Hello everyone,

There is [demand](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/13165) for a testing framework that simulate transactions as it would happen on-chain, this can give valuable insight before making any major change to the runtime, sc-simnode does just that and more. Developed and maintained by Polytope Labs, a blockchain research and development lab.

We are seeking financing for the continuous development and improvement of sc-simnode.

You can find all the details of the proposal here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x8lFHv1LZTr0y_Ifn8YzxirNftabaH0dWzzt9zSv6ik/edit#heading=h.tcq61mlmv7q4](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x8lFHv1LZTr0y_Ifn8YzxirNftabaH0dWzzt9zSv6ik/edit#heading=h.tcq61mlmv7q4)

Thank you for reading

Jesse Chejieh

Treasury proposal: sc-simnode continuous development and improvement financing

Hi everyone, Daniel of Anagolay is here. 

We believe monetizing and supporting creative work should be simpler, work across platforms, and be equally accessible to everyone. And we can make it happen with the web3 infrastructure developed on top of an excellent Substrate framework while adding value to the Polkadot ecosystem. 

Throughout 2022 and early 2023, the Anagolay team has been building the foundation to make our vision possible. 

Including, most recently: 

- [public identity Verification](https://anagolay.dev/blog/multi-token-community-contributions-for-verified-creators/milestone-1/) and [Tipping](https://github.com/w3f/Grant-Milestone-Delivery/pull/708) Pallets delivered under the [W3F grant](https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/applications/anagolay-project-idiyanale-multi-token-community-contributions-for-verified-creators.md)
- [verification strategy and UI](https://bafybeiai2abe5y2nbgydjopuxhg6sdicim22gu4zgkpmcvu7apurpdlguq.ipfs.anagolay.network/verify-your-domain/) for web-domains verifications
- [Anagolay browser extension](https://anagolay.dev/blog/chrome_extension/installation-and-step-by-step-tutorial/), for sending tips to verified web domains.

For more details on what we accomplished last year, feel free to check [this post](https://anagolay.dev/blog/2022-retrospective/).

# Current Proposal Scope & Objectives

Our goal is to empower and support ***independent content creators*** and ***open-source developers***. 

With Anagolay, any verified online identity, like a web (sub)domain, a social media account (Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, etc.), or any Mastodon federated identity, can be used to send and receive funds: as community contributions to support a *verified creator* or their particular project (a repository or even a specific post).

We’ll start with bringing tip-as-you-go functionality to the ecosystem, making supporting quality work much easier: both from a personal account or by suggesting a tip from the Treasury. By doing so, we are creating additional incentives to contribute to the Polkadot community growth: for the existing members and for all the creators & builders in the digital space. 

From the get-go, in the current implementation, the tips can be sent in IDI (our native token). Eventually, our goal is to enable tips & recurring contributions in any DotSama token, scale Anagolay solution, and streamline creative workflow from publishing to monetization for all independent creators.

## Value

The value of Anagolay's solution is three-fold:

- Firstly, it provides content creators and open-source contributors with additional monetization tools.
- Secondly, it creates an additional incentive for the communities within Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems to make and encourage contributions. Tips from the community become a more accessible way to show appreciation for someone's work and can even serve as an alternative to treasury spending.
- Lastly, by bringing new users into the ecosystem, the solution enhances the ecosystem's overall value.

The range of communities benefitting from Anagolay will gradually expand as we develop and implement new features: 

![Anagolay_audience_map.png](https://ipfs.anagolay.network/ipfs/bafybeigsabemad2cctftxteqhogi44blnaxjyztemd7m376qu7xmnya6dy?anagolay_audience_map.png)

Initially, we aim to put community support & incentivization functionality to the test while adding value within the context of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. This will allow us to collect valuable feedback and prepare for scaling: to onboard wider creative audiences and become their gateway to the ecosystem.

Please see the [FULL PROPOSAL HERE](https://kelp.notion.site/Anagolay-community-contributions-for-verified-creators-892fef98694b401c87ee2cb72bc885e7) for more details.

Anagolay proposal: enabling community contributions for verified creators

Proponent: Pinknode

Date: 14/03/2023

Amount in USD: $20,093.46 

Amount in DOT:  3447.74 DOT 

DOT Rate: $5.828 (using EMA7 as of 14/03/2023)

DOT Account: 14K2YrPm8TTo8aNMqp7FJjbpysi7vm1j7QjKg86q6W6wVzPr

Proposal Summary: Costs for running secure, reliable, and scalable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend

Project Summary

Pinknode is a node-as-a-service platform focused on providing shared API endpoint and node operation services catering exclusively to the Polkadot ecosystem. We launched our MVP in June 2021 and have been providing free RPC services to the Polkadot ecosystem’s participants since Q3 2021. Our mission is to aid the Polkadot protocol in achieving its vision of a multi-chain future by providing easy-to-use, reliable, and scalable infrastructure services which remove an entire layer of complexities for developers to start building on Polkadot/Substrate.

Ecosystem participants can access our free API service by creating their own API Key on Pinknode Portal or using our public endpoints (listed at https://polkadot.js.org/apps). In a bid to reduce barriers to entry and attract more developers to the ecosystem, our premium plan, which includes archival data and higher rate limits, is also free for all builders and participants of Polkadot to utilize. We are not charging our users anything at this moment.

https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/polkadot

wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/polkadot

https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/statemint

wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/statemint

https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/westend

wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/westend

Service Details

From 1 October 2022 to 31 December 2022,

Pinknode’s Polkadot RPC nodes have served an average of 7,259,280 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 675,113,094 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Statemint RPC nodes have served an average of 213,150 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 19,609,835 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Westend RPC nodes have served an average of 229,823 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 21,373,571 requests for the quarter.

Enhancements during Q4 2022:

-Added “Team API calls used’ on main dashboard for effective summary

-Moved request log storage to AWS S3 for faster UX

-Added toggle switch for live request viewer, to be initiated by users as opposed to default

-Upgrades to our proxy for more accurate logging

Pinknode achieved service reliability of 99.88% for Q4 2022 with one major downtime incident on 21 November 2022.

Our status page is publicly maintained.

Our full report including raw data and graphs can be viewed [here.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18m7e6IhuKjS8eGG7QYJSGBTjEx-vxgTuCYz_p5xi7VA/edit?usp=sharing)

Pinknode Public Endpoint for Polkadot in Q4 2022

**Propose development of a trustless Ethereum 2.0 Light Client as a Substrate pallet** 

Implementing a trustless Ethereum 2.0 light client as a Substrate Pallet, which will be compatible with all Dotsama Parachains.


**Abstract**
t3rn is well-positioned to implement a trustless Ethereum 2.0 light client as a Substrate Pallet, which will be compatible with all Dotsama Parachains to benefit the Polkadot Ecosystem. t3rn’s parachain will have the Ethereum 2.0 light client pallet installed on Polkadot and available via an accessible API. Since XCM-based inter-parachain connectivity, the prospect offers 1-way bridging of Ethereum transactions, state and events to Polkadot. 

The document with the hyperlink at the bottom of this paragraph contains the background, rationale and development steps elaborating on reaching the securely implemented, production ready Ethereum 2.0 light client. 

Read proposal at: 

[the document proposal link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aB4AhHrfRRQjvvGxx-6ScEmPnUMen2kn8FaSIyf5e0M/edit?usp=sharing)

Development of a trustless Ethereum 2.0 Light Client as a Substrate pallet

Untitled - treasury proposal #260

### Intro
[Quidli](https://quid.li) builds micro on-ramps connecting Web 2.0 apps with web3 assets for digital communities to share token rewards with their top contributors and community members. Quidli is currently live on browsers, Slack, Discord and Twitter; and is primarily used by globally remote teams as internal recognition, by community ambassadors to reward member engagement, and DevRel to incentivize participation.

### Proposal
We propose launching an initial light integration of Polkadot, as well as to add DOT and KSM to our app to enable these tokens to be used across our app environment. This would streamline exposure, adoption and utilization of both Polkadot technology and assets to a wider user audience ranging from Polkadot enthusiasts/crypto natives to general newcomers.

This integration enables the overall Polkadot ecosystem to openly use Quidli for their developer and online community management/development activities; while general Quidli users can also leverage this update to access more token options to distribute as micro incentives within their own respective organizations and communities, further expanding the potential reach of Polkadot. This is also impetus for us to extend integration to the wider Substrate network as well.

Our ask is based on development resources ($1k per chain) as well as to cover the first 2 years of service ($8k/year) to Parity Technologies.

### Considerations
- No. of orgs on Quidli today: 574
- Vol. of incentives sent in 2022: $2.8m
- Chains we work on/collaborate with: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, NEAR, Dogecoin, Concordium, Flare, Songbird, Rootstock, TELOS, and Tezos

Integrate Polkadot RC & Kusama, add DOT & KSM to Quidli

**Short description: To create a comprehensive overview of the current state of all things data in the Polkadot ecosystem. Funding includes the research, a Github repo, and a Website.**

Hi everyone. This is Tommi, aka Alice und Bob. You might know me from my YouTube channel [Alice und Bob](https://www.youtube.com/@alice_und_bob/videos), where I educate on the edge of edutainment and technology within Polkadot, or from [publicly talking about DeFi in Polkadot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnD3LhpHEI) (and specifically [Mangata Finance](https://www.mangata.finance/), where I lead Growth) or from my [occasional tweets](https://twitter.com/alice_und_bob) on the bird app.

Early last year I did my taxes and started building [Subscrape](https://github.com/ChaosDAO-org/subscrape), a Python scraper for Substrate chain, to help me in the process. Over time, things became more serious and I started building [Polkalytics](https://polkaverse.com/10716/polkalytics-a-google-scale-analytics-service-for-polkadot-37079), a Google-scale analytics service for Polkadot. I have built an indexer for Polkadot that writes the complete chain into Google BigQuery and later derives additional tasks to create account reports for the purpose of filing taxes.

During my work, I discovered that there are A LOT of data-related projects in Polkadot, it's just hard to find them at first glance. I had great conversations with people from the Parity Data Team, Apexti, Subwallet, and Apillon, and think that all the people working on data in the ecosystem deserve to be much better connected so that we can make everyone's life easier.

Therefore this submission is a proposal to create a Github repository that contains a survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem and an accompanying website. A complete overview of everything that exists in terms of data in Polkadot.

In preparation for this proposal I opened a [discussion](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1726) and had conversations with the Parity data team, a Polkadot Wiki maintainer and a member from the Subwallet team. There were two primary requests: To publish the work as structured data and to publish the work as website. Therefore I have decided to follow both approaches, disseminate the data in a repo with structured data and then publish a website that embeds the structured data (which will also work as a proof of concept)

I am still open to any feedback and will work to integrate it if it is in line with the intention of this proposal.

[Polkadot Treasury Proposal - A Survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNxSf6rWOt_z6D884K_QvQpxpwahavHwarA7M79JLmE/edit#)

A companion video for this proposal can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYlpLdnZ8gY).

Best,
Tommi

Proposal: A Survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem

Polkadot Decoded is the Flagship conference and the the biggest yearly event focused on all things Polkadot. And it's back for its fourth edition on June 28th and 29th, 2023, with a fully hybrid experience of online and in-person events. Decoded aims to evolve into a general assembly for all things Polkadot/Kusama.

In 2023 we will come to Copenhagen, Denmark with an increased capacity  and there will be simultaneous satellite events hosted regionally in the USA, Europe, LatAm and China in July. These satellite events are aimed to be regionally focused. Whereas the Flagship event will be globally focused. 

The program line up will be featuring presentations, panels, workshops, demos, fireside and barcamp chats. We are focusing on curating content that is more high-level for a broader audience as well as attracting decision makers and enterprises into the room. The target audience will be crossing over all six of our target personas: Business Decision Maker, Technical Decision Maker, both from startups and Enterprises interested in Polkadot, Builders from teams in the Polkadot ecosystem, DOT Holders,  Developer, Polkadot enthusiasts and supporters. Polkadot Decoded aims to be a general assembly for all things Polkadot/Kusama. However, we are mainly focusing on decision makers and enterprises. 

Further information on the proposal, including milestones, budget, agenda, participants and more can be found under this [LINK](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15OgE-hsNGepFpN-xgLDG1x5cHWJ55ltYroMGHaQnYQM/edit?usp=sharing).

Polkadot Decoded 2023, tranche 1/3 (June, Copenhagen, DK)

This is a treasury proposal whose proposer address (12VjnvYTny9cbR329BEYKuS34zzxjPuBUrU9F9p4ZyWTDCXW) is shown in on-chain info below. Full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Wt_FDSIej83ONO75SXs0Ggon9YJJGYMSCbFWFWAX4s/edit?usp=sharing).

Pendulum hosted an event in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to build a vibrant Polkadot community in Africa. The event featured a panel discussion titled "Navigating the World of Decentralized Finance," which focused on how SMEs can leverage Polkadot and stablecoins for financial independence. Highlights of the event include:

- Live demonstration of cross-border payments using Pendulum blockchain and one of ClickPesa's stablecoins, showcasing the potential for blockchain technology to revolutionize the financial industry in Africa.

- The event introduced Polkadot to the Tanzanian community, covering cross-border payments, stablecoins, and how they can potentially solve some of the current challenges of cross-border payments in Tanzania.

- The event fostered collaboration and partnerships between attendees and ecosystem teams. 

- Interactive sessions on the future of blockchain technology in Africa.

- Networking opportunities with industry professionals and enthusiasts.

The event was hosted by Pendulum and the Eventbrite link can be found [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stablecoins-the-future-of-sme-finance-tickets-585695620367).


**Problems to solve:** The blockchain industry has been growing rapidly in recent years. More and more businesses and individuals are looking to embrace technology to increase their financial independence and take control of their assets. However, the complex and constantly-evolving nature of these technologies can make it challenging for newcomers to navigate the space.

**Proposed Solution:** We are proposing an educational meetup focused on Polkadot and stablecoins in partnership with Pendulum and ClickPesa. The event aims to inform Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and crypto communities about the latest developments in decentralized finance.

During the meetup, attendees learned about the benefits of stablecoins, as well as a deep dive into the Polkadot ecosystem and its potential use cases for SMEs. We also showcased a new TZS stablecoin, allowing businesses and individuals to trade easily, stake, earn yield, and send cross-border payments.

**Panel Topic:** Navigating the World of Decentralized Finance: How SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) Can Leverage Stablecoins on Polkadot for Financial Independence.

**Expected outcome:** We expect this meetup to have a positive impact on the local business community and help to foster greater understanding and adoption of blockchain technology.

**Conclusion:** We believe this educational meetup will be a valuable and informative experience for all attendees, and we are confident that it will contribute to the growth and development of the blockchain industry. Therefore, we request funding from the treasury to cover the costs of organizing and hosting this event. Thank you for your consideration.

Panel for SMEs and Crypto Communities on Polkadot and Stablecoins

**Proponent:** 16HqymHVxdLtK8jtbur7DusQrfLAVEJZfsQijfxVwhQHiTgU

**Date:** 17.03.2023

**Requested DOT**: 76,620.00

**Requested USD**: 463,627.62

**EMA7**: 6.051

**Short description:** Development of an open-source web API system to ‘bridge’ enterprise IT and the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem. 


### 1. Executive Summary

The goal of this proposal is to develop an open-source technology which provides a 2-way API gateway between web2/3/in-house applications and the Polkadot ecosystem including all its parachains, thereby enabling easy integration of Polkadot and all its parachains with traditional Enterprise applications and new web3 solutions.

We envision this technology enabling the creation of many SaaS offerings, providing the gateways services with varying SLAs, industry domains, and geographic regions. By way of these gateways traditional enterprise software products and services would be provided a bi-directional communication channel with the Polkadot relay chain and all its parachains. The Gateway API will enable enterprise organisations to onboard their users and enable them to interact with any Polkadot parachain transparently, without having to directly own and manage the chain’s native tokens, or any crypto at all, or even understand complex blockchain technical concepts. 


### 2. Context of the proposal

Aventus Network (AvN) is an enterprise-focused, scalable, sustainable and interoperable blockchain which is built on Substrate. It currently operates as a layer 2 on Ethereum, additionally, AvN is a parachain of Polkadot [ParaID 2056](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.polkadot.io#/parachains/crowdloan). To date, Aventus’ enterprise-grade modular architecture has supported use cases including [NFTs](https://www.aventus.io/aventus-selected-as-blockchain-provider-for-fantasy-sports-trading-exchange-asx-sports/), [video games](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/08/10/2278014/0/en/Gaming-social-network-fruitlab-selects-Aventus-Network-s-blockchain-technology-to-process-fruitlab-tokens-PIPs.html), [loyalty schemes](https://vowcurrency.com/2021/02/16/aventus-vow/), [event ticketing](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210413005148/en/Live-Nation-SAS-France-turns-to-FanDragon%E2%80%99s-Aventus-Network-powered-blockchain-technology-to-launch-a-new-fan-engagement-platform), supply chain provenance and [cargo management](https://www.aventus.io/aventus-to-overhaul-operational-efficiency-of-airline-cargo-with-blockchain/). The AvN has processed over 32m transactions in production with 2.5m active wallets to date which can be seen on the block explorer: [Aventus Explorer](https://explorer.mainnet.aventus.io/).

Aventus' mission is to bring blockchain into Enterprise by making building on Polkadot, Ethereum and beyond accessible for companies in any ecosystem.
Aventus has developed an enterprise blockchain middleware solution - [Aventus Gateway](https://docs.gateway.aventus.io/docs/set_up/account) - which provides a way for web2/web3 application developers to incorporate state-of-the-art blockchain services into their architecture without needing to directly manage wallets, run and manage nodes, pay or own crypto, or even understand blockchain technology at a deep level. Instead, they rely on the familiar concept of always-on JSON-RPC API, accessed via HTTPS endpoints using common techniques and tools.

This is currently delivered as:

- Public SaaS which consists of a cloud infrastructure which operates a publicly-accessible end-point.
- Software solution to build a SaaS offering (with a set of public or private end-points) for those who require guaranteed levels of service.

Users can leverage a companion npm library that facilitates the creation of requests, authorisation and endpoint discovery, but can also implement their own logic towards constructing the requests.

At present, we have customers who demonstrated both approaches' viability. The Gateway charges fees for each transaction request, but state queries are free. These fees cover both the network operation and the expense of the relayer service’s infrastructure.


### 3. Problem Statement

The proposal aims to solve the problem of connecting the traditional enterprise software domain and the entire Polkadot blockchain ecosystem **by extending and enhancing Aventus Gateway’s API to support Polkadot relay chain and all its parachains**.

### 4. Proposal Objective/solution/s to point 2

The goal of the proposal is to develop an open-source solution, and a SaaS offering, to provide a two-way API gateway between internet web2/3 or in-house applications and the Polkadot ecosystem. Currently traditional software providers face multiple challenges integrating blockchain into their solution architecture, namely:

- Lack of technical domain knowledge in blockchain, and specifically Polkadot and its parachains. Diversity in the ecosystem makes this challenge even more significant.
- Comparatively immature blockchain enterprise software stack, absence of developed middleware solutions and cloud services which are 'a given' in the traditional layered enterprise architecture.
- Traditional businesses' compliance, legal and accounting incompatibility with crypto, especially with staking or custody of crypto-funds.

Aventus Polkadot Gateway solution would address these challenges by offering a scalable and highly available platform, which can be run by individuals and organisations for private consumption or as a public service, thus enabling the emergence of a decentralised industry of API infrastructure providers which will underpin the growth in hybrid web2/web3 applications.


**a.  Split-fees logic**

This technology would, for example, enable enterprise organisations to onboard their users and enable them to interact with any Polkadot parachain transparently, without having to directly own and manage the chain's native tokens, or any crypto at all. 


**b. Architecture**

Our goal is to extend Gateway proxying logic so that we can target not only endpoints (pallets and methods) present on the AvN but also any public endpoint present on other chains in the Polkadot ecosystem. 

**c. Stakeholder benefits**

By creating a middleware solution for interoperability and integration of blockchains with web2/3  and enterprise systems this proposal benefits the Polkadot community as a whole: all parachains and the entire Polkadot ecosystem. This will immediately enable new and existing parachains to offer out of the box integration gateways into their networks. Potentially it will also trigger the emergence of a decentralised industry of API service providers reducing barriers to entry and accelerating seamless fusion of traditional IT and Polkadot. This would drive adoption of the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem, bring new users, transaction workloads and enable the emergence of new business models. 

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View the full proposal here - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MuP6pNuqdAD4mRJOD0CjiYhXCJZHowjd5dRO94B9woc/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MuP6pNuqdAD4mRJOD0CjiYhXCJZHowjd5dRO94B9woc/edit?usp=sharing)

Polkadot web2/web3 API middleware development

Replaced by [#251](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/251)

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Should be considered as 'void' and 'invalid'.

Invalid proposal - please reject in place of #251

**Sub.ID [Proposal #2](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgLXyCFbpcCKvv_JTBCwLR_btvFOJ0H8YArBYk5yZ_w/edit?usp=sharing)**: Alternative balances view, Account grouping, Transaction history, P&L analytics, Automated quality assurance.

Launched in 2021, the [Sub.ID](https://sub.id/) web dapp was initially designed to provide quick and convenient access to all your Substrate addresses, balances, NFTs, and other assets in one place. It was built with the Polkadot ecosystem in mind and tailored to benefit its most active members. Since then, Sub.ID has been connected to 40 Substrate chains, gained substantial traction, and got its own dedicated vision and roadmap.

In September 2022, our previous Kusama treasury [proposal for Batch One](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RElvy5RYhnNInwnGsjibedGLI3EeBoqqazKk6Syv13M/view) was approved as [Motion #548](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/548), and in February 2023 we successfully delivered the proposed features. Please refer to our [demo](https://youtu.be/FZkva4Awv4s) and [read the report](https://coda.io/@subsocial/subid-reports) to see how they look and function, or visit [Sub.ID](https://sub.id/) to try it live.

We are looking to secure funding from the Polkadot treasury for the following community-oriented features:

BATCH TWO

* **Alternative balances view**
    * UX: token-centric views (table/cards/chart), multi-account view.
    * Logic: consolidated token balances, support of multiple accounts.
* **Accounts grouping**
    * UX: list of Groups, Group management, Account page, Account management in a Group, default ‘Followers’ Group, default ‘Favorites’ Group.
    * Logic: Group entity, Group and Accounts relations, ‘Followers’ Group. members.
* **Transaction history**
    * UX: list of transactions, transaction type cards, filters section.
    * Logic: Subsquid integration.
* **P&L analytics**
    * UX: P&L dashboard, P&L charts (portfolio/tokens), multi-account aggregated view.
    * Logic: CoinGecko integration, balance changes over time.
* **Automated quality assurance**
    * Integration testing framework, balances testing, crowdloan testing, NFT testing, and real-time integration testing.

Please review the full proposal with detailed description of the costs at [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgLXyCFbpcCKvv_JTBCwLR_btvFOJ0H8YArBYk5yZ_w/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgLXyCFbpcCKvv_JTBCwLR_btvFOJ0H8YArBYk5yZ_w/edit?usp=sharing) 

We would love to get your feedback.

Sub.ID Proposal #2: Tx history, Token-centric view, P&L analytics, and more

**Proponent: Simon Hipkins (Key Pictures)
 Beneficiary: Ihtiyac haritası (NeedsMap.coop) 1haY6iHgLopw2WWmPhcdCy2jwzL2jthbNL515rUyJtnmhUt
 Date: 20.03.2023
 Requested DOT: 171333.51 (USD $1,081,000.00) Converted to DOT using the EMA7 rate on subscan on date of submission (20/03/2023)**

**Summary:**
 On February 6th, 2023, two earthquakes hit Pazarcik and Elbistan in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, leading to over 50,000 deaths and leaving 1.5 million people homeless. This was the deadliest earthquake worldwide since the 2010 Haiti earthquake. 

It is also proving to be one of the first major examples of blockchains and their tokens being used to directly offer humanitarian assistance. 
 So far over $12.5 million in donations have been made from blockchain protocols, treasuries, exchanges and donors.

**This proposal provides a tangible and transparent way for the Polkadot community to contribute to a long-term project that will help people recover from this terrible disaster.**

Ihtiyacharitası (NeedsMap.coop) is one of Turkey's most reliable non-governmental organizations and has been at the forefront of search and rescue efforts in recent weeks. They are now beginning to construct a series of villages built from repurposed shipping containers across the affected region. These villages will provide much needed housing, social and psychological care for those affected by the earthquake. 
 This proposal would allow the Polkadot community to build a neighbourhood in one of these villages. This neighbourhood would consist of around 100 containers (households) and house approximately 400 - 450 people over an area of 6900m2.

As it is usual for such temporary post-earthquake housing to be necessary for at least two years - this proposal also budgets to support the maintenance and social program for this neighbourhood for 24 months.

**In effect we will be using DOT to give a two-year lifeline to hundreds of people to rebuild their lives.**

All of NeedsMap’s transactions regarding support they receive are audited on a daily basis by Mazars, an independent audit, tax and accounting company. In addition, every spend from their DOT beneficiary address will be invoiced for, and these invoices will be made available to the Polkadot community in 3 milestone reports over the duration of the project.

Please read the full proposal and budget [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/102KiQRMjDSemj8eSNCYJe8VSwOc_aMbqBU6mXbjJbms/edit?usp=sharing).

> 
**Beneficiary Identity**

The DOT Account of the Beneficiary, ‘Ihtiyaç haritası’ (NeedsMap) has been approved by ‘MASAK’ (The Turkish Financial Regulator). As part of the Turkish government regulations, NeedsMap (along with all NGOs in Turkey) were mandated to set-up their wallet addresses on Turkish exchanges, Paribu and BTCTurk. The ‘Ihtiyaç haritası’ (NeedsMap) wallet address has been opened on the local Turkish crypto-exchange, Paribu. 

As the NeedsMap wallet address is on an exchange it is not possible for them to create an on-chain identity for the beneficiary account. In lieu of this on-chain identity, NeedsMap has publicly tweeted out the beneficiary address in the proposal - available to see here:

[https://twitter.com/ihtiyacharitasi/status/1632116990390288391?s=20](https://twitter.com/ihtiyacharitasi/status/1632116990390288391?s=20)

This DOT address - can be verified to be the same on Paribu - the Turkish exchange - webpage here:

[https://www.paribu.com/blog/en/news/about-our-disaster-support-plan-and-the-cryptocurrency-donation-system/](https://www.paribu.com/blog/en/news/about-our-disaster-support-plan-and-the-cryptocurrency-donation-system/)

If this proposal is successful, Paribu will hold NeedsMap’s DOT in account and convert it into Turkish Lira gradually so as not to affect the market value. 

In accordance with the Turkish Regulator’s requirements, for every request NeedsMap makes for funds from their account at Paribu - they must supply an invoice - e.g. for the purchase of 100 containers. All these invoices will be made available to the DOT community as part of the reporting process on the project (see milestones) to ensure full transparency that the DOT contributed is being used to pay for the project.

Polkadot Spending Proposal: DOT Housing for those affected by the Turkish-Syria Earthquake

Dear community,

We're proud to present our next proposal from the Sublab team which primary focus is on developing tools for developers in Substrate ecosystem. This proposal is published after 10 days since the discussion was published.

Please feel free to read the full proposal document at this link: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ipyb2_d1d9FCYY4Xp3aRi5CZmZJOzbqBZ50hQMerUI/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ipyb2_d1d9FCYY4Xp3aRi5CZmZJOzbqBZ50hQMerUI/edit?usp=sharing)

![](https://sublab.dev/logo.png)

**Context of proposal**

[sublab.dev](https://sublab.dev) is the California based company designated to develop fully native open-source libraries for mobile platforms in Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems, covering everything with reliable unit-tests and providing rich documentation to the developers community. 

We've recently finished our [very first proposal](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/532) within which we created 13 Swift and Kotlin repositories to operate with Substrate networks. While we have basic functionality, we still need to develop more features to reach current ecosystem state and its functionality. Also, we agreed to collaborate with a couple of projects in ecosystem to develop base SDKs for their services in Swift and Kotlin, and chose extra providers to develop SDKs for, which cover most popular functionality in mobile applications. Furthermore, we now seek to make our Kotlin libraries be written fully in Kotlin and use only Kotlin libraries so that we can make our libraries ready for Kotlin Multi Platform.

This proposal is expected to be a first step out of two in series of milestones to come as close as possible to current ecosystem state. Also next milestone is suppose to cover improvements/fixes to existing libraries and more collaborations.

**What we're trying to accomplish within this milestone**

Most of our efforts are projected to be put into Substrate client we made for Swift and Kotlin. 

Primary purpose is to create pre-created set of models and functionality like popular and common between all networks constants, storage queries, functions and events, so end developer will not need to always write boilerplate code. This potentially saves thousands of hours if we take into consideration multiple teams working with these libraries. Also we want to boost our extrinsic service to have all day-to-day methods in it: fees estimation, transfers, batch requests, and so on.

Secondly, we want to develop special manager which will be capable of handling hundreds of simultaneous clients at the same time. Mobile devices even though they're powerful nowadays still not almighty. Application sandbox is limited, thus in order to work with many networks in parallel we wish to create set of functions and classes which will be responsible for turning on and off all clients depending on current app function optimizing CPU and RAM usage. 

To make this manager it's also needed to have some caching mechanism: we propose to create a database which will be responsible for storing everything from these multiple connections, work with pre-defined common constants, storage queries, functions, and events, combining everything together to speed up and optimize cold and hot starts of Substrate client instances.

Last but not least part of Substrate client improvements in this milestone is to provide support to work with all existing parachains. Every network has their own runtime which sometime differs very much. So we look forward to create as many as possible unit tests to check compatibility of our Substrate client with every existing parachain today. Indeed this would require a lot of internal client changes. So we will do our best to keep our codebase clean and tidy, and at the same time powerful to handle dozens of different networks, and hundreds of connections.

Also, in this proposal we're looking forward to making a set of small libraries to provide SDK interface to most popular block explorers which are used for fetching history and many more: SubQuery, Subsquid and Subscan. For now, we decided to develop basic interface so that we don't dive too deep into all functionality and get burden of supporting it all. In this proposal we want to provide functionality that allows developers to use all of the service features, but maybe with small tweaks. However, we might find some solutions to do later to optimize and avoid this extra customization. As extra, there will be couple of token/fiat exchange rate resolvers to choose from.

In parallel, there are two small projects. Provide Combine interface in our Swift libraries so that Swift developers can choose what asynchronous approach they would like to use in their application. And Kotlinization. This is very special project for us: we have created a few of libraries in Kotlin from scratch like schnorrkel algorithm. And since we still rely on some Java libraries, it is not that easy to make our Kotlin libraries compatible with Kotlin Multi Platform. This technology opens a big opportunity to use our libraries in many different platforms from mobile applications to web, so we're encouraged to make our libraries ready for this bright future.

**Our mission**

We want the Substrate ecosystem developers to just do brand new features to make the ecosystem richer and be recognizable by even more people around the globe, while we can hold their backs by doing a great infrastructural work. We want to see more mobile apps in the ecosystem either from existing parachains to launch their own apps or absolutely new mobile wallets with more innovative functions. Same we want to help existing applications by solving their core issues within our works and help them adopt our products. Also we aim to partner with as much as possible existing networks and/or companies who already deliver their services to ecosystem, so that even their products might be easy accessible via reliable SDKs.

**Proposal financing and deliverables**

We're requesting $259,500 for the current milestone which includes improvements to existing Substrate clients, SDKs for block explorers and currency exchange rate providers, adding Combine interface to Swift libraries and migrating our Kotlin libraries to use only Kotlin, not Java dependencies. Each part is planned to be released separately and sequentially along with publications to public package managers' repositories, as well as on our GitHub for a review. Also we're planning announcements on our Telegram channel and future Medium blog with a brief description of deliverables. And in the end when we finish documentation part we're going to publish on-chain report with appropriate links to the open source code, package managers' repositories, our articles on Medium, and links to documentation website ([https://docs.sublab.dev](https://docs.sublab.dev))

**Epilogue**

We look forward to hearing from you any constructive feedback and/or questions regarding our planned works. Feel free to refer to our [proposal document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ipyb2_d1d9FCYY4Xp3aRi5CZmZJOzbqBZ50hQMerUI/edit?usp=sharing)

Sincerely,
Sublab team

Sublab proposal #DOT-1: Substrate client improvements, ecosystem tools, and Kotlinization

Dear Polkadot Community! 
We are submitting a proposal for a multi-parachain tooling, Grabber, that helps parachain-based dApps to incentivize **governance voters** and crowdloan participants and onboard them as their users.

**[Get detailed Proposal here. ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit)**

### **Overview**
Building a user base and community is one of the most challenging and expensive tasks for dApps today. Because of this, dApps often launch in ecosystems with a large existing user base for easier onboarding and wider reach.

Polkadot offers promising opportunities for dApp development, thanks to its innovative features and significant user base/liquidity. Many ambitious dApp developers have already entered the ecosystem and brought valuable contributions to the network.

However, fragmentation within the community presents a challenge for building a stable user base. While dApps in the Polkadot parachain ecosystem hope to tap into the community of early adopters, crowdloan auction participants, or **active DAO members,** the federated architecture and technological characteristics of parachains make it difficult for them to identify and onboard the native Polkadot community.

Grabber aims to solve the issue by connecting dApps with the native Polkadot community, allowing them to reach the parachain community and the community of skilled and influential native chain users through our tooling.

Grabber helps distribute tokens from ecosystem dApps to incentivize users who have crowdloan **or governance voting** experience, which can help build a stronger community and drive growth.
This way, Grabber provides a USP to the community building challenge for dApps in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Grabber was already tested in Polkadot parachain (Astar network): two distribution events were administered up to date: Algem & Astar

### **Grabber | Algem**
- Fully qualified (scored) users found to fit all criteria requested by the company: 532
- Users registered in Grabber for event: >5100
- Verified their wallets in Grabber: >3100 (60.87%)
- Event registrations (on-chain): **2735**
- Impressions for event-related Tweets from [@Grabberofficial](https://twitter.com/grabberofficial): >20K
- Increase in the number of Algem’s followers after the event: 16.48%
- Grabber x Algem smart-contract: [https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0xC00ba642fbB807B6e7A45fDAC4D2061d961fd272](https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0xC00ba642fbB807B6e7A45fDAC4D2061d961fd272)

### **Grabber | Astar**
- Fully qualified (scored) users found to fit all criteria requested by the company: 148
- Users registered in Grabber for the event: >2100
- Verified their wallets in Grabber: >1420 (67.62%)
- Event registrations (on-chain): **957**
- Impressions for event-related Tweets from @Grabber :>41K
- Grabber x Astar smart-contract: [https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0x76d46248F66Afb7767BA7C449748550926908DC4](https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0x76d46248F66Afb7767BA7C449748550926908DC4)

[More numbers about this evets available in the Detailed Proposal: ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit)


### **Grabber's Potential Impact**

1. Helps dApps quickly gather a high-quality audience with expertise in the Polkadot ecosystem and high commitment levels.
2. Provides a boost to parachain ecosystems by bringing audiences directly to dApps and increasing on-chain activity in their parachains.
3. Provides active community members (such as parachain crowdloan **and governance** participants) the opportunity to utilize their skills and commitment for benefits.
4. Makes the Polkadot ecosystem more attractive for dApps, especially for those working on ambitious projects who need access to a top-tier audience.

**[Get detailed Proposal here. ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit)**

All the best, the Grabber team! 

Grabber, a tool for incentivization governance voters and crowdloan participants, development stage.

This is Hao Ding, founder of Web3Go. On behalf of the following projects, I submit this proposal on Subsquare. (Moonbeam, Phala, SubQuery, Web3Go, Litentry, CESS, and Gear)

Web3 Festival is the biggest event in Asia this year and more than 10,000 people are going to attend. We think that having a great Polkadot presence during this event is important especially to be recognized in Asia. The above projects are going to either participate in Web3 Festival or visit Hong Kong. These teams have come together to organize a Polkadot event, inviting not only Polkadot team members but also non-Polkadot ecosystem members to help build the Polkadot brand in Asia.

The goal of this event is to make a stronger Polkadot brand and show the unity of the ecosystem. Our KPIs are 1. 300+ registrations and 2. 200+ attendees.

Please see the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OFMA8zcKLMNIZAbtfCBlS6xoOn9A3uQZRH7Eqhkl270/edit?usp=sharing).

contact: Telegram: @hao_ding
                Discord: Hao#8704

Polkadot Side Event during Web3 festival in HongKong - treasury proposal #245

Hey Polkadot Community!

My name is Alex, and I am super excited to have the opportunity to finally put a lot of thought, planning and strategy into motion and execute a set of development initiatives in order to help build Polkadot ecosystem with MVP Workshop, one of the Europe's pioneers in Web3 & Blockchain, and with my responsibility as a Web3 Founder & Business Developer.

The first step is for our team at MVP Workshop to build a UI & Front-End for DotSwap, a UniSwap V1-based DEX on Statemint.

A bit more information about MVPW:

[MVP Workshop](https://mvpworkshop.co) is a Blockchain Product Research & Development Studio, and one of the pioneers of Web3 in Europe.

We are an innovative team of 50+ engineers, developers, designers, consultants and marketers who are head-over-heels in love with the wide range of possible applications of blockchain technology. Our experience counts 70+ developed Blockchain products, and we are proud to say that our biggest accomplishments are:

- Polygon’s official implementation partner (built Polygon Edge, Nightfall Block Explorer and 5+ more products during a 3-year partnership). We are also very proud to say that Mihailo Bijelic, Co-Founder of Polygon, came from our research facility named 3327 and that we proposed the name ‘Polygon’ when it was still MATIC Network. 🙂

- Parity’s Substrate Delivery partners: 2 years ago we got in touch with Parity to build a variety of products for the Polkadot ecosystem, including Substrate Starter Kit. Although we’ve hold off scaling the Rust team, we’re now dedicated towards creating a dedicated department (and maybe even a venture) that would focus on new projects in the Polkadot ecosystem, as we’ve been in touch with Parity regarding building Parachain SDK, as well as the UI for DEX on Statemint, that we’re currently writing a Proposal for.

- Complete technology solution for Celsius Network: Although we all know what happened with Celsius, we are still proud with what we’ve accomplished, as we didn’t have anything to do with the Business or Management side, and even our company funds and my personal funds are still stuck.

Also, we’re proud to say that 3 weeks ago, we’ve managed to get into top 12 finalists out of 250+ companies on ETHGlobal’s Hackathon on building dApps on top of FVM (Filecoin Virtual Machine).

The list goes on and on, as we’ve been working closely with more recognizable industry names such as Moonbeam, Bitcoin.com, yearn.finance, created different products on Cardano, and many more.

Our DEX experience: 

Already mentioned, we have a significant experience developing Celsius, a UniSwap fork for a big CeFi product, a DEX for Bitcoin.com built on Moonbeam, Tesseract finance (supported by yearn.finance), Revuto (a DEX on Cardano) and more.

You'll find UI samples in [the full Proposal found here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xPFwfqGrbU2B_9h_RB8SfU6ya7gDRvGKGLUrO_NMjMg/edit?usp=sharing).

So far, MVPW Studio has been engaged in Polkadot ecosystem by:

- Creating a [Substrate-Starter-Kit](https://mvpworkshop.co/blog/proudly-presenting-substrate-blockchain-starter-kit/) (which is a tool that brings the simplicity of creating a substrate-based blockchain by simple drag and drop pallets to a codebase.

- Developed a DEX on Moonbeam as a part of cooperation with Bitcoin.com (was never launched).

Today, we’re in close contact with Parity representatives in two big initiatives:

- Parachain SDK (a tool that will offer a set of shortcuts to easily deploy Parachains in a more affordable and quick way)

- UI & Front-end for a DEX on Statemint (a project we’re writing this proposal for)

With our serious plans to dive in the Polkadot ecosystem and give our full experience and expertise into empowering it, we are planning to submit a proposal for the UI & Front-End development of DotSwap, a DEX built on top of Statemint, a generic assets parachain and the first common good project, which provides functionality for deploying and transferring assets.

In the full Proposal document, you'll find a following structure/outline of topics:

1. Requirements & Funding
2. Introduction
3. About us (Company background)
4. Context of the proposal (Our principles on building on Polkadot, Statemint challenge, MVP Workshop's solution by contributing to build a UI & Front-End for the DEX 'DotSwap', etc.)
5. Scope of Work + Project Estimates

Having lots of experience in infrastructure and enterprise business solutions, we wanted to share our input on Polkadot, in terms of what we will focus on in order to contribute to the massive adoption of the technology amongst the industry.

We've found out about this initiative from talking internally with Parity team who onboarded us fully with the project requirements and description, which only made us thrilled to scope and estimate the UI & FE development and start with MVPW's contribution to the ecosystem.

For this development initiative, we’re asking for $80,960 or 13,500 DOT on the date and time (6-March) that 1 DOT = $5,97

Thank you Stefan, Rich, Vi, Alex, Gilles and many more who contributed in the continuous support on this initiative. 🙏🏼

MVP Workshop Treasury Proposal: DotSwap UI & Front-End (a DEX on Statemint)

**Link to Full Proposal**:
[Connect the DOTs - Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CduiRi_ZF9StcKSSWeJqYzVOU_hwsFoImirZOhqBfsc/edit?usp=sharing)

**The Current Problem with Polkadot**
 
Today, information within the Polkadot ecosystem is located across individual parachain/project websites, social media sites, and videos/podcasts. Information remains siloed and difficult to access for users depending on their purpose. The “hub” sites that do exist fall victim to Polkadot’s achilles heel: technical heavy, data repository interfaces that don't focus on the user experience. Polkadot has some of the best tech in the world and we want to help make this beautiful technology accessible to masses. 

The end result of this: Polkadot is being held back from its full potential. The average new user does not know where to begin or gets scared off when they’re asked to interact with developer style interfaces. We can see this across a broad depth of market data. Polkadot always leads in developer activity, and yet gets nowhere near the activity and traction as many ecosystems that are less developed and less impressive technically. 

**The Solution** 

Our overarching objective is to help participants better navigate the Polkadot ecosystem: increasing exposure and understanding by aggregating “everything Polkadot” and presenting digestible, key information in a simple user interface (“UI”). We will accomplish this by collecting and gathering information via a variety of sources, maintaining a community database, and building a user-friendly front end website. 

Our project will always focus on the end user. Whether the user is new to crypto or a seasoned veteran of the industry. Being a one-stop-shop can be daunting, so we will start with two smaller goals:

1. Be the best, intuitive onboarding tool for new users

2. Connect with teams, collaborators, investment teams, foundations, etc to define and curate the proper direction on where the ecosystem is headed

We do not want to present data merely because we collected it. Rather, we want to synthesize the disparate data and present it in a way that users can easily interact with in a simple manner. 

Collectively, this encompasses our main objective: making the Polkadot ecosystem easy to understand and navigate regardless of who you are.

**The Results**

As part of our process, we will be focusing on specific results in order to determine if our efforts are paying off. The first result will be general traffic to our website. Every visit that goes to a website that focuses on Polkadot and the surrounding ecosystem will help drive awareness and adoption. The more eyeballs and clicks we can get, the broader the reach becomes.

The second result will be to drive traffic to DApps of teams. Onboarding users is where everyone must start, but from there we want to help users take full advantage of the ecosystem. By helping explain what DApps can accomplish, curating different ways in which they can be used, and providing links to DApps themselves as well as helpful content from around the internet, we will be able to leverage our user reach to help benefit all DApps across the ecosystem. 

Connect the DOTs

According to [tokenomics][1] holders DOT can receive an airdrop. [Claim airdrop here][2] ( Valid until 10.04.2023 )
Snapshot: 10.02.2023
Conditions: The minimum amount of each token is the equivalent of $200 at the time of the snapshot. 
Tokens are allocated in proportion to the balance of every blockchain address accessible during the snapshot time.

[1]: https://cosmos.network/learn/faq
[2]: https://keplr-wallet.at


ATOM Airdrop for DOT holders

Proponent: [DOT Address]: Polkanext/NextDream 12R3eB2g2mg49LizG6qhiTtDcEjcEXkyxu4Rw5SwQnDaMsBz

Date: 18.02.2023

Requested allocation:USD$220.000 | 30,797.659 DOT*

Dot calculated via EMA7 on the day of the official submission, 18.02.2023 at 00.05 UTC time-zone. 1 DOT = 6,494(EMA7)

Short description:
Polkanext endeavors to establish itself as a preeminent provider of educational and learning materials for technology professionals and enthusiasts, with a specific focus on the Polkadot dotsama ecosystem. Our educational materials are offered in a variety of formats, including on-demand videos, concise tips and tricks videos, in-depth architecture videos, interactive meetups, roundtable discussions, and comprehensive bootcamps. Our ultimate objective is to equip our diverse range of target audiences, encompassing university developer communities, industry professionals, current web2 developers, C-Level executives, and newcomers, with the requisite knowledge, resources, and networks to flourish in the tech industry within the Polkadot ecosystem. We are supported by a network of partners, tooling, and developers, who possess a wealth of expertise in the Polkadot ecosystem and are fully committed to helping our members learn, progress, and connect with others in the community. By continually updating our educational materials and offering a wide range of learning and engagement formats, Polkanext strives to cultivate a sense of connection and engagement among our members and establish a community that is committed to driving the future of technology within the Polkadot ecosystem.
Full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uo7GDueegnCgt87iXznSKHT-Yf5toZwUkFY3DaJww5Y/edit?usp=share_link).

Milestone1 Proposal: Polkanext Training Community for Polkadot Ecosystem

I propose the creation of Antwerp Crypto Community, a series of events that take place monthly in the city of Antwerp in Belgium. The aim of the Events is to build a consistent and active community in the city of Antwerp around Polkadot, crypto and blockchain.

The proposal is for 6 months and hence it would be a runway of 6 events to be organised in Antwerp. The events will NOT be about investing or trading and will NEVER endorse investments in tokens. Rather, the events would educate community members in depth about the technology as a whole, the impact of it in communities around the world and empower, encourage and educate people to build projects on their own ideas.

The [link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v-N2QZh0pq4dNpzx59d2_fTk7l3h7LscX4lSExXwZPc/edit?usp=sharing) to the proposal:.

Any feedback for improvement, clarification or questions are appreciated and welcome.

Antwerp Crypto Community

Greetings community!  

We are the RMRK team and for ~1.5 years we've prioritized developing rmrk-substrate-pallets with an intention to make 2.0 NFTs natively accessible across all layer 1 Substrate chains.

To this end, we are requesting funding from the Polkadot Treasury to support the realization of this vision. We are recently accepted into the Substrate Builders Program and with resources newly available we have outlined a 9-12 month plan -complete with deliverables and program milestones- aimed at achieving more general availability of the RMRK lego suite.

Our proposal is available for your review [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JG7iy1_hy6-CQi5vw3Kd3rfrkxjRN-oUknJVHsg3M9k/edit?usp=sharing), and please feel free to leave your comments and feedback below so we can answer your questions.

Thank you so much, Dotsama fam, we look forward to reading and integrating your feedback!

Respectfully,

RMRK Team

Treasury Proposal: Funding Request for Continued Production of RMRK Substrate Pallets

**Proponent:** 1GuLrJcSi3z9sDewZxNYu9J6muHLRzS3NrXj4FUMWYfNFtx

**Date:** 31.01.2023

**Requested DOT:** 1724.13 DOT which is equal to $10,000 USD, to be converted to DOT using the EMA-30 Dot price from Subscan on the day of the submission

**Short description:** This proposal is intended to fund a series of efforts to educate the audience from Spain about Polkadot through one of the biggest daily newsletters in the country called Zumitow. The proposal covers **24 articles in the newsletter, 12 blog posts, 12 twitter threads and 12 short format videos about Polkadot tech stack and its ecosystem.**

### **Context of the proposal**
Zumitow ([zumitow.com](https://zumitow.com/)) is one of the biggest daily newsletters in Spain, with over 9,500 Subscribers and over 5K daily readers. Most readers (50%+) are eager to learn about blockchain technology and receive news related to the industry. We strive to be the go-to place for financial news in Spain for people between 25 and 35 years old.

Besides our daily newsletter, we have a set of constantly growing channels where we engage with our audience. Among these channels are our blog (with over 500 visits weekly), our [Twitter](https://twitter.com/zumitow) profile (5.3K followers), and our video format channels, [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/zumitow_es/) and [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMDMmaxo2U7tIVJzJXDuGg). 

So far, 88% of our readers claim to have learned something new from our content, while 10% said they refreshed some knowledge. Our tone is direct and didactic, and we try to be perceived as an easygoing source of information, similar to Morning Brew in the United States. 

### **Problem Statement**
Polkadot has made a considerable effort to get its name out there with initiatives like the Davos conference, Polkadot Decoded in several cities, and more. However, we have detected that much of the effort to promote the Polkadot brand in the Spanish-speaking sphere has targeted Latin America. 

Meanwhile, Spain has a strong developer scene with over 300,000 devs, according to El Confidencial, making it the 5th hub for developers in the 27 countries of the European Union. The number of developers in Spain is considerably higher than those in Argentina (115,000), Mexico (225,000), Colombia (62,000) or Chile (61,000). Moreover, according to Google Trends, Spain is way above all countries in LATAM regarding search interest in blockchain. 

The fact that Polkadot has focused its communications in Spanish so intensely towards LATAM, the Spaniard population has been left a bit behind and, therefore, there’s a missed opportunity to attract developers and community members from this region to the Polkadot ecosystem. 


### **Solution & Proposal Objective**
We will make the Polkadot story closer to the Spaniard population by educating our community and the broader market about the tech, the ecosystem, etc. 
The solution would consist of 4 content hubs:

- **Our newsletter**:We will include 1 article, twice per month, talking about one of the unique characteristics of Polkadot or its latest developments. This will redirect to the Polkadot Newsletter sign up page. 
- **Our Blog**: We will craft 12 dedicated blog posts covering, in full length, 12 topics about Polkadot, including its tech, ecosystem and recent developments. 
- **Our Twitter account**: We will craft 12 Twitter Threads covering Polkadot’s most important developments throughout the year. 
-**Our Instagram, Tiktok and Youtube**: We will post 12 short-form videos educating the audience about Polkadot’s key features and recent developments. 

All of this content will be made available for the public and will be crafted having the Spaniard audience in mind. 

### **Our Audience**
Our audience has the following characteristics: 

- Mainly Spaniards, with over 90% of our readers living in Spain. 
- 80%+ males, 25-45 years old
- 72% are currently working 
- 50%+ are interested in blockchain education and news.

### **Timeline**
The anticipated timeline for this project starts in February 2023 and ends in February 2024.The actual start date may be adjusted depending on the grant date.

**Newsletter Posts**
February 20 & 28
March 14 & 28
April 11 & 25
May 9 & 23
June 6 & 20
July 4 & 18
August 8 & 22
September 5 & 19
October 2 & 24 
November 7 & 21
December 5 & 19 
January 9 & 23
February 6 & 27

**Blog Posts**
February 20
March 14
April 11
May 9
June 6
July 4
August 8
September 5
October 2
November 7
December 5

**Twitter Threads**
February 28
March 31
April 30
May 31 
June 30
July 31
August 31
September 30
October 31
November 30
December 29


**Short-form videos**
February 28
March 31
April 30
May 31 
June 30
July 31
August 31
September 30
October 31
November 30
December 29

### **Topics to be covered**

Here’s an overview of the topics to be covered during the period of the proposal. We will also include topics that develop during the year. 

Our content generation strategy picks a topic and transforms and adapt it into each of the formats to increase the reach. 

- Polkadot’s place in the blockchain industry

- Parachains, Parathreads and the Relay Chain

- Welcome to the Chaos, why Kusama? 

- The Polkadot ecosystem: A quick trip to the parachains. 

- Blockchain trends and how Polkadot is well positioned to capitalize on them: Privacy, DID, RWAs, ZK, Interoperability. 

- Democracy enhanced: Governance v2 

- Securing the network and staying liquid: Polkadot’s Liquid Staking field. 

- Decentralising Social Media: Project Liberty

- Promotion for Official Polkadot Events

- More topics to be added during the year.  

### **Reporting**
We will provide a quarterly report, to be posted on the community forum, with the stats from each of the pieces published.

### **Payment Details**
We are requesting $10,000 USD, to be paid upfront, as this proposal consists of a single milestone. Please see the cost breakdown on the following page.

This will be converted to a quantity of DOT using the EMA-30 Dot price from Subscan on the date of submission.

The EMA-30 price is 5.8 on January 31, 2023. $10,000 / 5.8 = 1724.13 DOT.

### **Budget Breakdown**

**24 Newsletter Posts**
250 USD per post
6,000 USD total 

**12 blog posts**
150 per post 
1,800 USD total

**12 Twitter threads**
12 USD per thread
600 USD total 

**12 short format videos**
134 USD per video 
1600 USD total

**10,000 USD Grand Total**


### **Beneficiary Information**

Fund recipient address: 1GuLrJcSi3z9sDewZxNYu9J6muHLRzS3NrXj4FUMWYfNFtx

Fund manager contact: Hector Perez (hector@zumitow.com)



Educate the Spaniard audience about Polkadot 

Crust Network, Oak Network, Gear Technologies, Moonbeam, and Robonomics have come together to create this proposal! 

The goal of this proposal is to create a Polkadot community hub in San Francisco whereby Polakdot's current and future developers can meet each other, and learn about the other projects in the ecosystem. By hosting consecutive events in San Francisco we hope to increase Polakdot brand awareness, credibility, and community presence which should increase the number of builders on Polkadot and its parachain projects. 


This proposal aims to fund several activities organized by parachain teams during the first half of the year 1/12 - 6/18 2022. With this proposal, we aim to receive a pre-payment to cover costs for the details stated in this proposal. However, we know there is a strict funding process and we are happy to adhere to any requests, or procedures you may enforce. 

Here is a shortened version of our full proposal:

- 6 events, 1 per month, on the last Thursday of each month 

- The first event will be a panel talk and the following 5 will be technical talks with networking after. 

- All educational portions of events will be live-streamed, and recorded for Polkadot to use. We will also have a professional photographer, and booths set-up for each parachain to put their merch and promotional materials. 

- All event participants will fill out a welcome survey so we can determine attendee demographics, and promote Polkadot newsletter/discord. 

Find the full proposal at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mb_p8bK9xt3xGcyrwLVVy1pw30DwEa6r/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104094751791240618475&rtpof=true&sd=true

This is a video of a previous panel event we hosted in San Francisco with Chainlink: https://twitter.com/CrustNetwork/status/1603994854844903424?s=20&t=H7dTl6kk1d84FJIt31Lt4g