- Chopsticks is a tool for testing Substrate-based networks.
- It helps create a copy of a network for safe testing.
- Projects can try new ideas and fix problems before going live.
- Users can test different settings and run transactions safely.
- The goal is to help the community avoid issues.
- There is a proposal for payment to cover development costs.
- Questions about the tool are welcome!

Awarded

Acala Proposal: Retroactive Funding for Chopsticks Development

- There is a need for a testing tool for blockchain transactions.
- The tool is called sc-simnode and helps see how transactions would work on the blockchain.
- It was made by Polytope Labs, a group focused on blockchain projects.
- They want money to keep working on improving sc-simnode.
- More information about the funding proposal can be found in a document linked in the message. 
- This tool helps understand changes before they are made to the system.

Treasury proposal: sc-simnode continuous development and improvement financing

- Blockchained India, a big blockchain community, wants to start a "60 Days of Bootcamp" program.
- They need 15,008 DOT, which is about $89,058, to support this program.
- The bootcamp aims to help Indian developers learn about the Polkadot network.
- They want to connect new developers with experienced teachers and industry experts.
- Blockchained India has successfully run other programs like "100 Days of Code" and India's Largest Dapp Fest.
- The goal is to create a strong community for developers moving from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 on the Polkadot network.
- Feedback on their proposal is welcomed for further improvement.

Polkadot Developer Bootcamp - India

- The sub0 conference is for developers who work with Polkadot technology.
- It will happen in Lisbon in 2023 and aims to gather more developers.
- The last conference was in November 2022 and involved many teams from Polkadot.
- The event helps people learn about multichain networks and improve their skills.
- They want half of the attendees to be new developers eager to learn.
- More information and a funding request is available through a detailed document online.

Polkadot Developers Conference // sub0 Europe // Milestone 1

- PolkaWorld is asking for money to cover costs for their work from March to May 2023.
- They help teach people about the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Since June 2021, they have completed 7 important projects.
- In 2022, they published 576 articles and had over 412,000 views on WeChat.
- They hosted 42 online broadcasts with 21,551 participants.
- They made 35 education videos that received 28,759 views.
- PolkaWorld interviewed 23 teams and hosted 14 online meetups with 8,348 participants.
- They plan to keep supporting the Polkadot ecosystem in 2023 and welcome feedback.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2023.3 - 2023.5

- Polkassembly helps manage the Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- This proposal is about paying for Polkassembly’s upkeep every three months.
- The money will cover maintenance, upgrades, and other costs.
- The payments will alternate between Polkadot and Kusama each quarter.
- This proposal is for covering costs in the first three months of 2023.
- They are asking for funds from the Polkadot treasury.
- More details can be found in the full proposal and discussion links provided.

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury Q1'23

- Rishant Kumar is organizing a conference called "Polkadot Now India 2023" in Bangalore on April 1-2, 2023.
- The conference is about Polkadot, a blockchain technology, and aims to educate developers and industry leaders in India.
- India has many blockchain developers, but Polkadot isn't well-known there.
- This event will help people learn about Polkadot's benefits and how it compares to other technologies.
- Attendees will include developers, researchers, media, and investors.
- The goal is to share knowledge and create opportunities for collaboration in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- More information and event registration details will be available on their official website starting February 28, 2023.

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

- A community is sharing updates about research on DOT tokens and their legal status.
- They previously discussed this topic on a forum and received helpful feedback.
- In the past, there was a lot of debate about tokens and regulations, especially during 2017 and 2018.
- Now, with stricter rules for crypto after events like FTX, discussing these rules again is important.
- Polkadot wants to help the wider community understand the legal process for DOT tokens.
- They have talked to experts who want to help with this research.
- The goal is to create a paper about how DOT tokens are regulated and what can be learned from it.

Polkadot Purple Paper / Token Morphism Guidelines

1TRIBE is a new project designed to help Africans learn about and engage with WEB3 technology, particularly through the Polkadot system. Here are some key points about it:

- 1TRIBE aims to empower Africans by providing education and resources about WEB3.
- The initiative will use various media, including online radio, to share important information.
- It encourages a community of Africans and people of African descent to explore WEB3.
- The project will highlight African culture through music, art, and innovation.
- 1TRIBE intends to educate young artists, students, and entertainers about the opportunities in WEB3.
- Its goal is to help grow the WEB3 ecosystem across Africa.

1TRIBE believes that this initiative will connect Africa to exciting future possibilities with Polkadot technology.

1TRIBE: Bridging Africa to the Future with Polkadot

- Chainsafe has created a tool called Multix to help manage multisig accounts, and it's already available for use.
- Multix is special because it uses proxies, which makes it very flexible and easy to use.
- It is safe because it doesn't rely on private databases, and you can use it alongside other tools if you want.
- The system is open source, meaning anyone can look at or use the code.
- Multix helps users avoid problems that can happen when someone loses their access key, keeping everything easier to manage.
- The team at Chainsafe is asking for money to help improve Multix over the next five months.
- There is a video that shows how Multix works and how users can easily swap keys.

Multix - A simple interface to manage complex multisigs

### Anti-Scam Bounty Top-Up Proposal Summary

- **Purpose**: To fund initiatives protecting the community from scams.
- **Bounty**: Bounty 11, running for about a year.
- **Activities**: Tracking and pruning scam activities, promoting user safety through education.
- **Previous Achievements**: Multiple anti-scam tasks funded.
- **Future Goals**: Expand protection efforts.
- **Details**: Proposal document includes achievements, future goals, and budget breakdown.
- **Beneficiary**: Bounty account controlled by the Anti-Scam General curator.
- **Confirmation**: Account details can be verified in a blockchain explorer.

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

- EasyA is asking for $50,000 to teach developers about Polkadot and its projects.
- They plan to hold two big events, called hackathons, in London and Boston where developers can show what they've learned.
- The goal is to teach 1,000 developers and have 400 attend the hackathons.
- EasyA wants to create new projects on Polkadot and make it more popular.
- They also aim to make programming on Polkadot easier for newcomers.
- Several other teams support this proposal and want to help.
- The project is inspired by a successful previous event called "Hello World" that helped start the Polkadot developer community.

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 is asking for 5834.21 DOT, which is about £30,000.
- This money will help pay for 8 online education events and a 4-week online hackathon.
- The request is part of a plan divided into different stages or "tranches."
- In April, they plan to ask for £25,000 for prizes and a second hackathon.
- In July, they will ask for £70,000 for a second hackathon and an in-person event.
- In October, they will want £40,000 for prizes and to run more events.
- Finally, in December, they aim for £10,000 for more hackathon prizes.

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, getting about 30,000 views.
- They got support from Polkadot and Kusama Council Members.
- They noticed people needed help understanding governance and networks, so they made basic videos.
- Their main goal is to teach the Polkadot stack and governance in simple Hindi.
- They got their first milestone covered by WagMedia and want to continue with a spending proposal.
- You can learn more about their proposal in a document.
- They are happy to answer any questions from the community.

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

Polkadot Hub has plans for educational activities in 2023 to help the community and new users. Here are the main points:

- The goal is to grow the developer community for Polkadot and Kusama.
- They will offer programs to teach important technologies like Substrate, Ink, and the Rust programming language in Spanish.
- This education will help people create new projects in the Polkadot and Kusama Ecosystem.
- They will create video tutorials about Polkadot and Kusama.
- There will be online sessions for the community to learn together.
- A complete guide for Polkadot Js in Spanish will also be developed.

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

- Talisman is a special wallet and website that helps people use digital money easily.
- It aims to give everyone control of their money and choices.
- Talisman focuses on making it simpler to use Polkadot and Kusama, which can be complicated.
- They want to design great ways for teams and businesses to manage their finances safely.
- People from different groups support Talisman's ideas and improvements.
- Talisman believes that a better design will help more people use their wallet. 
- The goal is to make it easier and safer for everyone, even if they are not tech experts.

Talisman Proposal: Business-Friendly Polkadot MultiSig

- TeachMeDeFi is a group that helps people learn about web3 and was started in 2022 in Germany.
- They create educational materials like podcasts, videos, and have a website to help others understand decentralized technology.
- The group thinks it's important to help more people know about Polkadot, which is a technology with great advancements.
- New users find it hard to understand how to start using Polkadot, so TeachMeDeFi is asking for funding to make learning easier.
- They have support from important people in the Polkadot community for their ideas.
- Their proposal includes details about the challenges and opportunities in the German market and their marketing plan.
- More information can be found in their proposal document, which can be accessed online.

Proposal by TeachMeDeFi for a German Educational Platform for Polkadot

YieldBay is a website that helps people find and participate in yield farming within the dotsama ecosystem. Here are some key points about YieldBay:

- It aims to make it easier for people to provide liquidity and for different protocols to find liquidity.
- YieldBay has created a list of yield farms so users can easily discover them.
- The current version of the YieldBay platform is actively tracking over $92 million in total value locked (TVL) across 15 protocols.
- So far, 4,300 unique visitors have used the site, spending an average of more than 3 minutes there.
- YieldBay is working on a new dashboard to help users manage their yield farming activities in one place.
- This current proposal is just for the first part of the project's funding. Further funding requests will be made later as the project progresses.

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 became active in the DAO ecosystem and 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 in the Dotsama ecosystem.
- PolkaSafe is being built on top of Polkadot{.js}'s security backbone.
- The full proposal can be read [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJyqo9Py3Tv_N9nw3D1Ggpkxk0ZfHuT9NnnIwMdv1pU/edit?usp=sharing).

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

- SubWallet started in November 2021 and built a browser extension by February 2022.
- They created the SubWallet Mobile App in June 2022 due to community requests.
- The mobile app aims to provide a complete wallet experience on both mobile and web.
- The first proposal for the mobile app covers a 20-week development period from July to October 2022.
- As of January 2023, SubWallet supports over 140 networks in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem.
- Their browser extension has over 38,000 installs, and the mobile app has 3,000+ installs during testing.
- SubWallet has a growing community with over 8,000 members and is working with many teams to improve user experience.
- They welcome feedback from the community to enhance their services.

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

- A group is asking for $67,459.73 to continue running public services for Polkadot and other networks.
- They provide a free public service so people can use high-performance nodes easily.
- In the last three months, they improved their services and reduced costs by almost 50%.
- They served 6.7 billion responses and had a very high uptime, meaning it worked well most of the time.
- They added new features to improve security and made it easier for users to connect.
- The group has been helping support a special network called Encointer for more than seven months.

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2022)

- This is a new proposal about funding RPC services.
- It aims to keep the Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend RPC services running.
- The services will use special computers in places like Sweden and Tunisia.
- In the last part of 2022, they handled many requests each day.
- Polkadot had over 5 million requests daily, Statemint over 400,000, and Westend over 56,000.
- There is a new server setup in Tunisia.
- More details can be found in their full proposal.
- The current price for DOT is $6.068.

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q1 2023

- Messari wants to keep working with Polkadot by providing research and new governance studies.
- Their team has grown to over 150 people after getting more money for their projects.
- They have improved their research by creating special reports every quarter.
- Messari has also signed deals with big companies like Bloomberg and S&P Global to share their reports.
- They suggest continuing their reports and adding a special study about governance.
- The total cost for this project is $190,000, which will be paid in DOT cryptocurrency.

Treasury Proposals