### Polkadot Treasury Proposal Summary

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

Awarded

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

- Dot.alert() is a guide for keeping assets safe in the Polkadot system.
- They want to get 5,705 DOT, worth about $25,712.
- This funding is for their work in the first part of 2023.
- Dot.alert() has made a deal with the Polkadot Treasury for support in the past.
- They have a plan with specific goals and tasks for their work.
- More details and discussions about their funding request can be found online.

**Proponent:** 12uokSRn2hmEWPZuzHK1xqnFxRgyoApLtXRBd4jFan2x2T1P

**Date:** 28.12.2022

**Requested:** 5,705 DOT (i.e USD $25,712 calculated from the 7-day EMA price of DOT)

**Short description:** 

[Dot.alert()](https://dot-alert.gitbook.io/dot.alert/) is a knowledgebase that provides practical guidelines for managing assets safely across the Polkadot ecosystem. As part of its mission, Dot.alert() has previously established a social contract with the Polkadot Treasury to fund its quarterly operational costs. 
Dot.alert() is seeking funding for its Q1 2023 operations, so that it can continue to make progress on the objectives laid out in its annual strategic plan. 

You can find the discussion related to this proposal here: [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1495](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1495)

You can find the full details of the proposal (including milestones, tasks, and costs for the period January – March 2023) here: [Polkadot Maintenance Proposal Q1 2023 – Dot.alert()](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gvu4aNTC5ahP8fhiZzNg8N845C4U2o25/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true).


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

- Open Runtime Module Library (ORML) was created by the Acala team in late 2019.
- ORML helps to solve problems and create useful features for developers.
- It is made to be shared with developers in the Polkadot and Kusama communities.
- By late 2022, many teams started using and contributing to ORML.
- Acala is the biggest contributor to ORML's development and upkeep.
- There is a proposal for payment to support ORML from January to October 2022.
- Community members can review the proposal and ask questions.
- People are encouraged to share how ORML helps their projects.

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.

Fast forward to late 2022, ORML is widely used by many teams in the ecosystem, and is receiving contributions from different teams. Acala remains the biggest contributor in development and maintenance of ORML.

This proposal (link to doc [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BGvDnc_fHgowSUXE83hhPGsDPBF7cHWMbA4a14k_AyM)) is seeking payment to cover development and maintenance of the widely used Open Runtime Module Library between Jan 2022 and Oct 2022.

Community members, please kindly review the proposal and ask questions you may have, we are happy to address questions before moving onto next step. You are also welcome to share how ORML is useful for your project(s). :)

ORML development and maintenance

- IBC Media is working with the Polkadot community to help students learn about coding and technology.
- They have completed the first part of their project and are now starting the second part.
- IBC Media is creating training programs for student developers in India, including bootcamps and hackathons.
- Over 20,000 students are already involved, with many attending sessions and sharing ideas.
- They held a successful event in Hyderabad with 300 students getting hands-on training.
- The programs will include a yearly conference with important leaders from the government and industry.
- IBC Media plans to expand to more states in India, starting with Andhra Pradesh.

Proponent: 12NCX9ZK1z9fxBfRraD6L4V86EmPipSerHnPcsj1k4hSkszg

### 
In line with the [overall proposal approved](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/207) by the Polkadot community, having successfully completed the first milestone and [its report](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/123#8fe2464a-0e62-4685-9ef1-9f3738663e9e) thereof submitted, IBC Media is now delighted to submit its 2nd milestone proposal to the Polkadot community.

In close association with the Indian state governments, Tech Mahindra, T-Hub (Asia’s largest innovation hub) and skill boards of the Indian states, IBC Media is unleashing a set of programmes designed to build and sustain a thriving developer community for Polkadot ecosystem, by creating a perpetual interconnected tool sets of Education Bootcamps, Hybrid Hackathons, Build sessions with expert trainers, leading to democratization of Polkadot Substrate technology stack to a wider community which consists of student developers from 1000+ engineering schools across India, to start with. IBC Media is also playing an important role in accelerating the creation of new and innovative dApps in the Polkadot ecosystem. 

These programs culminate in a year-end govt-led conference every year for the next 5 years, which will witness the participation from all key govt representatives, leading industry players, the education system leadership, investors, accelerators, startups, developers, students and a host of other dignitaries. 

We are delighted to share the progress achieved so far with over 20,000 student developers onboarded, an on-ground Hackfest successfully organized in Hyderabad, India with 300+ shortlisted student developers from across the Telangana state having been trained on Polkadot technology stack by industry experts along with many more thousands attending online sessions resulting into 1300+ innovative ideas being generated which are now getting built into viable MVPs with the help of expert trainers. To further enhance the development experience, technical speakers/mentors from the Web3 Foundation & Parity team also participated in the program.

IBC Media is currently expanding its reach to the student developers in other Indian states, the next immediate state being Andhra Pradesh with the support of the government to bring the Polkadot ecosystem awareness, enhance Substrate technology skills among these student developers, help them with product idea generation and onboard them into the Polkadot developer ecosystem.
### 
Find the link to the 2nd Milestone proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4aDPRu5p6TkilBcf4OorTe_PdHjhx7w)

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

Rejected

- Nova Wallet is a mobile app for Polkadot and Kusama that helps users with digital currencies.
- The latest proposal aims to improve the app by adding new features like Agile Delegations and better Staking.
- These updates are based on what the community has asked for.
- Nova Wallet supports many networks and allows users to manage their digital assets easily.
- The team plans to share updates every 1 to 4 weeks and have public demos every 2 weeks.
- The app is designed to be user-friendly and secure while being open source.
- Their goal is to keep improving Nova Wallet for everyone who uses it.

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

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG8xNMVGvTbcXBfOWUN-oxEeXW15y0kofpG0AbihU1E](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG8xNMVGvTbcXBfOWUN-oxEeXW15y0kofpG0AbihU1E)

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![](https://i.postimg.cc/WbDtR1Yb/Nova-Wallet-3rd-proposal.png)

**Feature set of the proposal (see [proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG8xNMVGvTbcXBfOWUN-oxEeXW15y0kofpG0AbihU1E))**
- OpenGov Agile Delegations
- Staking improvements
- Community-selected features: Based on requests from community
- Reimbursement for delivered Governance features which were outside the scope of the previous grant

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**Context of the proposal:**
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[Nova Wallet](https://novawallet.io/) is the leading **mobile app for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem**:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🌌 **65+** Polkadot networks

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🔀 **210+** Cross-chain channels

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🥞 **User-friendly staking**: DOT, KSM, GLMR, MOVR, PDEX, AZERO, TUR, CAPS, KMA

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🙋🏼‍♀️ **OpenGov** & **Governance v1** support

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🌐 **DApp browser** with support for the Polkadot JS & MetaMask protocols 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🖼 Access to RMRK & Statemine **NFTs**

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 📱 **Hardware wallets** support for Parity Signer & Ledger Nano X

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🚀 Polkadot & Kusama **Crowdloans** 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 💖 Amazing & Intuitive UX/UI

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✨ Community-focused

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ⚡️ Fast & Feature-rich

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🦾 Secure & Open source

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🙆 **40 000+ active users** on both iOS/Android

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 🎁 **Funded by the Kusama & Moonbeam Treasuries**, working with **110+ teams** in the eco	



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In May 2022, our previous (2nd) Kusama Treasury proposal was [approved](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/485), and now by November 2022 we have successfully delivered upon all the proposed features. Please refer to [Nova Wallet demo #26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxR9wrx524) in order to review the features which we have delivered upon.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; **Our goal** for [Nova Wallet](https://novawallet.io/) is to build and maintain a high quality, open source, community-focused, and feature rich mobile application, which will have no network biases and can function with no limitations/restrictions.


&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Apart from developing the Nova Wallet mobile application, our team is **consistently contributing to the Polkadot ecosystem** by providing open source SDKs, design assets, knowledge-sharing sessions, and infrastructure. Examples include:

- Substrate SDKs for [iOS](https://github.com/nova-wallet/substrate-sdk-ios) and [Android](https://github.com/nova-wallet/substrate-sdk-android) development
- [Nova Utils GitHub](https://github.com/nova-wallet/nova-utils) — metadata & configs for networks, crowdloans, DApps, cross-chain transfers
- SubQuery API projects [developed](https://github.com/nova-wallet/subquery-nova) and [hosted](https://nova-wallet.github.io/subquery-nova/) by Nova Wallet team
- [Nova Assets Figma](https://www.figma.com/community/file/1039874427311142565) — Polkadot eco tokens, networks, DApps
- [Hosted metadata portal](https://nova-wallet.github.io/metadata-portal/#/polkadot) for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem networks — metadata portal for [Parity Signer](https://www.parity.io/technologies/signer/), ecosystem hardware wallet

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This proposal covers the further development of Nova Wallet as a mobile application for the Polkadot ecosystem, allowing us to** expand upon the already large set of features** contained within Nova Wallet by introducing **Agile Delegations for OpenGov**, improving** Staking features**, and developing **features suggested by the community**.

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**The intended outcomes from this proposal:**

- Implementation of this proposal’s feature set for the Nova Wallet iOS and Android apps (as described in [The feature set of the proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG8xNMVGvTbcXBfOWUN-oxEeXW15y0kofpG0AbihU1E/edit#heading=h.85ev9ft34nr9) section)
- Public demos: **every 2 weeks** (see [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@NovaWallet))
- Updates to AppStore / Google Play: **every 1-4 weeks**
- Open source iOS and Android mobile apps under **Apache 2.0 license**
- Open source iOS and Android Substrate SDKs under **Apache 2.0 license**

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**Please review the full proposal with a detailed description & costs:**
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG8xNMVGvTbcXBfOWUN-oxEeXW15y0kofpG0AbihU1E](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG8xNMVGvTbcXBfOWUN-oxEeXW15y0kofpG0AbihU1E)


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

- This proposal is about an open-source toolset for displaying blockchain data.
- The toolset includes three parts: Editor, Parser, and Management Tools.
- Users can create and manage data widgets easily, even without coding skills.
- It supports many data sources like HTTP API and GraphQL.
- The toolset can help make user-friendly data displays for web projects.
- In the future, there will be free online services based on this toolset.
- The total budget for this project is $201,600, which will be converted into DOT.

This proposal aims to provide ecological users with an open-source toolset, which covers all processes of custom data dashboard and is suitable for mainstream front-end frameworks. Users can use it to conveniently generate, configure, and manage data widgets and inject them into any project that needs to display blockchain data.

The toolset contains three parts: **Editor**, **Parser**, and **Management Tools**. The editor is used to generate and configure data widgets. The parser is used to parse and display widgets. Management Tool is used for widgets management. They all follow the [License apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

We provide it with a wealth of widgets (covering more than 90% of the [Subscan explorer](https://www.subscan.io/) component library) and support commonly used data sources in the blockchain, such as HTTP API, GraphQL, State, LocalStorage, etc. Any developer (even users without a development background) can use it to customize blockchain data views easily. 

1) Using this toolset, users can easily create a user-friendly explorer UI with any open-source explorer solution (such as [Subscan Essentials](https://github.com/subscan-explorer/subscan-essentials)).

2) Using this toolset, you can customize widgets with custom data sources, such as API / GraphQL([Subquery](https://subquery.network/)), that can be integrated into your websites, Dapps, or any other web views.

In the future, Subscan will develop and deploy free online services based on this toolset.  It will enable users to create and submit widgets to Subscan explorer. Our ideal goal is to create a Dune-like data visualization publishing and collaboration platform.

**Total**

The total amount above is $201,600, and the amount of DOT will be converted based on the EMA7 price on the day of the official submission.

2022-12-08 01:55:42 (+UTC), Block #13260191

DOT EMA7 Price ( USD ): 5.421;

Number of DOT: 37,183.847

> EMA 7 Price: https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/price_converter?value=201600&type=time&from=USD&to=DOT&time=1670464800

> The full proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NWmpdpaz_uvmHdSI1_wneUetp_OcwwzhVEYxInqRc_A/edit?usp=sharing).

> View previous discussion [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1441)



Subscan - Data Dashboard Customization Toolset

- The proposal is for a project called Kampela, which will design a special device for the dotsama ecosystem.
- Kampela looks like a credit card and has an e-paper screen, making it easy to carry and use.
- It is a signing tool, not a wallet, meaning it can't track money or make transactions on its own.
- The device will use a type of secure technology to keep private keys safe.
- Kampela will cost less than €100, which is cheaper than some other similar devices.
- The project aims to make it easier and safer for users to sign transactions using their phones.
- This proposal covers early development work but not the actual making of the device yet.

This is proposal for Milestones 3&4.

DOT/EUR exchange rate calculated as 5.2334 by EMA7 (EMA with 168 period frame) by [Kraken](https://trade.kraken.com/snapshot/ce84vn6l6f69360p0elg-kraken-dot-eur
)

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 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!

[Project repository](https://github.com/Alzymologist/Kampela) (check out PRs for more recent WIP)

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

[This proposal was prevoiusly posted in Discussions](../post/1227)

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

[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)

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

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

Hardware signer and key storage Kampela: Milestones 3&4

- RadiumBlock helps build Web3 services for DotSama.
- They started their service at the end of March 2022.
- Their main job is to provide fast and reliable internet connections.
- This proposal is to pay for the services they offer from July to September 2022.
- They make sure their services work well all over the world.
- You can read more about their proposal in a detailed document.

RadiumBlock is a Web3 infrastructure provider for DotSama. We have been active in providing a high performance endpoint service for DotSama since the end of Q1 2022.

This proposal is to cover the ongoing costs(Q3 2022) for the running of our low latency, geo-distributed, high performance, scalable, and reliable public endpoint infrastructure for Polkadot.

Our [detailed proposal can be read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15pN1pgbPGVciQYGNYEyCxUelnl25pZsM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114172945417100820622&rtpof=true&sd=true).

RadiumBlock Public Endpoint Service for Polkadot (Q3 2022)

- AngelHack is asking for $165,897.49 to help pay for prizes from a hackathon.
- The hackathon took place from May 30, 2022, until July 11, 2022.
- They originally wanted $297,000 to support the prize pool for the hackathon.
- The money for prizes has already been given to the winning teams.
- AngelHack used its own money to cover the difference in costs.
- They are now asking for the remaining amount they need to get back.
- You can find more information in their full proposal linked in the text.

**Proponent:** Tribe/AngelHack 13Ghf2T883ZobjngC1BAgR1BWvK2P7qP37gGxHDVFf3fjbmw

**Hackathon Date:** May 30, 2022 - July 11, 2022

**Requested Allocation:** $165,897.49 USD, remaining of $297,000 USD 

*DOT amount calculated via EMA7 on 6 Dec 2022 at GMT+0 0244hrs - 1 DOT ~ 5.508 USD. $165,897.49 USD ~ 30,119.37 DOT

**Short description:**

Referring to the approved proposal [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/117](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/117), AngelHack has requested for an allocation of $297,000 USD to fund the total prize pool of the Polkadot Hackathon: North America Edition. 

The DOT amount calculated via EMA30 on 17 May 2022 at GMT+0 0721hrs was 1 DOT ~ 14.34, where the requested $297,000 USD had a disbursement of 20,711.2971 DOT.

With the allocated DOT disbursed at the end of the spend period, we have swapped the DOT for USD in order to proceed with prize disbursement. The price was at 1 DOT ~ 6.33 where 20,711.2971 DOT ~ $131,102.51 USD.

Prizes have already been disbursed to all the winning teams with AngelHack covering the current difference. The purpose of the proposal is to seek a bridge of the remaining amount that AngelHack had administered to the winning teams of the Polkadot Hackathon: North America Edition.

**Full proposal link** [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MDQrMU9OHSMPXW28uxJTZ482YMt03hL4-knXh9xVXyo/edit?usp=sharing).


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

- OneBlock wants money to help run the 2022 Polkadot Winter Hackathon in China.
- They have organized successful Polkadot Hackathons before in 2021 and 2022.
- The hackathon helps teach developers about Substrate, which is a tool for building programs.
- They want to turn learners into builders by encouraging them to create projects.
- The previous hackathons received positive feedback from developers.
- OneBlock believes the winter hackathon is important for promoting Substrate in China. 
- They are asking for financial support to make this event happen.

This proposal aims provide funding for the 2022 Polkadot Winter Hackathon by Oneblock in China - for operations and winners prizes.

OneBlock, in collaboration with Parity Asia, successfully organized, operated and promoted the three Polkadot Hackathons in March 2021,June 2021 and June 2022. OneBlock propose to continue the Polkadot Hackathon program in winter 2022, an essential part of the Substrate promotion and adoption initiatives in China, to promote Substrate as an open-source framework for developers and convert the Substrate learners from OneBlock’s ongoing Substrate courses to Substrate builders.

The polkadot hackathon in 2021 was a success and it indeed helped to promote Substrate as an open-source framework for developers and convert the Substrate students from our ongoing Substrate courses to actually use Substrate to build projects. Receiving warm feedback from the developers, OneBlock decided to have 2022 polkadot winter hackathon and hereby submit this proposal for the necessary financial support on this event.

here and you can get all details [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f21KdUj8vR64O_c7k8rUTNLnFnavzw41epqwwcsnbDg/edit?usp=sharing).

Please feel free to comments!

OneBlock The 2022 Polkadot Winter Hackathon proposal

- DotLeap is starting its third year and has shared 104 weekly editions.
- Bruno Škorvc is increasingly handing day-to-day tasks to gbaci, a professional content writer.
- DotLeap's yearly costs are over $50,000, requiring more funding sources besides personal donations.
- The goal is to keep growing the community and help new participants join easily.
- They have submitted a proposal for funding and are getting positive feedback.
- People are encouraged to participate in discussions about the proposal.
- Thanks were given to the community for two years of DotLeap's success!

DotLeap has officially entered it's third year in production, with 104 weekly editions distributed!

With the growing operations of the RMRK team it has become necessary for Bruno Škorvc to hand day-to-day operations of DotLeap increasingly to gbaci, RMRK's professional content writer and accomplished author of Polkadot for Beginners. 

Additionally, with operating costs in excess of $50,000/year, it has become necessary for DotLeap operating capital to coalesce from sources supplementary to Bruno and gbaci's generous donations of personal financing and time. Production of DotLeap up until this point has been a labor of love.

This proposal serves to secure pro- and retroactive funding for DotLeap so that we may continue to service the growth of our quality community, and so that we may continue to assist the easy entry of new participants in our ecosystem. 

Please review our proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BbpNMmbGU2q-bJlaj8PTscung7h1XUwZwH3hLj2yKwg/edit#) and please view and contribute to discussion in the Discussion forum [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1410)

In the 10 days since we submitted this proposal to Discussions, we have received your positive feedback and will answer your questions and make language adjustments to our proposal as needed!

Thanks so much, Dotsama fam, for two full years of DotLeap success!

Pro- and Retroactive Funding for Continuous Production of DotLeap Newsletter

- Pinknode is a service that helps people use the Polkadot network by providing tools and support.
- They started giving free services in 2021 to make it easier for developers to build on Polkadot.
- Pinknode helps with three main areas: Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- They have many users, with millions of requests to their services every day.
- Pinknode made improvements over three quarters, like adding new tools and fixing problems.
- They had a very high reliability rate in Q3 2022, with only one major issue.
- Pinknode aims to keep getting better at providing these services for everyone.

Proponent: Pinknode

DOT Account: 13EAhGcpe93mqSFZQrQ4P2cfpdAo5txWc5UQVTfEKDoqZjhw

Date: 17/11/2022

Requested allocation: USD$53,243.06 for 3 quarters

Allocation in DOT: 9084.29

**Proposal Summary: Costs for running secure, reliable, and scalable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend**

**Project Summary**

Pinknode is a node-as-a-service platform focused on providing shared API endpoint and node operation services catering exclusively to the Polkadot ecosystem. We launched our MVP in June 2021 and have been providing free RPC services to the Polkadot ecosystem’s participants since Q3 2021. Our mission is to aid the Polkadot protocol in achieving its vision of a multi-chain future by providing easy-to-use, reliable, and scalable infrastructure services which remove an entire layer of complexities for developers to start building on Polkadot/Substrate.

Ecosystem participants can access our free API service by creating their own API Key on [Pinknode Portal ](https://portal.pinknode.io/signup)or using our public endpoints (listed at https://polkadot.js.org/apps). In a bid to reduce barriers to entry and attract more developers to the ecosystem, our premium plan, which includes archive data and higher rate limits, is also free for all builders and participants of Polkadot to utilize. 

- https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/polkadot
- wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/polkadot
- https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/statemint
- wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/statemint
- https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/westend
- wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/westend

**Service Details**

**For Q1/22, from 1st January 2022 to 31st March 2022,**

Pinknode’s Polkadot RPC nodes have served an average of 2,737,933 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 246,413,975 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Statemint RPC nodes have served an average of 159,873 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 14,388,568 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Westend RPC nodes have served an average of 189,120 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 17,020,770 requests for the quarter.

**For Q2/22, from 1st April 2022 to 30th June 2022,**

Pinknode’s Polkadot RPC nodes have served an average of 4,849,336 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 441,289,552 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Statemint RPC nodes have served an average of 174,230 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 15,854,972requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Westend RPC nodes have served an average of 230,021 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 20,931,893 requests for the quarter.

**For Q3/22, From 1 July 2022 to 30 September 2022,**

Pinknode’s Polkadot RPC nodes have served an average of 8,708,123 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 792,477,238 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Statemint RPC nodes have served an average of 26,7682 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 24,359,125 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Westend RPC nodes have served an average of 350,008 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 31,850,748 requests for the quarter.

**Enhancements for the past 3 quarters:**

- Configuration of our Kubernetes clusters and auto-scaling mechanism
- Automated snapshot scripts
- Setup health check and monitoring tools
- Launch of Pinknode 1.0
- Enhancement of Pinknode’s proxy service and routing protocol.
- Testing and implementation of service recovery scripts
- Introduction of Pinknode’s Status Page for better visibility
- Automated chain upgrade scripts

Pinknode achieved service reliability of 99.94% for Q3 2022 with one major downtime incident on 12 Aug 2022. This major incident was traced to insufficient resource allocation for Pinknode’s proxy service and the fault was promptly resolved. You can view our status page [here](https://pinknode.statuspage.io/).

Pinknode will continue to improve our service reliability by improvement to our automated service recovery scripts and monitoring processes. We are confident of achieving higher service reliability going forward.

Our full report including raw data and graphs can be viewed [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L7uhTEbFpOJ6xQuvoop6EWCLJP7B8uKUQvd4zl1NmXs/edit?usp=sharing).

Pinknode Public Infrastructure for Q1,Q2,Q3 2022

- The Gossamer Development Grant is a proposal to help ChainSafe Systems improve its software called Gossamer, which works with the Polkadot blockchain.
- ChainSafe, a company started in Toronto in 2017, has a team of around 100 people and focuses on building technology for various blockchain systems.
- They want $1,998,117.60 to continue Gossamer's development for another year and make it better for users.
- Gossamer helps create blockchain nodes that can connect and communicate with networks like Polkadot and Kusama.
- The proposal includes goals like creating a full-node client, improving how transactions are managed, and supporting new programming languages.
- They plan to hire more engineers and enhance Gossamer's performance to make it more appealing to the community.
- The Web3 Foundation will assist in checking the work done by ChainSafe.

Previous discussion: <https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1260>

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- **Treasury Proposal:** Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant
- **Proponent:** AFRI, `1dvvq2sZg55LfLqFmegU493oUaPWxJfjiYysP1eyovkX6hP` (`1413`)
- **Beneficiary:** CHAINSAFE, `14gaKBxYkbBh2SKGtRDdhuhtyGAs5XLh55bE5x4cDi5CmL75`
- **Date:** 09.09.2022
- **Requested amount:** USD 1,998,117.60 in DOT on the day of submission using EMA30 rate by Subscan _(Oct 1st, 2022: EMA30 6.815 USD/DOT)_
- **Scope:** Software development / Protocol 

**Short description:** Gossamer is a Polkadot host written in Go: a framework to build and run nodes for different blockchain protocols compatible with the Polkadot ecosystem, mainly but not limited to the Polkadot and Kusama relay chains. This proposal addresses the Polkadot treasury to consider a grant for the ongoing development by ChainSafe's Gossamer team for another 12 months after the successful collaboration with the Web3 Foundation Grants Program on the initial steps of this development. 

---

**Context:** ChainSafe Systems [0], founded in 2017 in Toronto, is a Canadian blockchain development studio with more than 100 employees worldwide. Our vision is to move the various blockchain ecosystems closer, building bridges and increasing client diversity by providing alternative protocol implementations. With a strong emphasis on protocol engineering, we have been engaged by various clients and foundations, among others, in the Ethereum, Polkadot, COSMOS, and Filecoin ecosystems.

Initially funded through a Web3 Foundation grant [1], our protocol team started implementing a Go-Lang Polkadot host in January 2019. Ever since three years and 1300 merged pull requests later, the client has seen more than 40 contributors. As a result, a Gossamer node today can act as an alternative full node for chains such as Polkadot or Kusama. However, it is not yet feature complete. A treasury allocation should cover the pending developments with approval from the community. We want to continue developing and maintaining Gossamer to extend its capabilities further to grow and stabilize the Polkadot ecosystem with an alternative client implementation that is actively used by the community.

The current team consists of seven full-time protocol engineers and a dedicated project manager. The source code is available on GitHub [2] under the terms of an LGPL v3.0 license.

While the Web3 Foundation has entirely covered funding for the development in the past, this will be our first treasury proposal. Hopefully, this will secure our future operations, allow us to scale the team, and continue to broaden our scope while fostering our presence in the Polkadot ecosystem.

**Problem Statement:** The Substrate blockchain framework enables developers to quickly assemble blockchains for many different use cases. However, it is locking the ecosystem down onto a single programming language, Rust, competing for resources in areas where collaboration is desired.

Offering alternative frameworks in other programming languages should be a high-valued goal of the Polkadot community **as it opens up the ecosystem to a larger pool of engineers**. Thus far, Gossamer is not yet a generalized framework for building blockchains in Go; however, this will always be our central mission for the project.

**Objective:** The overall goal is for Gossamer to provide the functionality needed to bring true client diversity to the Polkadot ecosystem. This entails, but is not limited to:
- A **full-node client** capable of peering, synchronizing and seeding the most prominent relay chains and parachains of the Polkadot ecosystems.
- **Block-production and finality** capability for relay chains and parachains (validators, collators).
- **API services** to allow sharing chain and node states through standardized interfaces.
- **Runtimes** generated in alternative programming languages such as Go.

The primary focus of Gossamer development has been implementing the protocols of the Polkadot host, the client architecture that hosts the Wasm runtime of a Polkadot-like relay chain. The first milestone on the Gossamer roadmap is to allow members of the Polkadot community to stake cryptocurrency behind a Gossamer block-authoring node on the Polkadot Network.

**Deliverables:** The objectives of this proposal can be broken down into the following milestones in no particular order.
- **Validator specification:** Gossamer currently runs in single-node development environments or in sync with other Gossamer nodes or older Substrate versions. A desirable goal for the next year would be **implementing the latest validator specification**, which breaks down into three major components.
 - Transaction queue: Gossamer must be able to receive user-submitted extrinsics [3] and deliver them to the network. Furthermore, Gossamer must implement the transaction queue logic [4] to handle user-submitted transactions efficiently.
 - Block production: Gossamer must be able to author blocks using the latest BABE block production protocol [5].
 - Block finality: Gossamer must be able to participate in the latest GRANDPA block finalization protocol [6].
- **Sync modes:** Gossamer can currently conduct a full bootstrap synchronization to the tip of the chain. This means that the node can use the chain specification [7] of a Polkadot-like network to connect to that network and to import and verify the blocks that make up the network's canonical chain; these blocks will be stored in Gossamer's key-value database. A desirable goal for next year's development would be to **update BABE and GRANDPA implementations to the latest specification and provide alternative synchronization modes**. 
 - State Integrity: Gossamer must implement Polkadot's Patricia-Merkle trie [8] and use it to generate proofs correctly.
 - Fork Choice: Gossamer must tip-sync with a Polkadot-like network, which implies tracking multiple candidate forks at the head of the chain and following the best according to the specification.
 - Warp Sync: Besides providing a full-synchronization service, it would be desirable to provide other modes such as warp sync.
 - DB Imports: A Gossamer node should be able to bootstrap with a database snapshot at a given block height.
- **RPC APIs:** Gossamer must implement the same WebSocket JSON-RPC APIs as the Substrate Polkadot implementation (PSP-6, [9]); this means that the Polkadot-JS API [a] should be able to **work seamlessly with a Gossamer host**.
- **Telemetry:** A Gossamer client should be able to natively connect to any Polkadot Telemetry Service [b] to announce its presence. These Go-hosts should be identifiable by the Telemetry UI reporting the existence of alternative clients.
- **Performance:** To make the client attractive, it's crucial to adjust the reality to the user's performance expectations concerning CPU usage, memory usage, and synchronization time. Metrics can be comparable with Parity's implementation.

The focus for the next development cycle is **matching the latest specification to be able to bootstrap a full Polkadot node and participate in consensus**, e.g., on a public testnet such as Westend. Success metrics can be defined by passing the respective test suites provided by the Web3 Foundation; the organization will partner on this proposal as technical advisor and deliverables auditor to ensure the completed milestones are technically sound. If unavailable, an additional deliverable could entail providing test suites for the respective deliverable above.

Please note that funds are requested from the community treasury. The Web3 Foundation technical team has no control over these funds and will not be rewarded as a reviewer of the milestones. The team will serve the sole purpose of evaluating deliverables in alignment with the community approval of this proposal. This role is based on their past participation in this project. It is expected for the ChainSafe team to publish deliverable reports after the Web3 Foundation's technical evaluation and before continuing with subsequent milestones.

**Payment Conditions**: The requested amount for a 12-months ongoing development grant is USD 1,998,117.60 in DOT on the day of submission using the EMA30 rate by Subscan [c]. The allocation is asked for as a single, up-front payment to cover our ongoing development costs and for the team to be able to provide a runway to their developer resources.

The following resource table outlines the expected costs for the Gossamer team. The table consists of:
- the current base cost to operate the team,
- an 18% operational overhead to cover the costs of running the project as a team within ChainSafe Systems (e.g., operations, offices, equipment, tooling, infrastructure, legal, travel),
- the potential to grow the team sustainability by another two engineers over the course of the following year,
- as well as a 3% margin to protect against market volatility of the underlying DOT assets.

```
 | E2* | E3* | E4* | TPM* | Base Cost | Cost +18% overhead |
| ---------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ---------------- | ------------------ |
| Month 0 | 3 FTE* | 3 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 120,000.00 | USD 141,600.00 |
| Month 1 | 3 FTE* | 3 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 120,000.00 | USD 141,600.00 |
| Month 2 | 3 FTE* | 3 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 120,000.00 | USD 141,600.00 |
| Month 3 | 3 FTE* | 3 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 120,000.00 | USD 141,600.00 |
| Month 4 | 3 FTE* | 3 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 120,000.00 | USD 141,600.00 |
| Month 5 | 3 FTE* | 3 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 120,000.00 | USD 141,600.00 |
| Month 6 | 4 FTE* | 4 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 154,000.00 | USD 181,720.00 |
| Month 7 | 4 FTE* | 4 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 154,000.00 | USD 181,720.00 |
| Month 8 | 4 FTE* | 4 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 154,000.00 | USD 181,720.00 |
| Month 9 | 4 FTE* | 4 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 154,000.00 | USD 181,720.00 |
| Month 10 | 4 FTE* | 4 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 154,000.00 | USD 181,720.00 |
| Month 11 | 4 FTE* | 4 FTE* | 1 FTE* | 1 FTE* | USD 154,000.00 | USD 181,720.00 |
| ---------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ---------------- | ------------------ |
| USD Sum | | | | | USD 1,644,000.00 | USD 1,939,920.00 |
| +3% margin | | | | | | USD 58,197.60 |
| ---------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ---------------- | ------------------ |
| USD Total | | | | | | USD 1,998,117.60 |
 ====================
```

_[*] Abbreviations: E2 - Engineer II (Mid-level Engineer), E3 - Engineer III (Senior Engineer), E4 - Engineer IV (Technical Lead), TPM - Technical Project Manager, FTE - Full-Time Employee_

The beneficiary of this proposal is ChainSafe Systems Inc, Toronto, Canada. The on-chain address is `14gaKBxYkbBh2SKGtRDdhuhtyGAs5XLh55bE5x4cDi5CmL75`. The funds' manager is Hatcher Lipton, COO at ChainSafe Systems, reachable through <hatcher@chainsafe.io> for any questions regarding the payment conditions.

For any questions about the technical nature of this proposal, you can message me, Afri Schoedon, Head of Protocol Engineering at ChainSafe Systems, at <afri@chainsafe.io>, or Dan Forbes, Technical Project Manager for the Gossamer team, at <dan.forbes@chainsafe.io>.

References:
- [0] <https://chainsafe.io/>
- [1] <https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/docs/accepted_grant_applications.md>
- [2] <https://github.com/ChainSafe/gossamer>
- [3] <https://spec.polkadot.network/#_extrinsics>
- [4] <https://spec.polkadot.network/#sect-runtime-txqueue-module>
- [5] <https://spec.polkadot.network/#sect-block-production>
- [6] <https://spec.polkadot.network/#sect-finality>
- [7] <https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/tree/master/node/service/chain-specs>
- [8] <https://spec.polkadot.network/#chap-state-spec>
- [9] <https://github.com/w3f/PSPs/blob/master/PSPs/drafts/psp-6.md>
- [a] <https://github.com/polkadot-js/api>
- [b] <https://telemetry.polkadot.io/>
- [c] <https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price>

Gossamer Ongoing Development Grant

- PolkaWorld is asking for money to help with community education about Polkadot for three months.
- They want to cover costs from December 2022 to February 2023.
- Since June 2021, they have worked on 6 projects very well.
- Their projects are for the Polkadot ecosystem, which is a special technology community.
- You can see more details about their work and plans online.
- They are looking for advice and feedback from the community.

Hi, dotsama community！

This is a follow-up proposal from PolkaWorld to seek to cover the next three months (Dec 2022 to February 2023) of ops and maintenance costs to further promote and support community education for the entail Polkadot ecosystem.

PolkaWorld converted the W3F community grant to an open social contract with Polkadot Treasury in June 2021. Up to now, we have summit 6 [Motions](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/250), and all works are done in very high quality. You can also learn some of the delivery [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/160#78ddbc22-acac-4a5f-9883-588928045fce).

Please check all the delivery reports, details for the next 3 months’ milestones, tasks, and the budget [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z2q3CXSONc01vDFeapAM93C2v8US8gghVKQXnzpDEqw/edit). Love to hear all your advice or any feedback.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2022.12 - 2023.2

- OpenZeppelin is a company that started in 2015.
- They are experts in making smart contracts safe.
- There is a proposal for OpenZeppelin to check a smart contract language called ink!
- They will also review something called Substrate’s smart contracts pallet.
- The goal is to make improvements to security and how easy it is to use.
- After their work, OpenZeppelin will give a report about what they found.
- This helps everyone use smart contracts better and keeps them safe.

Since 2015, OpenZeppelin has developed deep expertise and set industry standards for secure smart contract development.

This community proposal is for OpenZeppelin to review and audit the current design of the ink! smart contract language, together with Substrate’s smart contracts pallet, in order to recommend actions to be taken and improve the development experience and security of it.

Upon the conclusion of the engagement, OpenZeppelin will deliver a security assessment report.

[Find full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GzQhvDY1jGeb-7_buNBwO4ppL0Siu-kTDktVQVDCg8g/edit?usp=sharing)

Proposal: ink! design audit by OpenZeppelin

- Polkassembly helps with the governance of Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- A new plan suggests regular payments every three months for maintenance and operation costs.
- The funds will cover things like upgrades, maintenance, and infrastructure.
- The proposal will alternate between Polkadot and Kusama networks for funds.
- This payment request is for the months of October, November, and December 2022.
- The proposal shares past work and future plans.
- More information can be found in the provided document and discussion links.

Polkassembly is an integral part of polkadot and kusama governance. This submission proposes a recurring payment (quarterly) to cover maintenance, operations and human resource costs for Polkassembly, including general maintenance, runtime upgrades changes and could/infrastructure cost. 
Since Polkassembly supports both Kusama and Polkadot Networks, this maintenance proposal will alternate networks for submission every three months. This submission covers costs for October, November and December of 2022. We are requesting the Polkadot treasury to provide funds this time.

The proposal details the work done in past from our previous proposal and the things we plan to implement in this quarter. 

The full proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-cm0QQDljqIGu7tFXI3wQz8-PsrKXb6QN3lSMElV9lk/edit?usp=sharing).  Discussion can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1377)

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury

- Chris Veselinov is the CTO of LimeChain.
- He wants to create a Go Runtime to help with blockchain development.
- The goal is to make it easier and more friendly for beginners.
- They aim to make a framework in Go, which is different from Substrate.
- This framework would allow other developers to reuse parts of it.
- LimeChain has a grant to check if this project is possible.
- They have worked on some challenges and shared their efforts online.
- LimeChain is a company that builds blockchain tools and apps.

Hi everyone,

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

With this proposal, we’re looking to diversify and simplify the blockchain (parachain) development process, making the ecosystem more approachable/beginner-friendly and potentially more stable.

**The ultimate/end goal is creating a framework in Go, which is an alternative to Substrate.** However, it will be technically challenging to go for the direct implementation without abstracting components into different modules. Given that a modular approach has been taken, the practical goal would be to formalize those modules into a framework that can be reused by other developers.

**This is why we propose to develop a framework for building Go Runtimes.**

We recently got a [W3F grant to research the technical feasibility of the project](https://github.com/LimeChain/Open-Grants-Program/blob/application/research-feasibility-go-runtime/applications/research-feasibility-go-runtime.md), as we encountered some Go-related challenges along the R&D process. We were able to get those out of the way and you [can look at our efforts here](https://github.com/LimeChain/gosemble).

**Please see the [official proposal document here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i8DnmVdgJz8jxHOUxO3LM6MlX4QhGP2fE33vmQI2Vgk/edit?usp=sharing). Any feedback or comments are highly appreciated.**

About us: [LimeChain](https://limechain.tech/) 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. Due to AssemblyScript limitations, we were able to partially deliver on the framework specifications.

Thanks on behalf of the whole LimeChain team!

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

- A proposal was made by Centrifuge to get money from the Polkadot treasury.
- They want $172,500 to help develop a tool called FUDGE.
- FUDGE helps people work with the databases of certain blockchains more easily.
- It allows users to build and change blocks without needing to connect to a network.
- This tool is very useful for testing and running commands related to these blockchains.
- Centrifuge has already created an early version of FUDGE and is using it for their own tests.
- More information about the proposal can be found through a link they provided.

**Proponent:** 12wWLUd5qMzLFGqBsMnHLVFeTuYJwuo5ygMAxuSywrBX1XSF

**Date:** 07.11.2022

**Requested DOT:** ($172,500) ~27,080 DOT

**Contact:** Frederik Gartenmeister (frederik@centrifuge.io)

***
This is a Polkadot treasury proposal by **Centrifuge** to fund the development of FUDGE (FUlly Decoupled Generic Environment for substrate-based chains). FUDGE provides a simple and generic way to interact with and manipulate the database of a substrate-based blockchain. This includes building and importing blocks locally without any kind of network or consensus, as also changing existing state and finalizing it without the need of forging a new block.

The currently most obvious use-case for FUDGE are local integration tests as the library drastically reduces time and overhead for these. But the library is furthermore useful as a core building block around clis in the Substrate ecosystem. E.g. a cli for forking-off a database of a node, tooling around analysing a chain in various states (i.e. at variaous blocks).

There already exists a PoC version of the library ([https://github.com/centrifuge/fudge](https://github.com/centrifuge/fudge)) and the library is actively used by the Centrifuge team for integration tests ([https://github.com/centrifuge/centrifuge-chain/tree/main/runtime/integration-tests](https://github.com/centrifuge/centrifuge-chain/tree/main/runtime/integration-tests)).

The full proposal can be found here: [https://centrifuge.hackmd.io/@rxJQ-iCrT9eYElX4L2WMmA/BkMfLwPli](https://centrifuge.hackmd.io/@rxJQ-iCrT9eYElX4L2WMmA/BkMfLwPli)

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

- The proposal asks for money from the Polkadot Treasury to help a Chinese group.
- This group wants to create better Chinese content about Polkadot, using easier language.
- They plan to help Chinese people learn more about Polkadot and its projects.
- The goal is to get more people interested in Polkadot and its community.
- Since March 2022, they have already received funding to operate.
- They are asking for about $104,760 to cover costs for six months.

The proposal aims to seek support from the Polkadot Treasury for the 2022/9-2023/2 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 March 2022, [we have established a Polkadot Treasury for our 2022/3-2022/8 operation cost, and get funding from the Polkadot Treasury](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTWu_x7ULOKLz5Vmk2BMNj_THXFyXkDbKbpQRvKnBCw/edit?usp=sharing). Here is our [report for the proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11NSbOcxFL3d7FwrGhA8JAmO83OZdtIg-Z4x9_Db7Vuw/edit?usp=sharing). 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 2022/9-2023/2 and [you can get all details here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-b_DQXHVyRuAoYubCtL9dk0R6a_ev7xbwYMV518ONpo/edit?usp=sharing).

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

- Patika web3 started in March 2022 to help developers in Turkey learn about web3.
- The platform has over 109,000 developers already learning.
- They plan to create a free online training for beginners called "Polkadot Rust&Substrate Practicum."
- Participants will learn together and support each other.
- The goal is to help 2,000 developers join the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They hope for at least 100 project submissions by the end of the training.

Hi everyone!

Launched in March 2022, [Patika web3](https://www.patika.dev/web3) aims to onboard developers to web3 in Turkey. Working together with leading web3 ecosystems, we introduce developers to new technologies and help them launch their projects and careers. Our online and free education platform already has 109,000+ developers from Turkey learning on the platform.

We propose to onboard these devs to the Polkadot ecosystem with the following steps:

- Learning pathway for Turkish developers: We will create a free, online, beginner-friendly and well-structured “Polkadot Rust&Substrate Practicum'' learning pathway.
- Polkadot Rust&Substrate Practicum and community events: Practicum is Patika.dev’s scalable cohort-based training model where participants complete the learning pathway together, supporting each other in their cohorts and during office hours with teaching assistants.

The aim of the project is to onboard 2000 devs to Polkadot ecosystem and get at least 100 project submissions at the end of the practicum. Please find the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tmoam1qMuat8N8KEeJ5jAeMpVshjQ6NVqOUkFDLOXzM/edit?usp=sharing).


Activating developer ecosystem in Turkey for Polkadot

**High Performance Public Infrastructure Proposal**

- The proposal was made on October 6, 2022, for funding of $112,454.80.
- It aims to maintain strong and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot and its related networks.
- Over the past three months, they provided a free service that helps users access public nodes easily.
- Key goals included making it easier for new projects to join and helping existing projects grow.
- They successfully reduced costs for customers by up to 40% and added new features to improve their service.
- New API services and better data insights have been added to help users understand their applications.
- They achieved a high uptime of 99.94% for Polkadot and expanded their service to include new networks like Avalanche and Juno.

Proposal: High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022)

Proponent: 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf

Date: 6th October 2022

Requested DOT: 16,274.212 (USD $112,454.80)

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

Previous Discusson: <https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1325>

Raw Data: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q9eXw78E-VDkHmCl1nLSGwOfxlG6jc-6CsvrUMHOskE/edit?usp=sharing>

Full Report: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxT4LMvntD3aV5PlmF3MnddDFhca8UnpH1sRSQu-nGY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxT4LMvntD3aV5PlmF3MnddDFhca8UnpH1sRSQu-nGY/edit?usp=sharing)

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## Original Motivation

Over the last 3 months (July, August and September 2022) we've provided a scalable free public API service so that everyone can access public pools of managed Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend 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 the last quarter, we've focused on three key areas for the development of OnFinality - cost optimization, network expansion, and providing more value from our Ultimate API service.

The bear market has made many of our customers more price sensitive, and as such we've been working with them to optimise our services to provide more for less. We've reduced prices for our larger customers between 30 and 40%, and created products designed to target and onboard new chains with entry level pricing. We've also been working on new rate limiting capabilities to progressively restrict abusers of our public APIs to upgrade to paid API plans.

In the past quarter we have succeeded in our goal of onboarding two new networks, with the addition of Avalanche and Juno to our API service. This was a large amount of upfront work, extending OnFinality to allow chains outside of Polkadot/Substrate, but now that it has been done we should be able to move faster and onboard new chains each week. We hope that this means that we will be able to invite as many new ecosystem participants into Polkadot as possible with this expansion. 

Finally, providing move value from our Ultimate API service has always been a priority, and in this space we've added new API specific paid plans at competitive prices to our competition. We have also delivered the ability for our customers to better understand and learn about their users, with API Insights that tell you where your users are, what they are requesting, what methods are failing (to find bugs in your dApp), and where optimisations can occur.

We continued to execute on our efforts to provide unprecedented service stability and reliability to this ecosystem. All supported networks exceeded our 99.9% target, including 99.94% uptime for Polkadot over the last 90 days . At this stage, OnFinality is operationally striving for a minimum of 99.99% availability, which means less than an hour of downtime each year.

Between 2022-07-01 and 2022-09-30 our Polkadot API service has:
- **Served almost 100% more traffic with only a 10% increase in cost**
- Served a total of 21.4 billion responses
- Accumulated over 100 TB of data egress 
- The highest daily total was 517 million responses in a single 24 hour period for Polkadot only
- Our rolling 7 day average at the end of this period was over 157 million responses each day.
- Westend had almost 167 million API responses in the period
- Statemint had over 172 million API responses in the period
- All time totals for Polkadot is 86,820,238,239 (86 Billion) since November, 2020
- At the end of this period the 90 day uptime for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend was 99.94%, 99.99%, and 99.67%

## Enhancements

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

- [API Insights](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-introduces-api-insights-so-you-can-analyse-and-learn-about-your-applications-faster/) so you can analyse and learn about your API applications faster and find bugs with your dApp
- [Cost optimisations](https://blog.onfinality.io/go-further-with-more-affordable-pricing/) to reduce pricing for our customers by up to 40%
- [New API plans](https://blog.onfinality.io/get-ahead-with-onfinalitys-new-api-endpoints/) for our high usage customers and a way to allocate resource to [move towards a more sustainable funding model](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1270)
- [Support for Alibaba Cloud](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-collaborates-with-alibaba-cloud-to-provide-a-premium-experience-to-web3-builders/) to provide more decentralised cloud hosting options for our customers
- [Updates to our website](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-announces-a-new-ui-to-help-web3-developers-build-smarter/) to include a new Network marketplace so [you can see what networks are supported](https://onfinality.io/marketplace)
- Support for new layer 1s - [Avalanche](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-launches-beta-api-support-for-avalanche/) and [Juno](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-launches-api-support-for-jun-c3-b8-network/) (in Cosmos)
- 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 [analytics page](https://analytics.onfinality.io).

Full Report is here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxT4LMvntD3aV5PlmF3MnddDFhca8UnpH1sRSQu-nGY/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hxT4LMvntD3aV5PlmF3MnddDFhca8UnpH1sRSQu-nGY/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022)

- Sequester is a special tool for Polkadot chains to use transaction fees to buy carbon-backed assets.
- This helps make every transaction on Polkadot good for the environment, or "carbon negative."
- Sequester will gather fees, trade them for eco-friendly tokens, and retire carbon offsets quickly.
- Bitgreen is a partner helping with carbon credits in a sustainable way.
- The project will be tested with other teams like Acala and will also be featured in a White Paper.
- It is funded by a grant to create a chain that changes tokens into eco-friendly assets.
- The team will share more information through documents and videos.

Hi all!

Sequester is a toolkit that will allow any chain in the Polkadot ecosystem to easily use their transaction fees to buy carbon-backed assets and retire associated carbon credits in less than 1 day of development time.

Since Polkadot-based chains are fee-optional, transaction fees currently being used as an anti-spam mechanism can be leveraged to make every transaction on Polkadot carbon negative, without requiring any changes to the user experience. We propose a common good parathread on Polkadot, named Sequester, that provides the functionality of aggregating transaction fees, exchanging them into carbon-backed tokens, and retiring underlying carbon offsets that meet the community’s specifications.

The Bitgreen team will be our initial ecosystem partner and will be responsible for bridging Carbon Credits on-chain in a sustainable manner. As Sequester is Common Good functionality, it is important to note that it will be fully un-opinionated about where funds donated through the Sequester chain go. Specifically, once additional ESG tokens are onboarded to Sequester, teams will be able to configure the allocation of their funds with a single XCM to the Sequester Common Good chain.

We completed our first W3F grant earlier this summer and have joined the Substrate Builders Program. The development in this grant will fund our 1st SBP Milestone. For more context on our work, check out our White Paper and Polkadot Decoded Announcement with Bitgreen.

This grant will fund the creation of a common good chain that receives tokens from other chains' treasuries, swaps them via a DEX into carbon backed assets, and retires the underlying assets on chain. This will be tested on Rococo, with our partners from W3F, Acala, and Bitgreen.

Please see our [Treasury Proposal Document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hfmXwe6Gli92YKr5J6BCffGWU9EmKUF-FkSbLs2w-OQ/edit#) for details.

Other Information:

Price Calculation: 100,000 / 6.166 (7-day EMA) = 16,218

[Discussion Post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1279)

[AMA w/ Bill Laboon](https://twitter.com/BillLaboon/status/1578354625207758850)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-aGKz0I9zY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-aGKz0I9zY)

Thanks, The Sequester Team (Brendan, Ethan, and Daniel)

Sequester Common Good Chain - Milestone 1

- The proposal is about getting more money to keep working on important computer services for Polkadot.
- The goal is to keep running the Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend services on special computers in Sweden.
- In the third quarter of 2022, Polkadot handled 2,690,000 requests every day.
- Statemint managed 74,300 requests daily, while Westend had 43,700 requests on average each day.
- They also started using a new Polkadot computer that has been tested and is helping the community.
- There is a full proposal that can be read for more details.

This is a follow-up proposal on what we submitted in the beginning of [July](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/230), 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.
### Report

During Q3 2022 our Polkadot RPC node served on average **2,690,000** requests per day, and in total we served **250,200,000** requests.

During Q3 2022 our Statemint RPC node served on average **74,300** requests per day, and in total we served **6,687,000** requests.

During Q2 2022 our Westend RPC node served on average **43,700** requests per day, and in total we served **5,370,000** requests.

Since our last proposal we have launched a Polkadot boot node. The node has been tested, [added to the Polkadot binary](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pull/5772/commits/0dbbe81851faa6b7f6bf8948bcea93f8a418dcc0) and is being used by the community.

- Our 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.

Treasury Proposals