Marketing Bounty 2.0 is a proposal to transform the Polkadot ecosystem's marketing efforts. The main points are:

1. The proposal asks for 200,000 DOT per month for 6 months to develop strategic marketing initiatives and expand Polkadot's reach.
2. The mission is to accelerate the growth of the Polkadot ecosystem by funding marketing initiatives and fostering a vibrant community.
3. The organizational structure will change, with active, compensated curators replacing unpaid ones, and new roles for advisors and watchdogs.
4. Curators and specialists will receive competitive compensation to attract top-tier talent and create a trustworthy environment.
5. The proposal emphasizes ethics, transparency, and reporting, with quarterly budget reports and monthly activity reports for the community.
6. Curators and advisors have diverse backgrounds and experience in digital marketing, Web3, and the Polkadot ecosystem.
7. Curators' letters of intent express their dedication to managing the Marketing Bounty effectively and transparently.
8. The requested funds will support essential marketing functions and may increase in the future.
9. The mission statement and scope include implementing a marketing strategy, executing marketing operations, and processing marketing proposals.
10. The operational overview covers agency engagement, compensation models, support functions, routine reporting, and engagement opportunities.
11. Success metrics will be established to measure the effectiveness of marketing efforts and will evolve over time.
12. The closing statement emphasizes the commitment to advancing the Polkadot ecosystem through well-structured and effectively managed marketing strategies.

Awarded

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Marketing Bounty 2.0 proposes a new structure with compensated curators and advisors to fund marketing initiatives for Polkadot. They request 200,000 DOT per month for 6 months. The scope of work includes developing strategic marketing initiatives, enhancing transparency, and executing comprehensive campaigns to expand Polkadot's reach and impact. The bounty will abide by the wishes of DOT holders and will operate under high ethical standards and transparency. The success metrics will be flexible and adaptable, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Marketing Bounty 2.0

Hello there! I'm "bearofthenet" from Austria, and I love racing cars. I want to show off Polkadot on racetracks in Europe. I race with a group of friends, and we all love cars. I go to about 5 races each year in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, and sometimes Italy. There are about 200 racers at each race, so at least 1,000 people will see my special suit every year. I'll wear it for 4 years and share pictures and videos on social media. I'm asking for money to make this cool suit that shows my love for racing and web3. I hope you think it's a fun idea too! - Bear

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Hello everyone,

On „X“ I am „bearofthenet“.

Im a hobby racer from Austria and would love to represent polkadot on the european racetracks.

In this motorsport you see sponsoring everywhere but i never saw any rider wearing some crypto stuff.  
Just want to say im not a professional attending international races, we are just a group of petrolheads living our dream🔥

I usually attend about 5 race weekends per year, the most tracks are spread over Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia, eventually italy.

About 200 riders attend per wekend, so minimum 1000 riders will see this exclusive suit per year and ill be wearing that suit minimum for 4 Years.

ill post trackpics and reels tagging Polkadot after every event on X and other social plattforms.

The requested amount will be just enough to cover most costs of this tailormade suit.

Hope you find the idea of combining the passion for motorsport and web3 as exciting as i do.

Bear

![](https://i.ibb.co/QvJ5gYc3/s2.jpg)

![](https://i.ibb.co/ds4b4hm3/s1.jpg)

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Motorsport Sponsoring Superbike / Polkadot Racesuit

- KSM trading started on Hydration after a vote approved funds from the Treasury.
- This allows money to move between Kusama and Polkadot.
- When sending KSM or DOT, if a user lacks enough funds, part of what they're sending is used for fees.
- This makes it easier for users since they don't need extra money for fees.
- However, users can lose more money than expected due to high fees.
- A new proposal aims to provide liquidity by supplying DOT and KSM to help with these transactions.
- Extra tokens returned to their treasuries after use.

Polkadot/ Kusama Asset Hub Liquidity for Bridge Fee Swaps

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[Small Tipper] Referendum #1473

It’s Goku.

This is my third solo creator tip request for my contribution and impact over the last ~5 months (140 days). The latest one was on October 11, 2024 (for 15K USDT).

Aside from memeposting, my content has typically involved extensive cross-ecosystem research, narrative-building, and positioning Polkadot and telling its story in the most intellectually honest way possible—often by touching on other ecosystem solutions and how they relate to Polkadot.

For tone, I generally target an audience outside of Polkadot, making the content digestible, engaging, and debunking the noise. I avoid preaching or a didactic style, instead mixing insights with a bit of entertainment to push Polkadot’s real value proposition and its contrarian bet.

Over the past 140 days, my content on X has reached over 1.1M views and gained over 900 new followers—organically, steady, and quality over quantity way.

These posts have been leveraged by KOLs, Polkadot ecosystem projects, the community, and other content creators, creating further conversations and engagement.

Now, with Kaito’s mindshare, smart follower, and yap points metrics, we have additional ways to assess impact on X. No metric tells the full story, but it provides some signal nevertheless. The current leaderboard still has farmers, but once adjusted, it will reflect a more accurate measure of influence in the X space. Even in its current form, if you check the 6-month or 12-month range, you’ll find me around the top 15 zone. While that’s not extremely high, I have one of the highest yap points among active Polkadot agents on X, which serves as a soft indicator of attention-grabbing on broader topics with crypto X inner circles—which is exactly where I focus.

Some highlights from this period:  
  
**Polkadot Deep Dives & Comparisons:**  
[Polkadot in 786 words](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1874088419736846530)  
[Crypto governance (Ethereum vs. Polkadot)](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1891949981495595064)   
[Parity hack → OpenGov](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1893668314389397637)   
[Nomt → Polkadot](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1894124945178792085)  
[Polkadot’s bullish case & messaging overview](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1886809755622236200)  
[Polkadot in 2025](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1874475379747938622)  
[Demystifying TPS & what it really means for Polkadot](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1861143060601806921)  
[Revisiting Spammening & addressing misconceptions](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1888356808764326385)  
[Kusama focus](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1892985921173078238)  
[Kaito + Polkadot’s mindshare](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1890138771623923786)  
[JAM Doom](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1895490079159632220)  
  
**Graphics, Short Bangers, Memes, Debunking:  
**

[Polkadot vs. Cardano’s 1M TPS event](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1864329638916345885)  
[Remastered not so scientific chart of JAM positioning (close to Gav’s view)](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1892544540063453443)  
[Polkadot’s roadmap](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1860701862481248336)  
[JAM](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1873006877761798592)  
[Polkadot’s roadmap—meme version](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1868036737311838364)  
[Spammening event](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1864366404943729038)  
[Everything Polkadot](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1859647961346736327)   
[Ethereum in Polkadot](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1886888928516702577)   
[Hydration, Solana, Polkadot](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1882482515237323043)  
[Polkadot’s messaging breakdown](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1888327448330481975)   
[Ethereum rollback & Gav’s take](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1893082975048212557)  
[Ethereum becoming Polkadot](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1884593310460695005)  
[One DOT at a time](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1887976330417115164)  
[ETHDenver](https://x.com/0xgoku_/status/1895500739281363382)  
  
And many more.

Potential FAQs:  
**Have I ever been compensated for my content, taken sponsorships, or applied for funding?**  
No.

**Marketing Bounty or Kaito?**  
Marketing bounty doesn't do retroactive tips and not meant for requests of this size. (Kaito starts from this month.)

Retroactive Tip For Solo Content Creation-3

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A proposal has been made to give more money to help the people called "collators" on Polkadot's System Parachains. Collators are important because they help keep the network safe, fair, and fast. They need more money to keep doing their job well as the network grows bigger. The proposal asks for 21,504.94 DOT to help with this. You can find more information about the proposal in a Google Document and in earlier proposals. This proposal is a way to say thank you to the collators for their hard work.

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**Proposal: Additional Funding for Polkadot System Parachain Collators**

**Requested allocation:** 21,504.94 DOT

**Bounty #32 DOT address**: 13UVJyLnbVp9RBZYFwHYxaA7NBbKRCL4bLMscV5JwwLTVE6j

This proposal seeks additional funding to support the operational status and provide a bounty top-up budget for collators on Polkadot's System Parachains. Collators are essential for maintaining network security, decentralization, and performance. While previous referenda have successfully provided the necessary resources for their effective operation, additional funds are required to sustain these efforts and adapt to the expanding network demands.

This proposal will focus on the operational status and the bounty top-up budget, while more detailed information can be found under the bounty page and in earlier proposals, as listed below.

**Full Proposal:** [Google Document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TeeGoG29HouQ04FaWk2d1ln0AvAf0kA3SASvXQwM0ns/edit?usp=sharing)

The history of initiatives for Polkadot System Chain collators dates back to mid-2023. They have provided vital support for maintaining the network’s stability, security, and decentralization.

-   **Referendum 156:** [Polkadot System Parachain Collators - Tips, August 2023](156)
-   **Referendum 288:** [Polkadot System Parachain Collators - Tips Q4/2023, September 2023](288)
-   **Referendum 363:** [Funding of Polkadot System Parachain Collators, December 2023](363)
-   **Referendum 1006:** [Proposal for Top-Up for Funding of Polkadot System Parachain Collators, June 2024](1006)

Thank you!

Polkadot System Parachains Collator Bounty #32  Top-Up Proposal - Jan/2025

Polkadot Experience Beta — Arequipa was a 2-day workshop for developers in Arequipa, Peru. The event focused on teaching participants about the Polkadot ecosystem and blockchain technology. Here are the main points:

1. The workshop was self-funded and did not receive any treasury or bounty funds.
2. Arequipa is an important city for software development in Peru and is known in Silicon Valley for its Techsuyo conference.
3. The workshop covered topics like cryptography, blockchain evolution, decentralized applications, smart contracts, and Rust programming.
4. Participants learned to create interactive logic using Rust and build fully functional blockchains with the Polkadot SDK.
5. The event had great results, including massive participation and inclusion of participants in official Polkadot channels.
6. In June, a hackathon in Lima, Peru, had two teams from Arequipa win first and third place in the smart contracts category using Rust.

**Polkadot Experience Beta — Arequipa**  
  
This tip corresponds to a 2-day workshop run with own funds and that did not receive funds from any treasury or bounty last year.

Polkadot Experience that I carry out to provide workshops to developers in various locations and that last year had its second edition, in this case this request corresponds to the Arequipa Peru edition.

**Full details**: 

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PqKg8msrsZp-EGkyakLoHPYLBDpYabxb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117666172967964407937&rtpof=true&sd=true](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PqKg8msrsZp-EGkyakLoHPYLBDpYabxb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117666172967964407937&rtpof=true&sd=true)

**Use of funds**: 

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bxOuZtX-6zKmgXT8GLUW5kkPd0lBGCkw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117666172967964407937&rtpof=true&sd=true](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bxOuZtX-6zKmgXT8GLUW5kkPd0lBGCkw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117666172967964407937&rtpof=true&sd=true)

**Photo album**: 

[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GFat2ODkD3CuNGWAaR86vk1ebUhOleAB?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GFat2ODkD3CuNGWAaR86vk1ebUhOleAB?usp=sharing)

**Quick contex**t: Arequipa is the city in Peru with the greatest relevance at the level of software development in the country, for this reason it is preferred by technological giants to carry out recruitment and the Arequipeña community is known in Silicon Valley for annually organizing the Techsuyo conference. These were the reasons for holding 2 days of workshops there.

For 2 days (3 hours per day) a workshop was provided for developers where they were able to explore various resources available in the Polkadot ecosystem by completing theoretical and practical exercises.

Activity agenda:

**Day 1**

The workshop started with a basic introduction to cryptography. This covered:

• Hash functions

• Elliptic curves

We then moved on to a basic introduction to blockchains, covering:

• Blockchain evolution (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot)

• Decentralized application architecture

• Smart contracts explained

• Key concepts in Rust.

**Workshop**: Participants will be able to create interactive logic using Rust.

**Day 2**

On the second day, we focused on the Polkadot ecosystem and built fully functional blockchains using the Polkadot SDK:

• Introduction to Polkadot and its architecture.

• Solutions available in the Polkadot ecosystem

• Importance of XCM interoperability between chains.

**Workshop**: We learned and successfully completed a implementation about Substrate, the blockchain development framework provided by the Polkadot SDK.

This was the first time that this type of blockchain activities was carried out in Arequipa and **obtaining great results** among which the following can be mentioned:

-   Massive participation during the activities.
-   Inclusion of participants in official channels of the Polkadot ecosystem.

Reference: [https://x.com/polkadot\_per/status/1761799081591017946?s=52&t=xZwu9y0l8ACyMwWB7pH3Rg](https://x.com/polkadot_per/status/1761799081591017946?s=52&t=xZwu9y0l8ACyMwWB7pH3Rg)

![](https://i.ibb.co/q1Kz7wQ/1.png)

It was possible to get interactions on Polkadot official Discord

![](https://i.ibb.co/Fz6Yx7W/2.png)

• Additionally in June a hackathon was held in Lima, Peru where 2 teams made up of Arequipeños **received scholarships from Polkadot Peru to travel to Lima and achieved first and third place** in the smart contracts category with Rust, demonstrating the talent present in the region.

References:

First place repository: [https://github.com/Space4Build/La-Causathon-Chaintrust](https://github.com/Space4Build/La-Causathon-Chaintrust)

Post: [https://x.com/Polkadot\_per/status/1805601736897319361](https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1805601736897319361)

![](https://i.ibb.co/x7vd1zs/eq1.jpg)

Third place repository: [https://github.com/Space4Build/La-Causathon-CLAMZ/tree/main](https://github.com/Space4Build/La-Causathon-CLAMZ/tree/main)

Post: [https://x.com/Polkadot\_per/status/1805601754156777526](https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1805601754156777526)

![](https://i.ibb.co/VNwwhRX/eq2.jpg)

Tip for 2 days workshop - Polkadot Experience Beta

- The Polkadot community is asking for more money to pay moderators.
- Moderators help the community all day and night.
- There are now 11 moderators, which is 2 less than before.
- The money will go to a special account called bounty 24.
- The last time they got money was 10 months ago.
- They need $191,040 for one year of work.
- Moderators will work with Community Managers to help the Polkadot community.
- More details are in a document linked in the post.

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