- Sota Watanabe, founder of Astar Network, is asking for $25,000 to help with a Polkadot event in Asia.
- The event is called Token2049, and it's a big deal in Asia with over 3,000 people expected to attend.
- 21 projects, including Astar, Acala, and Moonbeam, are teaming up to make Polkadot more popular in Asia.
- The goal is to make Polkadot stronger and show how everyone in the ecosystem works together.
- They hope to get 300+ people to sign up and 200+ to come to the event.
- The event page is already up, and over 300 people have signed up so far.

Awarded

Proposal: Polkadot Singapore Event During Token2049

- EasyA is asking for $40,000 for a hackathon they held with Polkadot.
- The event took place in London on July 30-31, 2022.
- 250 students from 30 universities participated and created 27 projects.
- They taught students how to build on the Polkadot platform.
- The hackathon helped many new developers learn about Polkadot.
- EasyA wants the money to give prizes and cover costs for the event.
- They have documented the event for future hackers to learn from.

Milestone 2 Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon for 200 Students and Educators

- The project is called Kampela, named after a Finnish fish.
- It aims to create a low-cost device for secure storage of digital keys.
- The device looks like a flat card and has an e-paper screen.
- It is similar to an existing tool called Parity Signer but is designed to be simpler and cheaper.
- Kampela can read information using NFC and shows results on its screen.
- It does not work like a wallet, as it cannot track money or create transactions.
- The proposal focuses on development, not actual production, hoping for competition in the market.

Hardware signer and key storage Kampela: Milestones 1&2

- SubWallet is proposing to support NFTs on Kusama and Statemine.
- They want to allow cross-chain transactions and show transaction history and staking details.
- They added a donation button to support charities, focusing on Ukraine.
- SubWallet can send and receive NFTs and has integrated with other tools to improve the user experience.
- As of June 2022, SubWallet supports over 60 networks and has more than 5,000 users.
- By August 2022, they increased support to over 70 networks and gained 15,000 installs.
- They are part of the Substrate Builders Program and collaborate with over 70 teams.

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

- PolkaWorld is a community in China that focuses on Polkadot and has over 50,000 followers.
- They have worked with Polkadot and Web3 Foundation since 2019.
- PolkaWorld received a W3F community grant from 2019 to 2021.
- They made a social contract with Polkadot Treasury in June 2021.
- They are asking for money to cover community operation costs from September to November 2022.
- Details about their goals, tasks, and budget are available in a shared document.
- They welcome community advice and feedback.

PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2022.9 - 2022.11

- Polkadot uses special technology called Substrate to create decentralized systems.
- Depending on how these systems are set up, they can be more or less decentralized.
- A tool named Polkawatch helps check how decentralized Polkadot is by looking at different factors.
- Currently, Polkadot's network is quite centralized, with few operators and regions handling most of the work.
- Polkawatch started working in the second quarter of 2022.
- There is a plan to keep improving Polkawatch and its software in the third quarter of 2022.
- The community can provide feedback on these plans through a discussion post.

Polkadot decentralization analytics, Continued Operation and Improvements.

- A proposal was made on August 11, 2022, asking for $100,383.24 to support public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- The service is focused on providing reliable and high-performance operations.
- There were many activities for Polkadot, with over 224 million responses in one day.
- The uptime for the networks was very high, reaching 99.98% over the last 90 days.
- In total, the Polkadot API served over 12 billion responses.
- For Westend and Statemint, there were also many responses, totaling over 609 million and 353 million, respectively. 
- The goal is to improve service availability to 99.99%, which means less downtime.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2 2022)

- Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) has been teaching about Blockchain since 2017.
- They are creating a new course to help developers learn how to build on Polkadot.
- The course will help students understand how Polkadot works and how to write code.
- Students will learn about tools like Polkadotjs, Substrate, and Rust.
- The course lasts for 20 hours and is free to enroll.
- There will be a test at the end to get a certificate showing the skills learned.
- This course is for people who want to improve their blockchain skills or build new solutions.

Substrate Training Course and Certification

### OpenSquare Summary

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

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

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

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

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

- The proposal is about rewards for an 8-week online hackathon called amsterDOT.
- There were 8 teams and 20 bounties for projects related to Polkadot and Kusama.
- An Open Category allowed any creative project related to Dotsama.
- Total rewards include up to $190,000 from teams and $150,000 from the Polkadot Treasury.
- A jury of 7 teams decided on the prize distribution.
- 13 out of 14 projects got some prize money.
- The winning project was Morph, a tool for easy cross-chain transfers.

AmsterDOT Hack

- The proposal is about getting money back for organizing a big event called amsterDOT Conf.
- The event lasted 4 days from April 20 to April 23, 2022.
- It was held in Amsterdam at 3 different places.
- Ten teams from Polkadot and Kusama helped organize it.
- There were 356 people who attended.
- The event included 32 talks and 13 workshops.
- Many people made new friendships and enjoyed their time there.

AmsterDOT Conf

- Oneblock wants to help evangelists promote the Substrate developer community by providing funding.
- They plan to create a global Substrate Evangelist Program to attract more people and promote the technology.
- Substrate is becoming popular in China's blockchain community and is important for growing Polkadot.
- The program will have ways to encourage evangelists to work hard in sharing and promoting Substrate.
- So far, 125 applicants from 14 different countries have joined the program.
- A kickoff meeting was held with important guests sharing news about Polkadot.
- In recent months, evangelists have been spreading information about the Substrate ecosystem.

Proposal of Substrate Evangelist Program

- This is a proposal about paying costs for the Polkadot network.
- It covers the infrastructure costs from January to June 2022.
- The proposal is for 50,814 US dollars, which will be converted to DOT coins.
- This payment does not include costs for software development or people working.
- It aims to make billing simpler and more organized for everyone.
- In the future, all bills will arrive at the same time, making it easier to keep track.
- The details of the billing can be found in a linked document.

Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot & Westend & Rococo Networks

- Daniel is a leader in building technology and is working on a project called Fido, which helps people use blockchain more easily.
- Fido is a special wallet designed to make Web3 simple for everyone, avoiding complicated words that might confuse users.
- It uses a friendly chat system to interact with users and can be installed on different devices like computers and small hardware.
- The team wants to build Fido in three stages, focusing on the design, core functions, and then adding more features.
- Their goal is to help people do everyday things, like buying items or ordering food, using blockchain technology without needing to understand all its complexities. 
- They are asking for feedback from early users to improve the software before it's ready for everyone to use.

Fido Wallet(s)

- A proposal is being made to give more money to the Anti-scam Bounty team.
- This team helps protect people from online scams.
- The proposal includes a budget and reports on their work and plans.
- They want to keep finding and taking down scam websites.
- The team is also working on other tasks to educate people about scams.
- Details about the proposal can be found in a document linked in the post.
- The identity of the beneficiary won't be visible on the blockchain, but it can be checked in another place called Subscan.

Treasury Proposal: Anti-Scam Bounty Top-up

- The Omni Enterprise app helps users work with the Polkadot and Kusama networks easily.
- It offers features like multisig accounts, asset management, and supporting various operations in one action.
- The app will use secure communication methods and verify data for safety.
- It aims to simplify things that were hard to do before with the regular Polkadot.js Apps.
- This proposal is about releasing the second part of the app's development after a previous successful phase.
- The app is designed for people who need advanced tools in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Omni: Polkadot Enterprise desktop app Treasury Proposal — Milestone 2 — Public releas

- Talisman is a wallet that helps users easily manage their money in the digital world.
- It supports a network called DotSama, which includes Polkadot and Kusama.
- Talisman aims to make using these networks simple and fun by improving user experience.
- The team is working on a new feature to track transactions across different parts of the network.
- Users want to easily see their money and transaction history, especially for things like taxes.
- They gather feedback from users to make Talisman better and solve problems.
- The wallet helps keep users safe while they use different apps and services.

Talisman Proposal: Cross-Chain Transaction History Service

- This is a new proposal to help pay for the RPC services.
- It will cover costs for keeping them running.
- There is one main goal called Milestone 1.
- Milestone 1 is to keep the Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend RPC services working on special computers in Sweden.
- In the second quarter of 2022, the Polkadot service had about 4 million requests each day.
- The Statemint service had about 218,000 requests a day.
- The Westend service had around 291,000 requests each day.
- The full proposal can be read online.

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q3 2022

- Manta.Network has created a privacy solution for DOT/SAMA using zkSNARKs over the last 1.5 years.
- They launched Dolphin Testnet V1, which had over 60,000 transactions and received positive feedback.
- Dolphin Testnet V2 improved performance, making transactions faster.
- OpenZL is an open-source library helping developers use zero-knowledge proof systems more easily.
- The library has three parts: gadget libraries, an embedded language called eclair, and adaptors for different proof systems.
- Various projects, such as Acala and KILT, are interested in using OpenZL.
- The project has a total budget of $1,010,500 for development, security audits, and more.

OpenZL: Common Good Zero-Knowledge-Proof Library for Substrate Builders

- The Polkadot Treasury Proposal extends the maintenance and support contract with the Polkadot Ecosystem from April 1, 2022, to June 30, 2022.
- Polkascan Foundation maintains Python libraries for the Polkadot ecosystem, funded partly by Web3 Foundation grants.
- Notable users of these Python libraries include LocalCoinSwap, Rotki, and Patract Labs.
- Previous activity reports are available from October 2020 to June 2022.
- The proposal includes links to the Social Contract Mechanism, the Python Libraries' maintenance contract, and the Polkascan Foundation's business plan.
- The Polkascan Foundation is available to answer questions from the Polkadot Council.

Continuation of Maintenance & Support for Python Libraries

**Crypto APIs' Proposal for Polkadot Community**

- **Key Management System (KMS):** An open-source SDK for creating blockchain-agnostic wallets, managing keys locally, and signing transactions. No vendor lock-in.
- **Shared Public Nodes:** A pool of at least 3 Polkadot nodes with a Smart Load Balancer, hosted on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Free for the Polkadot community.
- **Block Explorer:** Integration of Polkadot into Blockexplorer.One, a free tool showing on-chain data.
- **Funding Request:** $60,000 USD for development and infrastructure, paid in two installments.
- **Project Plan:** Includes milestones, timeline, roles, and budget.
- **Feedback:** Seeking community input and feedback on the project.

Crypto APIs <> Polkadot - treasury proposal #139

- The Polka Haus team helped organize an event called Decoded 2022 in Buenos Aires.
- They planned to spend $238,992, but only got $182,902 to help cover costs.
- They needed more money to pay for the whole event.
- The team wanted to reimburse a group called PureStake for extra costs.
- The community decided to use a treasury proposal for a bigger amount instead of a small tip.
- The current value of DOT was around $6.97 when the calculations were made. 
- More information about the proposal and budget can be found online.

Treasury proposal to cover difference in DOT rate from approval to transfer of funds for Decoded 2022: BA Chapter

- The PureStake team organized the Decoded 2022 event in New York.
- They planned to spend $500,000 but have only $362,708 available.
- To make up for the missing funds, they need more money in DOT.
- The community decided to use a normal process to reimburse PureStake instead of a quick tip.
- The current DOT rate is about $6.97, but the team received funds at $7.18.
- You can find more details and the original budget on the Polkadot website.

Treasury proposal to cover difference in DOT rate from approval to transfer of funds for Decoded 2022: NY Chapter

- Polkadot is a blockchain ecosystem that needs a good crypto wallet for users.
- Many people find the Polkadot wallet complicated and confusing.
- SubWallet wants to create a user-friendly wallet for Polkadot and Kusama users.
- This wallet will help users easily manage many different crypto activities.
- As of June 2022, SubWallet supports over 60 networks and has thousands of active users.
- They have community members from more than 70 countries.
- The SubWallet team is seeking feedback from the community.

Treasury Proposals