### Summary of Polkadot System Parachain Collators Proposal

- **Collator Rewards**: Currently, Collators receive minimal rewards and transaction fees, which may discourage them from acting favorably or adequately resourcing their hosts.
- **Funding Proposal**: Collators should receive sustainable funding from the chain. In the medium term, Treasuries can provide bounties for their services.
- **Q4 2023 Payment**: This proposal seeks 7,289.03 DOT for Collators' services from October to December 2023.
- **Future Funding**: Starting January 2024, funding will be managed under the "Polkadot System Parachain Collators Bounty."
- **Previous Approval**: The previous two-month operation tip was approved under Referenda #156.
- **Community Involvement**: The Polkadot community is encouraged to review and provide feedback on the proposal.
- **Full Details**: The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kqrgespOFcwh_uaOfv1RtwY64D7sE3luCkfSd09WXzs/edit?usp=sharing).

Awarded

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WHO: Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network.

WHAT: Receive funding for the provision of their services in the form of a bounty.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 7,289.03 DOT for services delivered for 3 months - 10-12/2023. Future cost compensation will be done under the Polkadot System Parachain Collators Bounty starting from January 2024.

Polkadot System Parachain Collators - Tips Q4/2023

### Jungle Inc. and Minus Wells Collaboration

- **Objective**: Create a video in exchange for 3 DOT, setting a new standard for community contributions.
- **Content**: 
  - In-depth discussion on Polkadot mechanics.
  - Exploration of the network's future vision.
  - Insights into Polkadot 2.0.
- **Potential Features**: 
  - Possible guest appearance.
- **Community Impact**: Aim to reach thousands to enhance understanding and awareness.
- **Audience Reach**: 
  - ~56k subscribers.
  - ~140k followers on X.
- **Social Media**: 
  - Follow @Minuswells and @jungleincxrp for updates.

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Jungle Inc. and Minus Wells propose creating 1 video to discuss Polkadot mechanics, vision, and insights into Polkadot 2.0. The cost is 3 DOT, challenging the trend of big influencers seeking $51k for average content. The goal is to contribute as active community members, reaching thousands to elevate understanding and awareness. No specific timeframe or resources mentioned.

YouTube Polkadot Round Table Discussion

- The Polkadot ecosystem is growing, and there's a need for educational content, especially in Spanish. 
- Mad Crypto MX is a YouTube channel that creates informative videos about Polkadot and has an existing audience.
- The channel plans to make two videos per week for six months if funded, focusing on tutorials, updates, and interviews.
- They will share content on Twitter to reach more people globally.
- Mad Crypto MX has over 105,000 subscribers and has had 7.8 million views.
- They seek $24,000 to support content creation, emphasizing the importance of building a knowledgeable community.
- The proposal includes a plan to track success by monitoring wallet activity and DOT delegation.
- The channel also aims to foster inclusion and encourage more people to use Polkadot.

Mad Crypto MX, a Spanish-language YouTube channel, is seeking funding of $24,000 (4,700 DOT) to produce two Polkadot-related videos per week for six months. The channel will cover a range of topics, including deep-dive tutorials, regular updates, and interviews with Polkadot founders, developers, and community members. The content will be shared on Twitter to reach a broader audience. The channel has over 105,000 subscribers and 7.8 million views. The proposed KPIs are the number of wallets and DOT delegated to the staking pool.

Proposal to Fund educational content for MAD CRIPTO MX YouTube Channel and twitter account

**Educational Campaign in India (6 Months)**

- This campaign is about teaching people in India about Polkadot, a type of blockchain technology.
- It is created by Crypto India, a popular group known for making complex ideas easy to understand.
- The campaign will run for 6 months and aims to create 18 videos to explain Polkadot and related topics.
- They will also share educational posts on social media to reach more people.
- The project aims to make Polkadot more known and understood in the Indian crypto market.
- The team believes that many people in India are interested in crypto, with over 156 million users.

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WHO: Crypto India and Being Satoshi
WHAT: Educational campaign to demystify Polkadot's technology in India through high-quality content creation, including 18 videos, social media interaction, and Telegram outreach.
PRICE: 21849 DOT (Approx $115800 with DOT price at $5.3 EMA7)
TIMEFRAME: 6 months

6 months Educational Campaign in India - Crypto India

- Gerard is a content creator from Spain, making videos about Polkadot, a cryptocurrency.
- He has 22,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, TuPrimerBitcoin, and creates educational content.
- After feedback, he reduced his funding request by 75% to $25,150 to make videos about Polkadot.
- He plans to create 12 long videos, 7 short videos, and 1 interview focused on Polkadot topics.
- His videos will include updates, news, and encouraging audience involvement in Polkadot's governance.
- Gerard believes it’s important to reach Spanish-speaking audiences, as there are over 550 million speakers worldwide.
- He values transparency and encourages questions from the community.

WHO: Gerard, an influential content creator in Spanish speaking countries.

WHAT: Create 12 long videos, 7 short videos, and 1 interview with an industry leader about Polkadot.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting $25150 (5000 DOTs) to be delivered in 3 months for the creation of the content.

TuPrimerBitcoin: Creation of quality content on Youtube to make the Spanish-speaking Polkadot ecosystem more visible.

Republik Rupiah is a fast-growing blockchain community and education platform in Indonesia. Here are some key points:

- They focus on providing clear and accessible education about blockchain in the Indonesian language.
- Many people in Indonesia faced difficulties because most information was in English and often unreliable.
- They have created over 600 videos and articles about blockchain, especially related to Polkadot.
- Their platform has gained almost 630,000 views for Polkadot videos and has a large social media following.
- Republik Rupiah is seeking $68,000 to support their past and future educational efforts in the blockchain community.
- They aim to enhance understanding and adoption of Polkadot's technology in Indonesia without becoming dependent on grants. 

Overall, they want to ensure that Indonesian people have the right knowledge to succeed in the blockchain world.

Retroactive & Ongoing Funding Rationale: Republik Rupiah - Turning Indonesia into the Polkadot Island's With Education and Community

- Altcoin Daily is a popular YouTube channel about cryptocurrency, especially altcoins, started in February 2018.
- The team, Aaron and Austin, plans to produce three videos about Polkadot with a budget of $110,000.
- The videos will cover what Polkadot is, the top five parachains, and the best mobile wallet for Polkadot.
- They estimate to finish the videos in about six weeks after receiving payment.
- The channel has over 1.3 million subscribers and generates a lot of views per video, even during tough market times.
- They want to help the Polkadot community grow and become more visible.
- PolkaMarketing will help with promoting these videos and has a 10% fee for their services.

WHO: ALTCOINDAILY, a popular YouTube channel and online platform with 1.34M subscribers and 1.4M+ Twitter followers. WHAT: Produce three videos about Polkadot, including an introduction, top parachains, and best mobile wallet. PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $100,000 for approximately six weeks of work, delivering one video every two weeks.

Altcoin Daily - High impact Polkadot media promotion

- Josep leads the polkadot-api project.
- A recent Pull Request (PR) made a big improvement for dApp development.
- This PR helps to make dApp assets smaller.
- The team values these contributions and has worked on this issue before.
- One team member researched this for a few days.
- The new PR is much better than earlier efforts.
- Josep suggests giving a reward of 80 DOTs to the contributor.
- This reward encourages teamwork and good work in the community.

WHO: Josep, team lead for the polkadot-api project.

WHAT: Proposing to offer a medium tip of 80 DOTs to a contributor for their exceptional work in reducing the bundle sizes of dApp assets.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 80 DOTs as a reward for the contribution. No specific timeframe or additional resources mentioned.

https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-api/pull/200

- AllInCrypto is a team focused on expanding the Polkadot community.
- They propose to create valuable content about Polkadot over 6 months.
- They will publish articles on their website and videos on YouTube twice a week.
- They have a strong presence on social media like Twitter and TikTok.
- Their content aims to educate people about Polkadot and its projects.
- They need 8,000 DOT to fund this project.
- AllInCrypto has a lot of followers and views, showing their reach and impact.

AllInCrypto proposes to expand Polkadot's reach through strategic content creation and community engagement. They plan to publish 2-3 weekly articles, release 52 YouTube videos, and share 100-200 tweets/retweets over 6 months. The budget is 8,000 DOT, with 60% allocated to content creation.

AllInCrypto's Strategic Content and Community Engagement Proposal

- Substrate ETL is a big tool for analyzing data from Polkadot and Kusama.
- It allows people to look at information like blocks and transactions from these blockchains.
- A new dataset was added to Google Cloud in September 2023 to help people use this data.
- The dataset includes information about over 70 parachains, which are smaller chains that work with Polkadot and Kusama.
- Many analysts and teams use this tool to help make important decisions and understand how things are growing.
- Plans for 2024 include adding more features and supporting more data analyses for these blockchains.
- Colorful Notion, the team behind this project, has been involved with Polkadot for two years and aims to collaborate with others in the community.

Colorful Notion proposes to continue supporting substrate-etl, a large scale index of Polkadot and Kusama, and their parachains. They plan to extend substrate-etl to support raw and fully-decoded EVM datasets and build support for CoreJam+CorePlay+DA. The requested amount is 99,025 DOT.

Treasury Proposals