### Anagolay Overview

- **Mission**: Simplify monetization and support for creative work across platforms.
- **Technology**: Built on the Substrate framework, enhancing the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Recent Developments**:
  - Public identity verification and tipping pallets.
  - Verification strategy and UI for web domains.
  - Anagolay browser extension for sending tips.
- **Current Goals**:
  - Empower independent content creators and open-source developers.
  - Enable verified online identities to send and receive funds.
  - Introduce tip-as-you-go functionality.
- **Value Proposition**:
  - Additional monetization tools for creators.
  - Incentives for community contributions within Polkadot and Kusama.
  - Enhanced ecosystem value by attracting new users.
- **Future Plans**:
  - Expand support to various tokens and creative workflows.
  - Scale the solution to onboard more creators.

Rejected

Anagolay proposal: enabling community contributions for verified creators

- A proposal was made for an event about finance using blockchain in Tanzania.
- The event, hosted by Pendulum, taught people about Polkadot and stablecoins.
- There was a live demonstration of using Pendulum for payments across borders.
- Participants learned how these technologies can help businesses.
- The event aimed to help Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) understand decentralized finance.
- Attendees had the chance to network and form partnerships.
- The proposal asks for funding to support future educational events on blockchain technology.

Panel for SMEs and Crypto Communities on Polkadot and Stablecoins

- Two earthquakes in February 2023 in Turkey caused over 50,000 deaths and made 1.5 million people homeless.
- The project aims to use donations from the Polkadot community to build a neighborhood of container homes for survivors.
- About 100 containers will provide housing for 400-450 people in a village over 6,900 square meters.
- The proposal includes support for two years, covering maintenance and social programs for the community.
- NeedsMap.coop, a trusted organization, is leading the efforts and will ensure transparent use of donations.
- All transactions will be audited daily, and reports will be shared with the community.
- If successful, the donated funds will be converted to Turkish Lira gradually to protect market value.

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

- A new proposal was created to develop a special technology that helps connect regular business software with the Polkadot blockchain.
- This technology will allow different applications to easily work with Polkadot without needing to understand complicated blockchain details.
- It aims to solve problems that businesses have when trying to use blockchain technology, like lack of knowledge and legal issues.
- Aventus Network is the company behind this proposal and already helps businesses use blockchain for things like events and loyalty programs.
- The project will create a 2-way API gateway, making it easy for users to interact with different parts of the Polkadot system.
- The proposal is asking for about 76,620 DOT (a type of digital currency) to fund this project.
- It promises to help grow the Polkadot ecosystem by allowing more users and new businesses to connect with its technology.

Polkadot web2/web3 API middleware development - UPDATED: Please Reject

Invalid proposal - please reject

- Pinknode is a service that helps people use the Polkadot network for free.
- They provide easy-to-use tools for developers to build on Polkadot.
- Since starting in 2021, Pinknode has given free API services to users.
- They served millions of requests from users every day in late 2022.
- Pinknode works to keep their services reliable, with 99.88% uptime.
- They are not charging anyone for their services right now.
- Users can access their tools by creating an API Key or using public links.

Pinknode Public Endpoint for Polkadot in Q4 2022

### Web3 Festival Proposal Summary

- **Proposer**: Hao Ding, founder of Web3Go.
- **Projects Involved**: Moonbeam, Phala, SubQuery, Web3Go, Litentry, CESS, and Gear.
- **Event**: Web3 Festival, Asia's largest event with over 10,000 attendees.
- **Objective**: Enhance Polkadot's presence in Asia and showcase ecosystem unity.
- **Activities**: Organize a Polkadot event in Hong Kong, inviting both Polkadot team members and external participants.
- **Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)**:
  1. 300+ registrations.
  2. 200+ attendees.
- **Contact**: Telegram (@hao_ding) and Discord (Hao#8704).
- **Full Proposal**: Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OFMA8zcKLMNIZAbtfCBlS6xoOn9A3uQZRH7Eqhkl270/edit?usp=sharing).

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

- Alex is excited to build new projects for Polkadot with his team, MVP Workshop, which is a leader in Web3 and Blockchain.
- They plan to create a user interface for DotSwap, a type of online exchange called a DEX, using the Statemint platform.
- MVP Workshop has developed over 70 blockchain products, partnering with companies like Polygon and Parity.
- They have experience in creating DEXs and have participated in hackathons, placing among the top finalists.
- The proposal for DotSwap includes details about funding, their background, and project plans.
- They are seeking $80,960 or 13,500 DOT to support their work on this project.

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

**Connect the DOTs Proposal Summary**

- Polkadot has great technology, but users find it hard to access information.
- Information is spread out across different websites and social media, making it confusing.
- The goal is to create a simple website that collects all information about Polkadot.
- The site will be easy to use for everyone, whether they are new or experienced.
- Two main goals are to help new users get started and to connect with other teams in Polkadot.
- Success will be measured by website traffic and helping users find and use decentralized apps (DApps).
- More visitors to the site will help people learn about Polkadot and its community.

Connect the DOTs

🎁 Airdrop | DOT x Moonbeam

- Polkanext is asking for $220,000 to create educational materials in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They plan to offer videos, tips, discussions, and bootcamps for learning.
- Their goal is to help tech professionals and newcomers understand technology better.
- Polkanext aims to connect university developers and industry experts with resources and networks.
- They have a strong team of partners with experience in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The educational content will be updated regularly to keep it relevant. 
- Polkanext wants to build a community focused on technology and growth in Polkadot.

Milestone1 Proposal: Polkanext Training Community for Polkadot Ecosystem

- The Sublab team is creating tools for developers in the Substrate ecosystem.
- They recently finished their first proposal and made 13 libraries in Swift and Kotlin.
- The new proposal aims to improve these libraries and work with popular mobile functions.
- They want to build a special manager to handle multiple clients on mobile devices efficiently.
- The team plans to ensure their libraries work with all existing parachains and create small libraries for accessing block explorers.
- They are asking for $259,500 to support their project and plan to share progress on their GitHub and Telegram.
- Their goal is to help developers create better apps and support existing applications in the ecosystem.

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

- Antwerp Crypto Community is a group of events happening once a month in Antwerp, Belgium.
- The goal is to create an active community focused on Polkadot, crypto, and blockchain.
- There will be a total of 6 events over 6 months.
- The events will not talk about trading or investing in tokens.
- Instead, they will teach people about the technology and its global impact.
- The focus will be on helping people come up with their own project ideas.
- Feedback and questions about the events are welcome.

Antwerp Crypto Community

- The RMRK team has been working for about 1.5 years on creating special digital items called NFTs.
- They want to make these NFTs easy to use on different platforms.
- They are asking for money to help with this project from the Polkadot Treasury.
- The team is now part of the Substrate Builders Program, which gives them extra resources.
- They have a plan for the next 9-12 months to make their tools better.
- They invite everyone to look at their project details and share their thoughts.
- The team is excited to hear from the community and improve their work based on feedback.

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

- A proposal was made on January 31, 2023, requesting $10,000 to educate people in Spain about Polkadot.
- The money would fund 24 newsletter articles, 12 blog posts, 12 Twitter threads, and 12 short videos about Polkadot.
- Zumitow is a popular newsletter in Spain with over 9,500 subscribers and many readers interested in blockchain technology.
- Spain has a lot of developers, and the proposal aims to attract them to Polkadot since most previous efforts focused on Latin America.
- The content will be tailored for the Spanish audience and cover key topics related to Polkadot’s technology and ecosystem.
- The project will start in February 2023 and end in February 2024, with regular updates and reports on progress.
- The total budget includes costs for all types of content created to educate and engage the community.

Educate the Spaniard audience about Polkadot 

- Crust Network, Oak Network, Gear Technologies, Moonbeam, and Robonomics made a proposal.
- They want to create a Polkadot community hub in San Francisco for developers.
- The hub will host 6 events from January to June 2022, one event each month.
- The first event will have a panel talk, and the other five will be technical talks with networking afterwards.
- Events will be recorded and live-streamed for others to learn from.
- There will be booths for parachain teams to showcase their materials.
- Attendees will take a survey to help understand who comes to the events.

Polkadot SF Event Tour! 

- A person named Sanath wants to create an online shop for Polkadot community merchandise.
- The shop will offer high-quality Polkadot branded items.
- Many communities, like sports or music fans, express their love through wearing branded clothing.
- Currently, there isn’t a main place for Polkadot fans to buy these items.
- Sanath believes that the Polkadot community should be able to show their pride, both online and offline.
- He is asking the community for financial support and feedback on the proposal.
- The project is called polkaverse.shop, and Sanath is excited to hear suggestions for products.

polkaswag.shop - an online swag shop for Polkadot ecosystem

- OAK Network wants to hold a Polkadot community meetup in November 2022 in the Bay Area, U.S. 
- The event is for Polkadot and Kusama community members to connect and meet new people. 
- They hope this will be the first of many events to teach more about Polkadot. 
- They want to invite professionals, students, investors, and creators. 
- The team has experience organizing successful events. 
- They are asking for 470 DOT (around $3,000) to help pay for the meetup. 
- More details about the costs can be found in their proposal.

OAK Network San Francisco Polkadot Event Proposal

- The proposal is from Colorful Notion to support Polkaholic.io, a site that helps explore block data.
- It focuses on indexing information from Polkadot and Kusama networks, especially about XCM Transfers and Messages.
- They plan to create a public archive of all important data like blocks and events, making it available in different ways.
- They will keep updating and indexing all Polkadot chains to help big systems use the information.
- The project aims to understand and model how XCM Transfers work in the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem.
- They want to improve Polkaholic.io as more new parachains and features come into play.

Polkaholic.io - Polkadot XCM/Multichain Block Explorer (Q2+Q3 2022)

do not use - Replaced by #171

- A Ziggurat is a tall, stepped tower made of rectangles.
- It has three important layers for testing networks: Conformance, Performance, and Resistance.
- Conformance checks if the network follows the right rules.
- Performance sees how well the network works under a lot of pressure.
- Resistance checks if the network can handle attacks.
- Tools named Ziggurat help developers test these layers.
- This testing is important to keep networks safe from hacks.

Ziggurat: The Network Testing and Stability Framework

- Polkaevent is a platform to help people find events in the Polkadot ecosystem easily.
- It lists all events in one place, so users don’t have to search multiple sources like Twitter or Polkassembly.
- The Dotsama Calendar shows events like airdrops, parachain launches, and chain upgrades.
- It also includes referenda dates and other important updates for parachains.
- Polkaevent has a bounties section that lists tasks and rewards in the Dotsama ecosystem.
- The platform aims to make it easier for users to stay updated on Polkadot events.
- It uses social media to promote these events and help the community grow.

Proposal: Polkaevent - A one stop event discovery platform for the Dotsama ecosystem

- A new open-source font is being created for the Dotsama ecosystem.
- It will be made for small screens and will have light, regular, and bold versions.
- There will also be italics and a special coding version of the font.
- The font will include icons and support both Latin and Cyrillic letters.
- It will be packaged as a modern variable font in one file.
- This font is different from the Polkadot brand font, which is for larger sizes.
- The goal is for the font to help users all over the world.

Opensource UI font for the Dostama ecoysystem

- Amit Sharma is organizing a Hackerhouse event called "Polkadot HackerVilla Indore."
- The event will happen on March 11 and 12, 2023, in Indore, India.
- Students will learn about Web3 and build a decentralized application (dApp) on Polkadot.
- The goal is to help 50 students start building in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The event will take place at Ace Villa in Madhya Pradesh.
- Funding requested is 2200 DOT, worth about $10,400.
- More details can be found in a linked document.

Treasury Proposals