### High Performance Public Infrastructure Proposal (Q3 2022)

- **Proponent**: 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf
- **Date**: October 6, 2022
- **Requested DOT**: 16,274.212 (USD $112,454.80)
- **Description**: Funding for high-performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- **Motivation**: 
  - Reduce barriers to entry for high-performance nodes.
  - Scale existing projects with dependable infrastructure.
  - Provide data on validator node performance.
- **Service Details**:
  - Reduced prices by 30-40% for larger customers.
  - Onboarded Avalanche and Juno networks.
  - Achieved 99.94% uptime for Polkadot.
- **Enhancements**:
  - Introduced API Insights and cost optimizations.
  - Added support for Alibaba Cloud and new API plans.
  - Improved health metrics and recovery scripts.

Awarded

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022)

### Sequester

- **Purpose**: A toolkit for Polkadot chains to buy carbon-backed assets and retire carbon credits using transaction fees.
- **Functionality**: Aggregates transaction fees, exchanges them into carbon-backed tokens, and retires carbon offsets.
- **Partners**: Initial partner is Bitgreen, responsible for bridging carbon credits on-chain.
- **Development**: Funded by a Web3 Foundation (W3F) grant and part of the Substrate Builders Program (SBP).
- **Testing**: Will be tested on Rococo with partners W3F, Acala, and Bitgreen.
- **Common Good Chain**: Receives tokens from other chains' treasuries, swaps them into carbon-backed assets, and retires them on-chain.
- **Additional Info**: See the [Treasury Proposal Document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hfmXwe6Gli92YKr5J6BCffGWU9EmKUF-FkSbLs2w-OQ/edit#) for details.
- **Team**: Brendan, Ethan, and Daniel.

Sequester Common Good Chain - Milestone 1

### Proposal Summary

- This proposal is a follow-up to an earlier one from July, aiming to fund the development and maintenance of RPC services for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- The proposal includes one milestone: continuing to run these RPC services on dedicated hardware in Sweden.
- In Q3 2022, the Polkadot RPC node handled an average of 2,690,000 requests per day, totaling 250,200,000 requests.
- The Statemint RPC node handled an average of 74,300 requests per day, totaling 6,687,000 requests.
- The Westend RPC node handled an average of 43,700 requests per day, totaling 5,370,000 requests.
- A Polkadot boot node has been launched, tested, and added to the Polkadot binary, benefiting the community.
- The full proposal can be read [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7mLLmLj_TMF9lHOXYDKD_BMAUZBaAjUlgzQIRGYlUk/edit?usp=sharing).

 Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q4 2022

- **Proponent:** NicholasHong/Tribe/StackUp
- **Date:** October 2022
- **Project Allocation:** $80,000 USD
- **Requested Amount:** 4699 DOT (equivalent to $30,000 USD)
- **Project Description:** The StackUp Team conducted a Learn-and-Earn campaign for the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2022, aiming to onboard 150 developers into the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Campaign Format:** Developers earned rewards for completing bite-sized learning tasks called "quests."
- **Initial Allocation:** $50,000 USD was already allocated and used for the campaign.
- **Outcome:** The campaign was successful, and the remaining $30,000 USD is now requested to conclude the project.

Request for Second Allocation: Learn-and-Earn for Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2022

### Summary of Polkadot's Web Summit Participation Proposal

- **Objective**: Polkadot aims to attend the Web Summit to promote web3 and Polkadot blockchain.
- **Funding**: Seeking Treasury funds to cover part of the Web Summit costs; other costs will be covered by participating companies.
- **Importance**: Attending major conferences with key web2 players and tech companies is crucial for web3 mass adoption.
- **Benefits**:
  - Attract attention to web3 and Polkadot.
  - Showcase decentralized technologies.
  - Facilitate mass adoption of web3.
  - Create new partnership opportunities.
  - Appeal to potential investors.
  - Expand the Polkadot community.
- **Strategy**: Presence at the Web Summit sends a strong signal to the web3 and web communities.
- **Details**: Full proposal with calculations and details is available in a Google Doc.
- **Booth Development**: The booth is in active development and almost complete.
- **Call for Support**: Inviting more Parachains and projects to join the initiative to showcase decentralized technologies.

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot on WebSummit

- The team completed their grant application for a conference that was a great success.
- The event educated the public about cryptocurrencies, with Polkadot being a key focus.
- The conference helped connect Czech communities interested in cryptocurrencies.
- The updated grant application can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVUaw6EgLqvkQMDE4HOh5X7U2sKNn1Z1ObS1yBV3DIM/edit?usp=sharing).

UTXO.22

### Polkadot Treasury Proposal (July 2022 - September 2022)

- **Term**: 1 July 2022 to 30 September 2022
- **Purpose**: Extension of maintenance & support contract for Polkadot Ecosystem.
- **Organization**: Polkascan Foundation, a not-for-profit infrastructure service provider.
- **Activities**: Maintenance of Python libraries initially funded by Web3 Foundation.
- **Usage**: Python libraries used by projects like LocalCoinSwap, Rotki, and Patract Labs.
- **Reports**: Detailed activity reports available for previous months and quarters.
- **Further Details**: Social Contract Mechanism and Business Plan available for reference.
- **Contact**: Available to answer questions from the Polkadot Council.

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

### Proposal Summary

- **Teams Involved**: Bitgreen, Sequester, and Evercity.
- **Objective**: Measure and report the carbon footprint of Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- **Goal**: Offset emissions with carbon credits from the Dotsama ecosystem.
- **Previous Work**: Sequester received a W3F grant to develop a pallet for converting treasury funds into carbon credits.
- **New Proposal**: Develop a methodology and reporting standard for measuring electricity consumption and emissions.
- **Deliverables**: Open-source dashboard and treasury-to-carbon credits pallet.
- **Support**: Several parachain teams (Acala, Astar, Interlay, Bifrost, Kilt) are backing the proposal.
- **Timeline**: Dashboard and initial audit to be completed by November, with full implementation in early 2023.

Greening the Polkadot Network – Step 2 (Network Carbon Audit)

- **Event**: NFT event at UNESCO HQ in Paris, France.
- **Dates**: November 25-26.
- **Purpose**: Showcase NFT experiences on the Polkadot Network.
- **Exhibition**: Ubiquitous NFT exhibition (IRL, virtual, and on 1,600 video billboards across France).
- **Discussion**: Roundtable on environment, art, blockchain, and Polkadot solutions.
- **Audience**: General public, UNESCO delegations, galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and artists.
- **Technologies**: Experiences built on Unique, Moonbeam, and RMRK.
- **Panel**: Parity will join to discuss Polkadot initiatives.

NFT exhibition about environment at UNESCO HQ, Paris

### Polkadot Summit Summary

- **Event**: Polkadot Summit
- **Date**: November 3, 2022
- **Location**: Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
- **Tracks**: Business and Technical
- **Purpose**: Educate about Polkadot Network developments
- **Confirmed Speakers**: Teams like Parity, Astar, Acala, and more
- **Proposal**: [Link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JCQCBFXDV84X-6r6EwWhhKTvsoYm-sVkZw7OssKAmlk/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1)
- **Requested DOT**: 7400 DOTs (approx. USD $47,215)

Proposal: San Francisco Blockchain Week Polkadot Summit 

**Dot.alert() Proposal Summary**

- **Proponent:** 12uokSRn2hmEWPZuzHK1xqnFxRgyoApLtXRBd4jFan2x2T1P
- **Date:** 12.09.2022
- **Requested Funds:** 2,493 DOT (about $18,840)
- **Purpose:** To fund the operation of Dot.alert(), a knowledgebase for safe asset management in the DotSama ecosystem.
- **Challenges Addressed:** Complex technologies like Relay chains, Parachains, and Cross-chain transactions pose risks such as fund transfer errors and phishing.
- **Dot.alert() Role:** Provides practical guidelines to help users manage their assets safely.
- **Proposal Details:** Includes milestones, targets, tasks, and costs for October to December 2022.
- **Full Proposal:** Available in a Google Docs document.

Treasury proposal: Dot.alert() operational costs

**YieldBay**

- YieldBay aims to simplify liquidity provision and yield farming in the Dotsama ecosystem.
- It addresses information asymmetry, making it easier for users to find and participate in liquidity pools and yield farms.
- The platform helps protocols attract more liquidity by improving discoverability.
- A proof-of-concept is live at [list.yieldbay.io](https://list.yieldbay.io), with over 350 visitors.
- Within a week of launch, YieldBay received listing requests from five protocols.
- This submission focuses on the first milestone; future milestones will be submitted separately.

YieldBay Proposal: Listing platform for all dotsama liquidity pools and yield farms

- **Proposal by Sota Watanabe**: Founder of Astar Network, on behalf of 21 projects, seeks $25k for a Polkadot event at Token2049 in Asia.
- **Event Details**: Token2049 is a major crypto event with over 3000 attendees. The proposed Polkadot event aims to strengthen the Polkadot brand in Asia.
- **Participating Projects**: 21 projects, including Astar, Acala, Ajuna, and others, will either attend or visit Singapore for the event.
- **Event Objective**: To showcase Polkadot's ecosystem unity and enhance its brand presence in Asia.
- **Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)**: Aim for 300+ registrations and 200+ attendees.
- **Event Page**: The event is already listed on Eventbrite, with over 300 registrations.
- **Requested DOT**: 3360 DOT, based on the average DOT price of $7.44 over the last 7 days.

Proposal: Polkadot Singapore Event During Token2049

### EasyA x Polkadot Hackathon Summary

- **Event:** EasyA x Polkadot Hackathon held on 30-31 July in London.
- **Participants:** 250 students from 30 universities.
- **Projects:** 27 projects were created.
- **Education:** Participants learned to build parachains/dApps in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Awareness:** The hackathon raised awareness among thousands of new student developers.
- **Documentation:** Full details of the event, successes, and learnings are documented [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10GTdZby0vj1qrmmUKrmWpat2XDsB7W38i52gfTdq668/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Reimbursement Request:** Requesting $40,000 for Milestone 2 to reward winners and cover final costs, with prizes in DOT.
- **Future Plans:** Aiming to continue bringing more students into the Polkadot ecosystem.

Milestone 2 Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon for 200 Students and Educators

### Kampela Proposal Summary

- **Project Name**: Kampela
- **Purpose**: Design an open-source hardware storage device for the dotsama ecosystem.
- **Features**: 
  - Card-shaped device with an e-paper screen and NFC port.
  - Cryptographic strongbox supporting elliptic curves used in Substrate.
  - Low-cost (below €100) and single-purpose.
- **Comparison**: Similar to Parity Signer but with reduced attack surface and simplified UI.
- **Functionality**: 
  - Supports SURI account derivation, transaction preview, and metadata updates.
  - Can replace Parity Signer by providing signatures via QR codes.
- **Production**: Focus on preliminary development, not actual production.
- **Previous Discussion**: Proposal was previously posted in Discussions.
- **Milestones**: Includes reports for Milestone 1 and Milestone 2.

Hardware signer and key storage Kampela: Milestones 1&2

### SubWallet Proposal Summary

- **NFT Support**: Added for Kusama and Statemine.
- **Cross-chain Assets**: Supported for Statemine and Statemint.
- **Transactions History**: Integrated with SubQuery and Subsquid.
- **Crowdloan and Staking**: Information now available.
- **Custom Networks**: Users can add their own networks.
- **XCM Transfers**: Integrated for cross-chain transfers.
- **Light Client**: Integrated with Substrate Connect.
- **Community Growth**: Over 6500 members across Twitter, Telegram, and Discord.

Milestone 2: SubWallet Proposes to Build the Web3 Multiverse Gateway for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem

### PolkaWorld Social Contract with Polkadot Treasury

- **Purpose**: To cover community operation costs from Sep 2022 to Nov 2022.
- **Community**: PolkaWorld is the Polkadot community in China with over 50,000 followers.
- **History**: Established in 2019, collaborated with Polkadot ecosystem and Web3 Foundation.
- **Funding**: Received W3F community grant from 2019 to 2021.
- **Treasury Contract**: Made a social contract with Polkadot Treasury in June 2021, received funds 5 times.
- **Details**: Milestones, tasks, and budget for the next 3 months are detailed [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12o8-i64KsxA2KGnuJg3SUghprqGKUteCAHy8TkqKvNo/edit#).
- **Feedback**: Open to advice and feedback from the community and councilors.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2022.9 - 2022.11

### Polkadot and Decentralization
- Polkadot and Substrate-built blockchains aim for decentralized computing.
- Decentralization depends on deployment and operation by the community.
- Polkadot Relay Chain is currently centralized in terms of region, computing network, and node operators.

### Polkawatch
- Polkawatch is a tool to measure decentralization in Polkadot's validation process.
- It went into production in Q2 2022.

### Proposal
- The proposal seeks funding for Q3 2022 to continue operations and improve software and infrastructure.
- Detailed proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hh1Vjn2tPwx2fAPFoY5WfOeltEJy-B-1HlukPSHLTI0/edit?usp=sharing).
- Community feedback is discussed in this [post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1212).

Polkadot decentralization analytics, Continued Operation and Improvements.

### Summary of Polkadot Infrastructure Proposal

- **Proponent**: 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf
- **Date**: August 11, 2022
- **Requested DOT**: 12,471.517 (USD $100,383.24)
- **Purpose**: Funding for running high-performance infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- **Performance**: Achieved 99.98% uptime for Polkadot and Statemint, and 99.99% for Westend.
- **Data Served**: Over 12 billion responses and 85 TB of data egress.
- **High Demand**: Highest daily response was 224 million in a single day.
- **Historical Data**: Total responses for Polkadot since November 2020 is over 65 billion.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2 2022)

- Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) offers global blockchain training and certification since 2017.
- BTA is creating a Substrate-specific course to teach developers how to build on Polkadot.
- The course covers Polkadot platform, governance, treasury process, and coding in lab environments.
- Technologies taught include Polkadotjs, Substrate, WASMI, libp2p, Rust, and more.
- The 20-hour course is free and available on the BTA website.
- A certification exam is offered at the end to validate skills for building on Polkadot.

Substrate Training Course and Certification

### OpenSquare Summary

- **Beneficiary**: OpenSquare (12sNU8BXivMj1xQmcd4T39ugCyHjmhir8jkPqfAw5ZDESrx4)
- **Date**: 07/20/2022
- **Requested Allocation**: $143,760 (18,854 DOT)

#### Delivered Features
1. **Child Bounties**: Implemented for dotreasury and subsquare.
2. **Subsquare Polkadot Integration**: Data indexing and basic setup.
3. **Statescan On-chain NFT Metadata Support**: Added support for on-chain NFT metadata.

#### New Features Plan
1. **Dotreasury**: Web3-oriented development, Dapp features, and more statistics.
2. **Subsquare**: Sync with Polkassembly, subscription and notification, user profile page, and enhancements.
3. **Off-chain Voting**: Space creation and configuration, in-site notifications.

#### Total Budget
- **Delivered Features**: $38,160
- **Dotreasury New Features**: $44,800
- **Subsquare New Features**: $34,560
- **Off-chain Voting New Features**: $26,240
- **Total**: $143,760

OpenSquare treasury proposal for develiered features and new features development for dotreasury, subsquare and statescan

### Summary of the amsterDOT Hackathon Proposal

- **Event**: 8-week online hackathon focused on Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- **Teams**: Organized by 8 teams, offering 20 bounties.
- **Categories**: Includes an "Open Category" for "anything Dotsama."
- **Rewards**: 
  - Teams provided up to $190k.
  - Polkadot Treasury added a $150k prize pool.
- **Jury**: 7 teams from the ecosystem distributed the Treasury prize.
- **Submissions**: 13 out of 14 eligible submissions received rewards.
- **Winning Project**: Morph, an XCM tool for cross-chain transfers.

AmsterDOT Hack

- **Event**: amsterDOT Conf was a 4-day conference held in Amsterdam from April 20-23, 2022.
- **Organizers**: The event was co-organized by 10 teams from the Polkadot and Kusama parachain ecosystems.
- **Venues**: The conference took place at 3 different venues in Amsterdam.
- **Attendees**: There were 356 attendees at the event.
- **Talks**: 32 conference talks were recorded during the event.
- **Workshops**: 13 workshops were conducted.
- **Community Impact**: The event strengthened community bonds and was seen as a successful collaboration within the ecosystem.
- **Proposal**: The proposal seeks to reimburse the costs of organizing amsterDOT Conf.

AmsterDOT Conf

**Substrate Evangelist Program**

- Oneblock plans to fund and motivate Substrate evangelists to grow the developer community and promote the technology.
- The program aims to expand the Substrate developer community globally and contribute to the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Substrate has gained significant influence in China's blockchain community, contributing to Polkadot's growth.
- The program received 125 applicants from 14 countries by March 5th.
- A kickoff meeting was held on April 9th, featuring speakers from Web3 Foundation and Parity Asia Pacific.
- Substrate evangelists have been promoting the ecosystem since April, with details available in a linked document.

Proposal of Substrate Evangelist Program

### Summary of Proposal

- This proposal is for paying infrastructure costs of the Polkadot network and its testnets.
- It covers costs from January 1, 2022, to June 30, 2022.
- Costs include GCP, Datadog, and Cloudflare services.
- The total amount requested is 50,814 USD, which will be converted to DOT based on the EMA7 price.
- Future billing times will be unified for easier community management.
- Detailed billing information is available in a linked document.

Treasury Proposals