Stack Exchange.
- They are requesting retroactive funding for their activities from April to September 2023.
- Detailed reports on their activities are available on GitHub.

Polkascan Foundation is requesting retroactive funding of approximately 4135 euro per month for development and tech support activities from April to September 2023. They have maintained Polkadot-related Python libraries, such as py-substrate-interface and py-scale-codec, which are essential for Python developers to interact with any Polkadot, Kusama or other Substrate-based chain. They have implemented new Polkascan Explorer and Subsquid extensions, added support for ink! v4, and provided technical support on Github, substrate.stackexchange.com, and #polkascan:matrix.org channels.

Maintenance & Support Python Libraries (April to September 2023)

Polkadot is preparing for a crowdloan unlock on October 24th. To accommodate the new DOT being unlocked into the staking system without reducing staking rewards, it has been proposed to slightly increase the ideal staking rate. The new ideal staking rate would be 60%. The change is a small adjustment to the previous Polkadot runtime version 9430. The enactment time is set for two days before the funds unlock from crowdloans. There is a fellowship referendum to whitelist the call.

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in preparation for the crowdloan unlock on October 24th, as discussed in [this forum post](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-polkadots-ideal-staking-rate-calculation/3897), it was concluded to propose slightly increasing the ideal staking rate in Polkadot, such that the network can accommodate the new DOT that is being unlocked into the staking system, without reducing staking rewards. 

In short, what this proposal does is: 

_For the current situation, the ideal staking rate would then be calculated as: 0.75 - min(45,60)/300 = 0.6, i.e., 60%._

You can find the full steps to reproduce the proposal in [https://hackmd.io/ykunWzXYR-Kaz\_cM2KNIlg](https://hackmd.io/ykunWzXYR-Kaz_cM2KNIlg). It is merely a 1 liner change to the former Polkadot runtime that was version 9430. 

The enactment time is set to [this](https://polkadot.subscan.io/block/17840000) block, which is roughly 2 days before the funds unlock from crowdloans. 

The corresponding fellowship referendum to whitelist the call is [https://collectives.polkassembly.io/member-referenda/24](https://collectives.polkassembly.io/member-referenda/24).

Polkadot proposes to increase the ideal staking rate to 60% to accommodate the new DOT being unlocked into the staking system. The enactment time is set to two days before the funds unlock from crowdloans. The proposal is a 1 liner change to the former Polkadot runtime.

Tweak Polkadot's Ideal Staking Rate

Polkadot's nomination system is important for the network's security and decentralization. Nominators choose the best nodes and are rewarded for their actions. However, some nominators behave suboptimally and risk losing rewards. To help nominators improve their actions, a solution called Motif is proposed. Motif includes leaderboards for nominator rewards and validator payouts, which will help nominators learn from the best and make better decisions. This will benefit the Polkadot ecosystem by improving decentralization and onboarding new nominators.

\### \*\*Update:\*\* \*\*We thought that a video would provide a more detailed explanation of the product we offer. To make it more engaging for you, we've enhanced it with AI.\*\* \[!\[image\](https://i.ibb.co/r6jtS9H/7263-783d14c1f75f4ea191a4e0ad8-1696936700840.png)\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=funiC0HSgxc) ### \*\*We appreciate your support!\*\* -----

**Reseath overview**

Nominators hold a crucial role in Polkadot owing to the innovative NPOS approach. They fortify the economic security of the system with genuine decentralization through their constant actions to select the best nodes and personal commitment.

This approach demands significantly more involvement and decisions from them compared to any other staking yield (L1, farming, etc.). To incentivize their contributions, economic tools are employed: nominators receive the highest APY in the market for successful actions, while strict disincentivization tools (loss of reward or slashing of personal stake) ensure adherence to the system's stability.

This blend, along with the platform's openness, enables the realization of a high level of decentralization, offering true freedom of action for participants and full permissionlessness. Any DOT holder can enter the system, undertake tasks, and earn rewards for their successful completion.

However, the attributes of decentralization, openness, and permissionlessness mean every potential or existing nominator must engage in continuous self-education and perpetual optimization of their role. The complexity and dynamism of the system, key actions specific to the Polkadot ecosystem, necessitate proactive engagement from the nominator's side with almost zero feedback loop (because of decentralization).

Indirect data (that was partially available before this research) show that nominator behavior is somewhat suboptimal. We have conducted an extensive analysis of the structure of the nomination system from the nominators' behavior perspective and its dynamics. 

**Key findings** ([full details are available in the full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1)):

-   The staking ensemble is currently "decentralizing," with the contribution of "regular accounts" growing at the expense of a transition from "whales."
-   The growth in the role of regular nominators correlates with competition among them. Moreover, the closer the personal stake of the nominator is to the disincentivization level (min-reward), the higher the competition.
    -   ![Graph 9](https://i.ibb.co/2ZK4jts/9.png) ([Zoom in new window](https://i.ibb.co/2ZK4jts/9.png))
-   A significant number of accounts are near the disincentivization border, with 50% in the min-reward growth zone of 100%.
    -   ![Graph 6](https://i.ibb.co/34zzFjN/6.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/34zzFjN/6.png)) 
-   These accounts risk falling into the potential disincentivization zone (or are already in), possibly not receiving a reward while having staked funds if their actions are not optimal.   
    -   ![Graph 19 ](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png)([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png))
-   Our research showed that, in their mass, nominators indeed behave suboptimally. This concerns both stake size control and validator set control. Therefore, during the system's transformation, a significant number of accounts lose the active set – disincentivization occurs.
    -   ![Graph 26 ](https://i.ibb.co/SxgGfKx/26.png)([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/SxgGfKx/26.png))
    -   ![Graph 19](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/Mcdc9BM/19.png))
-   The non-receipt of rewards as a disincentivization tool works harshly: currently, 40% of nominators do not return (dropout) to the active set after its loss, a number that is increasing.
    -   ![Graph 17](https://i.ibb.co/ThFc33z/17.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/ThFc33z/17.png))
    -   ![Graph 16](https://i.ibb.co/9qSnd0Z/16.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/9qSnd0Z/16.png))
-   Simultaneously, our research showed that there is a set of super-effective regular nominators in the system (not just basically performing target tasks in the system, but doing it super-effectively).
    -   ![Graph 25](https://i.ibb.co/drmr2xd/25.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/drmr2xd/25.png))
-   These accounts proficiently manage both stake size and validator choice over the long term. A nonzero number of them even never missed the active set for the last 500 eras with growing median reward. 
    -   ![Graph 24](https://i.ibb.co/rmBdm70/24.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/rmBdm70/24.png))
    -   ![Graph 31](https://i.ibb.co/HTdmmwZ/31.png) ([Zoom in](https://i.ibb.co/HTdmmwZ/31.png)) 
-   Their actions are easily observable and visible on-chain ([data can be found in the full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1)).

**Proposed solution**

Given the presence of these efficient nominators, we can implement benchmarking based on their activities, continuously showcasing optimal actions and outcomes. By utilizing unbiased on-chain data in an open-source format, this method demonstrates superior strategies without necessitating centralized actions or permissions.

Benchmarking works as a self-learning tool for nominators (what the best nominators do, when they increase the stake, which validators and when they choose), as well as a feedback loop in the nomination process (the nominator can understand their effectiveness, compare it with the best, etc.).

We propose the implementation of nominator leaderboards – dashboards that visualize nominator behavior, offering a comprehensive view of actions and results within the system. The leaderboard allows showing the entire range of actions and results that exist in the system.

These leaderboards serve as a user-friendly interface over the core incentivization mechanism, aiming to prompt nominators to act before facing disincentivization, thus softening the tool's impact without compromising its efficacy.

By centering on regular accounts, this tool amplifies the decentralization effect, making it universally accessible and comprehensible, regardless of language, location, or depth of blockchain/ecosystem knowledge.

**Key components** of the system include:

1.  Nominator Dashboard: A leaderboard for nominator rewards with insights and behavior analysis.
2.  Validator Dashboard: A leaderboard for validator long-term rewards and real payouts with insights and trends.
3.  Nomination Pool Dashboard: A leaderboard for nominator rewards and payouts with insights and trends.

**Team and traction**

Our team specializes in researching user behavior in the web3 ecosystem. We have a track record with research in the blockchain industry, specifically in DeFi traders' behavior, dApp user experience, and utilizing AI&ML. Our team already has relevant experience with different methods of blockchain research. We have conducted research to determine the most suitable method for this case. Astar, dYdX, Lido done and methods that were tested ([Samples can be found in the Appendix.1 at the end of this proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1)).

**Interface sketches**

The implementation of the interface will take the form of a “desktop” webapp, providing users with a convenient way to explore the system's capabilities. The design will follow the style of "Similarweb," known for its user-friendly and visually appealing approach. The following is a basic layout and visual example of an internal project page. Please note that the dataset provided in the [full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEhn-kQQjYxpWD8hC05Nc4VK9oPYROFl/edit?pli=1) is illustrative and subject to change.

**Benefits for Polkadot ecosystem from Motif**

The Motif platform empowers key stakeholders with valuable data, insights, and educational resources. It aligns interests, optimizes engagement, and fosters a stronger and more collaborative Polkadot community.

-   Benefits for Nominators:
    -   Nominators self-education and benchmarking
    -   Higher stickiness of system participants due to Confidence and Understanding of the system's operation
    -   Nominating based on data-driven insights (not just the minimum stake or a known name)
-   Benefits for Validators:
    -   Competition Beyond Low Fee
    -   Data-Driven Strategy:
    -   Optimized Engagement
    -   Potential reward growth due to improving the work of nominators in the system.
-   Community-Wide Benefits
    -   Decentralization focus
    -   Onboarding newcomer nominators and Retaining Members

Also, an open-source platform for the ecosystem. Based on this solution, additional elements or separate products can be based, which will improve the effectiveness of the feedback loop.

**Thanks for support** 

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to those who have significantly assisted us during the nine months we prepared this proposal: Bill Laboon, Jonas Gehrlein, Raul Romanutti, Bryan Chen, Otar, Anaelle, Alex Promoteam, Tim, Denis Pisarev, Kirill Pimenov, Alice Faultcore, Subsquid guys and Dmitry, Jay Chrawnna, Tugy and Ra from Amforc, Tom, Ilhan, CoinStudio, Greg from Ryabina, and many more members from our community.

Motif proposes to implement nominator leaderboards, dashboards that visualize nominator behavior, offering a comprehensive view of actions and results within the Polkadot system. This tool aims to prompt nominators to act before facing disincentivization, thus softening the tool's impact without compromising its efficacy. The proposed solution will include Nominator, Validator, and Nomination Pool Dashboards. The team has relevant experience with different methods of blockchain research and will implement the interface in the form of a desktop web app.

Polkadot Nominator Insight Hub. Spreading the Best Nominator Strategies through TOP Nomination Leaderboards

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- The proposal is about a bounty program to improve how people can buy cryptocurrencies with regular money (fiat) in the Polkadot community.
- It aims to help 20 different parachains and integrate an on-ramp service with the Polkadot Asset Hub.
- There are current challenges like high costs and difficulties for new users to enter the ecosystem.
- A previous bounty for a similar service on Kusama was successful, and now the same idea is being brought to Polkadot.
- The program will involve 15 assets with a total funding request of $326,040.
- This will allow users to easily buy assets and put them straight into their accounts without extra steps.
- The team seeks support from the community to make this idea happen.

Interlay proposes a bounty program to fund the fiat on-ramp service for 20 parachains and on-ramp integration for Asset Hub in the Polkadot ecosystem, costing $326,040. They aim to bridge the gap between traditional payment systems and the Polkadot ecosystem and encourage widespread adoption. The proposal has been successful in Kusama.

Polkadot Parachain Assets Onramp Bounty Program

Hello there! We have a new idea to share with you. We want to make a program called Polkadot Live that will help people use a special kind of computer network called blockchain on their computers. This program will let people get messages and do things right from their computer without needing to go on the internet.

A man named Ross showed how this could work at a big meeting in 2023. We want to get money to hire a very good computer programmer to help make this program a reality. This person will work with Ross to make the program better and better.

We are asking for 24,937 DOT (which is like money) to make this happen. We will use the money to pay the person we hire and to help manage the project. We also want to share the computer code for Polkadot Live with everyone on the internet so they can use it too.

We hope to start this project on September 27, 2023. If you want to learn more, you can read our full plan on a website called Google Doc. We also talked about this idea with other people and you can see what they said on a website called Polkassemby.

Hello community!

We are posting this proposal to move Polkadot Live development into the community and aim to get funding for 1 full-time senior software engineer for a 12 month period.

**Overview**

Ross Bulat (Parity Technologies) [demoed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78SZZ_ZA64&t=530s) a new blockchain user experience at Polkadot Decoded 2023, showing how Polkadot interaction can happen on the desktop.

The app, named Polkadot Live, is centred around 2 key fundamentals:

-   Notifications that are delivered directly to the user, as they happen, in a decentralised manner (node RPC & light client driven), The ability to quickly respond to those notifications, by submitting extrinsics, directly on the desktop. These “quick actions” should be complementary to existing dapps, and not act as replacements.
-   Readers of this document are encouraged to watch the entire presentation for the rationale of the product, the problems it solves, what has been achieved thus far with the prototype demoed, and the general roadmap of the app.

This proposal in an effort to secure funding to onboard **one full-time senior developer** to contribute to the Polkadot Live product and bring it to an initial release. This full time developer will report directly to Ross, who leads and oversees the direction of the app.

This will primarily be an engineering effort, but promotion / marketing efforts will also be explored when the product is ready for a beta release, in order to receive feedback from the community and shape the product to community expectations.

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Proposal Details:

**Proposal Start Date:** 27th September 2023

**Proposal Submitted By**: Joel Kenny, JKRB Investments / [Website](https://jkrbinvestments.com/) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/11080617)

**Advisor, Technical Direction**: Ross Bulat, Parity Technologies

**Requested Funds**: 24,937 DOT ($100k @ $4.01 / 1 DOT)

**Planned Fund Allocation**:

-   15% / $15,000: to JKRB Investments (manager of contractual agreement(s), onboarding of software engineer, milestones and project management oversight). Paid in bulk upon successful proposal approval, with immediate commencement of works.
-   80% / $80,000: 12-month allocation of monthly salary for 1 full-time senior software engineer. $6,666 / monthly salary, $50 per hour / 6 hour days.
-   5%: Contingencies, unforeseen expenses. To be held in DOT until if / when contingency expenses come about.

**Deliverables:**

-   Initial release of Polkadot Live app, for macOS and Windows.
-   Open sourcing of Polkadot Live codebase on Github.

**Full Proposal Document:** [Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BVNIob4QOuv0hVGjEqYqgtz3pvsyTyqPb-wGuputgUs/edit?usp=sharing)

**Pre-Proposal Discussion with Feedback**: [Polkassemby Link](../post/1915)

Polkadot Live development seeks funding for 1 full-time senior software engineer for 12 months. The engineer will report to Ross Bulat and work on the Polkadot Live app, which aims to improve the blockchain user experience. The requested funds are 24,937 DOT ($100k @ $4.01 / 1 DOT), with 15% going to JKRB Investments and 80% for the engineer's salary. The deliverables include an initial release of the app for macOS and Windows and open sourcing of the codebase on Github.

Polkadot Live: Proposal for funding community driven development to initial release.

Apillon has submitted a new proposal for Polkadot Treasury funding to support the development of their Web3 platform. The platform aims to switch to a growth-oriented SaaS model with various subscription options and free access. They also plan to give back to the community through a Web3 Adoption Bounty to support new builders on Polkadot. 

In less than a year, Apillon has gained 951 developers, 432 active developers, and 523 projects created. They offer services like Web3 Storage, Web3 Hosting, and NFTs. Voting "Aye" for Apillon supports their goal to provide services to Web3 developers, open-source their code, and fund projects on their platform. Apillon also promotes ecosystem partners and uses DOT-based tokens for growth. They offer a freemium model to make Web3 more accessible.

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_(Recap)With Polkadot Treasury backing, the Apillon platform would switch to a growth-oriented, SaaS model with various subscription models and forever-freemium access, while giving back to the community with Web3 Adoption Bounty supporting up-and-coming builders on Polkadot._  
  
Apillon has filed a new, revised Proposal for Polkadot Treasury funding to cover the technical development of the Apillon Web3 development platform.  
  
During the voting period of the previous Proposal, certain important concerns were raised - the new project orientation addresses them thoroughly. The full Apillon Proposal linked below explains the changes that were made and puts them into the context of a wider Polkadot ecosystem.  
  
Besides, Apillon’s initiative of supporting the community proposes the establishment of a Web3 Adoption Bounty. Apillon pledges to periodically funnel a share of its revenue and NCTR token supply into the Bounty fund to support up-and-coming Web3 projects building in Polkadot or on the Apillon platform, and, thus, give back to the community that has shown incredible support so far.  
  
**The Apillon platform - adoption in less than a year:**

-   Overall number of developers: 951
-   Number of active developers: 432
-   Number of projects created: 523
-   Service breakdown:
    -   Web3 Storage: 47,692 files uploaded, adding up to 31 GB of data
    -   Web3 Hosting: 174 webpages hosted - 72 pushed to production
    -   NFTs: 151 NFT collections created - 53 powered by Moonbeam, 86 powered by Moonbase, 12 powered by Astar.

**So, why vote Aye?**

-   Apillon is the first Polkadot project actively offering services to application-layer Web3 developers. The Apillon platform serves as Polkadot’s answer to ThirdWeb, Moralis, Pinata, and other solutions already thriving in external ecosystems.
-   Apillon would open-source every single line of code, allowing anyone to run a clone of the platform services independently.
-   Apillon would funnel a share of revenue into an independent bounty fund controlled by Polkadot parachain representatives to fund projects seeking to build on Apillon, further extending the adoption loop by appealing to a wide scope of audiences - from freelancers to enterprise users.
-   Apillon is the first project that provides access to multiple mature Polkadot parachains and their services and utilizes underlying tokens while simplifying the payment process.
-   Apillon is directly promoting the ecosystem partners and boosting the growth of the Polkadot Network through executing the business side via DOT, CRU, GLMR, KILT, and other DOT-based tokens.
-   Apillon provides a "forever"-freemium business model with a wide range of services, lowering the threshold for entering the Web3 space through a newbie-proof Web2 building logic.

[![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/1*Kf4rg1crJ13CDOQHpcVWKw.png)](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/1*Kf4rg1crJ13CDOQHpcVWKw.png)

Learn more about Apillon:

[The full Apillon Proposal](https://ipfs.apillon.io/ipfs/Qmaeq4CpaLMKL4HBX2z2C8QM2ZZEuJvhv8nfWF7FKANZqv)  
[The Apillon platform Quick Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJnuvUo-xo)  
[The old Apillon Proposal](https://ipfs.apillon.io/ipfs/QmZmZLdpeuVN9vpw3WNzJh8F62vzqwZDmrXdh5mBRB1GVh)  
[Apillon on X.com](https://twitter.com/Apillon)  
  
  
We want to make the reasoning behind the new Apillon’s Polkadot Treasury Proposal as comprehensive and transparent as possible. We will do our best to provide additional explanations based on your comments.

WHO: Apillon platform

WHAT: Filed a revised proposal for Polkadot Treasury funding to cover the technical development of the Apillon Web3 development platform. They also propose to establish a Web3 Adoption Bounty to support up-and-coming Web3 projects building in Polkadot or on the Apillon platform.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Apillon Platform Milestone 1 Proposal

AIWeb3 is a group that wants to help grow the Polkadot community in China. They create educational content, build communities, and help people understand Polkadot projects. They have 10 content creators and a Discord community with over 690 members. AIWeb3 got support from Kusama but now they want to get support from Polkadot too. They have a plan to make a Polkadot Academy in Chinese and have talked to Parity about it. The team includes people like DrCAO, Neo, Giki, and Xiucai, who all love web3 and Polkadot. They are asking for your support and feedback to help the Polkadot community grow.

After careful consideration and discussions with various peers in the wider Polkadot community, AIWeb3 has decided to resubmit its opengov proposal following a recent miss: [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261.](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261.)

We believe that there is value in fostering the growth of Chinese content creators to continue enhancing awareness, as well as growing the Polkadot Chinese community.

Although we previously missed out we garnered significant support with 283 voters in favour versus 82 voters against, thus, we shall now be taking our proposal to Polkadot opengov instead.

Founded in February 2023 and supported by the Kusama treasury for an intitial 6 month period, AIWeb3 can be considered a play on words Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the decentralized web. While we anticipate that the future of web3 will harmonize the principles of "the law of code," AI, and decentralization, our name holds a more fitting significance. In Chinese, "AI" symbolized by "爱" translates to the word love, giving rise to "Love Web3". The name may have bought about some misunderstanding about what AIWeb3 is all about, furthermore, given we came from the WagMedia intiative then naturally most people just associate us with content production.

AIWeb3 covers Chinese educational content creation,community-building, AMA events in Chinese, provides native language asistance to ecosystem builders, and more.

For instance, we hosted a spaces AMA in August that had over 500 people tune in live, which isn’t bad considering how difficult it is to attract live audiences during the bear. Here is the recording, which has gone on to successfully attract decent listening figures: [https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084](https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084)

You will often find us being involved on the Chinese discord channels for many of the ecosystem projects, where we will offer assistance as well as educate newbies by providing them the Chinese content that has been created.

From a community perspective, we currently have 10 active content creators, we also have our own dedicated discord with custom bots to make it easier for our growing Chinese language community of over 690 members. This isn't just about numbers, we want to establish an environment that grows genuine connections between users, creators, and our ecosystem builders.

We have educated our community on Polkadot projects not commonly known by Chinese audiences. For instance, not many have heard of Ajuna Network and would have missed out on all the fun with season 2 Awesome Ajuna Avatars. Recently, we have been tasked by Hashed Network to help them with hiring Chinese ambassadors to support their growth.

Whilst the Kusama funding was to cover a 6 month period, we have managed funds judiciously, in addition, we secured additional funds from parachains and ecosystem projects.

We're now working on the possibility of a comprehensive Polkadot Academy in Chinese, reflecting our commitment to education. We have reached out to Parity, and whilst this is still in the early stages, we have received materials and resources that we can use for a more structured pathway.

AIWeb3 is a passionate group of enthusiasts who have a love for web3 and Polkadot. Our team includes:

DrCAO, an ambassador for various parachains, a member of ChaosDAO, one of the pioneering WagMedia language content directors, a prolific educational content creator who supports the ecosystem in many ways (you can verify his wallet address: 5CkWjh9tdPkJCFVmbSknjDk8MVuUinhu6fCnbu6DVxggLpbv and twitter: [https://twitter.com/cao\_lab](https://twitter.com/cao_lab) ).

Neo, our tech expert with an extensive history of over 10,000 xcm transactions.

Giki, who has produced numerous quality videos, manages our community wechat video channels, and serves as our AMA event host.

Xiucai, shall oversee the ambassador program and Polkadot Academy initiative, he also boasts a solid following on YouTube ([https://www.youtube.com/@xiucai-finance](https://www.youtube.com/@xiucai-finance)). There are many others that help shape our community, all united by the love of our ecosystem and unwavering belief in holding DOT/KSM as well as various ecosystem tokens.

Please support us, your DOT vote matters, your feedback is welcomed, and we hope you join us in growing the Polkadot community.

Full proposal can be found here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slcn2X8YYFICwJYLzpHPUSuqTB\_Va\_MfuWC59ya-IoY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slcn2X8YYFICwJYLzpHPUSuqTB_Va_MfuWC59ya-IoY/edit?usp=sharing)

经过与波卡社区中的同行讨论以及慎重的考虑，AIWeb3决定重新提交我们的提案，这是之前的提案：[https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261。](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/261。)

我们认为培养中文内容创作者对于继续增强以及增长Polkadot中国社区是有价值的。

尽管我们之前提案被否决，但我们获得了相当大的支持，有283名选民支持，与此相对的是82名选民反对，因此，我们现在将提议提交给波卡的opengov。

AIWeb3成立于2023年2月，并得到了Kusama基金会的初次为期6个月的支持。AIWeb3可以被视为“人工智能”(AI)与去中心化网络的双关语。我们预期web3的未来将和谐地融合 AI和去中心化的原则，但我们的名字具有更为贴切的意义。在中文中，"AI"（爱）的意思是“爱”，产生了“Love Web3”这一名字。这个名字可能已经产生了一些误解，再加上我们来自WagMedia，因此大多数人自然地将AI与内容制作联系了起来。

AIWeb3涵盖了中文教育内容的创建、社区建设、中文AMA活动，为生态系统建设者提供本地语言的帮助等。

例如，我们在8月份主持了一个AMA活动，吸引了超过500人实时收听，考虑到在熊市期间吸引实时观众的难度，我们对这个数字还是很满意的。这里是相关的录音，已经成功地吸引了相当多的人收听：[https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084](https://twitter.com/aiweb3dao/status/1692881530472055084)

您经常可以在很多平行链的中文discord频道中发现我们的身影，我们会提供帮助，并提供创建的中文教程来帮助新手。

从社区的角度看，我们目前有10位活跃的内容创作者，我们还有自己的discord频道，有定制的机器人来方便服务我们不断增长的中文社区，社区已经有超过690名成员。数字并不能代表全部，但我们希望建立一个能够促进用户、创作者和我们的生态系统建设者之间真实联系的良好环境。

我们已经在我们的社区提供了很多关于波卡项目的知识，其中的一些项目在中国受众中并不常见。例如，很少人听说过Ajuna，如果没有我们，他们可能就错过了与第二季Awesome Ajuna Avatars相关的所有乐趣，同时我们也正在为hashed network招聘中文大使。

尽管Kusama的资金是为了覆盖6个月的周期，但我们一直在谨慎地管理了资金，此外，我们还从平行链和生态系统项目中获得了额外的资金。

我们现在正在考虑用中文创建一个波卡学院，这反映了我们对教育的承诺。我们已经联系了Parity，尽管这还处于初级阶段，但我们已经从Parity那里获得了可以用于结构化的材料和资源。

AIWeb3是一群对web3和Polkadot充满热情的爱好者。我们的团队包括： DrCAO，他是多个平行链的大使，ChaosDAO的成员，WagMedia的中文社区负责人，他是一个多产的教育内容创作者，从多个方面支持Dotsama生态系统（您可以验证他的钱包地址：5CkWjh9tdPkJCFVmbSknjDk8MVuUinhu6fCnbu6DVxggLpbv 和 twitter: [https://twitter.com/cao\_lab）。](https://twitter.com/cao_lab）。) Neo，我们的技术专家，有超过10,000次的xcm交易记录。 Giki，他制作了大量的高质量视频，管理我们的社区微信视频频道，并担任我们的AMA活动主持人。 Xiucai，将负责大使项目和Polkadot Academy倡议，他在YouTube上也有很大的关注度。 还有许多其他人帮助塑造我们的社区，所有人都被我们的生态系统的热爱和对持有DOT/KSM以及各种生态系统代币的坚定信念团结在了一起。

请支持我们，您的DOT投票很重要，我们欢迎您的反馈，希望您加入我们，共同发展Polkadot中文社区。 大家可以查看中文版的提案： [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15T-gkRUxYxEG4aOicoMGg\_11T3pJluB94KPcHppJFvE/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15T-gkRUxYxEG4aOicoMGg_11T3pJluB94KPcHppJFvE/edit?usp=sharing)

WHO: AIWeb3

WHAT: Resubmitting opengov proposal to foster growth of Chinese content creators, provide Chinese educational content creation, community-building, AMA events in Chinese, native language assistance to ecosystem builders, and more.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Supported by Kusama treasury for initial 6 month period, managed funds judiciously, secured additional funds from parachains and ecosystem projects. Working on possibility of a comprehensive Polkadot Academy in Chinese. Full proposal can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slcn2X8YYFICwJYLzpHPUSuqTB_Va_MfuWC59ya-IoY/edit?usp=sharing

AIWeb3 Chinese Unit proposal (爱Web3 中文社区提案) - September, 2023 - March, 2024

### Moderation Team Bounty Curators

- **Curator Account**: An anonymous proxy controlled by a multisig account.
- **Multisig Account**: A ⅔ multisig controlled by three signatories.
- **Signatories**:
  - Abdulbee: 15cZn8K1DaE7qiBWK6mGFJMKYKjFrALTVwe5urpD9PzKSsPY
  - Grizzly: 12wnTQnY3qUTCofi792fTdf9HpQQ6jmyxrVdwyT6X2Jed4Yg
  - Elodie: 13QA4oQ9zcD11DmS4fFKtd54Erj15fafQmhUu8kjEW28oBZo
- **Purpose**: To manage the Moderation Team Bounty, rewarding community moderators.
- **Proposal Document**: Contains detailed information about the signatories.

WHO: The Moderation Team

WHAT: Proposing curators for the Moderation Team Bounty

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Moderation Team Bounty Curator Proposal

- PolkaWorld made changes to their proposal after it was rejected.
- They are asking for funding to help them operate from October 2023 to March 2024.
- The proposal includes their story and important ideas they've followed for four years.
- They have improved their tasks to include content creation and marketing.
- They shared answers to questions the community had.
- People are encouraged to review the proposal and vote.

WHO: PolkaWorld
WHAT: Proposal for community operational funding from October 2023 to March 2024, including adjustments and optimizations to work tasks and expanded marketing efforts.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2023.10 - 2024.3

Polkadot is a cryptocurrency with great features like decentralized governance, low fees, scalability, and interoperability. AIRDROP.COM wants to help people learn about Polkadot by:

1. Making a fun quiz and cool pictures.
2. Making a high-quality video about Polkadot.
3. Buying space on websites and newsletters to show these things.
4. Giving away some DOT tokens.
5. Checking who gets the tokens to make sure people don't take more than one.
6. Helping users if they have questions.

They want to get 61,000 new people to use DOT tokens. They will spend money on making a great video and showing it on big websites like CoinGecko and Etherscan. They will use a company called IDanalyser to check who gets the tokens. The video is important because it will help people understand how cool Polkadot is.

Polkadot has great concepts and features. A decentralised community driven governance with user votes, low transaction fees, scalability with big transaction capacity by spreading transactions across multiple parallel blockchains, interoperability with cross-blockchain transfers of any type of data or asset, not just tokens. These remarkable attributes of Polkadot are yet to be more widely acknowledged. AIRDROP.COM is committed to raise awareness of crypto projects and educate the broader public about their features. Thus AIRDROP.COM is well positioned to promote and inform the public about Polkadot’s great capabilities.

For this reason, our proposal is making Polkadot visible to the right audience through media buying (banners, newsletters and media spaces) and bringing qualified new audiences to Polkadot.

We will do so by doing the following:

-   Creation of knowledge quiz and visual content creation
-   Creation of high quality informational video content
-   Media buying
-   Distribution of DOT through airdrop
-   KYC to avoid multiple claims
-   User support

Our aim is to reach **61'000 new DOT adopters**.

Resources needed

![](https://i.ibb.co/wd9gr0b/budget.png)

**Timeline**

**![Timeline](https://i.ibb.co/zH5v2MW/timeline.png)**

**Pre-proposal discussion Q&A**

**1- Why do we airdrop only 1 DOT ?**

1 DOT is not enough for users to use all available features directly. But that is not our aim. The 1 DOT is an incentive to lead the users through :

-   Being aware of all cool possibilities DOT offers
-   Overcoming the initial step of setting up a wallet
-   Wanting buy more DOT in order to try out the cool features they have discovered in our information material.

_Note: Due to existential deposit, fully emptying a wallet and sending its content to an exchange is actually not straight forward, especially for a beginner._

**2- What platforms do we intend on using for media buying?**

We are using major platforms like coingecko and etherscan to buy media advertising.

**3- Who is our KYC provider?**

We are using IDanalyser for both face recognition and document verification. You will find more information about our KYC provider including their pricing on [https://www.idanalyzer.com.](https://www.idanalyzer.com.)

**4- Why allocate a high budget on the promotion video featuring DOT possibilities?**

The promotion video is our main conversion tool, we therefore need it to have rich engaging content and high quality edition.

Our full proposition can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13co8blYP7HZo2qC5ejVuoA7XRxXOOkvr1eAbMQkxPZQ/edit#heading=h.4jpdrelak8bq "Airdrop for General Public Awareness on Polkadot ").

AIRDROP.COM proposes to promote Polkadot's features through media buying, creation of content, and DOT airdrops. They aim to reach 61,000 new DOT adopters. The proposal requires a budget of $150,000 and will be implemented over a period of 2 months. They will use IDanalyser for KYC and major platforms like coingecko and etherscan for media buying.

Increase DOT media visibility through media buying and airdrop campaign

Hello little friend! So, there's this group called Polkadot, and they had a problem with something called Referenda 151. The person who made it made a mistake and put it in the wrong place. Now, they're fixing it and putting it in the right place.

Also, there's another thing happening in Polkadot. The people who help make the system work, called Collators, don't get enough rewards. So, someone came up with a plan to give them more money for their work. They want to give them 6,075.79 DOT for two months of work. They're asking everyone in the Polkadot group to look at the plan and give their thoughts.

And guess what? They made a change on 11/09, they won't give money to Parity Collators. They also updated the document with new information.

Dear Polkadot community,

Thank you all for your support and votes on the approved [Referenda 151](151). I want to address an oversight regarding the multiple batch calls assigned to the "big\_tipper" track, where I assumed individual limits were checked relative to the track limits. However, the total spending of the call is checked relative to the track limits. As the result, the referenda failed to execute.

Due to my oversight, the previous Referenda was submitted under the "Big tipper" track instead of "small\_spender." To rectify this, I am resubmitting the proposal to the correct track. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Dear Polkadot community,

Collators on System Parachains are provided with minimal rewards for block production and small incentives in terms of transaction fees. This reduces incentives for Collators to act in a favorable manner and they may also be inclined to under-resourcing their hosts to save costs. Collators should receive funding for the provision of their services. Ultimately, this should be provided by the chain in a preferably sustainable manner. Implementation of such a system is a long-term solution. In the medium term, funding for collators can be provided by the respective Treasuries in the form of a bounty. This allows funding to be pre-allocated and independently managed.

Based on [Kusama System Parachains Collator Bounty](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/bounty/20), and [RFC-0007: System Collator Selection](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/blob/7eb2193a1a82818c83be4501c4b2a1e6d343dedb/text/0007-system-collator-selection.md), this proposal is a short-term solution aiming to post-pay monthly operating costs of service providers until a more suitable solution (Bounty) is established.

[Full Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KjThkBTp3nJBF4CAV-Jn8fA0PUrd2Lbhy7DOrVHISX0/edit?usp=sharing)

The proposal aims to secure 6,075.79 DOT for Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network for services delivered for the period of 2 months - 08-09/2023.

![](https://i.ibb.co/SxYzWvZ/Screenshot-2023-09-11-at-10-25-19.png)![](https://i.ibb.co/t2pJHWM/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at-12-53-37.png)![](https://i.ibb.co/NN0c7zG/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at-12-52-13.png)

This discussion will be open for a period of one week before submitting the proposal onchain. We encourage the Polkadot community to review this proposal and provide any feedback or suggestions.

Thank you!

\*Update 11/09: Parity Collators excluded from the funding proposal. Updated the document with new verified identities.

WHO: Polkadot community
WHAT: Resubmitting a proposal to the correct track for funding collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network for services delivered for 2 months (08-09/2023) with a total of 6,075.79 DOT.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 6,075.79 DOT for 2 months (08-09/2023).

Polkadot System Parachain Collators - Tips - Referenda #151 failed to execute

Lucky Friday is asking for 45,074 DOT from the Polkadot Treasury to improve Teddy DAO and work with the Polkadot brand. Teddy DAO is a project that helps people give to charity using the Polkadot network. They want to use the money to make the project better and tell more people about it. 

Teddy DAO has already worked with JustGiving, a big online donation platform, and has raised almost $13,000. They give all the money to charity, and only a small fee goes to JustGiving for payment processing. Teddy DAO is a registered charity.

The Lucky Friday Team believes in Polkadot and wants Teddy DAO to be a big part of Web3, which is a new way of using the internet. They hope that people who have Polkadot tokens will help them with their mission.

![](https://i.ibb.co/yqbHJZh/Banner-Teddytw.png)

_**TL;DR**_

Lucky Friday seeks a medium spender disbursement from the Polkadot Treasury in the amount of 45,074 DOT in order to improve the Teddy DAO product and co-market it alongside the Polkadot brand. The requested amount will be delivered to, and administered by, a multisig account. Once received, Teddy DAO can use these funds to directly support the future development of the project as well as marketing initiatives aimed at bringing new users to the Polkadot ecosystem, including traditional Web2 donors.

All details regarding our team, its past achievements, as well as the plan for how we will use the funding can be found in the complete proposal [_**HERE**_](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c_Anh4Cll-W_6csfGGUiIWkBG47k0kkuyLVV9mcGm9M/edit?usp=sharing)

Key highlights from the proposal:

-   We have partnered with JustGiving, one of the largest online donation platforms in the world that has raised over £6bn for charity
-   100% of funds are used to support charity; 1.9% B2B fee goes to JustGiving for payment processing, and the remaining 98% goes to the charity of the donor’s choice The Teddy DAO Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3)
-   With nothing beyond organic marketing, Teddy DAO has already raised nearly $13K and seen 4 new users to the ecosystem win a Teddy as well as multiple others joining the community to learn more about the ecosystem
-   Our all time high donation thus far was 5000 GLMR or ~ $1200 USD at the time 

We are ecosystem agents who believe in the power of Polkadot and its future promise. We believe that Teddy DAO has the potential to become the most widely recognized brand for charitable giving in all of Web3, and we hope the token holders will help us accomplish this mission on behalf of our entire community.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, comments, and support.

Gratefully,

The Lucky Friday Team

Lucky Friday requests 45,074 DOT from the Polkadot Treasury to improve Teddy DAO product and co-market it with Polkadot brand. The funds will be used for future development and marketing initiatives to attract new users to the ecosystem. Full proposal can be found in the link provided.

Polkadot & Teddy DAO: A New Way to Leverage Charitable Giving in Web3

Parachains.info is a website that gives information about parachain projects and auctions in the Polkadot ecosystem. They want to get money from the Polkadot Treasury to keep their website running and make it better. They are asking for 92,160 USD (22,400 DOT) to cover their costs for a year. They have been on the Kusama network before and now they want to be part of the Polkadot network too. You can find more details about their proposal on their website and social media pages.

**Proponent:** PARACHAINS.INFO  
**DOT address:** 1pzhyYR9gLk3GmwRtQESLkJCUXazFsAESgcbTRLc9q9hNuy  
**Requested Allocation:** 92,160 USD (22,400 DOT)

[Parachains.info](Parachains.info "Parachains.info") provides users of the Polkadot ecosystem with a centralised repository of unbiased information regarding parachain projects and auctions. Our previous proposals were on the Kusama network in [November 2021](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1091) and [October 2022](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/child_bounty/30). Since the project brings value to both networks, we are presenting the current proposal to the Polkadot Treasury. This proposal seeks to obtain funding for the continued operations, maintenance and development of the website. The proposal covers 9-month period postpaid (December 2022 - August 2023) and 3-month period prepaid (September 2023 - November 2023).

Please view the full proposal here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GJETDh\_OO2AJauG3J0jY\_ovLGr7b8y6HFbpOC0K4xw/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GJETDh_OO2AJauG3J0jY_ovLGr7b8y6HFbpOC0K4xw/edit?usp=sharing)

Website: [https://parachains.info](https://parachains.info)  
Twitter: [https://twitter.com/parachains](https://twitter.com/parachains)  
Youtube: [https://www.youtube.com/parachains](https://www.youtube.com/parachains)

![](https://i.ibb.co/ZTxKs19/L1500x500.png)

WHO: Parachains.info
WHAT: Obtain funding for continued operations, maintenance, and development of a central repository of unbiased information regarding parachain projects and auctions in the Polkadot ecosystem.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 92,160 USD (22,400 DOT) for a 9-month period postpaid (December 2022 - August 2023) and 3-month period prepaid (September 2023 - November 2023).

Retroactive and future maintenance/development of Parachains.info

Hello Polkadot ecosystem community! We are excited to share our work on the proposal approved on March 23, 2023, and we are asking for more funds to develop OpenBrush's milestones 8-9 and 11.

**Context:**
Our proposal was approved by 79.4% of Kusama OpenGov, but the second funding installment did not pass. We don't think there are any problems with our work or OpenBrush, which is used by many projects like AlephZero, Astar Network, and Phala Network. Some tokenholders suggested we ask for funding on Polkadot.

**Summary:**
OpenBrush helps grow the WASM smart contracts field. WebAssembly is the future of smart contracts, and OpenBrush is a key tool for ink! dApps. Over 15 teams and 3 parachains use OpenBrush, and this proposal will help us add more features that developers need.

**Stakeholders and Users:**
AlephZero, Astar Network, Phala Network, SubWallet, Artzero, Abax Finance, and many others.

**Delivery:**
You can read our delivery report and the full proposal here: [Google Doc Link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_gPHNn1L3lDEglil3S7t-xdl00Gz66dUHKkfNM51a8/edit?usp=sharing)

The requested amount is 14,833.623 DOT.

Hey Polkadot ecosystem community!

We are happy to deliver our work on the proposal approved on the 23rd of March 2023 and are requesting a second allocation of funds for the development of 8-9, 11 milestones of [OpenBrush](https://openbrush.io/).

**Context**

Proposal was initially approved on Kusama OpenGov by a majority of 79.4%. [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/138](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/138)  
However the delivery proposal failed by a small majority (second installment) — [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/262](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/262)  
There was no indication of any delivery problems, so we assume the prorblem wasn't about delivery itself. Also, we assume the problem isn't about the importance or the quality of OpenBrush. OpenBrush is a widely used tool being leveraged my numerous projects (AlephZero, Astar Network, Phala Network, SubWallet, Artzero, Abax Finance).  
Consequently we were suggested by some of the tokenholders to request retroactive funding on Polkadot.

**TL;DR**

The purpose of OpenBrush is to grow the emerging WASM smart contracts field. As Gavin mentioned in this [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/05/25/polkadots-gavin-wood-webassembly-is-the-future-of-smart-contracts-but-legacy-evm-is-right-now/) article, WebAssembly is the future of smart contracts. Also, as was mentioned in the approved [WASM smart contracts bounty](../post/1491) currently smart contracts parachains lead the ecosystem in terms of market adoption. However, despite WASM tech having a lot to offer, it's not being widely used at the moment simply because of lack of proper tooling and ecosystem infrastructure products

OpenBrush is a core infrastructure product, a starting point, and a base for every ink! dApp. 15+ production-grade teams and 3 parachains currently use OpenBrush. This proposal is a continuation of the development of the successful product, proposing the most developer-needed features, validated by market feedback.

**List of OpenBrush stakeholders & users:**

AlephZero, Astar Network, Phala Network, SubWallet, Artzero, Abax Finance, AZERO.ID, Panorama Swap, Andromeda Swap, ink!Whale, Interlock, ArthSwap, ZapFi, Liberum DAO, Kagla Finance, Starlay, Paras, Koda Dot, Pink Robot, Zstake and 100 + unnamed devs and teams in our Discord.

**Delivery**

You can find our delivery report here: (feel free to find the initial fulll proposal there as well)

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o\_gPHNn1L3lDEglil3S7t-xdl00Gz66dUHKkfNM51a8/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_gPHNn1L3lDEglil3S7t-xdl00Gz66dUHKkfNM51a8/edit?usp=sharing)

The amount was calculated as follows: 60720$/4.093=14833.623 DOT

WHO: OpenBrush development team
WHAT: Requesting a second allocation of funds for the development of 8-9, 11 milestones of OpenBrush, a core infrastructure product for ink! dApps in the Polkadot ecosystem
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 14833.623 DOT

ink! OpenBrush 8-9, 11 milestone delivery

KryptosChain, a Polkadot Ambassador and Crypto Content Creator, has proposed a treasury request for funding to create 15 educational videos about Polkadot Open Governance and Polkadot News. The proposal asks for a total of $3,500, including slippage fees, to be spent over approximately one month. The videos will be uploaded to KryptosChain's YouTube channel and Twitter profile during September and part of October. The content will be divided into 10 Open Governance videos at $250 each and 5 Polkadot News videos at $200 each. This proposal is a continuation of previous work, with a focus on Open Governance and News rather than interviews and product comparisons. If approved, KryptosChain plans to continue this project on a month-to-month basis until the community stops supporting it.

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**Proposer:** KRYPTOSCHAIN

**Address:** 13kzfkXXF7nSCzaMS2Eok8scDS9jZk89yWyfsCBWvDDJKaZy

**Contact:** @KryptosChain on Twitter or Telegram.

**Duration:** Roughly around _1 month_

**Amount:**  Around **_$3,500_** including slippage fees (**_841.34_** with DOT price at _**$4.16**_) 

**Team:** Just me

**About me:** My name's Claudio and I'm a Polkadot Ambassador & Crypto Content Creator since 2018 and since the end of 2020 mostly contributed towards the growth of the Polkadot ecosystem through media marketing on Youtube & Twitter. Youtube channel: 18,745 subscribers Twitter profile: 5,672 followers

You can find more info about me & my past proposals by checking out the previous treasury proposals: [Ref.37](../referenda/37) (Approved & Delivered) & on Kusama #[Ref.46](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/46) (Approved & Delivered) , #[Ref.38](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/38) (Rejected), #[Ref.201](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/201) (Rejected)

**Description:** KryptosChain ethos has always been to simplify explanations, therefore I have decided to simplify this proposal by adding all the necessary info in this Polkassembly post rather than a separate proposal so as not to bore you.

This proposal asks the Polkadot Treasury for funding of a total of **15 educational videos** covering Polkadot Open Governance & Polkadot News, all uploaded to the [KryptosChain](https://www.youtube.com/c/kryptoschain) Youtube channel & [KryptosChain](https://twitter.com/KryptosChain) Twitter profile during September & partially October.  
The video content will be split as following: 

_**$250 per video — 10 Open Governance videos**_ (Polkadot Open Gov only, including early discussions and newly active referendums), all summarized without spending a lot of time with the details, mostly serving existing DOT holders but also new users wanting to learn what Open Gov is about.

_**$200 per video — 5 Polkadot News videos**_ (ecosystem announcements)

Prices have been slightly adjusted to reflect the reality in terms of effort required to produce these videos & the current market conditions. Open Gov being more complex and requiring more effort while news simpler to produce.

Here you can find the live report of where each video will be publicly shared as it's completed or as there's work in progress --> [Live Reporting](https://docs.google.com/document/d/189gHre9D2IfLS6IBUd-Z_nfAWtb_KwlQyV1G9OLBmMI)

This is a continuation / extension of Ref.37 on Polkadot with more focus towards Open Governance & News rather than interviews & product comparisons, in order to serve the Polkadot community.  
If this referendum passes, the plan is to continue on a month to month basis until the community will stop supporting, rather than request funding for a longer period of time at once, therefore the pressure on the Treasury being abolutely minimal from a media perspective.

If you have any questions, please feel free to drop a comment below as the discussion will be open for 7 days for feedback.

Claudio

WHO: KRYPTOSCHAIN
WHAT: Requesting funding for 15 educational videos covering Polkadot Open Governance & Polkadot News, uploaded to KryptosChain Youtube channel & Twitter profile during September & partially October.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Around $3,500 for roughly 1 month, including slippage fees. $250 per video for 10 Open Governance videos and $200 per video for 5 Polkadot News videos. Team: Just me.

KryptosChain Media Support (Continuation) - Big Tipper Request

Polkadot community members are discussing a proposal to provide funding for collators on System Parachains. Collators currently receive minimal rewards for their work, which may lead to under-resourcing. The proposal suggests that funding should come from the chain in a sustainable way, but in the meantime, it can be provided by Treasuries in the form of a bounty. This short-term solution aims to cover the monthly operating costs of service providers until a more suitable solution is established. The proposal seeks to secure 6,075.79 DOT for collators for a two-month period. The community is encouraged to review and provide feedback on the proposal before it is submitted onchain.

Dear Polkadot community,

Collators on System Parachains are provided with minimal rewards for block production and small incentives in terms of transaction fees. This reduces incentives for Collators to act in a favorable manner and they may also be inclined to under-resourcing their hosts to save costs. Collators should receive funding for the provision of their services. Ultimately, this should be provided by the chain in a preferably sustainable manner. Implementation of such a system is a long-term solution. In the medium term, funding for collators can be provided by the respective Treasuries in the form of a bounty. This allows funding to be pre-allocated and independently managed.

Based on [Kusama System Parachains Collator Bounty,](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/bounty/20) and [RFC-0007: System Collator Selection](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/blob/7eb2193a1a82818c83be4501c4b2a1e6d343dedb/text/0007-system-collator-selection.md), this proposal is a short-term solution aiming to post-pay monthly operating costs of service providers until a more suitable solution (Bounty) is established.

[Full Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KjThkBTp3nJBF4CAV-Jn8fA0PUrd2Lbhy7DOrVHISX0/edit?usp=sharing)

The proposal aims to secure 6,075.79 DOT for Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network for services delivered for the period of 2 months - 08-09/2023.

![](https://i.ibb.co/SxYzWvZ/Screenshot-2023-09-11-at-10-25-19.png)

![](https://i.ibb.co/t2pJHWM/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at-12-53-37.png)

![](https://i.ibb.co/NN0c7zG/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at-12-52-13.png)

This discussion will be open for a period of one week before submitting the proposal onchain. We encourage the Polkadot community to review this proposal and provide any feedback or suggestions.

Thank you!

\*Update 11/09: Parity Collators excluded from the funding proposal. Updated the document with new verified identities.

WHO: Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network

WHAT: Secure 6,075.79 DOT for monthly operating costs of service providers for 2 months (08-09/2023) until a more suitable solution (Bounty) is established.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 6,075.79 DOT for 2 months

Polkadot System Parachain Collators - Tips

- Talisman wants money to help with development and marketing.
- They say they have made more money than they spent (over 8 times more).
- They want most money to be based on how well they do, not just for working on tasks.
- This plan is called **Incentive Pools**.
- Incentive Pools will help Talisman earn money by getting more people to use their services.
- Only 15% of the money is guaranteed; the rest depends on results over 7 months.
- They believe this will make Talisman better for everyone using the Polkadot network.

Talisman requests a bounty for ongoing development and marketing activities on a commission basis for tangible results. The proposal implements Incentive Pools, with less than 15% guaranteed as payment and the rest as a potential commission during the 7-month duration. The Genesis Incentive Pool will provide a commission for acquiring new stakers, generate more demand for the DOT token than it costs, and accelerate Talisman's transition towards sustainability. The proposal can be found at https://talismanwallet.notion.site/Bounty-The-Genesis-Incentive-Pool-356dff7ca1f2488e9134f7c2aab15f14?pvs=4.

Bounty: The Genesis Incentive Pool

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Notifi Network is a cross-chain communication and messaging infrastructure for web3 builders. They offer devtools for web3 projects to send real-time alerts to users. Notifi is asking for a grant from the Polkadot Treasury to provide their services to the Polkadot relay chain and its ecosystem parachains. They believe their platform can help increase the use of Polkadot-native platforms.

The problem Notifi is solving is the difficulty of building notifications and alerts within web3 due to the decentralized nature of user onboarding. Notifi's solution is a customizable, white-labeled communication platform that can be embedded into web3 dApps. They can monitor and parse smart contract events to create custom notifications like loan health, governance proposals, and staking alerts.

Notifi has worked with Parity and received interest from 16 parachains, wallets, and ecosystem partners for their notification services. They want to work closely with the Polkadot community and receive feedback on their proposal.

This is V2 of the proposal we submitted a few weeks back. You can find the complete details here:

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A\_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing)

**Summary:**

Notifi Network ([https://notifi.network)](https://notifi.network\)) is a cross-chain communication and messaging infrastructure designed specifically for web3 builders. Notifi’s platform offers the devtools designed for web3 projects to start sending near real-time alerts to end users. This allows web3 developers and marketers to create highly custom messages, enabling web3 teams to identify who to message and how the message is delivered. We are proposing a grant from the Polkadot Treasury that can cover the full cost of providing our services to both the Polkadot relay chain itself and its core ecosystem parachains. We believe that our platform can facilitate the increase in adoption of the Polkadot-native platforms by new and existing users in web3.

**Problem Statement**

Notifi is Solving Building notifications and alerts within web3 is a key pain point for all B2C platforms given the decentralized nature of user onboarding experience via wallets. As soon as end users onboard onto web3 dApps, the connection between the business and the consumer are immediately disintermediated, where the web3 project is not able to contact the users directly to provide useful information. We’re solving problems for two key groups of users: 1) web3 users, and 2) web3 builders and communities.

**Offering**

Notifi's Solution Notifi’s platform bridges the communication gap between web3 projects and its communities by providing the dev toolkit and infrastructure designed specifically for web. Notifi’s solution is a highly customizable, white-labelled communication platform that can be embedded natively into web3 dApps. Additionally, we’re able to monitor and parse smart contract events at a very granular level, enabling custom notifications, including loan health, governance proposals and staking alerts that are unique to parachains / dApps, while also doing it at scale. Improved notifications and communications to end users ultimately drives user activation, engagement, and retention, which is crucial for the broader Polkadot ecosystem to continue growing and remain competitive.

Over the last several months, we worked closely with Parity to engage with the core Polkadot ecosystem parachains and wallets, and we received tremendous interest from the broader community to provide our notification services to power dApps and parachains. 16 parachains, wallets and ecosystem partners have confirmed their need for Notifi’s services and committed support for Notifi’s grant proposal.

We hope to work closely with the Polkadot community at large to receive feedback on our proposal. We also appreciate that the Polkadot ecosystem is a truly community-driven ecosystem and welcome and invite feedback from the community to let us know which parachains should be included in the first batch.

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Please review our full draft proposal here:

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A\_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKwN6yf9A_KNEwzw-XpTdBy-25U0fx9pkLGdvqn-DdA/edit?usp=sharing)

WHO: Notifi Network
WHAT: Providing cross-chain communication and messaging infrastructure for web3 builders, with a highly customizable, white-labelled communication platform that can be embedded natively into web3 dApps. 
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Proposing a grant from the Polkadot Treasury to cover the full cost of providing services to both the Polkadot relay chain and its core ecosystem parachains. 16 parachains, wallets, and ecosystem partners have confirmed their need for Notifi's services and committed support for the proposal.

Notifi - Communication & Notification Tooling for Polkadot's Broader Ecosystem V2 Proposal

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

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