- PolkaBot.AI is a new project to help people learn about Polkadot using AI.
- It will be free to use on websites, X, Discord, and Telegram.
- People can earn rewards (DOT and NEURO) by sharing good information.
- It aims to reach 5 million impressions and 20,000 unique users.
- The project is led by Trace Alliance and experienced team members.
- It will launch on March 26, 2024.
- A Polkadot-focused course will also be available.

Awarded

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WHO: Trace Alliance

WHAT: Launching PolkaBot.AI, a decentralized AI education hub on Polkadot, leveraging generative AI and crowdsourcing knowledge about Polkadot and its parachains. The running of the AI-powered interfaces on the website, X profile, Discord and Telegram bots will all be free to use and maintenance covered in the scope of this proposal.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal will launch on Mar 26th 2024. The proposal includes a detailed roadmap and a clear budget plan, ensuring transparency and accountability.

PolkaBot.AI - Decentralized AI education hub on Polkadot 

### Polkascan Foundation and Substrate Python API

- **Polkascan Foundation** has maintained the **Substrate Python API** for four years.
- The API includes libraries like **py-substrate-interface** and **py-scale-codec**, and Python bindings for Rust crates.
- It allows Python developers to build apps for Polkadot, Kusama, and other Substrate-based chains.
- Currently, it's the only Python API available for these chains.
- Over 350 GitHub repositories and 31 Python packages depend on this API.
- The foundation is requesting **9,831.25 EUR** in retroactive funding for their work from January to March 2024.
- For more details, see the [full proposal](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/polkadot/treasury-proposal-008-report-2024Q1.md).

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Polkascan Foundation requests 9,831.25 EUR in retroactive funding for maintaining the Substrate Python API from January to March 2024, which is the only API available for Python developers to build apps that interact with any Polkadot, Kusama or other Substrate based chain.

Maintenance & Support Substrate Python API (Jan-Mar 2024)

### Fellowship Collective on Polkadot

- **Purpose**: Ensures Polkadot network incentivizes, recognizes, and retains expertise for continued maintenance and innovation.
- **Components**: Involves `ranked_collective`, `referenda`, `core_fellowship`, and `salary` pallets.
- **Features**:
  - **Membership Management**: Manages member ranks, activeness, promotions, and demotions.
  - **Salary System**: Handles member salaries in cycles, with registration and payment periods.
  - **Feeds**: Records activities like member induction, rank changes, and salary cycles.
- **Budget**: Estimated 1712 hours of work, totaling $154,080 or 16,348 DOT.
- **Future Plans**: Include statistics, treasury system, member notifications, and detailed profiles.

WHO: Subsquare team

WHAT: Develop features to support the Fellowship collective, including membership management, salary system, and activity feeds.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Hour rate $90, total request is $154,080. Request for DOT is 16,348. Estimated 1712 hours of work by 2-3 FTEs over 2-3 months.

Subsquare polkadot fellowship support milestone 1

### Subsquid Migration Proposal

- **Objective**: Improve Subsquid's performance and functionality by migrating to ArrowSquid and enhancing indexing capabilities.
- **Beneficiaries**: Developers and users on chains like Polkadot, Kusama, Moonbeam, and Acala.
- **Current State**: Subsquid uses Firesquid processor; lacks support for Staking and Crowdloans pallets.
- **Proposed Changes**:
  - Migrate to ArrowSquid for faster data ingestion and near real-time APIs.
  - Add support for indexing Staking and Crowdloans pallets.
- **Milestones**:
  - First: Migrate giant-squid-main to ArrowSquid.
  - Second: Implement indexing for Staking and Crowdloans pallets.
- **Background**: Subsquid provides free GraphQL gateways for on-chain data access.
- **Proposer**: LimeChain, a blockchain development company specializing in Substrate ecosystem infrastructure.

Subsquid aims to enhance the performance and functionality of Substrate ecosystem by migrating to ArrowSquid and improving indexing capabilities. LimeChain will execute the project in two milestones. The first milestone is focused on migrating giant-squid-main to ArrowSquid, while the second milestone will be focused on indexing Staking and Crowdloan pallets calls and events. The project will be funded by the Polkadot Treasury to cover the cost of running the infrastructure.

Subsquid Migration to ArrowSquid & Indexing Upgrades

- **Proposer:** DOTCAST  
- **Requested Amount:** 9,355.50 DOT  
- **Goal:** Create great content and improve the Dotcast brand for Spanish-speaking audiences in the Polkadot ecosystem.  
- **Audience Growth:** Over 8,000 subscribers, aiming for 20,000 in six months.  
- **Content Types:** Podcasts, interviews, clips, shorts, and videos on platforms like YouTube, Spotify, and TikTok.  
- **Mission:** Connect Polkadot users with the community in a fun and friendly way.  
- **Plan:** Use expert editing, proven strategies, and community engagement to grow.  
- **Contact:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Dotcast_), Email: dotsamapodcast@gmail.com

**WHO:** DOTCAST

**WHAT:** Produce outstanding content and elevate the Dotcast brand, including all associated products, through ongoing refinement. Specifically tailored for Spanish-speaking audiences, this platform will uphold a high standard of quality.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** 9,355.50 DOT. The funding initiative aims to captivate 20,000 Spanish-speaking subscribers within the next six months. The approach includes expert editing, proven strategies, content optimization, and community engagement.

DOTCAST /This_is_the_DOT

- A group is asking for $485,000 to help the Polkadot community.
- They have received $350,027, which is $134,973 less than they asked for.
- The money will be used to create a program called the Agents Program to improve how the community works.
- Four main parts of the project will be funded:
  1. Building a system to collect and process data ($220,000).
  2. Creating a friendly website for people to see their contributions ($75,000).
  3. Organizing and storing data for easy access ($165,000).
  4. Connecting with various groups to gather information ($25,000).
- The project will last for 9 months.

WHO: The proposal is made by an unknown group.

WHAT: They propose a strategic initiative to enhance the Polkadot ecosystem's infrastructure to recognize, track, and incentivize community contributions. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal requests $485,000, equivalent to 50,817.27 DOT, for a 9-month development period. The funds will be used for API development, web UI creation, indexing implementation, and communication and information gathering.

Polkadot Agents Program - Phase 1

- **Project:** WEB3DEV wants to teach developers about Polkadot using Rust.  
- **Goal:** Train 200-300 developers and spread Polkadot knowledge to 15,000+ people.  
- **Course:** Teaches Rust and blockchain basics, with lessons in English and Portuguese.  
- **Team:** Led by experienced teachers and blockchain experts.  
- **Cost:** $50,000 to cover teaching, materials, and marketing.  
- **Why?** Helps developers learn new skills and solve real-world problems.  
- **Track Record:** Already trained 9,000+ developers in other courses.  
- **Impact:** Makes Polkadot education accessible, especially in Brazil.

Proposal for Polkadot OpenGov Funding: WEB3DEV Bootcamp for Rust and Pallets Learning

Our team just finished a big project that cost 250,000 and we almost ran out of money. We think we should always have at least 500,000 to make sure we can keep working on marketing. We want to spend more money on marketing in the future to get more people to know about us. We also want to work with big airports in important cities, but we need to pay them many months in advance. So, we need to have some extra money saved up. We are asking for 500,000 more. You can see all our spending and work at this link: https://bit.ly/m/reports

big_spender

WHO: Unspecified group/individual
WHAT: Requesting a refill of 500k DOT to maintain a reserve for marketing bounties, increase spending, and pay for deals with airports in key cities.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Requesting a refill for marketing bounty number #33

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SmallTipper

- Talent Land is a big tech event in Mexico and Latin America.
- It happens every year from April 1st to 4th.
- Over 40,000 people attend each day.
- The Polkadot Mexico team and ambassadors organized a meetup during the event.
- They wanted to spread awareness about Polkadot.
- The meetup took place on April 5, 2024.
- Ambassadors used their own time and money to organize it.
- They shared event details and expenses online.

big_tipper

Polkadot Mexico team and ambassadors organized a meetup during Talent Land, the largest technology event in Mexico and Latin America, due to a lack of time and mismanagement of event bounties. The ambassadors used their own time and money to organize the meetup to spread awareness about Polkadot and engage with the Mexican community. No specific price or timeframe is mentioned.

Retroactive Polkadot Event in Guadalajara Mexico - Talent Land 2024

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) is asking for money to run their fifth program. This program will happen from May 20 to June 20, 2024, at the National University of Singapore. They will teach 90 students in person and 50 to 100 students online. The goal is to help more people learn about Polkadot and become good at using it. They teach in person and also make online lessons. You can read more about their plan by clicking this link: [Proposal Details](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K1hkkK7OYxZ1dhpLMC36lJuO5FBlhEe1dMtQYyNcHbQ/edit#heading=h.l03seqnwsavp).

WHO: Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA)
WHAT: Funding proposal for the fifth wave of the Academy, selecting 90 in-person and 50-100 remote students to speed up Polkadot adoption
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified in the summary, detailed proposal available in the provided link.

Polkadot Blockchain Academy - Wave 5 in person and remote - Singapore 20th May to 20th June 2024

### Summary of Post Content

1. **Validator Dashboard (Cyclops)**:
   - Open-source dashboard developed over a year ago.
   - Used by over 100 validators.
   - Features include nomination pools and reward export tools.

2. **Thousand Validator Program Leaderboard**:
   - Self-hosted leaderboard for 2 years.
   - Helps participants track their positions.

3. **Polkadot Validator Selector Tool**:
   - New unbiased tool developed recently.
   - Considers factors like identity, commission, and active status.
   - Listed in the Polkadot wiki.

4. **Polkadot Guides Blog**:
   - Provides tutorials on topics like liquid staking and compounding.

5. **Costs**:
   - Total request is 889 DOT to cover server costs and development.
   - Estimated costs breakdown:
     - Cyclops: $2500
     - Leaderboard: $1000
     - Selector Tool: $2000
     - Guides Blog: $500
   - Total estimated cost: $6000.

WHO: DecentraDot team

WHAT: Requesting 889 DOT for maintenance and development of their services including validator dashboard, leaderboard, validator selector tool, and Polkadot guides blog.

PRICE: $6000

TIMEFRAME: Not specified

RESOURCES: Server costs, maintenance, and development hours.

Retroactive self-tip Request for Maintenance and Ongoing Development Validator Dashboard and Services

- A person made a proposal for Polkadot, but it didn’t get approved. They didn’t give up and made a new plan.
- The new plan focuses on sharing past content and promoting Polkadot on social media, especially in Brazil.
- They have already created one-third of the content from the first plan and are working hard to share more.
- They want to use Twitter to reach more people and grow the Polkadot community in Brazil.
- The person has been managing the Polkadot Brasil profile and has done things like hosting online events and creating original content.
- They plan to do more events, create more content, and get more followers in the next three months.
- They are asking for 550 DOT to help pay for their work and social media promotion.
- They have already gained over 300 followers and have a good engagement rate on their posts.

WHO: Uai so serious?

WHAT: Revised proposal for retroactive content and social media promotion of Polkadot Brasil on Twitter.

PRICE: 550 DOT from the Polkadot treasury, allocated as 350 DOT for Uai and 200 DOT for X engagement.

TIMEFRAME: Three months, with plans to host a minimum of 3 Spaces, publish original threads, subscribe to X Premium annually, and sponsor posts to expand profile reach.

Retroactive Tip for Portuguese Content Creation

- PolkaWorld requested 907 DOT for a Polkadot event in Hong Kong.
- The event happened on April 5, 2024, at the Fringe Club.
- It included 9 Polkadot projects and 4 venture capital firms.
- The goal was to discuss Polkadot 2.0 and market trends.
- The event wasn't part of their earlier plan, so they asked for funding after it happened.
- They shared details about the event and costs in a document.

**WHO**: PolkaWorld 

**WHAT**: Requesting retrospective funding of 907 DOT for an offline Polkadot event held in collaboration with 9 projects and 4 venture capital firms in Hong Kong on April 5th, 2024.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES**: 907 DOT. No specific timeframe or resources mentioned.

Retrospective Funding Proposal of the Polkadot HK Event

Ink! Analyzer is a tool created by David Semakula that helps analyze ink! smart contracts. It is like rust-analyzer but for ink!, which is a language for making smart contracts. The analyzer helps with understanding the rules of ink! contracts and gives useful features for editing them. It works with many different tools, like Visual Studio Code, and can be used to add ink! support to other tools too.

David is asking for money to update ink! Analyzer so it can work with the newest version of ink!, called ink! v5. He wants to make it better and faster, and also write instructions for people to use it. He has already gotten money from the Web3 Foundation to work on ink! Analyzer before, but he thinks it's time to get money from the treasury instead. David is a software engineer with a lot of experience and has also helped with rust-analyzer and ink! in the past.

WHO: David Semakula, creator of ink! analyzer.
WHAT: Requests retroactive funding of $26,500 for adding ink! v5 support to ink! analyzer.
TIMEFRAME: Not specified.
RESOURCES: ink! analyzer, modular and reusable libraries and tools for semantic analysis of ink! smart contracts.

ink! Analyzer: Retroactive funding for ink! v5 support

- Polkadot is asking for more money to finish their advertising campaign on the Brave browser.
- They started the campaign with a budget of 58,902 DOT, which was worth $575,000.
- Since the price of DOT dropped a lot, they now need extra funds to continue the campaign as planned.
- They want 87,351 more DOT to keep the campaign running until October 15, 2024.
- So far, their campaign has reached over 63 million people and received almost 500,000 clicks.
- The team believes that getting more money will help them achieve their original goals for the campaign.
- Supporting this request will help the Polkadot community grow and reach more people.

WHO: Polkadot Awareness Campaign on Brave

WHAT: Requesting a top-up of 87,351 DOT to maintain the originally approved budget of $575,000 for their advertising campaign on Brave.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The campaign started on July 16, 2024, and will end on October 15, 2024. The additional funding is crucial to deliver the full scope and impact of the originally approved campaign.

Polkadot Advertising Campaign on Brave Browser - Top-Up Request 

- A replacement referendum aims to execute the funding from Ref 514.
- Ref 514 failed to pay out at the end of the last spend period.
- The funds will be returned to Treasury Partners Conor Daly and Athelo Group.
- Details are provided in a community update video by The Kusamarian.
- The beneficiary is a multi-sig held by Conor Daly, LearnPolkadot, and The Phunky One.
- DOT holders are urgently asked to support this referendum.
- The deadline for confirmation is April 17, 2024, at ~9PM UTC.

WHO: Polkadot Holding community, Conor Daly, Athelo Group.

WHAT: Execute funding passed in Ref 514 and return donations to Treasury Partners.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Urgent support needed to confirm referendum before April 17, 2024, at ~9PM UTC.

Conor Daly Indy500 Replacement Ref

- A group is requesting 1,000,000 DOT to help a project called StellaSwap.
- The goal is to make more people use and trade on Polkadot.
- StellaSwap is a special trading platform that helps find good prices for assets.
- The money will make the market stronger by increasing the trading options available.
- They want to make Polkadot more popular and active through increased trading. 
- StellaSwap already has a lot of users and high trading amounts. 
- More funding will allow for better services and benefits for users.

StellaSwap requests 1,000,000 DOT to grow DeFi activity on Polkadot by deepening market depth and attracting liquidity. The grant will be used to increase market depth of strategic assets and foster a more efficient marketplace. The goal is to kickstart flywheel effects and increase network activity and exposure.

StellaSwap Incentive Program

**Telenova**

- **Telenova** is a self-custodial Polkadot wallet built directly into Telegram.
- It allows users to manage DOT and KSM tokens easily within the Telegram app.
- Features include sending and receiving tokens, buying and selling DOT and KSM, and viewing balances in fiat currencies.
- The wallet is secured by the user's Telegram cloud and manual backups.
- The project aims to make cryptocurrency management simple for new users.
- It underwent a 2-month research phase and a 4-month development phase.
- The proposal seeks retroactive funding for the research and development of Telenova.
- The wallet is now available to Telegram's 800 million+ monthly active users.

WHO: Telenova

WHAT: Retroactive funding for 6 months of research and development of a self-custodial Polkadot wallet built into Telegram, including testing and release.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Telenova: Polkadot Wallet built into Telegram. Retroactive Funding for 6 months

RegionX is a project that helps teams save money when using the Polkadot network. Here are the key points:

- RegionX reduces costs for current and new projects on Polkadot.
- Polkadot lets projects run by reserving time on computers called cores.
- There are two ways to get this time: Bulk Coretime (for planning ahead) and Instantaneous Coretime (for immediate needs).
- Bulk Coretime can be traded as special tokens called NFTs.
- RegionX will create a marketplace for trading these time tokens.
- The marketplace will allow more flexible options for teams to get the time they need.
- It will also help teams that do not have lots of money to start their projects.  
- The project aims to make it easier for everyone to use Polkadot by promoting fair trading of Coretime.

RegionX proposes a marketplace for trading Coretime on the Polkadot network, offering more flexible procurement methods for existing and new projects. The marketplace will enable the trading of Coretime regions, with a variety of properties, including active and inactive regions. The project aims to reduce deployment and operational costs for projects on Polkadot, enabling more teams to bring their projects to production. The proposal includes three main components: the core of the market, order processor, and reward system. The project will attract Coretime traders, who will compete to make the best offers for Coretime procurement.

RegionX | Coretime Marketplace for Polkadot

### Anti-Scam Bounty Referendum

- **Purpose**: To protect the community from scams by tracking and removing scam activities, supporting victims, and promoting user safety through education.
- **Duration**: The bounty has been running for two years.
- **Current Achievements**: Funded multiple anti-scam tasks. Details can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/bounty/11).
- **Proposal**: A top-up to continue and expand anti-scam efforts. More details in the [proposal document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c2gOWkyWkawAh7S-ov4T9QZYY0LsFuc8oylF2KaGaII).
- **Spending Report**: A report on spends since the last top-up is available [here](https://polkadot.antiscam.team/bounty/anti-scam-bounty-spends-report-february-2023-february-2024/).

WHO: Polkadot community

WHAT: Top up the Anti-Scam Bounty to protect the community from scams by tracking/pruning scam activities, supporting scam victims, and promoting user safety via educational initiatives.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Details of the top-up and estimated breakdown can be found in the proposal document.

Polkadot Anti-scam Team Bounty Top-up

- **Tip Request for Expert Report**: A request has been made to tip [@OnlyDeFiGuy](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/user/OnlyDeFiGuy) for his expert report on HydraDX's referendum [#561](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/referendum/561).
- **Report Details**: The report can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rrx1DX_HURVAFHspC2hSEXqxyTKpsqeDqUabKfHtt_o/edit?usp=sharing) and is described as informative and unbiased, detailing both the pros and cons of the proposal.
- **Controversy and Discussion**: There was some controversy on X, but the resulting discussion is considered valuable.
- **Tip Amount**: The requested tip is 42 DOT, approximately $375 based on today's rate ($8.94) and EMA7/EMA30 ($8.78/$9.1).
- **Purpose of Tip**: The tip is seen as a symbolic compensation for the expert's efforts and to encourage more expert reports on proposals.
- **Author's Note**: The author, kukabi | Helikon, mentions removing their vote due to delegation.

WHO: OnlyDeFiGuy

WHAT: Expert report on HydraDX's referendum #561

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Tip request of 42 DOT, roughly $375 at today's rate, as a symbolic compensation for his efforts.

Tip Request for @OnlyDeFiGuy for the Expert Report on Referendum #561

### Summary
- **Event**: Block & Wine Vienna Meetup on February 6, 2024
- **Presenter**: Polkalytics
- **Content**: 30-minute presentation on Polkadot fundamentals, latest developments, and parachains
- **Audience**: ~50 people unfamiliar with Polkadot
- **Output**: Recorded presentation with subtitles on YouTube
- **Cost**: 1,260 EUR (1,050 EUR + VAT) for preparation and video editing
- **About Polkalytics**: Data-driven reporting and consulting for Polkadot, founded by Tommi Enenkel (Alice und Bob)

WHO: Polkalytics

WHAT: Retroactive proposal for attendance, presentation, and content production for the Block & Wine Vienna Meetup on the 6th of February 2024.

PRICE: 1,260 EUR (1,050 EUR + VAT)

TIMEFRAME: Service rendered before the contract with the W3F came into effect.

Treasury Proposals