**Motion 377 Summary**

- Motion 377 aimed to fund the development of a cross-platform tip-as-you-go feature by Anagolay.
- The goal was to support verified creators and builders.
- The motion did not receive enough votes from the Council.
- The team decided not to pursue Treasury funding for now.
- They are focusing on other ways to achieve their goals.
- The team is requesting the return of a 500 DOTS deposit for a previous proposal.
- The project is self-funded and grassroots, so recovering the deposit would help.

Awarded

big_tipper

WHO: Anagolay team
WHAT: Return 500 DOTS deposit for proposal #256
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified

Returning submission deposit for Anagolay proposal, related to rejecting proposal #256 (more info in the desc.)

Requesting a return of the submission deposit related to Motion #405.

[OpenGov] Return of the bond for the rejection of (Gov1) Treasury Proposal #244 (MVP Workshop)

Requesting a return of the submission deposit related to Motion #406.

- EasyA is asking for $104,000 to work on a project involving Polkadot, which is a blockchain system.
- They have successfully completed two important tasks called Milestones 1 and 2.
- They gathered feedback from developers to make challenges for learning and improving skills.
- They created a new design for Polkadot challenges to make them more engaging.
- Dates and locations for two hackathons have been set, and they invited developers to join.
- They are planning to encourage many people to build new projects on Polkadot before the hackathons.
- They shared a detailed report about their progress for everyone to see.

**Requested Allocation:** $104,000 

*DOT amount calculated via EMA7 on 6 June 2023 at GMT+0 1100hrs: 1 DOT ~ USD$5.235. USD$104,000 ~ 19,866.2846 DOT

**Proponent:** EasyA 5FQqvRHgBEUZG17qs9cNFH6ZSSVyAwhb7D6dKjGWb8xgKFkP


Hey Everyone!

We’re delighted to give a full update on our progress so far!

**Progress Summary**

In summary, we have now successfully achieved Milestone 1 and Milestone 2! We started by opening this educational opportunity to more parachains/projects and preparing the full content framework. We have now collected key feedback from developers and parachain/project teams and utilised it to create the content for the challenges. We have also created a totally new design and UX for the Polkadot challenges to make them stand out. We are in the very final stages of approving all the content to go live in the app for release. 

We’re super excited that on the IRL hackathons side, we have also finalised the hackathon dates and locations. We have been inviting key developer groups and Polkadot parachains to attend the hackathon and will be leveraging our connections with core blockchain clubs to ensure a brilliant pipeline of builders at the hackathons!

Our next step is to make a huge push to get everyone building on Polkadot in the run-up to the IRL hackathons. We’re currently working with the participating parachains/projects on a detailed social media and activations strategy!

**Full Progress Report**

We have written up the fully comprehensive progress report for Milestones 1 and 2 [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tvSCM9w8fSKxUBgTIuXNbhrdNWZUzpQHtORZxtyVAKE/edit?usp=sharing) for the community!

**Milestone 2 Requested Allocation Breakdown**

We would therefore like to request our Milestone 2 allocation so that we can proceed to Milestone 3 (hosting the 2 hackathons). 

Details for this milestone were discussed in our original discussion post [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1585), with the precise milestone and allocation breakdown [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oyip_eVdevsjijQQSkL_GPOE5YF-AEGgE_xhwCFLnt0/edit#bookmark=id.x3kscjjklocs). Our first milestone was approved (and second milestone request discussed) [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/353).

We're already seeing huge excitement around #60DaysOfPolkadot and can’t wait to see what everyone builds at the hackathons! See you there!

Milestone 2 Proposal: Polkadot Developer Hackathons and Crash Course for 1,000 Developers (#60DaysOfPolkadot)

- Polkadot Decoded’s main event will happen in Copenhagen at the end of June 2023.
- It is the biggest yearly conference about Polkadot and brings together many people interested in it.
- There will be a special event for Asia on July 15-16, 2023, in Shanghai, China.
- This China event will help the growing Polkadot community in Asia, especially in nearby countries.
- The event will have talks, workshops, and demonstrations in Chinese and English.
- Target audience includes business and technical decision-makers, developers, and Polkadot fans.
- The goal is to have 300-500 attendees, with many speaking slots and exhibition booths available.
- The event will be hosted by a Chinese agency experienced in organizing technology events.

Polkadot Decoded’s Flagship event will be held at the end of June 2023 at the Øksnehallen in Copenhagen. This is the biggest yearly conference focused on all things Polkadot. It brings together the Polkadot community, web3 enthusiasts, new/curious DOT holders, and builders to hear about developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. To align with the global Flagship event and continue the excitement with the regional focus at the strategic local markets of the Polkadot community, a grand satellite event covering the Asian region ( China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the rest of SEA) will be held on July 15th and July 16th at Shanghai/China (exact location is TBD and the dates will align with the rest of the regional satellite events).

The 2023 Decoded China event will therefore create pivotal experience to the fast growing Polkadot China community and the nearby markets such as Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and the rest of SEA. The China satellite event will feature presentations, panels, workshops, demos and aligned regional events (i.e. regional hackathon), delivered in the language of Chinese or English. The latest update and news of the Polkadot ecosystem teams, Parity, the Web3 Foundation and the community KOLs from Asia will be shared. The event is focusing on the content curated for a higher-level and border audience, as well as for decision makers, investors, entrepreneurs and Web3 Medias.

The target audience will be crossing over all six of our target personas: Business Decision Maker, Technical Decision Maker, both from startups and Enterprises interested in Polkadot, Builders from teams in the Polkadot ecosystem, DOT Holders, Developer, Polkadot enthusiasts and supporters. Polkadot Decoded China aims to be a general assembly for all things Polkadot/Kusama happening in Asia with a main focus of the China market.

Along with one main stage with the presentations, demos, panels and flagship event (Decoded Copenhagen) highlight playbacks, 2023 Decoded China satellite event will have networking areas, private meeting areas, exhibition areas (for parachain and ecosystem teams) and one after-party to celebrate with the community. The China satellite event aims to have between 300-500 attendees, 25 speaking slots (presentations, demos, panels and Copenhagen highlight session playbacks are all included), 20 exhibition booths (for selected parachain teams and the Substrate-based ecosystem projects), and one Substrate job fair.

The 2023 Polkadot Decoded China satellite event will be facilitated and hosted by Aitijia’er, an event agency based in China, who produced the 2020 Web3 Form @ Shanghai (Web3 rebranded towards China due to the regulation concern) and 2022 Decoded China @ Hangzhou.

More details of the proposal, please see this link [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gn64J66dlZLheQxNa1R19AOqdkyboxn1vHyUOD1rmPw/edit#)

Polkadot Decoded 2023 China (Satellite Event) July 15-16, 2023 in Shanghai China

- A proposal is asking for money to support the Open Runtime Module Library (ORML) from November 2022 to April 2023.
- The ORML was created by the co-founders of Acala in late 2019.
- It helps fix problems and create useful features for developers.
- The ORML is designed to be used by many people, not just one group.
- Community members are invited to review the proposal and ask questions.
- The goal is to help developers in the Polkadot and Kusama communities.

This proposal (link to doc [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ENh6IHUbcFjNR6Js0I7VzWV5xFQeepmqS4Eipz7gVio/edit)) is seeking payment to cover development and maintenance of the widely used Open Runtime Module Library between Nov 2022 and Apr 2023.

Community members, please kindly review the proposal and ask questions you may have, we are happy to address questions before moving onto next step.

**Context**: Open Runtime Module Library, or ORML, originally created by Acala's co-founders in late 2019. It is a collection of modules that Acala team created to solve issues that we encountered, to produce features that we wish existed, at the same time making it not specific to our chain but generic, so we can share them with our fellow developers in the whole Polkadot/Kusama community and help in some way.

Retroactive funding for ORML maintenance Nov 22 to Apr 23

- This is a follow-up proposal about funding RPC services.
- It aims to support development and maintenance costs.
- There is one main goal called Milestone 1.
- Milestone 1 includes running services in Sweden and Tunisia.
- In Q1 2023, the Polkadot RPC node had over 3 million requests daily.
- The Statemint RPC node had about 158,000 requests daily.
- The Westend RPC node had around 69,000 requests daily.

This is a [follow-up](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1535) proposal on what we submitted in mid-January earlier this year, to further fund the development of the RPC services and to cover the maintenance costs of them.

This new proposal includes one Milestone.

Milestone 1: Continue to run the Polkadot, Statemint and Westend RPC services on dedicated hardware, located at small independent co-location sites in Sweden and in Tunisia.


### Report from Q1 2023

- Our Polkadot RPC node served on average **3,065,667** requests per day and in total **275,910,030** during the last quarter. 
- Our Statemint RPC node served on average **158,022** requests per day and in total **14,221,980** during the last quarter.
- Our Westend RPC node served on average **69,447** requests per day and in total **6,250,230** during the last quarter.

Our full proposal can be [read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5kotmRSFE6nQQghbZwZlcPgeAvTKLC60KDnu4SO4R0/edit#).

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q2 2023

- A company called OnFinality asked for money to keep their public services running for different networks like Polkadot and Westend.
- They have a special service that helps people use high-quality data from these networks.
- In the first few months of 2023, they served over 4.3 billion responses to users.
- Their services help developers by providing important information and making sure everything works smoothly.
- They improved their system to add more storage automatically, so it doesn't break.
- They also worked with other companies to help more people join the Polkadot community.
- Their public API service had very high uptime, which means it was working almost all the time.
- You can learn more about their services and track their performance on their public pages online.

**Proponent:** 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf (OnFinality)

**Date:** 2nd May 2023

**Requested DOT:**  12,141.2773 (USD $64,834.42)

**Short description:** Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, Collectives, Westend, and Encointer.

**Full Report:** [Polkadot Q1 2023 Full Report/Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T9LnHNap-81QswfQ2yur80rISJAPcHkVzQfc0U54PNM/edit?usp=sharing)

**Raw Data:** [Polkadot Data Q1 2023](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iJpJZlqeeLqMJgmk9zNT-RKx_h1HNbMkFs1PMNySOGk/edit?usp=sharing)

* * * * *

Original Motivation
===================

Over the last 3 months (January, February, and March 2023) we've provided a scalable free public API service so that everyone can access public pools of managed Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Collectives, and Encointer nodes. This provides the following three outcomes:

-   Grow the ecosystem by reducing the barriers to entry to access a high performance nodes

-   Help scale existing projects in the ecosystem by providing reliable infrastructure services

-   Assist with the testing of all networks by providing valuable data back to the community on how nodes are running, what calls are causing errors, and where traffic is originating from

Service Details
===============

During Q1 of 2023, we've made a large number of stability improvements to our Ultimate API service to allow us to add a large number of new parachains over the last quarter as well as support for multiple chains outside of Polkadot.

For customers that do sign up for paid API keys, we've been adding more and more features to provide a better experience. Geolocation insights provide statistics about where in the world communities are to help influence decisions around where to expand infrastructure and to view the effectiveness of regional BD initiatives.  We can also now automatically upsize the storage on nodes to prevent the risk of any downtime.

Our customers are building cross-chain wallets, running some of the largest block explorers, and are indexing multiple networks - they've all benefited from these API access restrictions, improved monitoring, and the larger number of supported Polkadot chains.

Between 2023-01-01 and 2023-03-31 our Polkadot API service has:

-   Served a total of 4.3 billion responses

-   Accumulated over 50,000 GB of data egress 

-   The highest daily total was 62 million responses in a single 24 hour period for Polkadot only

-   Our rolling 7 day average at the end of this period was over 49 million responses each day

-   Westend had over 110 million API responses in the period

-   Statemint had over 102 million API responses in the period

-   All time totals for Polkadot is 97,192,546,788 (97 Billion) since November, 2020

-   At the end of this period the 90 day uptime for Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, Encointer and Collectives was 99.98%, 99.99%, 99.96%, 99.74%, 99.95% respectively

Enhancements
------------

Additionally, we are proud to have delivered some key service enhancements that benefit the Polkadot ecosystem in the last quarter. This includes:

-   [Auto Expand Storage](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-developer-update-auto-expand-storage-for-dedicated-nodes/) - When the node's storage reaches 85% utilisation, the storage size will be automatically increased by 10%. Saves developers and devOps time on having to constantly check on and manually upgrade their node storage size

-   [Partnership with POKT network](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-partners-with-pocket-network-to-unlock-access-to-unstoppable-infrastructure/) to bring in more external developers into the Polkadot ecosystem

-   [Geographical Insights](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-adds-geolocation-insights-for-dapps-and-api-apps/) - API key owners can view statistics about where in the world your community are to help influence decisions around where to expand infrastructure and to view the effectiveness of regional BD initiatives

-   [Clarify our IP address handling](https://blog.onfinality.io/how-does-onfinality-deal-with-personal-information/) - OnFinality does not, and will never, correlate or link specific wallet addresses to the IP address or request origin making the RPC request

-   We're testing access to various unsafe methods like traceBlock and subscribeStorage that will help developers create applications that utilise XCM - contact us if you would like to be part of the beta

-   Reduced our exposure to any single cloud provider - Progressively migrated resources away from AWS to other cloud providers for lower cost and exposure.

-   Expanded our OnFinality for Startups Programme to support teams from the Substrate Builders Programme and Scytale Ventures

-   Added support for a number of new networks, including Ajuna, Unique, Clover, SORA, Composable Finance, Collectives, xx network, as well as Polygon, BNB, Fantom, Gnosis and Evmos from outside the ecosystem. OnFinality is a new one stop shop for all of your RPC needs from multiple ecosystems.

-   A variety of improvements to our health metric collection tools and automated recovery scripts to ensure our 99.9% SLA is exceeded.

-   Scale improvements to our team, processes, and systems to allow us to provide this same service to any  substrate team

You can always see live data on our API service on our public [status page](https://status.onfinality.io/) and [network analytics page](https://onfinality.io/networks).

**Full report can be read here:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T9LnHNap-81QswfQ2yur80rISJAPcHkVzQfc0U54PNM/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T9LnHNap-81QswfQ2yur80rISJAPcHkVzQfc0U54PNM/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2023)

- This proposal extends the maintenance and support contract for the Polkadot Ecosystem from January 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023.
- The Polkascan Foundation provides infrastructure services and maintains open-source software for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Their Python libraries are used by 213 GitHub repositories.
- Previous activity reports are available from October 2020 to the first quarter of 2023.
- The proposal includes links to the Social Contract Mechanism, the Python Libraries support contract, and the business plan.
- The Polkascan Foundation is ready to answer questions from the Polkadot Council.

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

- Tommi, also known as Alice und Bob, creates educational content about Polkadot on YouTube.
- He developed a tool called Subscrape to help with tax reporting related to data on Polkadot.
- Tommi is building Polkalytics, a service that helps analyze Polkadot data similarly to Google Analytics.
- He wants to connect people working on data projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- He proposes to create a Github repository to list all data-related projects in Polkadot.
- A website will also be made to share this information in a clear way.
- Tommi is open to feedback to improve his project.

**Short description: To create a comprehensive overview of the current state of all things data in the Polkadot ecosystem. Funding includes the research, a Github repo, and a Website.**

Hi everyone. This is Tommi, aka Alice und Bob. You might know me from my YouTube channel [Alice und Bob](https://www.youtube.com/@alice_und_bob/videos), where I educate on the edge of edutainment and technology within Polkadot, or from [publicly talking about DeFi in Polkadot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnD3LhpHEI) (and specifically [Mangata Finance](https://www.mangata.finance/), where I lead Growth) or from my [occasional tweets](https://twitter.com/alice_und_bob) on the bird app.

Early last year I did my taxes and started building [Subscrape](https://github.com/ChaosDAO-org/subscrape), a Python scraper for Substrate chain, to help me in the process. Over time, things became more serious and I started building [Polkalytics](https://polkaverse.com/10716/polkalytics-a-google-scale-analytics-service-for-polkadot-37079), a Google-scale analytics service for Polkadot. I have built an indexer for Polkadot that writes the complete chain into Google BigQuery and later derives additional tasks to create account reports for the purpose of filing taxes.

During my work, I discovered that there are A LOT of data-related projects in Polkadot, it's just hard to find them at first glance. I had great conversations with people from the Parity Data Team, Apexti, Subwallet, and Apillon, and think that all the people working on data in the ecosystem deserve to be much better connected so that we can make everyone's life easier.

Therefore this submission is a proposal to create a Github repository that contains a survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem and an accompanying website. A complete overview of everything that exists in terms of data in Polkadot.

In preparation for this proposal I opened a [discussion](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1726) and had conversations with the Parity data team, a Polkadot Wiki maintainer and a member from the Subwallet team. There were two primary requests: To publish the work as structured data and to publish the work as website. Therefore I have decided to follow both approaches, disseminate the data in a repo with structured data and then publish a website that embeds the structured data (which will also work as a proof of concept)

I am still open to any feedback and will work to integrate it if it is in line with the intention of this proposal.

[Polkadot Treasury Proposal - A Survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNxSf6rWOt_z6D884K_QvQpxpwahavHwarA7M79JLmE/edit#)

A companion video for this proposal can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYlpLdnZ8gY).

Best,
Tommi

Proposal: A Survey of the Polkadot Data Ecosystem

**Sub.ID** is a web application launched in 2021 that helps users manage their Substrate addresses, balances, NFTs, and other assets in the Polkadot ecosystem. It has connected to 40 Substrate chains and has a dedicated vision and roadmap.

In 2022, a Kusama treasury proposal was approved, leading to the development of new features. A demo and report are available to see these features in action.

**Batch Two** proposals include:
- **Alternative balances view**: Token-centric views and multi-account support.
- **Accounts grouping**: Group management and default groups like 'Followers' and 'Favorites'.
- **Transaction history**: List and filter transactions using Subsquid integration.
- **P&L analytics**: Dashboard and charts for portfolio analysis with CoinGecko integration.
- **Automated quality assurance**: Testing frameworks for various aspects like balances, crowdloans, and NFTs.

The full proposal with costs is available for review, and feedback is welcome.

Sub.ID Proposal #2: Tx history, Token-centric view, P&L analytics, and more

- Polkadot Decoded is a big conference about Polkadot and will happen on June 28th and 29th, 2023.
- This year, it will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and will have online and in-person events.
- There will also be smaller events in the USA, Europe, Latin America, and China in July.
- The conference will feature presentations, panels, workshops, and discussions.
- The main audience includes business leaders, technical experts, developers, and Polkadot fans.
- The goal is to share important information and attract companies interested in Polkadot.
- More details about the event can be found in a linked document.
- This is the second request for funding to support the conference.

Polkadot Decoded is the Flagship conference and the the biggest yearly event focused on all things Polkadot. And it's back for its fourth edition on June 28th and 29th, 2023, with a fully hybrid experience of online and in-person events. Decoded aims to evolve into a general assembly for all things Polkadot/Kusama.

In 2023 we will come to Copenhagen, Denmark with an increased capacity and there will be simultaneous satellite events hosted regionally in the USA, Europe, LatAm and China in July. These satellite events are aimed to be regionally focused. Whereas the Flagship event will be globally focused.

The program line up will be featuring presentations, panels, workshops, demos, fireside and barcamp chats. We are focusing on curating content that is more high-level for a broader audience as well as attracting decision makers and enterprises into the room. The target audience will be crossing over all six of our target personas: Business Decision Maker, Technical Decision Maker, both from startups and Enterprises interested in Polkadot, Builders from teams in the Polkadot ecosystem, DOT Holders, Developer, Polkadot enthusiasts and supporters. Polkadot Decoded aims to be a general assembly for all things Polkadot/Kusama. However, we are mainly focusing on decision makers and enterprises.

Further information on the proposal, including milestones, budget, agenda, participants and more can be found under this [LINK](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15OgE-hsNGepFpN-xgLDG1x5cHWJ55ltYroMGHaQnYQM/edit?usp=sharing).

This is the 2nd tranche request. The first tranche has been discussed under #255 and approved with Motion #382.

Polkadot Decoded 2023, tranche 2/3 (June, Copenhagen, DK)

- Smoldot is a special program that connects to the Polkadot network.
- It uses very little computer resources like CPU, memory, and internet data.
- Smoldot can be added to websites for easier access.
- It helps make blockchain technology work better and be more decentralized.
- A new proposal has been made to help continue developing smoldot.
- The proposal includes details on past work and future goals.

Hello everyone,

As many of you might already know, smoldot is an alternative implementation of the Polkadot client focused on using as little CPU, memory, and bandwidth as possible. It can be embedded within a web page, and thus allow end users to connect directly to the Polkadot network. Smoldot is a critical component in order to properly fulfill the goal of building a decentralized blockchain.

I am now submitting a new treasury proposal in order to continue financing the development of smoldot.

You can find all the details of the proposal here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iYOIe_pyOdnV27hUA6FToWVSs7uUNHxIm5bA3KrMAE8/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iYOIe_pyOdnV27hUA6FToWVSs7uUNHxIm5bA3KrMAE8/edit)

It highlights the work that has been performed, and proposes new milestones for the upcoming quarter year.

Thank you for reading.

Tomaka

Smoldot development financing Q2 2023

- RockX wants to provide free services to help the Polkadot community grow in 2023.
- They are asking for about $93,063 to support this project.
- RockX already offers free APIs for Polkadot and Kusama with up to 100,000 requests daily.
- They plan to add 3 new parachains every quarter until mid-2023, totaling 6 parachains.
- Developers can create up to 10 free API keys to help with their projects.
- RockX aims to make it easier for developers by providing tools and a dashboard for updates.
- They have been reliable since 2021, with 99.9% service reliability reported in late 2022.

**Proponent:** RockX Official

**DOT Account:** 14tm4js6PgrDGZttNzyy7CM4pnYiPu3LxxZDb1zhJWUc5Wpj

**Date:** 28/04/2023

**Requested allocation:** USD $93,063 (15,485 DOT)

**Proposal Summary:** Provide free RPC service for the community in 2023 across multiple parachains to encourage growth and development.

### **Project Summary**

RockX currently provides free APIs on Polkadot and Kusama up to 100,000 requests per day. However, we would like to accelerate the ecosystem’s growth by expanding our offering to eventually include free packages for more parachains.

With the Treasury’s support, we plan to add 3 Parachains every Quarter from the start of 2023 until mid-2023 for a total of 6, where we will evaluate the current ecosystem status and adjust our processes accordingly. After the initial 6 chains have been onboarded, we aim to conduct an open call with other parachains to understand levels of interest before submitting a new proposal to add more parachains. We will also expand our Polkadot node offering to include a free archive node solution.

In addition to free API requests, RockX also provides a developer-friendly portal that allows users to set up APIs across all supported chains with just a few clicks, reducing the complexity and set-up time drastically. Last but not least, developers can also subscribe to our blockchain maintenance dashboard so that they will be able to receive the latest blockchain update information about Polkadot and its ecosystem.

To support the development of the Polkadot ecosystem, RockX will be offering free plans for developers that include 100K requests per day (or 3 million requests per month) for each blockchain supported above. This will be sufficient for most developers and users. Developers can access this free API service by creating their own API Key on the RockX portal and using the provided tools to optimize their development efforts. Up to 10 API keys can be generated for free for each blockchain. If any customization is needed, RockX can also assist with setting up custom archive nodes or full nodes. Every quarter, RockX strives to improve and enhance our product offerings and infrastructure for developers in the Polkadot ecosystem, including front-end UI, connectivity, security, and reliability. New product releases can be found on RockX’s Twitter page.

In summary, we’re here to take on all the complexities of node operations and utilize economies of scale and scope to lower the developers’ barriers (time and money) to adoption.

**History & Reliability**

RockX has been providing RPCs for Polkadot and Kusama since Oct 2021 and has achieved service reliability of 99.9% for Q4 2022 ([Link](https://access.rockx.com/product/polkadot-blockchain-api-for-web3-builders)).

The duplicate Polkadot nodes setup and the automatic failover system ensure the stability of the Polkadot node. In case of a node failure incident or during the Polkadot mainnet upgrade period, the automatic failover system directs users' requests to a backup node, ensuring continuous network operation.

**Notable Recent Enhancements & Support:**

Q3/22

Upgraded analytics dashboard to provide users more visibility on API usage
Uploaded videos about "How to build on a blockchain with Access Node"
Launched IP whitelist, and origin whitelist feature to enhance user’s security when using the RPC services

Q4/22

Wrote blog post to introduce Polkadot staking. In this post, RockX delves into the details of how staking Polkadot works, and why it's important for the success and growth of the Polkadot network. RockX will continue to -create new and educational content across the Polkadot ecosystem
Launched maintenance notification dashboard to keep users informed as soon as possible on any blockchain upgrades
Launched an incognito mode that will not store user’s IP address or browser information to further protect user's privacy

Our full report including data and links can be viewed [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QTP7xPki6CAar-X2Uey-yGOYprAIaru83mibcSlen5g/edit).

Our previous community post with feedback on this proposal can be viewed [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1630).

RockX Public RPC Node Support Q4 2022 & New Development Q2 & Q3 2023

- There is a proposal called motion 383 for costs from March to August 2023.
- The original amount requested was 16,655 DOT.
- This amount was approved, but there was a mistake in the application.
- Instead of writing 16,655 DOT, 500 DOT was written by mistake.
- Now, they are asking for the remaining 16,155 DOT.
- They hope the additional amount can be approved quickly.
- They appreciate everyone's understanding and support.

This is a supplementary proposal for [motion 383](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/383).
In motion 383, we applied for a 2023/3-2023/8 operational cost of 16655 DOT, which was approved at the time. The details of the proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJjtkZD8mgv5vRpBh_aoGmWqWlLK9tomGhP8M9esMng/edit?usp=sharing). However, when we filled in the amount of application on chain, we mistakenly wrote 500 DOT instead of 16655 DOT. Therefore, we are applying again for the remaining 16155 DOT, and we hope that the rest of the amount can be voted through as soon as possible. We appreciate your understanding and support.

Treasury Proposal：A supplementary proposal for the 2023/3-2023/8 operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- SubWallet is asking for money from the Polkadot Treasury for work done between June and September 2022.
- They started building SubWallet in November 2021 and launched it for popular web browsers in February 2022.
- Many new features were added, and they have worked with over 70 teams.
- As of March 2023, SubWallet supports 140+ networks and has over 43,000 users on Chrome and Firefox.
- They are also testing a mobile app and have users from more than 100 countries. 
- SubWallet aims to improve the user experience for everyone in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. 
- They are looking for feedback from the community to make SubWallet even better.

**Dear Polkadot community and Councilors,**

This proposal aims at claiming funding from the Polkadot Treasury for work that has been done in SubWallet's [Milestone 3](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6_ftxopSHMdMfJdxYycHIsD6yNHYPv_egyajwDZp38/edit?usp=sharing) in the period from June to September 2022.

[SubWallet](https://subwallet.app/) team started building in November 2021 and we have been very focused and building fast since then. We released the [SubWallet extension version ](https://subwallet.app/download.html)on all popular browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge) in February 2022 and [SubWallet mobile app public testing phase](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1587403200105451520) in November 2022, and keep releasing our product updates on a [bi-weekly basis.](https://twitter.com/RyanDinh8/status/1557652913463275521)

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWF-pFrUcAAz-LF?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)


SubWallet got Polkadot treasury proposals for [Milestones 1](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/222) approved in July 2022 and [Milestone 2](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/253) approved in September 2022.  Below is a list of tractions and features we have completed after our Milestones 1 and Milestone 2:

- 70+ networks supported (relaychains, parachains & solochains) in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem
- 15,000+ organic installs and 12,000+ weekly active users on Chrome Store & Firefox Store
- Our users come from 80+ countries.
- 6,500+ community members on Twitter, Telegram, and Discord
- A member of the Substrate Builders Program
- Working with 70+ teams in the ecosystem with the ultimate goal of bringing the best UI/UX for users.
- Create, restore and import accounts
- Manage multiple accounts
- Manage multi-chain assets
- View transaction history
- Manage Crowdloan portfolio
- Manage NFT
- Compatible with Metamask and Support EVM assets
- Substrate Connect - Light Client
- Built-in XCM transfer
- Custom network, custom endpoint
- And more: [Milestone 1](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Extension/milestones?state=closed) & [Milestone 2](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Extension/milestone/2?closed=1)
- SubWallet on **Polkadot Community Call** on August 18, 2022: [Link](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1560234806478356480)

As our vision is to become a Multiverse Gateway for the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem that helps onboard more users to the ecosystem, we continue to add new features to SubWallet based on the development of the ecosystem and feedback/suggestions from our community.

**This proposal aims at claiming funding from the Polkadot Treasury for work that has been done in SubWallet's [Milestone 3](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6_ftxopSHMdMfJdxYycHIsD6yNHYPv_egyajwDZp38/edit?usp=sharing), that includes the features discussed in details below:**

**Complete set of the proposal: [(See proposal)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O6_ftxopSHMdMfJdxYycHIsD6yNHYPv_egyajwDZp38/edit?usp=sharing)**

- Support Ledger for Polkadot & Kusama [(Link)](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1556637171611848704)
- Support Parity Signer and other QR Signers ([Link ](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1556637171611848704)and [Link](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1588135819201548290))
- Support In-app Staking for Polkadot & Kusama ([Link](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1540651630206386176))
- Support XCM transfer between Polkadot and Kusama to parachains [(Link)](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1558319962447433729)
- Integrate USDT on Statemint: Display, Receive and Transfer [(Link)](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Extension/issues/679)
- Integrate Transak and allow users to buy DOT, KSM from fiat [(Link)](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1572552943492288515)
- Update caching mechanism to optimize performance
- [And more](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Extension/milestone/3?closed=1)

**Our tractions as of March 2023**

- 140+ networks and 400+ tokens supported (relaychains, parachains & solochains) in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem
- Browser extension: 43,000+ organic installs on Chrome Store & Firefox Store.
- Mobile app is in the public testing phase on both iOS and Android. 5,000+ installs [(Link)](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1587403200105451520)
- Our users come from 100+ countries.
- 8,500+ community members on Twitter, Telegram, and Discord
- Completed the Substrate Builders Program
- Working with 150+ teams in the ecosystem with the ultimate goal of bringing the best UI/UX for users. 
- SubWallet on Polkadot Community Call on November 24, 2022: [Link](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1596825254982479873)
- SubWallet on Polkadot Community Call on January 20, 2023: [Link](https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1618228474065620999)
- We would love to hear feedback/recommendations from the community and Councils.

**All the best,
SubWallet Team**

SUBWALLET EXTENSION - MILESTONE 3: SubWallet 3rd proposal: Hardware wallet integration (Ledger, Parity Signer, Keystone), Built-in XCM transfer between Polkadot & Kusama and parachains, In-app staking for DOT and KSM, Support USDT on Statemint, Fiat on-ramp and more

- A proposal has been submitted to get 43,913 DOT (about $277,000) for improving bridges in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Current bridges have problems: some are only for EVM, some are controlled by central authorities, and many only connect to Ethereum.
- Axelar is suggested as a better option because it is decentralized and can connect many blockchains.
- Axelar works with 32 blockchains, including Ethereum and Cosmos, and allows different operations beyond just moving assets.
- This proposal wants to create a special tool called Axelar-Gateway-Pallet for easier connection between Substrate parachains and Axelar.
- Many parachains are interested in using this new tool to improve their connections and operations.
- The full proposal and discussions can be found in links provided for more information.

**Proponent:** 12wWLUd5qMzLFGqBsMnHLVFeTuYJwuo5ygMAxuSywrBX1XSF

**Date:** 2023.04.07

**Requested DOT:** 43,913 DOT (277,000 USD)

**Contact:**  jeroen@k-f.co & frederik@k-f.co

---

Currently, the only bridges available to users of the Polkadot ecosystem have some limitations, including:

1. Being EVM-specific and not Substrate native, e.g. several bridges (including Axelar) have been deployed on Moonbeam EVM. While this is great for bootstrapping liquidity in those EVM networks, it complicates integrations with other parachains through XCM and adds significant overhead.

2. Centralized bridges which are reliant on multisigs, which is incompatible with the Web3 vision of the Polkadot ecosystem.

3. Bridges that only go to Ethereum mainnet, and don’t support message passing.

We believe Axelar is an ideal option for solving those problems, as it’s a decentralized protocol based on delegated proof-of-stake, with support for general message passing across all its target domains. It’s currently connected to 32 blockchains, including Ethereum, Avalanche, Celo, Arbitrum, Cosmos, and Polygon.

Axelar’s any-to-any connectivity is crucial to the success of any ecosystem. Within Cosmos, where Axelar is the most widely used interoperability platform, historically only a minority of users onboard from Ethereum mainnet, with [Polygon being the most popular option](https://axelarscan.io/transfers?sourceChain=polygon&destinationChain=osmosis). By enabling people to onboard from any ecosystem, we expand the user base of Polkadot, Centrifuge and the ecoystem. Axelar network supports General Message Passing across chains and delivers any-to-any connectivity. Most people are familiar with cross-chain activity via bridges, which can only transport wrapped representations of assets. General Message Passing goes beyond: Axelar can transport any payload. This enables more sophisticated cross-chain operations, like buying an NFT representing a RWA on Centrifuge, with an asset held on Arbitrum. [Axelar is working with Circle](https://www.circle.com/blog/composable-usdc-seamless-multichain-ux-by-axelar) to compose this functionality with CCTP, so that users can perform those operations with 0-slippage.

Centrifuge and Axelar have been discussing the need for this with the ecosystem and the following parachains have also expressed an interest in using a Substrate-native Axelar integration:
* Astar
* Acala
* Oak Network
* Parallel
* Gear
* Manta
* Clover
* Composable
* Equilibrium
* Interlay
* Peaq network
* Unique
* Watr
* OmniBTC

The deliverable for this proposal contains an Axelar-Gateway-Pallet compatible with XCM to be integrated in the BridgeHub common good parachain, an Audit of the given pallet and all work around maintenance. The given Axelar-Gateway-Pallet will also be usable for a "local" deployment so that it will help all Substrate based parachains to connect to Axelar.

The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijCKnuFh4CNOLmObysNTyOa1WW10Ou0bWuf5wxMxetg/edit?usp=sharing).

The discussion post can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1755)

 Treasury Proposal by Centrifuge: Support Axelar General Message Passing in the Polkadot ecosystem (via BridgeHub)

- The proposal is for two milestones (5&6) in a project called Kampela, which is an open-source hardware storage for the Dotsama ecosystem.
- Kampela is a small, flat device that looks like a credit card and is used for securely storing private keys and signing transactions.
- It has an e-paper screen, a simple user interface, and connects to phones through NFC (a type of wireless communication).
- The device is cheaper than similar devices, costing under €100, and designed for safety and ease of use.
- Milestone 5 focuses on testing the device's casing, power, input methods, and secure key management.
- Milestone 6 involves creating final specifications for communication, manufacturing plans, and demonstrating the device's basic functions.
- Kampela is not a wallet; it only helps sign transactions and does not track balances or create transactions on its own.

This is proposal for Milestones 5&6.

DOT/EUR exchange rate calculated as 5.8176 by EMA7 (EMA with 168 period frame) by [Kraken](https://www.tradingview.com/x/GIsV7yQo)

Our team proposes to design an open source hardware storage for dotsama ecosystem.

Please see complete proposal on [Skiff](https://app.skiff.com/docs/6e1d3e9f-9e2c-4413-9190-9c39cda20763#yJcS2WZZbiuFk4Pe3W5nycQ7vcjEbrXkbfcf2EKIiV4=)

[Project repository](https://github.com/Alzymologist/Kampela)

Project matrix room: #Kampela:matrix.zymologia.fi

See previous material here:

[Discussion](../post/1227)

[Proposal for milestones 1&2](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/163)

[Proposal for milestones 3&4](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/197)

[Milestone 1 report](https://app.skiff.com/docs/2b25845a-4a00-4bf4-aaff-3de4a70d4ad7#zSepFgAI0EetUe7eIp2Tlgu/RnhMjnAJRDecVUiVmhQ=)

[Milestone 2 report](https://app.skiff.com/docs/5dcbeadc-e5f3-4f29-8476-e8fcb7786585#ZNnc%2FdmSz3dYkUNc%2BI%2BiarGsZKa0W9uUN25ZqCySPAg%3D)

[Milestone 3 report](https://app.skiff.com/docs/a0583eb2-1b44-46f1-b921-4dc4aa8abf68#QczSiY%2BGxi93PTv%2BFAd%2BPuNnfBqh%2BCpqBIFdooAufCo%3D)

[Milestone 4 report](https://app.skiff.com/docs/984d9ed1-9271-4457-be04-a6eca0f25f39#JZdHE9gfXVn%2BtkTl7EBOqCsxCfo%2F2FRjO%2FnnOJoJM6I%3D)

Project name is Kampela, Finnish word for flounder fish. The device is envisioned as flat card mostly consisting of e-paper screen and few controls (and it allows keys to stay safely in depth).

Kampela is a hardware version of Parity Signer. It is a small card-shaped device (ideally comparable to a credit card form factor, to be carried in a wallet when needed) that accepts data through unidirectional NFC port and shows output on a monochrome electronic paper screen. It has cryptographic strongbox with elliptic curves supported by Substrate — which only stores private keys (after initial import) and performs all signing operations on-chip.

Kampela is designed to be a comparatively low-cost (below €100, in contrast to €500+ for a Signer-compatible smartphone) single-purpose device, which would only support a single seed phrase per unit, operated via a drastically simplified user interface. However, it would have all the security features of Parity Signer: a full-featured SURI account derivation system, transactions preview, metadata updates, logging.

As something that supports the same QR code output formats as Signer, it would be able to drop-in replace Signer when providing signatures back to a mobile/desktop wallet. The only challenge would be in transforming the current QR-driven input format of Signer into a suitable NFC payload. Alongside with native support in some apps (which would require software modification) this can also be achieved with a tiny “translator” app for a regular (online, not necessary trusted — one’s usual daily driver) mobile phone: it would snap a QR code with the transaction details and (statelessly, without any extra features or complicated UI) transform that into an NFC payload.

Kampela is a natural (and long-discussed) extension of Parity Signer to leverage the most out of modern hardware-based crypto chips and drastically reduce Signer’s attack surface: no mobile OS, not extra platform features, no unexpected communication methods or airplane mode to take care of.

Kampela is not a wallet! It is a signing tool, it is not able to track on-chain balances, validate things over chain-provided information or generate transactions on itself.

The scope of this proposal does not include actual production, but does result in all preliminary development required for production. Hopefully, many assembly shops would rush in to compete with us and each other!

As these last milestones were listed out long time ago, it makes sense to clarify them now with more details on planned work and deliverables:

# Milestone 5

- Fabricate another iteration of the casing (test mechanical integrity of device, usability, etc)
- Test end-of-life secure self-destruct feature: it's trigger circuit (can we rely on broken screen as self-destruct indicator? Is trigger easy to activate? Is indication clear?) and success (does the chip indeed understand wipe command and use small enough power to perform it?)
- Power circuit (test whether it supports various phones budgets and withstands some instability; make sure device can safely burn off residual power and reboot on power loss)
- User input (make sure touch pad input on E-Ink is not too frustrating)
- Test secure element powered key management (encrypt key, decrypt, check attempt counter and self-destruct features)
- NFC reception of large signed payloads

We have decided to leave RNG analysis out of scope, as that component of chip is indeed certified and tested upstream; implementing extra hashing over existing certified secure RNG device in an airgapped cold device with single baremetal app running does not seem feasible, as implementation error risks greatly outweigh probability of hardware attacks, as there is no path to pass exploit trigger event for an attacker; deploying simpler exploits that would make SE accessible to an attacker or make snapshots of onboard RAM, would be simpler for manufacturer to embed into hardware.

# Milestone 6

- Final specifications for NFC communication protocol
- Full manufacturing schematics for the device, including "hacker" edition with programming interface exposed for enthusiasts and hackers to play with, that we intend to manufacture and distribute to order right after completion of the project, as it obviously does not require any audit
- Prepare documentation on analysis of device, for community to study and for auditors to facilitate manufacturing security audit procedure
- Demonstration of fully assembled and operational device with basic functionality and interface
- Decision on whether active NFC tag dummy could be used as second factor with sufficiently secure signing of NFC responses at current level of technology without too high impact on power system of the Kampela device

Hardware signer and key storage Kampela: Milestones 5&6

- The Polkadot Community is proposing a tool to help experts and leaders get more people involved in voting and making decisions.
- This tool will make it easier for voters to understand proposals and participate in governance.
- The proposal includes forming a group of experts who will analyze and summarize the proposals for everyone.
- Voters will use a system where they can trust these expert reviews, which will save time and improve decision-making.
- There is a plan to reward these experts based on how helpful their analyses are to the community.
- The goal is to make Polkadot's governance stronger and more efficient by encouraging collaboration.
- Grabber is a platform supporting this initiative and is ready to engage more voters with its features.

Dear Polkadot Community! 
We are submitting a proposal for a governance incentivization tool, that helps incentivize experts and leaders within the community to boost governance engagement and voter activity.

**[Get the detailed Proposal here >>](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit)**

### **Overview**
While the concept of cryptocurrencies can be considered validated, the concept of cryptocurrency governance is still evolving. The objective of “basic” cryptocurrency governance (as a decentralized management system for that particular cryptocurrency ecosystem) is to perform decentralized control over the process, support developments, and manage the ecosystem's existence. The main goal is to ensure the long-term sustainability, security, and adaptability of a network while increasing the wealth locked in the ecosystem and the holdings of its participants, which are directly connected to the ecosystem's overall wealth. “Basic” cryptocurrency governance refers to the “tactical” decision-making processes. It helps address critical issues such as protocol upgrades, funding for development, conflict resolution, and network security. Even at this level, governance encounters numerous issues and opportunistic behavior from users, such as fraud, Sybil attacks, vote borrowing, voting manipulation, and participants' opportunism, among others. 

Polkadot's governance model is designed to prioritize the growth and development of the platform's ecosystem, rather than focusing solely on partnerships or marketing. This strategic approach stems from Polkadot's L0 vision as a foundation for future Layer 1 (L1) blockchains and its Substrate framework, which simplifies the process of building and deploying customized blockchains (also platform).
We can refer to Polkadot governance as "builders" governance, which emphasizes the platform's commitment to nurturing and supporting the creation of a robust ecosystem. This type of governance fosters collaboration and innovation within the community by allocating resources from the treasury to projects that contribute to the platform's growth, enhance its functionality, or expand its capabilities. In essence, "builders" governance concentrates on strategic objectives rather than tactical ones, prioritizing the development and evolution of the ecosystem over merely maintaining its current state. This approach ensures that Polkadot continues to evolve and adapt, making it a more resilient and future-proof platform that can support a diverse range of blockchain applications and use cases.

Polkadot's governance requires voters to have deep expertise and take on significantly higher risks, both within the large ecosystem and the market as a whole. Additionally, due to the break in cause-and-effect relationships, voters must make decisions without the possibility of receiving feedback or personal benefits. Furthermore, voters must also lock up their funds in the process. This is an important aspect of the system, as it helps to ensure voters' commitment and alignment with the long-term interests of the ecosystem. 
[You can learn more about "builder" governance in our proposal >>](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit#)

However, it can be confidently said that one of the biggest challenges of this type of DAO is the enormous amount of time that needs to be spent collectively on studying community proposals. If we assume that each proposal takes 5.5 hours for adequate study (the average time spent on studying a scientific paper by an expert), then 1000 voters will spend 5,500 hours on a single proposal (excluding those who could not handle it, did not study it, or did not vote).
Then 20 proposals will take up 110,000 hours. That is 68+ full-time experts working on this exclusively.
Hence, an obvious task is to reduce the time it takes for a community member to study one proposal. The organization and simplification, preferably with added interest, can be improved in the scheme of such governance.

There are several ways to lower the barrier to entry for studying proposals and increase the chances of engaging a voter:
- Train the required number of voters  
- Delegate votes to the most motivated members, who are ready to do deep research 
- Add formal proposal compliance analyses
- Provide volunteer analyses and reports.

[Each of these solutions has its pros and cons, and you can learn more about them by following the link >>](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit#)


### **The ideal concept proposes the following solution**
Drawing from existing experience, we can create a decentralized group of competing experts who can generate reviews of proposals. Their work will significantly reduce the need for ordinary voters to deeply engage with proposals, as they will be able to prepare reports that allow for direct insight. Decentralization and competition will facilitate the formation of diverse opinions and prevent an unconstructive approach. Moreover, these experts can become vote delegates who are also in competition. This work should be minimally incentivized, as reviewers provide a public good.

### **Grabber incentivization challenge concept.**
To implement commitment, user reputation, and actual actions and delegation of allocations and payments, have a reputation system within the system. It will be able to collect and analyze experts in the system and commitment. Based on this reputational tool, collective incentivization can work: bounties will be allocated, for which different experts will compete. Users will be able to vote on whose impact was more useful to them, thereby distributing the bounty. The results of their voting will again generate on-chain events that will enrich the participants' reputations.
The general scheme of work will be as follows:

1. For each proposal, a research budget is allocated, which allows compensation for researchers' expenses (bounty). For this, an event with conditions is created in the system.
2. Researchers can register in the system and conduct research, uploading links to them in the interface. Research is done within a specific timeframe.
3. After that, the proposed posts are reviewed, and points are assigned. Together with the relevance of their experience, they receive accruals from the allocated fund. When considering the researcher's relevance, it is visible how often they vote/voted/parachain auctions/funds in the system, etc.
4. The experience of researchers improves with the number of payments they receive (this is also collected on-chain and displayed).
5. The result is deep, non-formal research from multiple authors, which significantly reduces the workload for the community.



### **Grabber: A tool with an experienced team and Polkadot traction.**

Team:
Dev: Experienced with RUST, WASM/EVM (DOT) smart-contracts, Polkadot.js, and Polkadot features.
Community: Well-connected in the Polkadot community, with existing DOT/eco communities event traction and a large existing community.

### **Battle-tested flow**

We already have:
1. User onboarding flow 
2. Community UI
3. Administration UI
4. Parachain-ready (EVM/WASM ready)

### **Interface sketches**

Track selection
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/1.jpg)

Project selection
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/2.jpg)

Project Interface
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/3.jpg)

Voting “Back office” and “event” UX
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/4.jpg)

The voting manager creates an event and provides all necessary info to Grabber through our “back office”. 
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/5.jpg)

There are many competitions that can be managed
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/6.jpg)

Results control 


User UX:

Users apply for the claim. To apply, they bind their source wallet (DOT) and their distribution wallet (Smart-contract based parachain wallet/EVM wallet). Grabber's system aggregates crowdloan and voting activity of the users and proposes to save it on-chain. (in the smart-contract based parachain).
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/7.jpg)

Grabber front-end already supports major Polkadot/EVM wallets, detects extensions and helps these wallets receive new users (check grabber.network). Also additional popups added
![](https://ipfs.thirdwebcdn.com/ipfs/QmevBAAarxd4rTTCRySkXyhFPt4Ev6z1fbTshtHBWGoaNi/8.jpg)

### Grabber | Algem
- Fully qualified (scored) users found to fit all criteria requested by the company: 532
- Users registered in Grabber for event: >5100
- Verified their wallets in Grabber: >3100 (60.87%)
- Event registrations (on-chain): **2735**
- Impressions for event-related Tweets from [@Grabberofficial](https://twitter.com/grabberofficial): >20K
- Increase in the number of Algem’s followers after the event: 16.48%
- Grabber x Algem smart-contract: [https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0xC00ba642fbB807B6e7A45fDAC4D2061d961fd272](https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0xC00ba642fbB807B6e7A45fDAC4D2061d961fd272)

### Grabber | Astar
- Fully qualified (scored) users found to fit all criteria requested by the company: 148
- Users registered in Grabber for the event: >2100
- Verified their wallets in Grabber: >1420 (67.62%)
- Event registrations (on-chain): **957**
- Impressions for event-related Tweets from @Grabber :>41K
- Grabber x Astar smart-contract: [https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0x76d46248F66Afb7767BA7C449748550926908DC4](https://blockscout.com/astar/address/0x76d46248F66Afb7767BA7C449748550926908DC4)

[More numbers about this evets available in the Detailed Proposal: ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit)


### **Grabber's Potential Impact**

1. Better communication with the voters
2. Engaging the audience through the activation of existing KOLs and creating new ones 
3. Significant expansion of the voting audience
4. Easier onboarding for new voters and reactivation of those who dropped out
5. A platform for spreading the vote delegation system


**[Get detailed Proposal here. ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1go3e3yeuXN31nuDtqabvMr_LM70cdtTqXZT_WqsF0Ks/edit)**

All the best, the Grabber team! 

Grabber, a tool that incentivizes experts and leaders within the community to boost governance engagement and voter activity.

- A proposal was made on April 10, 2023, to support ongoing costs for public projects called SubQuery Dictionaries in 2022.
- These projects help teams working on Polkadot and Kusama blockchains to find data much faster, up to 10 times quicker.
- SubQuery provides tools for developers to organize and query data for Web3 applications.
- In 2022, they served over 1 billion requests through these dictionaries, which keep track of events on each blockchain block.
- They aim to improve their service and add more dictionaries to help even more blockchains in 2023.
- The proposal is open-source, allowing others to contribute to the development of these dictionaries.

**Proponent:** 5D5TJ7cNZWuRgXYe4oxizBqWG31eJ1iFpY24JU2jzDccEiwY

**Date:** 10 April 2023

**Requested DOT:** 4201.0828

**Short description:** Ongoing costs for 2022, for the running of public-good SubQuery Dictionary Projects which serve pre-computed indexes of each block for most Polkadot and Kusama parachains. These public projects enable the parachain teams and teams within their ecosystem to increase the data indexing speed of their SubQuery projects by up to 10 times.

**Full Proposa:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjoBgDzX-fJmVWLXQPhQlpy29oimRbHD42tQjGdqgdY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjoBgDzX-fJmVWLXQPhQlpy29oimRbHD42tQjGdqgdY/edit?usp=sharing)

**Raw Data:** <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17829KgXp5aXKXkaPw7A7oCgjMBB8vEuCg2Pyk1MGQnY/edit#gid=0>

Original Motivation
===================================

SubQuery is the universal data indexing toolkit facilitating the construction of Web3 applications of the future. A SubQuery project is a complete API to organise and query data from Layer-1 chains. Currently servicing Polkadot, Kusama, and other layer-1 chains in Substrate, Avalanche, Algorand, Terra, NEAR, and Cosmos projects, we provide data for developers to use for a wide array of projects (wallets, explorers, custom chains, or any other decentralised app). In the future, the SubQuery Network intends to replicate this scalable and reliable solution in a completely decentralised manner.

Throughout the whole of 2022 (01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022) we've provided public SubQuery Projects, termed Dictionaries, for most parachains in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem to dramatically increase indexing performance (up to 10x faster) and so far these dictionaries have served over 1 billion requests.

A SubQuery dictionary is a special SubQuery Project which scans over the network, and records metadata of every event and extrinsic on each block. When other SubQuery projects index data on any of these chains, they can ask the dictionary what blocks a filtered list of events/intrinsics appear on. Rather than having to search through each block, dictionaries reduce the amount of data that the indexer obtains from the chain, reduces load on free RPC endpoints across the ecosystem, and reduces the number of "unwanted" blocks stored in the local buffer. For example, instead of SubQuery inspecting each block of Polkadot's massive chain (600GB of unstructured data on over 12 million blocks) which can take many hours, dictionaries skip through to the exact right blocks.

Adding the dictionary  to optimise indexing performance is as easy as adding the relevant network dictionary endpoint to your SubQuery Project. This has been added by default to all of our starter projects to make it default to use.

Here you can find detailed documentation on how dictionaries work: <https://academy.subquery.network/academy/tutorials_examples/dictionary.html#>

SubQuery Dictionaries have been created for most parachains to the public here <https://github.com/subquery/subql-dictionary> and have been deployed to our Managed Service. If any other team would like a dictionary created - we are more than happy to help out.

Future Targets for Our Dictionaries
===================================

-   We're proud of our record on stability and reliability. One of our core values is to be blockchain's most reliable indexer, and we don't intend to lose sight of this as we onboard more chains and expand the number of customers relying on our hosted service for their production applications. Our goal for 2023 is 99.99% uptime, we're starting off strong with 100% so far as seen [here](https://status.subquery.network/uptime/f3j5qtmn4rhd).

-   Through 2022 we ran 24 dictionaries for the in-demand parachains that we believed would add most value to the dApp developers in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Moving forward we want to be able to offer the increased indexing performance to all active block-producing parachains, our goal will be to add 20 more dictionaries to our suite of tools in 2023.

-   Being on the cusp of 1 billion requests to our dictionaries in 2022 has left us hungry to smash records in 2023. This year, with the launch of our decentralised SubQuery Network and ongoing Business Development efforts, we are looking to hit (and surpass) a target of 10 billion requests to our dictionaries.

-   Github Contributors. Our [dictionaries are completely open source](https://github.com/subquery/subql-dictionary), and SubQuery is a community project with a goal of complete decentralisation. Already last year, we welcomed contributions to our dictionaries from developers at Nodle and Subscan. We are working on making it easier for new parachains to assist us with creating dictionaries.

Service Details (Polkadot)
==========================

Between 2022-01-01 and 2022-12-31 our Polkadot Dictionaries have:

-   Served an extraordinary total of 733,069,683 (over 700 million) requests

-   The Polkadot Dictionary alone served 630,818,299 (over 630 million) requests

-   The highest daily total of the Polkadot Dictionary was 19,219,650 requests in a single 24 hour period occurring on 22nd July 2022

Maintained availability at >99% uptime via our SubQuery Managed Service ([see uptime monitoring here](https://status.subquery.network/))


**Full proposal found here:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjoBgDzX-fJmVWLXQPhQlpy29oimRbHD42tQjGdqgdY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjoBgDzX-fJmVWLXQPhQlpy29oimRbHD42tQjGdqgdY/edit?usp=sharing)

High Performance Data Indexing Tool (2022)

- A proposal is asking for money to help a group in China called the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute.
- They want to create better Chinese content about Polkadot, making it easier for people to understand.
- The goal is to help more Chinese people learn about Polkadot and get involved in its projects.
- They have been getting funds since September 2022 for their previous work.
- This time, they are asking for about 104,760 USD for six months.
- They also plan to keep everyone updated on new Polkadot projects.

The proposal aims to seek support from the Polkadot Treasury for the 2023/3-2023/8 operating cost for the Chinese non-profit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute, in order to create more original and quality Chinese content, and to relay the otherwise boring technical language to Chinese users in a colloquial way, so that Chinese users can have a real knowledge of Polkadot and increase the breadth of Polkadot in the Chinese market. On the other hand, we will also follow up on the outstanding projects of the Polkadot ecology to keep everyone informed of the latest developments of the Polkadot ecology.

Polkadot's success cannot be separated from the prosperity of the Polkadot Ecological Projects. Our goal is to make more people aware of Polkadot and also to make more people aware of the development of Polkadot ecology, which in turn will lead them to join in the participation and construction of Polkadot ecology, so that Polkadot and Polkadot ecology can flourish.

Since September 2022, [we have established a Polkadot Treasury proposal for our 2022/9-2023/2 operation cost, and get funding from the Polkadot Treasury](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-b_DQXHVyRuAoYubCtL9dk0R6a_ev7xbwYMV518ONpo/edit?usp=sharing). Here is our [report for the proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nTIn83LJ9qcq4jPfZDHM-6-xA9Me1JyQ_pCxgPFXYO0/edit). Please check our report to learn more.

So this is a proposal for our six months operation cost. We apply approx 104,760.00 USD total allocation for 2023/3-2023/8 and [you can get all details here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJjtkZD8mgv5vRpBh_aoGmWqWlLK9tomGhP8M9esMng/edit?usp=sharing).

Treasury proposal: The 2023/3-2023/8 operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- Chris Veselinov, the CTO of LimeChain, wants to create a testing project for parachains.
- This project will help find and check if parachain functions work correctly across different systems.
- LimeChain is a blockchain company that started in 2017 and focuses on building tools and apps.
- They have been involved in the Polkadot ecosystem and created helpful frameworks for developers.
- They are asking for feedback on their proposal to improve testing standards.
- The goal is to make sure updates and new features can be done safely and effectively.
- Further details can be found in the official proposal document linked in their message.

Hi everyone,

My name is Chris Veselinov, CTO of LimeChain, and I’m writing this thread to propose the development (and funding) of a Parachain Validation Conformance Testing.

With this proposal, we’re looking to identify test cases and implement conformance tests for the execution of the parachain verification function across different node implementations and wasm engines. 

This project is inspired by the currently open RFP for **[Parachain Validation Conformance Testing](https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/docs/RFPs/Open/parachain_validation_conformance_testing.md)**

The ultimate/end goal is to define the baseline for the execution of parachain validation functions within a reasonable limits across different implementations. This will ensure that updating wasm engines, introducing new node implementations etc. can be done in a sane way without hoping for the best.

**Please see the official proposal document [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C44lIlpoQMDaGlni9XT-SXJUtT-Ei3Et1osFoa-1W-g). Any feedback or comments are highly appreciated.**

About us: LimeChain is a blockchain development company founded in 2017 with a focus on building core blockchain infrastructure, developer tooling and dapps. We dove into the Polkadot ecosystem about 2 years ago with [Subsembly](https://github.com/LimeChain/subsembly) - a framework used to design and implement Substrate runtimes in AssemblyScript, again funded by the W3F. 
Some of the ecosystem work we’ve done involves the creation of Runtime from scratch and evolving it into fully capable frameworks for building Substrate Runtimes. Since the end of 2022, we are also actively working on [gosemble](https://github.com/LimeChain/gosemble) which is a framework for developing Substrate compatible Runtimes.

LimeChain is also leading the initiative for Polkadot Java host implementation and [research](https://github.com/LimeChain/java-host-research). This will further extend our knowledge of the PVFs and the specifics of their execution.

[Link](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1683) to the discussion.

Thanks on behalf of the whole LimeChain team!

Parachain Validation Conformance Testing

Talisman is a special digital wallet and website that helps users easily explore the Polkadot and Kusama networks, which are groups of connected blockchains. 

- It is made by the community and aims to give people control over their money and choices.
- Talisman wants to make using these networks simple and fun.
- The web app allows users to manage different digital assets like tokens and NFTs.
- Users can learn about new apps and services, like crowdloans and governance.
- Talisman's design makes it easier for people to stake their DOT, a type of digital currency.
- Many users find it easier to navigate than other wallets like Polkadot.js.
- The app is open source, meaning others can contribute and improve it.

Talisman (talisman.xyz) is a community-owned wallet and web application that enables users to “traverse the Paraverse” with ease. We believe in a future where everyone has freedom via true agency over their intentions and finances, and we believe that DotSama will bring this to fruition. 

For more on Talisman’s mission and approach, please see Agyle’s talk at Polkadot Decoded: [Polkadot Decoded 2022: Traverse the Paraverse: How Talisman is bringing multi-chain to the masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tZjVv70Jk)

And Jonathan’s talk about wallet UX at the Sub0 developer conference:
[Talisman: The UX Chronicles: How To Deliver A Substrate Experience To The Masses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xiMaDAEiQ)

Today, because of its early stage of development and complex multi-chain architecture, both Polkadot and Kusama are changing rapidly and the user experience (UX) can be confusing for end users. It’s our goal to solve that using design, storytelling, and engineering. We abstract away the complexity of underlying implementation and provide a friendly user experience when using DotSama and a way to discover new applications and services available to end users, while keeping them safe and educated about the actions they are taking.

In this proposal, we are seeking to fund improvements to Talisman Portal, Talisman’s “one stop shop” web application that enables users to discover and access Polkadot ecosystem activities with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. This is an open source dapp that supports multiple Polkadot Ecosystem wallets, including: Polkadot.js (500,000+ users), Talisman (20,000+ users), SubWallet (20,000+ users), and Enkrypt (20,000+ users).

The Talisman Portal is an open source dapp hosted at [https://app.talisman.xyz](https://app.talisman.xyz). It targets the Polkadot Adventurer, a crypto user who believes in the Polkadot vision and spends a large chunk of time exploring and participating in ecosystem activities, including:

- Viewing, managing and organizing multi-chain assets (tokens, NFTs) and accounts
- Generating a return on investment for their portfolio (we do not provide financial advice, but rather allow users to better understand their positions and opportunities)
- Discovering and participating new dapps and services available in the ecosystem, such as crowdloans (live) and governance (targeted for later in 2023)
- Education and learning about Polkadot, the ecosystem and dapps and services that are available

Directly enabled by the work in this proposal, includes the UX work around Talisman’s nomination pools, which has led to Talisman's nomination pool garnering the largest amount of DOT since launch (>1 million DOT). This is a testament to the simplicity of the staking experience provided by Portal, combined with our trusted brand for new and experienced users. We hope to continue to enable users to stake easily no matter how much or little DOT they have in their accounts.

More than just providing a feature set, Portal is designed with the user first, because UX and design are incredibly hard problems in a multi-chain and quickly-evolving environment. Polkadot Adventurers are committed to being in Polkadot, but they need trusted tools that simplify the experience and enable them to become evangelists that ultimately bring new users into the ecosystem.

The following feedback is from a recent user survey in Feb 2023 about Talisman Portal:

- “Being easy to use is why I recommend it to my normie frens”
- “I consider the strength to be viewing cross-chain assets all in one place”
- “Definitely better UI/UX and easier to use than Polkadot.js”
- “Awesome design and an essential tool for day to day use of Polkadot”
- “The super simple interface gives me peace of mind when dealing with my money”
- 90% consider staking easier to use than Polkadot.js or the most convenient way to stake DOT




The full proposal is [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OlJB4a2kcgWe-TZTC4ZR5cU9ZEIk8IoC85IJv2_2rdc/edit?usp=sharing).

This submission follows from the following forum discussion: [link](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1699)


Talisman Proposal: Portal Web Application supporting Nomination Pools and more - Milestone 1

- ETH Denver is an important event for the Ethereum community.
- It brings together people who are new to blockchain and those who are already experienced.
- The event helps connect developers and builders to share ideas and projects.
- Polkadot was a big sponsor last year and wants to sponsor even more this year.
- Several teams are involved in the event, including Astar, Unique Network, and Moonbeam.
- Polkadot plans to host a special mini summit during the event.
- More details about the event can be found in a linked document.

Contextual Information by the team, below:
###
ETH Denver, the flagship event of the Ethereum community draws in a lot of the active community as well as newcomers to the space. By showing up at ETHDenver awareness and builder and developer leads with high interest in blockchain are generated - newbies looking to build their first project and/or contribute to the tech stack, as well as teams already building in the Ethereum community and looking for new project opportunities. In addition to new leads, the event is a great opportunity to connect with those already familiar with Polkadot, and grow the relationship.

Polkadot successfully participated in last year’s edition as a Diamond sponsor, and organized several ETH Denver BUIDLWeek talk sessions. For this year’s event, the goal is to give Polkadot and the ecosystem teams even more visibility and to book a higher-level sponsorship package. The participation would encompass a Cypher sponsorship package, and a mini summit during BUIDLWeek.

The following teams have confirmed their participation at ETHDenver activities: **Astar, Unique Network, Phala Network, Zeitgeist, Gear, RMRK, OAK Network, Pendulum, Moonbeam, InvArch, Apillon, Crust, Acurast, Manta, Solang, DAM Finance.**

Further information on the proposal, including milestones, budget, agenda, participants and more can be found on [**THIS LINK!**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WUawdiqvX08wG-BNf0Jc2pYQROfGv7Xj2XZA5x-ofGY/edit)

Treasury Proposals