- 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.

Awarded

Talisman Proposal: Business-Friendly Polkadot MultiSig

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

Proposal by TeachMeDeFi for a German Educational Platform for Polkadot

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

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

YieldBay Proposal Phase 2: Yield Farming Dashboard for Dotsama

- The proposal asks for money to pay people who help run important parts of Polkadot.
- They changed the plan to ask for less money each month for these helpers.
- They will pay for work already done in January and February.
- They want to pay for 10 more months, from March to December.
- They are helping more chains now, including a new one called Bulletin.
- They are not paying for any new tools.
- The total amount they are asking for is $146,700.

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System Parachain Collator Bounty - Top up (2026)

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

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

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

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

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

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2022)

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

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q1 2023

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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### 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 proposal for subsquare/dotreasury new delivered features and development plans

### 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

- 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.

Treasury Proposals