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

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Polkadot Community Foundation: Polkadot Payment Card

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

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

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

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Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Gerard Murphy

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

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Adam Galloway

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Josiah Kotzur

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Vote Nay - preimage not on chain. 

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Michelle

Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Team Tip Request - Luke Schoen

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

RegionX Hub – New Features & Improvements

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

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

WAGOI is a project that helps car owners control their car data and make money from it. It works with the EU Data Act and is built on Polkadot. Here are some important points about WAGOI:

1. It lets drivers own and control their car data.
2. Users can manage and sell their car data through a free mobile app.
3. Businesses can get access to this data if the users agree.
4. WAGOI can be the first app to follow the new EU law.
5. It has a big market of over $750 billion and can help Polkadot grow in Europe.
6. WAGOI already has over 1,000 users waiting and partnerships with big companies.
7. They plan to have many more users and business partners in the future.

WAGOI wants to show that Web3 can work well in the real world and follow rules. They want to use Polkadot as a trusted way to do this in Europe.

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 WAGOI – Opportunity to put web3 at the heart of Europe’s data economy. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dAppForge is a project that aims to help developers build better decentralized applications (dApps), appchains, and parachains on the Polkadot network. They have completed three out of four milestones for their dAppForge V1.0. Here are the main points of their fourth and final milestone:

1. Improve the knowledge graphs for Solidity and Substrate, with a focus on Solidity and Foundry integration.
2. Integrate Polkadot Hub (AssetHub) documentation to help developers deploy Solidity smart contracts on AssetHub.
3. Benchmark Solidity performance using SolEval and compare it with other AI models.
4. Develop an API to allow developers to use the AI outside the plugin environment, like in bots for Discord/Telegram.

dAppForge's goal is to make it easier for developers to build on Polkadot and attract new developers to the ecosystem. They have a VS Code plugin that supports code generation and autocompletion for Solidity, Substrate, ink!, and Rust. This plugin helps developers understand the code better and build faster.

dAppForge Milestone 4 

This proposal is about fixing two problems with bounties on Polkadot.

1. Curators were removed from some active bounties by mistake. This let someone else remove them with mean comments. The proposal wants to put the original curators back for three bounties:
   - Open Source Developer Grants Program (Bounty 59)
   - Games Bounty (Bounty 38)
   - Polkadot Pioneers Prize (Bounty 10)
   
   The teams working on these bounties agree with this change. In the future, a new update will let bounties last forever, so curators won't need to renew their role.

2. The proposal also wants to clean up some bounties that are not active anymore. These bounties will be closed because they have been inactive, don't have enough money, or don't have enough information. The bounties to close are:
   - Bounty 42
   - Bounty 60
   - Bounty 61
   - Bounty 65
   - Bounty 66
   - Bounty 68

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Curator Reinstatements & Bounty Housekeeping

- Snowbridge is a bridge for Polkadot that connects to Ethereum and other networks.  
- It helps move money and messages safely between different blockchains.  
- The team is focusing on growth to bring more value to Polkadot.  
- Costs for 2024 are about $2.2 million, with plans to lower costs in the future.  
- Snowbridge has helped connect 24+ projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.  
- It currently holds over $60 million in value (TVL).  
- The team is asking for $5 million to continue their work.  
- They support other bridge projects like Hyperbridge too.

Snowbridge 2025/2026 Milestone Payouts

- Merkle Science is helping Polkadot's Asset Hub with compliance and security.  
- They want to make Polkadot safer for big companies and users.  
- This will help Polkadot grow in DeFi (decentralized finance).  
- They are working with Velocity Labs to bring in financial institutions like Crypto.com.  
- Their goal is to meet international rules and protect money.  
- They shared a proposal and are asking for community support.  
- You can learn more on their website or contact them.

Merkle Science paving the way for Institutional Adoption and DeFi Innovation

Avatar Accounts is a technology that allows users to interact with Polkadot SDK parachains directly through their existing Ethereum wallets. This means no downloads, new keys, or friction. It is a plug-and-play solution for builders using a simple Substrate pallet and JavaScript SDK. The proposal aims to fund the next 6 months of development, support, integrations, and GTM efforts to bring Avatar Accounts to multiple parachains and dapps.

The team behind Avatar Accounts has experience in both Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems. They won ETHIndia 2022, the world's largest Ethereum hackathon, and are Polkadot Blockchain Academy graduates. The team lead, Tushar Ojha, is an ETHIndia Fellow and has been building in the Polkadot ecosystem for years.

For more information, you can visit their full proposal, watch a 1-minute explainer video, see a demo video, or check out their slides. The team can be contacted through Tushar Ojha, the founder of True Network.

Avatar Accounts: Bringing The Whole Web3 To Polkadot

This proposal asks for 1,200,000 DOT to extend the Polkadot Marketing Bounty for six more months. The current Marketing Bounty has saved a lot of money, going from spending $16.10 million to $4.47 million, while keeping the administrative costs at 4%. They have worked on many projects with different groups and companies in 19 countries. They have made the Polkadot name more popular and worked on many marketing and communication projects. They have also made important partnerships with companies like BLAST Premier and Serotonin. They want to keep getting money to help launch the Polkadot App and other projects. They are also adding two new people to their team to help with their plans.

Marketing Bounty Refill May 2025

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Origin able to dispatch a whitelisted call.

Origin for signaling that the network wishes for some change

Origin able to cancel slashes and manage minimum commission.

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

Origin for managing the composition of the fellowship.

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

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

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

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

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

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