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

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

Awarded

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

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

**Requested Allocation:** $50,000

*DOT amount calculated via EMA7 on 15 February 2023 at GMT+0 1100hrs: 1 DOT ~ USD$6.27. USD$50,000 ~ 7974.4817 DOT

**Proponent:** EasyA 5FQqvRHgBEUZG17qs9cNFH6ZSSVyAwhb7D6dKjGWb8xgKFkP

**Short Description:** EasyA is developing a crash course for developers educating them on Polkadot and its parachains/projects. EasyA will then hold 2 in-person hackathons in world-leading hubs London, UK and Boston, US for developers to participate in the final showdown and showcase what they’ve learnt. We aim to get 1,000 developers completing the crash course fully, and 400 developers to our 2 in-person hackathons. The goal: educate thousands of developers on Polkadot, reach millions on social media, and get #60DaysOfPolkadot trending in developer communities worldwide!
This builds on the massive success of the original ['Hello World' Polkadot Gitcoin challenges](https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/polkadot/), which kickstarted the whole Polkadot developer community.

This proposal is supported by the Acala, Astar, Composable, and Moonbeam parachains, as well as ecosystem projects including Subsquid, Gear and others. All ecosystem teams are welcomed to get involved too!

**Objectives:**
* Educate 1,000 developers on Polkadot and the ecosystem
* Produce 100 new projects on Polkadot and parachains by the end of the hackathon series
* Maximise the quality of submissions at Polkadot hackathons
* Increase awareness and adoption of Polkadot and parachains
* Introduce individuals to programming on Polkadot and parachains
* Create long-lasting content to benefit newcomers to Polkadot and parachains

**See the proposal link [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dgfiAwKU3cM-2MmWfCkULHNZYlrMU9ayJ5oDKvmZMQQ/edit?usp=sharing)**!

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

**The Kusamarian Proposal Summary**

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

The Kusamarian - 6 Month Maintenance Funding

### Summary of Polkawatch Updates

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

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

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

As per the discussion [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1561), Encode Club is requesting tranche 1 of 5834.21 DOT (£30k, based on the 30 day EMA on [Subscan](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price)) to cover an 8-event online education series and 4-week online hackathon.

The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1msKUzE5xK6Y1pV3b0dA_J2pWJt3ecYiG0OXjFpz5K6Y/edit#slide=id.g179c6775f75_0_7).

A reminder of the tranches:

Now: £30k for 8 event online educate series and 1st online hackathon

April: £25k to pay hackathon prizes and run 2nd online hackathon

July: £70k to pay 2nd hackathon prizes and run an in-person hackathon

October: £40k to pay in-person hackathon prizes, run a 3rd online hackathon and accelerator

December: £10k to pay 3rd online hackathon prizes

Encode Club 2023 Proposal Tranche 1

- Hitesh from Describedot creates educational videos about the Dotsama ecosystem.
- They started a year ago and have made 34 videos, getting about 30,000 views.
- They got support from Polkadot and Kusama Council Members.
- They noticed people needed help understanding governance and networks, so they made basic videos.
- Their main goal is to teach the Polkadot stack and governance in simple Hindi.
- They got their first milestone covered by WagMedia and want to continue with a spending proposal.
- You can learn more about their proposal in a document.
- They are happy to answer any questions from the community.

This is a treasury proposal whose proposer address (16SQBktFAXs3LgPtvCSZ7HUmw588MRrfPnuU1cC4cfm3atZ1) is shown in on-chain info below. Only this user can edit this description and the title. If you own this account, login and tell us more about your proposal.

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

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

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

Polkadot Hub proposes educational activities for 2023 aimed at the development of the dev community and projects on Polkadot and Kusama, continue to educate existing users of the network and integrate new ones into the ecosystem

.1.- Development of the Spanish Developer Community through educational programmes aimed at teaching Substrate technology, Ink and Rust programming language to support and generate new projects for the Polkadot and Kusama Ecosystem. The possibility of taking the Rust, Ink! and Substrate courses in Spanish will give participants a global understanding of the framework and language on which Polkadot technology is based and will allow them to develop projects in the ecosystem.

2.- Development of educational video tutorials about Polkadot and Kusama. Community online sessions.

3.- Build the first complete Polkadot Js guide in Spanish

[Link full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGmcx-j0wGhcGuJFkxtEG1pfx9KlKCaUwjktpAa9cZ8/edit)

[Link Dicussion](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1547)

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

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

Talisman (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.

This proposal is for a business-friendly multisig frontend to lower the difficulty for teams and businesses when running their financial operations on Polkadot. Teams currently face many difficulties when trying to perform these operations, risking mistakes along the way, and leading them to choose convenience over security. We will apply Talisman’s UX and design philosophy to create improvements for standard workflows for Polkadot multisig usage (based on the current multisig pallet), and eventually integrate upgrades when improvements to the multisig pallet itself are available.

We have spoken to a number of stakeholders in the ecosystem and have strong validation for our proposed solution:
- “Creating child bounties in pjs is time consuming and error prone, you have our full support” - Zoe Mechbach, VP, Phala Network
- “We will definitely use it because we need it!” - Shun P, Head of Ops and Finance, Astar
- “We would use it for sure” - Dennis & Alexandra, CTO & Marketing Director, Bitgreen
- “If there was a multisig with better UX that allowed us to craft and verify multisig transactions faster we'd use it” Bruno, Founder, RMRK
- “If you can improve the UX to make it easier for non-technical users to initiate and safely sign transactions, we will switch” - Daniel, Founder, Tapio

The full proposal is [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KohKDEYypNw_KJING2_uHXnC0LJwUxpPHMzBRfrH68M/edit?usp=sharing).

This submission follows from the following forum discussion: 
https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1569

Talisman Proposal: Business-Friendly Polkadot MultiSig

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

Dear Polkadot community,

We are TeachMeDeFi, a German language hub for web3 education, founded in 2022. Our mission is to deliver high-quality educational resources and foster a thriving community of web3 users, with a focus on simplifying and promoting decentralized technologies through our content and partnerships. We have already made significant strides in this mission and our portfolio thus far includes podcasts, interviews, educational videos, a community hub and a structured website.

We understand that bringing more awareness to Polkadot and doing more professional, targeted marketing has been a topic of discussion in the community and many have requested it as it has been somewhat lacking, even though the technological progress of Polkadot has been impressive. Furthermore, it has been a topic of discussion that diving into the Polkadot ecosystem can be complicated for new users.

This is why we are submitting a funding proposal to support the creation and promotion of content in order to increase awareness of the Polkadot ecosystem, reach a wider audience and significantly simplify the onboarding journey for new users.

We have already received support from key players in the Polkadot community and are excited to share our proposal.

You can read the full proposal document [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RNESvTjTVY1KUMkb1q6vJ5yrw5O-oZ8J2itQfJnRuQ/edit?usp=sharing) (live google doc) or [here](https://crustipfs.art/ipfs/QmRLHMXg3EFCS7J2MjmaDpnqLtt1SFPsgWF9unqR44vS2z) (ipfs pdf doc).

In this document, we describe in detail (1) the challenge Polkadot is facing, (2) the unique opportunity that the German language market represents and (3) the solution we propose which consists of several deliverables and a targeted marketing strategy.

You can find the original discussion post with feedback from the community [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1560).

Thank you for your consideration,

The TeachMeDeFi Team

Proposal by TeachMeDeFi for a German Educational Platform for Polkadot

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

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

[YieldBay](https://list.yieldbay.io/) is a yield farm aggregator for the dotsama ecosystem. Our goal with YieldBay is two-fold:

1. To reduce information asymmetry and lower the barrier to entry for liquidity providers and yield farmers
2. To make it easier for protocols to acquire liquidity for their token pools


This is a follow-up to [our previous treasury proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fssDqgPtIjdwO0XfJW5po94JHMf1ozdjeLwM2a40zJ8/edit?usp=sharing) ([Motion #262](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/262) on Polkassembly) to build further on our goal of reducing information asymmetry in finding and participating in liquidity pools and yield farms in the dotsama ecosystem.

As outlined in our previous proposal's problem statement and illustrated below in the screenshot of feedback from community members — participating in yield farms in the dotsama ecosystem is a tedious and time consuming process.

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/nL86ZKgm/collage.png" width="400px" alt="Information asymmetry in finding and participating in liquidity pools and yield farms" />


With our previous proposal, we built an aggregated list of yield farms, which allows users to discover all major yield farms across the ecosystem and allows protocols to increase visibility of their liquidity pools and yield farms. The current version of this product is live on [https://list.yieldbay.io/](https://list.yieldbay.io)

In this proposal, we are seeking to fund the development of an aggregated yield farming dashboard to allow users to participate in dotsama yield farms as well as monitor and manage their positions from one central location.

<br />

**Progress so far:**

- [YieldBay list](https://list.yieldbay.io), the yield farm listing platform funded by the Polkadot Treasury as [Motion #262](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/262) on Polkassembly tracks over **$92M+ TVL** across **15 protocols**
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/HayNXAN.png" width="300px" alt="YB List Metrics" />
- The platform has had **4.3k** unique visitors who spent an average time of over **3min** on the site
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/UT5Mu23.png" width="600px" alt="YB List Metrics" />

**NOTE:** This submission is only for the first milestone. We shall make separate submissions for payment of the remaining milestones upon completion of delivery.

Please see the [full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GQQOEZ3ZW3wQ9GH0fv7na8evmBcBc_Tamf2ulor2bqI/edit?usp=sharing).

YieldBay Proposal Phase 2: Yield Farming Dashboard for Dotsama

- **Ishita-** is the founder of **PolkaSafe**.
- She has a background in engineering and finance.
- She has been working in the crypto VC space for the last two years.
- Ishita became active in the DAO ecosystem and noticed a lack of user-friendly Multisig UX in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- PolkaSafe aims to build a user-friendly Multisig wallet UI for these ecosystems.
- The goal is to improve the UX for managing and transferring tokens in the Dotsama ecosystem.
- PolkaSafe is being built on top of Polkadot{.js}'s security backbone.
- The full proposal can be read [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJyqo9Py3Tv_N9nw3D1Ggpkxk0ZfHuT9NnnIwMdv1pU/edit?usp=sharing).

This is a treasury proposal whose proposer address (165Yiqn1n5EHqfAGyP9suwPAkFngwihBsUiVpkcD6e4R9wgd) is shown in on-chain info below. Only this user can edit this description and the title. If you own this account, login and tell us more about your proposal.

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

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

Dear Polkadot community and Councilors, 

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

[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** on all popular browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge) in February 2022 and keep releasing our product updates on a [bi-weekly basis](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Extension/releases).

**While using the browser extension, our community constantly asked about a more convenient mobile app**, which can provide them with a homogenous wallet experience in the whole Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem, and we listened. At the moment, there hasn’t been a native wallet on the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem that offers this **comprehensive and consistent multi-platform experience from Extension through to Mobile** to users. That is why we decided to start building the SubWallet Mobile App in June 2022.

**This is SubWallet Mobile App's 1st proposal for Milestone 1 - 20 Weeks: From July 2022 to October 2022 (which is completed):**


- Full proposal for Milestone 1 with a detailed description, costs, tractions, and future plans: [Link ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16phPsThpob4cQqvqsNIv-jVN1IWbrklS-LF6--pqm7Y/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1)
- More details and progress: [Link](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Mobile/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed)
- Community Dicussion: [Link](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1493)
 
**Complete set of the proposal: ([See proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16phPsThpob4cQqvqsNIv-jVN1IWbrklS-LF6--pqm7Y/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1))** </br>

- Mobile App Architecture Design
- React Native Core Module (Android & iOS)
- Basic React Native Element (Android & iOS)
- Basic Features: Account Management, Send & Receive Assets, XCM Transfer,... (Android & iOS)
- NFT Feature: Display, Send (Android & iOS)
- Crowdloan Feature (Android & iOS)
- Staking Feature (Android & iOS)
- In-App Browser (Android & iOS)
- Performance Optimization (Android & iOS)
- And [more here](https://github.com/Koniverse/SubWallet-Mobile/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue)
 
**Our tractions as of Jan 2023**

- 140+ networks supported (relaychains, parachains & solochains) in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem
- Browser extension: 38,000+ organic installs on Chrome Store & Firefox Store.
- The mobile app is in the public testing phase on both iOS and Android. 3,000+ installs (**[Link](https://twitter.com/subwalletapp/status/1587403200105451520)**)
- Our users come from 100+ countries.
- 8000+ community members on Twitter, Telegram, and Discord
- A member of the Substrate Builders Program
- Working with 100+ teams in the ecosystem with the ultimate goal of bringing the best UI/UX for users. 

We would love to hear feedback/recommendations from the community and Councils.



**All the best,**

**SubWallet Team**

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

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

**Proponent:** 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf

**Date:**  25th January 2023

**Requested DOT:**  10,859.582767 (USD $67,459.73)

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

**Raw Data:** [Polkadot Data Q4 2022](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z5ayTVPj_cbw9ewQPUQIsE3EmM9fHAadVKJgWoVwuPo/edit#gid=1173353638)

**Full Report is here:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBjcxgdhu6NnfhtrprJcnqvr-KM8H2Twq45rgJ9mDkM/edit?usp=sharing](url)

* * * * *

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

Over the last 3 months (October, November, December 2022) we've provided a scalable free public API service so that everyone can access public pools of managed Polkadot, Statemint, Westend, 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 infrastructure  services that can be depended on

-   Assist with the testing of all networks by providing valuable data back to the community on how validator nodes are running and scaling as the network traffic increases (we've made GitHub issues based on behaviour we've observed)

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

During Q4 of 2022, we've made a large number of stability improvements to our Ultimate API service. We've finished significant work on advanced rate limiting on behalf of our customers. This means that we can continue to provide generous public API endpoints for over 40 different networks for common-good applications, but restrict access to high volume users that abuse this free service. We've been able to manage our costs significantly on behalf of our customers as a result.

For customers that do sign up for paid API keys, we've been adding more and more features to provide a better experience. API access restrictions allow our customers to restrict their API keys to work only from 'Allowed' origins and/or IP addresses, preventing unauthorised consumption of their service. We also provide more detailed monitoring of failed requests through our service to help customers identify and fix bugs before they get to production.

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 2022-10-01 and 2022-12-31 our Polkadot API service has:

-   **Reduced cost to the Polkadot treasury by almost 50% from Q3** (Q4 was a slower period however our continued infra optimisations have had a significant impact on costs)

-   Served a total of 6.7 billion responses

-   Accumulated over 79.6 TB of data egress 

-   The highest daily total was 126 million responses in a single 24 hour period for Polkadot only

-   Our rolling 7 day average at the end of this period was over 73.5 million responses each day.

-   Westend had over 175 million API responses in the period

-   Statemint had over 160 million API responses in the period

-   All time totals for Polkadot is 93,192,546,788 (93 Billion) since November, 2020

-   At the end of this period the 90 day uptime for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend was 99.86%, 99.99%, and 100%

**Note that we have added support for the Encointer common good parachain for the first time in this proposal.** We have supported Encointer since the 9th of February 2022 but as a contribution to the ecosystem, we've been proud to provide over 7 months of free support at our own cost. From subsequent quarters, we expect to support more common good chains and include them in these proposals.

Enhancements
===============

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

-   [API Access Restrictions ](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-rolls-out-three-new-features-on-its-enhanced-api-service/)--- a new security feature to help you securely manage access to your OnFinality API endpoints

-   [Detailed Error type breakdowns](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-rolls-out-three-new-features-on-its-enhanced-api-service/) on your API Insights dashboard

-   A new [Integration tab](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-rolls-out-three-new-features-on-its-enhanced-api-service/) to help you get connected quickly

-   Support for more Polkadot parachains

-   [New enhanced deployment automation processes](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-delivers-new-network-automation-tools-for-web3-developers-to-build-smarter/) to allow our network partners to automate deployment of their networks with OnFinality

-   Support for [Ethereum](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinalitys-highly-scalable-rpc-api-helps-ethereum-scale-faster-than-ever/)

-   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 is here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBjcxgdhu6NnfhtrprJcnqvr-KM8H2Twq45rgJ9mDkM/edit?usp=sharing](url)

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2022)

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

This is a follow-up proposal on what we submitted [in mid-October last year](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/177#88ca13f3-fd36-4772-8f0a-25bf109ba9f0), to further fund the development of the RPC services and to cover the maintenance costs of it.

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 Tunisia.


### Report from Q4 2022

- During Q4 2022 our Polkadot RPC node served on average **5,291,405** requests per day, and in total we served **486,809,279** requests. 
- During Q4 2022 our Statemint RPC node served on average **411,342** requests per day, and in total we served **37,843,427** requests. 
- During Q4 2022 our Westend RPC node served on average **56,764** requests per day, and in total we served **5,222,275** requests. 

Since our last proposal we have launched a [cluster in Tunisia](https://twitter.com/DwellirOfficial/status/1610539637583536128?s=20&t=2XsNIazwTRxOSXbhDJQ6XA), North Africa. The nodes in Tunisia are in production. 

Our full proposal can be [read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ahopx0ALXjxuf0JEod-JFEelP_EcxQZp9kWIWVKhPkY/edit?usp=sharing).


**DOT price is based on EMA7 on the day of the submission: $6.068/DOT.**

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q1 2023

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

Messari is looking to renew its [existing engagement](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/79) with Polkadot continuing to provide recurring research while expanding the scope and including more governance-specific work.

From this time last year, we have 3x our headcount with a team of over 150 after raising a Seris B led by Brevan Howard Digital. We’ve used that to significantly scale our research, data science, and engineering resources to build out our quarterly reporting and research capabilities. This has enabled us to bring all of our research in-house so we can have dedicated sector-specific analysts assigned to each protocol to cover them each quarter and continue to build up expertise.

We have also been working extensively on growing the distribution of these reports to further their reach and have signed deals with Bloomberg, S&P Global, and Refinitiv three of the largest traditional research platforms which are now distributing our quarterly reports.

We are proposing a continuation of the ecosystem-wide report along with quarterly reports while adding a governance deep dive. The total will be $190k payable in DOT with the same 10% premium to account for market volatility.

You can find more details in the [full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14eA2ZQhxru51xY2KeOtzN31Z9cT7blas_4sXWCNKfew/edit#) as well as the [forum discussion](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1521). 

Continuation of work through Messari Protocol Services

- Smoldot is a special program for using the Polkadot network.
- It uses less computer power, memory, and internet data.
- Smoldot can work within a webpage, letting people connect easily.
- It helps create a blockchain that is decentralized, meaning it's not controlled by one person.
- The creator, Tomaka, is asking for money to keep smoldot running and to make it better.
- He wants feedback on this proposal before asking for funds.

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 seeking financing for the maintenance and development of smoldot through treasury proposals. This post is here to gather your feedback on the proposal before submission on chain.

You can find all the details of the proposal here:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/13MXkfPbxorqUgvKbZfD31HhHcpuXDMRYbIYGjpbCOuA/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13MXkfPbxorqUgvKbZfD31HhHcpuXDMRYbIYGjpbCOuA/edit)

Thank you for reading

Tomaka

Treasury proposal: smoldot development financing

- Jörg Oechssler is a professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
- He studies experimental economics and is interested in auction theory.
- He was contacted by researchers to study a special auction used by Polkadot for parachain slots.
- Not much research has been done on this auction format, so he is conducting a laboratory experiment.
- The experiment will involve university students, who will be paid for their participation.
- He is requesting 5720 EUR to pay the students and cover some fees, with no money going to him or his team.
- The goal is to publish the findings in a scientific journal.


Hello everyone

I am [Jörg Oechssler](https://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/professuren/with2/joerg_oechssler.html), Professor at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and I conduct experimental economic research as part of my job. I am generally interested in auction theory and have been approached by W3F researchers some time ago to investigate the exotic candle auction format that is employed by Polkadot to allocate parachain slots. Not much has been done in academia so far to measure this novel approach and how well the mechanism performs. We spent some time preparing a rigorous design to mimic the environment that the auctions take place, while keeping mechanisms and influences controllable.

Our method of choice is to analyze the auction in a laboratory experiment with students from the university. It is common practice in the field of experimental economics to test theories/models with students and pay them to participate.

With this proposal, I request **5720 EUR** (DOT rate to be calculated based on 7 day EMA rate: https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price)) to pay those participants. **100% of the funds requested are to pay the students** (and to cover some exchange fees). Neither I, nor my team members receive any compensation from this proposal. All remaining funds will be send back to Treasury after the study ends. We are ready to start the experiment as soon as funds arrive. The experimental software is already programmed and we ran a pilot successfully.

The goal of this study is to publish it in a peer-reviewed journal.

Please find much more details on the background, design, and budget --> [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pMbE0TvXfU-f9ZVncXbXeF05my5pfn-NR9lSg9ZLL5s/edit?usp=sharing) <--

Team Members:

* Jörg Oechssler (University of Heidelberg) - Beneficiary of the Proposal
* Jonas Gehrlein (Web3 Foundation)
* Samuel Haefner (University of St.Gallen, formerly Web3 Foundation)
* Florian Franzen (Web3 Foundation) 

- FT rate EUR to USD: EUR 5,720 = USD 6179,80
- 7 day EMA rate for DOT: 5.60 USD
- Total allocation requested: 1103.57 DOT

Experimental Analysis of the Candle Auction for Academic Research

- Tribe/AngelHack is asking for $302,000 to help with their project.
- They want to use this money to hold hackathons in Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC) in 2023.
- This project is part of the Polkadot Hackathon series, which has happened before in different places.
- The goal is to help more people learn about Web3 and connect with each other.
- The first hackathon in Europe will be from January 25 to February 17, 2023.
- There will also be a social event in Paris on March 22, 2023.
- The APAC hackathon will take place from June 21 to July 14, 2023, with another event in Seoul on August 9, 2023.

**Proponent:** Tribe/AngelHack 13Ghf2T883ZobjngC1BAgR1BWvK2P7qP37gGxHDVFf3fjbmw

**Requested Allocation:** USD$302,000

**Conversion:** $302,000 USD ~ 54,151.967 DOT*

*DOT calculated via EMA7 on the day of the official submission, 16 Jan 2023, at 07:54:48 (+UTC) - 1 DOT ~ 5.576 USD.

### **Overview**
Following the successes of Polkadot Hackathon: [APAC](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17pt8-q9s8Q5bxZHCBUY3jQAoUX7OWRiiYyX_Xq8CS4g/edit?usp=sharing) and [North America](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/117) Editions (in collaboration with Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies) in 2021 and 2022 respectively, AngelHack proposes to launch two Polkadot Global Series in Europe and APAC regions in 2023.

The next edition aims to continue bridging gaps in the Web3 space, by actively engaging the community, forging stronger connections within the ecosystem, as well as onboarding more developers onto Polkadot.

### **Summary of Events**

**Polkadot Hackathon: Europe Edition:** 25 Jan 2023 – 17 Feb 2023

**dotSocial: Paris:** 22 March 2023

**Polkadot Hackathon: APAC Edition:** 21 June 2023 – 14 July 2023

**dotSocial: Seoul:** 9 August 2023


Our full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1glPH1y0jqL2l6KV6i9nowQHFxKfA1s7VxlUREFIQZWA/edit?usp=sharing).

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2023

- This document is about a proposal to get money back for work done on a project.
- The project was about making a listing platform for liquidity pools and yield farms, which started on September 26, 2022.
- The work finished on December 20, 2022, and a report was shared on January 2, 2023.
- There are detailed reports and budget breakdowns available to see how money was spent.
- The total cost for two milestones of work was $58,000.
- The proposal asks for payment based on a specific price of the currency used, called Dot.
- The amount requested is about 10,469.314 DOT based on the Dot price on January 16, 2023.

# **Context**
This is a reimbursement proposal for [Motion #262](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/262), which funded the development of a listing platform for all dotsama liquidity pools and yield farms.

The [original proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fssDqgPtIjdwO0XfJW5po94JHMf1ozdjeLwM2a40zJ8/edit?usp=sharing) was passed by vote of the council on **26th Sep, 2022**.


# **Details**
- The work for the grant was completed on **20th Dec, 2022** and the final delivery report was published on **2nd Jan, 2023**. 

   For details, see:
   - [Milestone 1 and 2 delivery update](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/262#3decb054-04cd-4763-8fd4-9e7fec73dee6)
   - [Milestone 3 delivery update](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/262#61e9b0dc-172e-48f9-b6b4-47f9372cc805).
- We have created detailed reports and budget breakdowns for all milestones, attached below for your perusal:
   - [YieldBay Grant Report - Milestone 1 & Milestone 2](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J71idZi4hgzwyWq_Usz_2ufv8wnyLOFsc2fA0pdR7Y8/edit)
   - [YieldBay Grant Report - Milestone 3](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KC2ZyftLnH7xL34XOeURp0FprslqCQ-mzgtwg-AkevA/edit)
   - [YieldBay - Budget Report](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OGTVO8mtX43wQVdAoaCo2fGfew8j64bFhEB9HrGty14/edit#gid=0)

- As requested in [our original treasury proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fssDqgPtIjdwO0XfJW5po94JHMf1ozdjeLwM2a40zJ8/edit#heading=h.9kb1j02cobrp), this proposal seeks payment to reimburse delivery of Milestones 2 and 3 using the EMA-7 Dot price from [Subscan](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price) on the date of submission. 

# **Amount calculation**

- Cost for implementation of Milestones 2 and 3 combined is $36,000 + $22,000 = **$58,000**. See [Budget report](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OGTVO8mtX43wQVdAoaCo2fGfew8j64bFhEB9HrGty14/edit#gid=0) for details.

- The **EMA-7 price** is 5.54 on January 16, 2023. $58,000 / 5.54 = **10,469.314 DOT**

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

- Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) offers a course for learning about Polkadot.
- The course helps developers from Web2 understand how to build on Polkadot.
- Students will learn about Polkadot's governance, treasury, and coding through hands-on labs.
- Key technologies in the course include Polkadotjs, Substrate, Rust, and others.
- This course is great for improving blockchain skills or creating solutions that connect different blockchains.
- More information about the course can be found on the BTA website.

Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) has created a Substrate-specific course that will allow developers to learn how to effectively build on Polkadot. BTA is requesting the second and final phase of payment. This training and partnership provides new developers from the Web2 space to learn Polkdadot technology and increase developer activity within the Polkadot ecosystem. 

The training course can be found here: [https://blockchaintrainingalliance.com/products/polkadot ](https://blockchaintrainingalliance.com/products/polkadot)

Course Overview: 
In this course students learn how the Polkadot platform works, from an understanding of the governance and treasury process to hands-on lab environments for writing code. Technologies covered in this course are Polkadotjs, Substrate, WASMI, libp2p and Rust and more. Whether students want to add to their blockchain skills for career prospects or want to learn how to build a blockchain solution that has ability to communicate with multiple blockchains into a single network, this course will be the ideal fit. 

Link to proposal: [GOOGLE DOC LINK](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RsaYOijzSRVDQxhrlkMXPt28HF5t3Hqe/view)

Substrate Training Course and Certification

Unit Masters is a 6-week free program that teaches the basics of Blockchain. It helps people understand Blockchain technology deeply and gets them ready for the new economy. The program is for everyone, no matter where they are from or what they do. It follows the United Nations' goals to make the world better and helps people use their new skills to create good jobs and opportunities in their communities.

Unit Masters is a 6 week free high quality masters program which teaches the fundamentals of Blockchain and aims to instil blockchain literacy to anyone who is interested in the technology beyond the superficial understanding and onboarding them to the new economy. Unit Masters is cohort-based giving participants a 360 degree view of Blockchain, Tokenization, the Web3 ecosystem and its latest developments. It is a free program, as it is intended to be a stepping stone towards a zero-exclusive Web3 Economy of tomorrow, in which we have major contributions coming from a diverse group of changemakers from across the globe’s regions, and from all types of gender, ethnicity, disciplines of professional careers. Unit Masters adopts the United Nations SDGs and enables its participants to use their newly acquired blockchain skills for good and to create sustainable economic growth, opportunity and prosperity through job opportunities in their local and global communities. You can find the whole proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1siHqForOAaXMhruLVaA1iioVMQJWxVe1uLbmkRmFQ0s/edit?usp=sharing

Unit Masters Proposal - Onboarding people to web3 and the Polkadot ecosystem through education

- Snowbridge is a bridge that helps connect the Polkadot and Ethereum networks.
- The proposal is asking for $2,448,000 to support Snowbridge for 28 months.
- This funding will help the team launch their bridge on Polkadot and Kusama.
- Snowbridge aims to make sure transfers between these networks are safe and reliable.
- The team has been working on Snowbridge for over two years.
- They plan to launch the bridge by applying new updates and improvements.
- The proposal includes plans for future development and security checks.

- **Treasury Proposal:** Snowbridge Funding Proposal
- **Beneficiary:** 12UDxESUsqUZi5R5MpovTZLpAWZXPVWHJQkEprcT6MVdKh3A
- **Amount:** USD 2,448,000.00 based on EMA7 rate by Subscan
- **Scope:** See the [full funding proposal](https://spinamp.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmehcCU8LjXRpj962YZYVJfHzwecvvdxbRH9BMEmiumcb9) for more details

# Overview
Snowbridge is a fully trustless, permissionless and general purpose bridge between Polkadot networks and Ethereum. The proposal covers a request for a 28 months worth of runway for all operations for the Snowbridge team, with the goal to launch as a common-good bridge on Kusama and Polkadot.

Our bridge will launch on the Bridge Hub, a common-good parachain that is being developed by Parity for Kusama and Polkadot.

The proposal includes a motivation for supporting and promoting Snowbridge, a long term roadmap, governance and economic plans as well as incentives for successful execution, launch and long term running of the project.

# Changes
The original Polkassembly post was created 4 weeks ago with extensive community discussion around the project here: [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1341](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1341)

This final proposal is the same as in the above post, though a few small changes have been made:

- Added more details about the bridge hub, with XCMv3 and Statemint XCM as an extra milestone of work on our roadmap
- Add 1 month to the launch date to account for the extra work needed for XCMv3 changes for to bridge hub
- We've extended the runway to 28 months instead of 24 month, but we're keeping the price the same and will cover the additional months with a small reduction in costs

# History
Snowfork is one of the longest running teams contributing to the Polkadot ecosystem. For over 2 years we've been working on Snowbridge, a fully trustless and permissionless bridge to Ethereum. We successfully built and completed an initial version of this bridge in September 2021, based on an Ethereum Proof of Work light client and on Parity's original BEEFY proof system funded by an initial grant from the Web3 Foundation.

# Purpose
Polkadot already has a few live Ethereum bridges across various parachains, but these all compromise on Polkadot's security and trust model. Some are secured by trusted multi-sigs, some are secured by alternative insurance collateral, but none are secured by Polkadot and none of the Ethereum or ERC20 assets that exist in the Polkadot ecosystem today are secured by Polkadot's security and trust model.

We believe that without a fully trustless bridge that is secured by Polkadot itself, the security of the wider Polkadot ecosystem is put at risk and that Snowbridge's trustless design is essential to a healthy ecosystem that can support Ethereum-based assets. Similarly, trustless support for Polkadot assets across the Ethereum ecosystem will be a valuable boon for us all.

Snowbridge is also general-purpose, supporting arbitrary message passing and cross-chain smart contract calls, so any kinds of applications can be developed on top of it beyond plain asset transfer.

Additionally, as a common good service, longer term Snowbridge will be able to provide new value for the DOT token itself and generate an additional source of income for the treasury, or an additional lockup/burn mechanism for reducing the DOT supply.

## Funding Request
This proposal is a funding request for 28 months worth of long term runway for all operations for the Snowbridge team *(16 months retroactive, 12 months in future)*, with the goal to launch as a common-good bridge on the Bridge hub on both Polkadot and Kusama.

The full proposal has been uploaded to IPFS separately, and includes extensive additional details related to further motivation for supporting and promoting Snowbridge, a long term roadmap, governance and economic plans as well as long term economic incentives for successful execution, launch and running of the project.

We request that anyone looking to meaningfully contribute to this discussion also reads through this full proposal.

This initial funding requests will be created alongside a secondary request on Kusama:

- **Requested USD on Polkadot:** USD 2,448,000.00 based on EMA7 rate by Subscan.
- **Requested USD on Kusama:** USD 612,000.00 based on EMA7 rate by Subscan.

There is an additional request for around USD 10,000,000.00 of long term economic incentives tied to key success milestones on the bridge, tied to measurable impact on the Polkadot ecosystem, although this payment will not be part of this first requested allocation.

We're planning to push out this proposal in the next month, and so are looking for early feedback and discussion from the community before going live with the proposal.

## Roadmap
1. Support XCMv3
2. Mint wrapped assets on Statemint
3. Governance and upgradability
4. Dynamic circuit breaker on withdrawals 
5. Security Audits
6. Deploy on Kusama (April 2023)
7. Deploy on Polkadot (July 2023)

See the [full funding proposal](https://spinamp.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmehcCU8LjXRpj962YZYVJfHzwecvvdxbRH9BMEmiumcb9) for more details.

Snowbridge Funding Proposal

### Uptest Funding Proposal

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

Treasury Proposal by Rust Syndicate: Uptest funding proposal

Rejected

DO NOT USE

### OpenSquare Proposal Summary

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

**Key Points:**

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

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

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

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

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

Treasury Proposals