### Snowbridge Funding Proposal Summary

- **Project:** Snowbridge, a trustless bridge between Polkadot and Ethereum.
- **Goal:** Launch as a common-good bridge on Kusama and Polkadot.
- **Funding:** Requesting $2,448,000 for 28 months of operations.
- **Changes:** Extended runway to 28 months with minor cost adjustments.
- **History:** Snowfork has been developing Snowbridge for over 2 years.
- **Purpose:** Enhances Polkadot's security by providing a fully trustless bridge.
- **Roadmap:** Includes support for XCMv3, governance, security audits, and deployment on Kusama and Polkadot.
- **Additional Request:** Seeking $612,000 on Kusama and $10,000,000 for long-term incentives.

Awarded

Snowbridge Funding Proposal

### Uptest Funding Proposal

- **Beneficiary**: Rust Syndicate LLC
- **Date**: 31.10.2022
- **Requested DOT**: 9254 DOT ($60000)
- **Contact**: Filip Kalebo (blockchain@firosolutions.com)
- **Purpose**: Develop Uptest, a tool for testing Pallet functionality before and after runtime upgrades in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Background**: Previous work involved upgrading a 16-month old forked Substrate chain, highlighting the need for better testing tools.
- **Problem**: Current tools are insufficient for comprehensive testing of runtime upgrades and storage migrations.
- **Solution**: Uptest aims to simplify the process of writing tests, performing runtime upgrades, and verifying storage migrations, providing detailed test results.

Treasury Proposal by Rust Syndicate: Uptest funding proposal

Rejected

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### OpenSquare Proposal Summary

**Beneficiary:** OpenSquare (12sNU8BXivMj1xQmcd4T39ugCyHjmhir8jkPqfAw5ZDESrx4)  
**Date:** 01/11/2023  
**Requested Allocation:** $161,920 (33,860 DOT)

**Key Points:**

1. **Subsquare Delivered Features:**
   - **OpenGov Support:** Added features for referenda and fellowship, including voting, delegation, and visualization.
   - **Other Features:** Improved login, proxy account support, and democracy delegation.

2. **Subsquare New Features Plan:**
   - **OpenGov Curve Chart:** Visual aids for understanding referendum thresholds.
   - **Treasury Workflow through OpenGov:** Refactoring to support new treasury processes.
   - **Enhanced Voting and Delegation:** Support for split/abstain votes and fellowship voting.
   - **Notifications and User Profiles:** Email notifications and enhanced user activity tracking.
   - **Delegation Enhancement:** Improved delegation management features.
   - **Calendar and Shortcuts:** Governance event calendar and `cmd+k` shortcut for navigation.
   - **Discussion Post Enhancements:** Labels and proposal linking.
   - **Statistical Summary Panel:** Overview of active proposals.
   - **Unfinalized Proposals View:** Improved handling of unfinalized proposals.
   - **Off-chain Discussion Decentralization:** Plan to decentralize governance discussion data.

3. **Dotreasury OpenGov Support:**
   - **Treasury Applications through OpenGov:** Display and filter treasury proposals, and integrate OpenGov timelines.

4. **Budget:**
   - **Total Estimated Hours:** 2008 hours  
   - **Total Cost:** $161,920

5. **Community Engagement:**
   - **User Growth:** Indicators show increasing user numbers.
   - **Roadmap:** Short-term focus on proposed features, long-term on decentralization and statistics.

Treasury proposal for subsquare/dotreasury new delivered features and development plans

### Polkadot Treasury Proposal Summary

- **Term**: 1 October 2022 - 31 December 2022
- **Purpose**: Extends the maintenance and support contract for the Polkadot Ecosystem.
- **Organization**: Polkascan Foundation, a non-profit that maintains Python libraries for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Impact**: 176 GitHub repositories currently depend on these libraries.
- **Reports**: Detailed activity reports are available for previous months and quarters.
- **Social Contract**: The maintenance and support are governed by a social contract mechanism.
- **Business Plan**: A detailed business plan is available for further reference.
- **Support**: The team is available to answer questions from the Polkadot Council.

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

**Dot.alert() Funding Proposal**

- **Proponent:** 12uokSRn2hmEWPZuzHK1xqnFxRgyoApLtXRBd4jFan2x2T1P
- **Date:** December 28, 2022
- **Requested Amount:** 5,705 DOT (equivalent to USD $25,712)
- **Purpose:** Funding for Q1 2023 operations of Dot.alert()
- **Description:** Dot.alert() is a knowledgebase providing safety guidelines for Polkadot ecosystem assets.
- **Previous Agreement:** Has a social contract with Polkadot Treasury for quarterly funding.
- **Discussion:** Available on Polkassembly ([Link](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1495))
- **Full Proposal:** Details milestones, tasks, and costs for January-March 2023 ([Link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gvu4aNTC5ahP8fhiZzNg8N845C4U2o25/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true))

Treasury proposal: Dot.alert() operational costs - Q1 2023

### Open Runtime Module Library (ORML)

- **Founded**: Created by Acala's co-founders in late 2019.
- **Purpose**: A collection of modules to solve issues and add features, designed to be generic for the Polkadot/Kusama community.
- **Usage**: Widely used by many teams in the ecosystem by late 2022.
- **Contributions**: Acala remains the biggest contributor, but other teams also contribute.
- **Proposal**: Seeks payment for development and maintenance from Jan 2022 to Oct 2022.
- **Community Involvement**: Encourages community review and questions.
- **Feedback**: Welcomes sharing how ORML benefits individual projects.

ORML development and maintenance

### Summary of IBC Media's 2nd Milestone Proposal

- IBC Media is submitting its 2nd milestone proposal to the Polkadot community after successfully completing the first milestone.
- The proposal involves creating programs to build and sustain a developer community for the Polkadot ecosystem in India.
- Partners include Indian state governments, Tech Mahindra, T-Hub, and skill boards.
- Programs include Education Bootcamps, Hybrid Hackathons, and Build sessions with expert trainers.
- The goal is to democratize Polkadot Substrate technology to student developers from over 1000 engineering schools in India.
- Progress so far includes onboarding over 20,000 student developers and organizing successful Hackfests.
- The proposal aims to expand to other Indian states, starting with Andhra Pradesh.

Milestone 2 Proposal: International Blockchain Congress 2022-23 by IBC Media

### Summary of IBC Media's 2nd Milestone Proposal

- IBC Media is submitting its 2nd milestone proposal to the Polkadot community after completing the first milestone.
- The proposal aims to build and sustain a developer community for the Polkadot ecosystem in India.
- Programs include Education Bootcamps, Hybrid Hackathons, and Build sessions with expert trainers.
- Over 20,000 student developers have been onboarded so far, with 1,300+ innovative ideas generated.
- A Hackfest in Hyderabad involved 300+ student developers trained on Polkadot technology.
- IBC Media is expanding to other Indian states, starting with Andhra Pradesh, with government support.
- The proposal includes a year-end conference for the next 5 years, involving key government and industry representatives.

### Nova Wallet 3rd Proposal Summary

- **Nova Wallet** is a mobile app for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- The proposal includes:
  - **OpenGov Agile Delegations**
  - **Staking improvements**
  - **Community-requested features**
  - **Reimbursement** for past Governance features
- Nova Wallet aims to be a high-quality, open-source, and community-focused app.
- The team contributes to the Polkadot ecosystem with SDKs, design assets, and more.
- The proposal aims to expand features and improve existing ones.
- Updates and demos will be frequent, with open-source code under Apache 2.0 license.

Nova Wallet 3rd Proposal: OpenGov Agile delegations, Staking improvements, Community requested features

### Summary

- **Objective**: Develop an open-source toolset for creating custom data dashboards suitable for front-end frameworks.
- **Components**: Includes an **Editor** for widget creation, a **Parser** for display, and **Management Tools** for widget management.
- **Features**: Supports various data sources like HTTP API, GraphQL, and blockchain-specific data.
- **Widgets**: Offers a wide range of widgets, covering over 90% of Subscan explorer components.
- **Usage**: Allows easy integration into websites, Dapps, and other web views.
- **Future Plans**: Subscan aims to provide free online services for widget creation and submission.
- **Budget**: The project is budgeted at $201,600, equivalent to 37,183.847 DOT based on the EMA7 price.
- **Proposal**: The full proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NWmpdpaz_uvmHdSI1_wneUetp_OcwwzhVEYxInqRc_A/edit?usp=sharing).

Subscan - Data Dashboard Customization Toolset

- **Project Name**: Kampela
- **Purpose**: An open-source hardware storage device for the Dotsama ecosystem.
- **Design**: A flat card with an e-paper screen and few controls, similar to a credit card.
- **Features**: 
  - Low-cost (below €100)
  - Single-purpose device for secure signing operations
  - Supports a single seed phrase per unit
  - Full-featured SURI account derivation system
- **Comparison**: Cheaper than a Signer-compatible smartphone (over €500).
- **Functionality**: 
  - Accepts data through NFC and shows output on a monochrome e-paper screen
  - Cryptographic strongbox with elliptic curves supported by Substrate
- **Security**: No mobile OS, reduced attack surface.
- **Scope**: Includes preliminary development for production, not actual manufacturing.

Hardware signer and key storage Kampela: Milestones 3&4

### RadiumBlock

- **Overview**: RadiumBlock is a Web3 infrastructure provider for DotSama.
- **Service**: Provides high-performance endpoint services for DotSama.
- **Timeline**: Active since the end of Q1 2022.
- **Proposal**: Seeks funding for ongoing costs (Q3 2022) to maintain their infrastructure.
- **Features**: 
  - Low latency
  - Geo-distributed
  - High performance
  - Scalable
  - Reliable
- **Infrastructure**: Public endpoint infrastructure for Polkadot.
- **Detailed Proposal**: Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15pN1pgbPGVciQYGNYEyCxUelnl25pZsM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114172945417100820622&rtpof=true&sd=true).

RadiumBlock Public Endpoint Service for Polkadot (Q3 2022)

**AngelHack Polkadot Hackathon: North America Edition**

- **Date:** May 30, 2022 - July 11, 2022
- **Prize Pool:** $297,000 USD
- **Requested Allocation:** $165,897.49 USD (remaining)
- **DOT Conversion:** 1 DOT ~ 5.508 USD (as of Dec 6, 2022)
- **Previous Disbursement:** 20,711.2971 DOT ~ $131,102.51 USD (1 DOT ~ 6.33 USD)
- **Current Status:** Prizes disbursed, with AngelHack covering the difference
- **Purpose:** Request for remaining funds to cover the total prize pool
- **Full Proposal:** Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MDQrMU9OHSMPXW28uxJTZ482YMt03hL4-knXh9xVXyo/edit?usp=sharing)

Polkadot Hackathon: North America prize pool bridging the gap for total amount

### Polkadot Winter Hackathon 2022 Proposal

- **Organizer**: OneBlock, in collaboration with Parity Asia
- **Previous Events**: Successfully organized three Polkadot Hackathons in 2021
- **Objective**: Continue the hackathon in winter 2022 to promote Substrate framework
- **Purpose**: Convert Substrate learners into builders
- **Outcome**: Positive feedback from developers in 2021 hackathon
- **Request**: Financial support for operations and prizes
- **Details**: Full proposal available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f21KdUj8vR64O_c7k8rUTNLnFnavzw41epqwwcsnbDg/edit?usp=sharing)
- **Feedback**: Open for comments

OneBlock The 2022 Polkadot Winter Hackathon proposal

### DotLeap Summary

- DotLeap has completed two years with 104 weekly editions.
- Bruno Škorvc is handing over day-to-day operations to gbaci, a professional content writer.
- Operating costs are over $50,000 per year, necessitating additional funding.
- The current funding comes from personal donations by Bruno and gbaci.
- A proposal seeks pro- and retroactive funding to continue community growth and support new participants.
- The proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BbpNMmbGU2q-bJlaj8PTscung7h1XUwZwH3hLj2yKwg/edit#) and discussion is ongoing [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1410).
- Positive feedback has been received, and adjustments will be made based on community input.

Pro- and Retroactive Funding for Continuous Production of DotLeap Newsletter

- Pinknode is a service that helps developers use Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend by providing easy-to-use tools.
- They started in 2021 and offer free services to help more people join the Polkadot ecosystem.
- In the first quarter of 2022, their nodes handled over 246 million requests.
- By the third quarter of 2022, they were handling over 792 million requests.
- They made many improvements, like setting up health checks and launching a new version of their service.
- Their service was 99.94% reliable in Q3 2022, with one major issue that was quickly fixed.
- They plan to keep improving their service to make it even more reliable.

Pinknode Public Infrastructure for Q1,Q2,Q3 2022

### Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant

- **Proposal:** Request for a grant from the Polkadot Treasury to fund the ongoing development of Gossamer.
- **Gossamer:** A Polkadot host written in Go, developed by ChainSafe Systems.
- **Objective:** To achieve client diversity in the Polkadot ecosystem by providing an alternative to the Rust-based Substrate framework.
- **Milestones:** Include implementing the latest validator specification, updating synchronization modes, and enhancing RPC APIs and telemetry.
- **Team:** Currently consists of seven full-time protocol engineers and a project manager.
- **Funding:** Requested amount is USD 1,998,117.60 in DOT, to be used over 12 months.
- **Beneficiary:** ChainSafe Systems, a blockchain development studio based in Toronto.
- **Contact:** For technical questions, reach out to Afri Schoedon or Dan Forbes at ChainSafe Systems.

Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant

### PolkaWorld Proposal Summary

- **Purpose**: To cover operations and maintenance costs for three months (Dec 2022 to Feb 2023) to promote and support community education in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Background**: PolkaWorld converted a W3F community grant into an open social contract with the Polkadot Treasury in June 2021.
- **Previous Work**: PolkaWorld has submitted 6 motions so far, all completed with high quality.
- **Deliverables**: Detailed reports and milestones for the next three months are available in a Google Doc.
- **Budget**: The proposal includes a detailed budget for the upcoming period.
- **Feedback**: PolkaWorld welcomes advice and feedback from the community.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2022.12 - 2023.2

- OpenZeppelin is a company that helps make smart contracts safer.
- They want to check and improve a smart contract language called ink! and a part of Substrate.
- This will help make smart contracts more secure and easier to use.
- After their work, they will give a report with their findings.
- The full proposal can be read in the link provided.

Proposal: ink! design audit by OpenZeppelin

- Polkassembly is a key part of Polkadot and Kusama governance.
- This proposal asks for quarterly payments to cover maintenance and operational costs.
- Costs include general maintenance, runtime upgrades, and infrastructure.
- Polkassembly supports both Kusama and Polkadot, so the proposal will alternate networks every three months.
- This submission covers costs for October, November, and December 2022.
- The proposal requests funds from the Polkadot treasury.
- It details past work and plans for the upcoming quarter.
- The full proposal and discussion can be found at the provided links.

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury

**Proposal for Go Runtime Development**

- **Proposer:** Chris Veselinov, CTO of LimeChain.
- **Objective:** Develop a Go Runtime framework as an alternative to Substrate for blockchain (parachain) development.
- **Goals:** Simplify blockchain development, make the ecosystem more beginner-friendly, and improve stability.
- **Approach:** Use a modular design to create reusable components for other developers.
- **Research:** Received a W3F grant to research technical feasibility; challenges were overcome and progress can be seen on GitHub.
- **Official Proposal:** Detailed document available for feedback and comments.
- **LimeChain:** A blockchain development company with experience in building core infrastructure and tools, including a previous W3F-funded project in AssemblyScript.
- **Feedback:** Encourages community feedback on the proposal.

Framework for building Substrate-compatible Runtimes in Go (Parachains & Solochains)

- **Proponent:** Centrifuge
- **Date:** 07.11.2022
- **Requested DOT:** ~27,080 DOT ($172,500)
- **Contact:** Frederik Gartenmeister (frederik@centrifuge.io)
- **Purpose:** Funding for developing FUDGE, a tool for interacting with Substrate-based blockchains.
- **Features:** Allows building and importing blocks, changing state, and finalizing without network or consensus.
- **Use Case:** Primarily for local integration tests, reducing time and overhead.
- **Current Status:** PoC version exists and is used by Centrifuge for integration tests.

Treasury Proposal by Centrifuge: FUDGE - Core library for local integration-tests in Substrate

### Proposal Summary

- The Polkadot Ecology Research Institute, a Chinese non-profit, seeks funding from the Polkadot Treasury for its 2022/9-2023/2 operating costs.
- The goal is to create high-quality, original Chinese content about Polkadot, making technical information more accessible to Chinese users.
- The institute aims to increase awareness and participation in Polkadot and its ecosystem in the Chinese market.
- Since March 2022, the institute has already received funding for its 2022/3-2022/8 operations.
- The current proposal requests approximately $104,760.00 for the next six months.
- The institute will also track and report on the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Treasury proposal: The 2022/9-2023/2 operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

**Patika Web3**

- Launched in March 2022, Patika Web3 aims to introduce Turkish developers to web3 technologies.
- The platform has over 109,000 developers from Turkey learning online for free.
- Patika Web3 plans to onboard developers to the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They will create a beginner-friendly "Polkadot Rust&Substrate Practicum" learning pathway.
- The practicum will use a cohort-based training model with support from teaching assistants.
- The goal is to onboard 2,000 developers and receive at least 100 project submissions.
- The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tmoam1qMuat8N8KEeJ5jAeMpVshjQ6NVqOUkFDLOXzM/edit?usp=sharing).

Treasury Proposals