**Polkadot Now India 2023**

- **Event**: A 2-day conference in Bangalore, India.
- **Date**: April 1-2, 2023.
- **Purpose**: Educate and engage developers, investors, and industry leaders about Polkadot and Substrate.
- **Background**: India is growing rapidly in blockchain technology, but Polkadot has minimal representation.
- **Objective**: Raise Polkadot's profile in India and promote education and collaboration.
- **Attendees**: Developers, researchers, media, investors, and other stakeholders.
- **Follow**: Telegram and Twitter for updates.
- **Website**: Goes live on February 28, 2023, with registrations opening on March 6, 2023.

Awarded

Polkadot Now - India, 2023 - India's first ever Polkadot Conference

### Summary

- Polkadot is conducting legal research on DOT token regulation.
- The research is important due to increased regulatory scrutiny in the crypto market.
- Key professionals have shown interest in contributing to the research.
- The goal is to produce a paper on the SEC's regulatory process for DOT.
- The paper will provide recommendations for the Web3 ecosystem.
- The full proposal is available for review.

Polkadot Purple Paper / Token Morphism Guidelines

**1TRIBE** is a digital multimedia education initiative aimed at empowering Africans to participate in the decentralized WEB3 economy, specifically within the Polkadot ecosystem. The project aims to:

- Foster a diverse community interested in Web3 and Polkadot.
- Drive interest in Web3 by incorporating African culture and innovation.
- Educate African artists, musicians, and students about Web3.
- Provide a platform for discussions and education on Web3.
- Encourage the growth of the Web3 ecosystem in Africa.

1TRIBE includes an online radio format to reach a wider audience and has received community support, with some refinements made based on feedback.

1TRIBE: Bridging Africa to the Future with Polkadot

- Chainsafe has developed Multix, an interface for managing complex multisigs.
- The alpha version is already live and uses proxies for flexibility and good user experience.
- Multix is trust-minimized, open-source, and doesn't require a private database.
- It simplifies the management of multisigs, especially for those using multiple proxies.
- If a key is lost, Multix allows changing the key without affecting funds or NFTs.
- Chainsafe is requesting $150,000 from the treasury to develop new features for the next five months.
- A video showcases how Multix uses proxies and how to swap multisigs easily.

Multix - A simple interface to manage complex multisigs

**Anti-Scam Bounty Proposal Summary**

- The Anti-Scam team is requesting more funds for **Bounty 11** to continue protecting the community from scams.
- The bounty has been active for about a year and has funded several anti-scam projects.
- The additional funds will help expand efforts to track and remove scam activities and promote user safety.
- Details of past achievements, future goals, and the funding request are in the [proposal document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/118llNv0JydkEnvd9NXeUebYfYnAJs-k6QvITVhVjx70/edit).
- The funds will go to the **bounty account** controlled by the Anti-Scam General curator account.
- The original proposal can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/bounty/11#10a34324-b700-4fee-9d1b-7a99c308af89).

Treasury proposal #234: Anti-Scam Bounty top-up

**EasyA Polkadot Developer Education Proposal**

- **Requested Allocation:** $50,000 (approximately 7974.48 DOT)
- **Proponent:** EasyA
- **Objective:** Educate 1,000 developers on Polkadot and its ecosystem.
- **Activities:**
  - Develop a crash course on Polkadot and parachains.
  - Host two in-person hackathons in London and Boston.
- **Expected Outcomes:**
  - 1,000 developers completing the crash course.
  - 400 developers participating in hackathons.
  - 100 new projects on Polkadot and parachains.
- **Support:** Backed by Acala, Astar, Composable, Moonbeam, and other ecosystem projects.
- **Goal:** Increase awareness and adoption of Polkadot and parachains, and create long-lasting educational content.

Milestone 1 Proposal: Polkadot Developer Hackathons and Crash Course for 1,000 Developers (#60DaysOfPolkadot)

**The Kusamarian Proposal Summary**

- **The Kusamarian** is a Polkadot-focused media brand.
- They are seeking a 6-month maintenance budget of $284,154 or 59,198.75 DOT.
- The proposal includes a detailed plan with sections on media standards, challenges, and promotion strategies.
- A discussion and poll were initiated on January 26th, with feedback from tokenholders.
- The team encourages further comments and questions from the Polkadot Council.
- The proposal aims to continue serving tokenholders effectively.
- Links to the full proposal, budget, and discussion are provided for more details.

The Kusamarian - 6 Month Maintenance Funding

### Summary of Polkawatch Updates

- Improved usability on mobile devices.
- Tripled computation capability.
- Enhanced community engagement with new infrastructure.
- Created APIs, documentation, and examples for integrating decentralization analytics.
- Released the "State of Decentralization report for Polkadot 2022."
- Community awareness of decentralization needs is growing.
- Proposed new features including staking pool analytics for Polkadot and multi-wallet integration.
- Available for download: [Detailed Proposal](https://pwh.li/dot23h1p).

Treasury Proposal: Polkawatch, Decentralization Analytics, Continued Operation and Development

### Encode Club Funding Request

- **Request**: Encode Club is asking for 5,834.21 DOT (about £30,000) for the first part of their project.
- **Purpose**: The funds will be used for an 8-event online education series and a 4-week online hackathon.
- **Future Tranches**:
  - **April**: £25,000 for hackathon prizes and another online hackathon.
  - **July**: £70,000 for prizes and an in-person hackathon.
  - **October**: £40,000 for prizes, a third online hackathon, and an accelerator program.
  - **December**: £10,000 for prizes for the third online hackathon.
- **Details**: The full proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1msKUzE5xK6Y1pV3b0dA_J2pWJt3ecYiG0OXjFpz5K6Y/edit#slide=id.g179c6775f75_0_7).

Encode Club 2023 Proposal Tranche 1

- Hitesh from Describedot creates educational videos about the Dotsama ecosystem.
- They started a year ago and have made 34 videos.
- Their videos have grown by 28% weekly, reaching 30,000 views.
- They received support from Polkadot and Kusama Council Members.
- They focus on teaching Polkadot and governance in simple Hindi.
- Users appreciate their videos, which help them understand the Polkadot stack.
- They aim to continue their work with a spending proposal.
- You can learn more about their proposal in the linked document.

Treasury Proposal: Production of Dotsama ecosystem tutorial videos for Hindi audience

- Polkadot Hub plans educational activities for 2023 to support developers and projects on Polkadot and Kusama.
- Focus on growing the Spanish developer community by teaching Substrate technology, Ink, and Rust programming.
- Offer Rust, Ink!, and Substrate courses in Spanish to help developers build projects in the ecosystem.
- Create educational video tutorials and host online community sessions about Polkadot and Kusama.
- Develop the first complete Polkadot Js guide in Spanish.
- Aim to educate existing users and attract new ones to the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.

POLKADOT EDUCATIONAL HUB IN SPANISH - ROADMAP 2023 Educational development and courses

**Talisman (talisman.xyz)** is a community-owned wallet and web application designed to simplify the use of multi-chain networks like Polkadot and Kusama. The platform aims to provide users with a seamless experience, making it easier to navigate and interact with various blockchain applications.

- **Mission**: To empower users with true agency over their finances and intentions, believing that Polkadot (DotSama) will help achieve this.
- **Challenges**: Both Polkadot and Kusama are evolving rapidly, leading to a complex and sometimes confusing user experience (UX) for end users.
- **Solution**: Talisman plans to address these challenges through design, storytelling, and engineering, simplifying the UX and making it safer for users.
- **Multisig Frontend**: The proposal includes creating a business-friendly multisig frontend to make financial operations easier for teams and businesses on Polkadot, reducing the risk of errors.
- **Stakeholder Support**: Several key stakeholders in the Polkadot ecosystem have expressed strong support for the proposed solution, highlighting the need for improved UX in multisig transactions.
- **Future Plans**: Talisman will continue to improve the UX for multisig usage on Polkadot, integrating upgrades as the multisig pallet evolves.
- **Full Proposal**: The detailed proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KohKDEYypNw_KJING2_uHXnC0LJwUxpPHMzBRfrH68M/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Discussion**: The proposal is a follow-up to a forum discussion on Polkassembly.

Talisman Proposal: Business-Friendly Polkadot MultiSig

**TeachMeDeFi**

- Founded in 2022, TeachMeDeFi is a German-language hub for web3 education.
- Mission: Provide high-quality educational resources and build a web3 community.
- Portfolio includes podcasts, interviews, videos, a community hub, and a structured website.
- Recognizes the need for better awareness and marketing for Polkadot.
- Submitted a funding proposal to create and promote content for Polkadot.
- Proposal aims to simplify the onboarding process for new users.
- Received support from key Polkadot community members.
- Full proposal details are available in a Google Doc and an IPFS PDF.

Proposal by TeachMeDeFi for a German Educational Platform for Polkadot

**YieldBay**

- YieldBay is a yield farm aggregator for the dotsama ecosystem.
- It aims to reduce information asymmetry and make it easier for users to find and participate in yield farms.
- The platform also helps protocols acquire liquidity for their token pools.
- YieldBay's current version, funded by the Polkadot Treasury, tracks over $92M in TVL across 15 protocols.
- The platform has attracted 4.3k unique visitors, who spend an average of over 3 minutes on the site.
- The next step is to develop an aggregated yield farming dashboard for users to manage their positions.
- This proposal is for the first milestone, with future milestones to be submitted separately.

YieldBay Proposal Phase 2: Yield Farming Dashboard for Dotsama

- Ishita- is the founder of PolkaSafe.
- She has a background in engineering and finance.
- She has been working in the crypto VC space for the last two years.
- Ishita- noticed a lack of user-friendly Multisig UX in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- PolkaSafe aims to build a user-friendly Multisig wallet UI for these ecosystems.
- The goal is to improve the UX for managing and transferring tokens.
- PolkaSafe is being built on top of Polkadot.js's security backbone.
- The project aims to bring more users to the Dotsama ecosystem.

Proposal: PolkaSafe proposes to build  a user friendly Multisig for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem

### SubWallet Summary

- **Founded**: November 2021
- **Products**: 
  - **Browser Extension**: Released in February 2022 for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge. Updated bi-weekly.
  - **Mobile App**: Development started in June 2022. Completed Milestone 1 by October 2022.
- **Features**: 
  - Account management, asset transfers, NFTs, crowdloans, staking, and in-app browser.
- **Current Status (Jan 2023)**:
  - Supports 140+ networks.
  - 38,000+ organic installs on browser extensions.
  - 3,000+ installs for mobile app in public testing.
  - Users from 100+ countries.
  - 8,000+ community members.
  - Part of the Substrate Builders Program.
  - Collaborates with 100+ teams in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem.

SubWallet Mobile App 1st proposal: Comprehensive and consistent multi-platform experience. Account Management, Built-in XCM Transfer, NFT Management, In-app Staking, In-app Browser, Performance Optimization

**Polkadot Infrastructure Proposal (Q4 2022)**

- **Proponent:** 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf
- **Date:** January 25, 2023
- **Requested DOT:** 10,859.582767 (USD $67,459.73)
- **Purpose:** Funding for high-performance public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, and Encointer.
- **Service Highlights:**
  - Provided free public API service for 40+ networks.
  - Reduced treasury costs by 50% compared to Q3.
  - Served 6.7 billion responses and 79.6 TB of data egress.
- **Enhancements:**
  - Introduced API access restrictions and detailed error monitoring.
  - Supported new Polkadot parachains and Ethereum.
  - Improved deployment automation and health metrics.
- **Uptime:** Achieved 99.86% uptime for Polkadot, 99.99% for Statemint, and 100% for Westend.
- **Full Report:** Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBjcxgdhu6NnfhtrprJcnqvr-KM8H2Twq45rgJ9mDkM/edit?usp=sharing).

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2022)

### Summary of Proposal

- This proposal is a follow-up to a previous one from mid-October last year.
- It aims to continue funding the development and maintenance of RPC services for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- The services will be hosted on dedicated hardware in Sweden and Tunisia.
- Milestone 1 involves running these services on small independent co-location sites.
- In Q4 2022, the Polkadot RPC node served over 5 million requests per day, totaling nearly 487 million requests.
- The Statemint RPC node served around 411,000 requests per day, totaling over 37 million requests.
- The Westend RPC node served about 56,000 requests per day, totaling over 5 million requests.
- A new cluster in Tunisia has been launched and is operational.
- The DOT price used for calculations is based on an EMA7 of $6.068/DOT.

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q1 2023

- Messari wants to continue working with Polkadot to provide research.
- They have grown their team to over 150 people and improved their research tools.
- Messari's reports are now distributed by big companies like Bloomberg and S&P Global.
- They plan to create more detailed reports, including ones about governance.
- The cost for this work will be $190,000, paid in DOT cryptocurrency.
- You can read more in the full proposal and forum discussion.

Continuation of work through Messari Protocol Services

- Smoldot is an alternative Polkadot client designed to use minimal resources.
- It can be embedded in web pages, allowing direct connection to the Polkadot network.
- Smoldot is crucial for building a decentralized blockchain.
- The creator is seeking funding for maintenance and development.
- Feedback is being collected before submitting the proposal on-chain.
- Detailed proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13MXkfPbxorqUgvKbZfD31HhHcpuXDMRYbIYGjpbCOuA/edit).
- Thank you for reading.

Treasury proposal: smoldot development financing

### Summary of Jörg Oechssler's Proposal

- **Jörg Oechssler** is a professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and conducts experimental economic research.
- He is interested in auction theory and was approached by W3F researchers to study Polkadot's candle auction format.
- The study aims to measure the performance of this novel auction mechanism.
- The research will be conducted through a laboratory experiment with university students, a common practice in experimental economics.
- The proposal requests **5720 EUR** to pay participants, with no compensation for the researchers.
- The goal is to publish the study in a peer-reviewed journal.
- The experiment is ready to start as soon as funds are received, with the software already programmed and a pilot successfully completed.
- The total allocation requested is **1103.57 DOT**.

Experimental Analysis of the Candle Auction for Academic Research

**Polkadot Hackathon Proposal**

- **Proponent:** Tribe/AngelHack
- **Requested Allocation:** $302,000 USD (equivalent to 54,151.967 DOT)
- **Overview:** Building on past successes in APAC and North America, AngelHack plans to host two new Polkadot hackathons in Europe and APAC in 2023.
- **Goals:** Bridge gaps in the Web3 space, strengthen community connections, and onboard more developers to Polkadot.
- **Events:**
  - **Europe Edition:** January 25 - February 17, 2023
  - **dotSocial: Paris:** March 22, 2023
  - **APAC Edition:** June 21 - July 14, 2023
  - **dotSocial: Seoul:** August 9, 2023
- **Full Proposal:** Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1glPH1y0jqL2l6KV6i9nowQHFxKfA1s7VxlUREFIQZWA/edit?usp=sharing).

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2023

### Reimbursement Proposal Summary

- **Purpose**: Reimbursement for developing a listing platform for Dotsama liquidity pools and yield farms.
- **Original Proposal**: Approved on September 26, 2022.
- **Completion**: Work finished on December 20, 2022, with final report published on January 2, 2023.
- **Milestones**: 
  - Milestone 1 and 2 delivered.
  - Milestone 3 delivered.
- **Reports**: Detailed reports and budget breakdowns are available.
- **Amount Requested**: $58,000, which converts to 10,469.314 DOT based on the EMA-7 price on January 16, 2023.

YieldBay Payment Proposal: Milestones 2 and 3 reimbursement for Motion #262

### Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) Substrate Course

- **Purpose**: BTA created a course to teach developers how to build on Polkadot using Substrate.
- **Objective**: The course aims to help Web2 developers transition to Polkadot technology and boost developer activity in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Content**: The course covers Polkadot's governance, treasury process, and hands-on coding labs.
- **Technologies**: Topics include Polkadotjs, Substrate, WASMI, libp2p, Rust, and more.
- **Target Audience**: Ideal for developers looking to enhance their blockchain skills or build multi-blockchain solutions.
- **Payment**: BTA is requesting the final phase of payment for the course.
- **Course Link**: Available at [BTA's website](https://blockchaintrainingalliance.com/products/polkadot).
- **Proposal**: Detailed proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RsaYOijzSRVDQxhrlkMXPt28HF5t3Hqe/view).

Substrate Training Course and Certification

- **Unit Masters** is a 6-week free program that teaches the basics of Blockchain.
- It helps people understand Blockchain deeply and prepares them for the future economy.
- The program is divided into groups (cohorts) and covers topics like Blockchain, Tokenization, and Web3.
- It's free because it wants to include people from all over the world, no matter their background.
- Unit Masters follows the United Nations' goals to help create a better world.
- Participants learn how to use Blockchain to make positive changes in their communities.
- The program aims to create job opportunities and economic growth.

Treasury Proposals