- PolkaWorld is a Polkadot community in China with over 50,000 followers.
- They have been building their community since 2019 with the help of Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation.
- This post is about a new proposal to cover community costs from June 2022 to August 2022.
- PolkaWorld has received funds from the Polkadot Treasury four times before.
- They are asking for more funds to keep the Chinese community running.
- People can find detailed budget and milestones for the next 3 months in the proposal.
- The community is encouraged to share feedback or suggestions on the proposal.

Awarded

Hello, Dotsama community! This is a social contract between PolkaWorld and the Polkadot Treasury. This proposal is aimed to cover the community operation costs from **June 2022 to August 2022**.

PolkaWorld is the Polkadot community in China and has gathered more than 50,000 followers, we have collaborated with the Polkadot ecosystem and Web3 Foundation to build a strong community since 2019. And received a community grant from W3F, and then make a social contract with Polkadot Treasury, so far we have got 4 times Polkadot Treasury funds, and you can find all our monthly reports here: 

[April 2022](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15RzUEMrxTTmIbelmq6vMxKyQHPHaeT76nbSLRQGeX-o/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[March 2022](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eizS-ZpTHYlPJm9djge9kH4_QZ3I38it7mkaT4e4aQ/edit)

[February 2022](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18KD3kWMOk0JUO_uOS4OmCz6njaiT9ThY8yv-0JIDElo/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[January 2022](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_u-1LWN_fjSez-zD7DjPtWvNl4342qjFAhZnKo6pW4/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[December 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17lbpcpzSvz3Kc8WCOQoOX0QlB6R7f9jYk_rXPxenFhM/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[November 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XVD8z9FhZUuTxLKwiXt9mWdWg_2oQnMxsgSQ84TbHe0/edit)

[October 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jRmXQOnKuG-ulXSA-JMjJ-Bdzi5ZZDfBKcNqxLh4Obk/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[September 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NmTMLoPfZ3LgRnnunN-01E7NcHC1VzsDxfk-cjccXpg/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[August 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Tl9WeB7tW-VTGcTVl5bO4DsQz1rJw5rbZIbAqX_BAc/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[July 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rfFq1Qqsr-E1oCjIlClBgq5nqBpnawp2C21hujDSFK0/edit#heading=h.dkwc058ylu6g)

[June 2021](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XZItg6tBjvSomlybY0jEhBwmDOCzYfsxiNSRYXQYjCE/edit)

And this post is our fifth proposal to apply for the fund support from Polkadot Treasury to continue to run the Chinese community. 

You can find the [milestones and budget here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1caGbLfa-BUTukVQGHtZtOZKXJ8YkkVAcSdvzjD2b0Oo/edit?usp=sharing) for the next 3 months!

We'd love to hear your feedback or any advice/suggestions here. Please feel free to comment! 

Thanks




PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal:  2022/6 - 2022/8

- AngelHack is organizing a hackathon called the Polkadot Global Series from May 30, 2022, to July 11, 2022.
- They are asking for $297,000 to help run the event, which is about 20,711 DOT.
- This hackathon is a continuation of a successful event that happened in 2021 in Asia.
- The focus will be on North America this time.
- They want to make it easier for new developers to understand and use technology.
- Goals include attracting more developers, encouraging community participation, and providing learning opportunities.
- They plan to have a bigger prize pool to motivate participants.

**Proponent:** Tribe/AngelHack 13Ghf2T883ZobjngC1BAgR1BWvK2P7qP37gGxHDVFf3fjbmw

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

**Requested Allocation:** $297,000 USD

*DOT amount calculated via EMA on 17 May 2022 at GMT+0 0721hrs - 1 DOT ~ 14.34 USD.
$297,000 USD ~ 20,711.2971 DOT

**Short description: **
Continuing the success of Polkadot Hackathon: APAC Edition (in collaboration with Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies) that took place in Quarter 4 2021, AngelHack aims to continue with the organisation and execution of the Polkadot Global Series with the focus on the North America region next.

Bringing the North America edition to new heights, the hackathon will focus even more on the following four categories - creating understanding of technology, bridging gaps in the Web3 space, incentivising with larger prize pool and tightening operations. 

This is to ensure a seamless and positive experience for the participants, while aiming to achieve the following goals

- Attract more developers to the Polkadot ecosystem

- Encourage community participation

- Promote building and participation across parachains

- Provide learning opportunities for builders and developers

- Increase the amount of Substrate developers

**Full proposal link** [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UjiyXKLj27ab72GkbjoQtSeh6CfnO-Goqs51uTYwF50/edit?usp=sharing)


Proposal: Polkadot Hackathon: North America Prize Pool

I am a professor in engineering at the University of Texas of Austin. I am proposing an effort that enables infrastructure for the benefit of the community. This infrastructure will be managed by University/College based Blockchain clubs from across the world, beginning with clubs in the USA and India. Please find the proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vG0\_mdUj9R-K6HvcavhTvoEw-IPR1XRFy6XWGjvSmT4/edit?usp=sharing I would greatly appreciate your feedback on this proposal.

Enabling Common-Good Infrastructure at University/College Blockchain Clubs Across the World

- The author delivered a book and is asking for the final payment.
- The money requested is $10,240 or 731 DOT.
- Each DOT is worth $14.
- The book can be viewed online at a link provided.
- Some tweets from the community showed good interest in the book.
- There is a reference to a previous proposal for more information.

Following the successful delivery of the book, I would like to request for the final payment.

**Amount Requested: $10,240 (731 DOT)**

**Subscan EMA 30: $14/DOT**

## The book can be found [here](https://linktr.ee/polkadotbook).

![](https://i.imgur.com/xb3HVDf.jpg)

Thus far, here are the results of book adoption from only a few tweets by the community, most notable of which is [this](https://twitter.com/nachortti/status/1521387662891966465?s=20&t=G0TuAvt1gNf0YCAvIY9VcA).

![](https://i.imgur.com/J6ars8O.png)

The previous proposal can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/123).

Polkadot Book for Beginners (final payment)

This proposal requests reimbursement for the social experiment on the validator recommendation algorithm. All the infos can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1036)

Funding for the Social Experiment to Test the Validator Recommendation Algorithm

- This text is about a proposal for funding to help grow the Polkadot community in India.
- They want to hold 3 Dot Friday webinars and 6 Substrate Bootcamps to reach more people.
- Over the last 7 months, they have built a community of over 9,000 members.
- They aim to impact 5,000 new crypto fans and 1,000 new developers in the next 3 months.
- The proposal requests a total of 105,960 USD for these activities.
- They also explain how much Dot (the currency) they need for the grant, which is about 5,698.9 DOT. 
- This proposal is part 2 of a larger plan and needs to be approved along with the first part.

NOTE (May 6, 2022): This is part 2 of on-chain [treasury proposal #111](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/111). Please consider this together with on-chain treasury proposal #111, toward a grant request total as detailed in the proposal below. We request to receive approval on both proposals in order to cumulatively receive the correct grant amount.

After a community launch in September, in over 7 months we have built a 9000+ community including investors, developers, students, web3 entrepreneurs as well as crypto & blockchain enthusiasts. Our monthly event properties - Dot Friday(Guest Webinars) and Substrate Saturday(Bootcamps for Developers) have seen growing traction and to keep growing the Polkadot community in India.

Now, with an aim of impacting 5000+ more crypto enthusiasts and 1000+ new developers over 3 months (Apr, May & Jun 2022), here's a proposal for our next set of 3 DotFriday Webinars and 6 Substrate Bootcamps, paving way for the bigger plans ahead toward building an Indian blockchain & web3 community. We hence seek the Polkadot Treasury Grant to make this possible.

Details along with the complete proposal and past results can be found in [this post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1009).

Here's the Math for the calculation:
A. Proposal Value: 105,960 USD
B. EMA30 Dot Value (May 5, 2022): 17.581 USD
C. Proposal Amount in Dot (A/B): 6026.9 DOT
D. Bond value (C*5%): 301.345 DOT
E. Already requested in proposal #111: 328 DOT
F. Balance Amount (C-E): 5698.9 DOT


A Polkadot India Proposal: 3 Polkadot Webinars + 6 Substrate Bootcamps = 12000+ 🦾 India community

- A person asked for 7,404 DOT on May 6, 2022, to help pay for important services on Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- For the past three months, they have provided a free public API, making it easier for people to access high-performance nodes.
- This service helps grow the community by making it easier for projects to use the network and test how it works.
- In January, they had over 340 million responses in one day, showing strong demand for their services.
- They achieved an amazing uptime of 99.99%, meaning their service was very reliable.
- Between January and March, they served more than 17 billion responses and processed over 110 TB of data.
- They are working on solutions to improve traffic handling and serve even more users in the future.

**Proponent:** 12mRyiCp9zdh1wEVW5gLLiFBxDPKks72rRXmSupyEK3VAMLf

**Date:** 6th May 2022

**Requested DOT:** 7,404 DOT

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

**Raw Data:** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XhhzxTO8pC9tQMG12Uf8NnHZah6O_TIhMaerzsEBAVY/edit?usp=sharing

## Original Motivation

Over the last 3 months (January, February, March 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

This last quarter has been huge for Polkadot and OnFinality, the demand for our services continues to be another  unprecedented period. January had a larger activity than the rest of the quarter which also had our highest daily Polkadot response count (for Q1)  of over 340 million responses in a single day. [Raw data is here.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XhhzxTO8pC9tQMG12Uf8NnHZah6O_TIhMaerzsEBAVY/edit?usp=sharing)

This quarter was all about service stabilisation as part of the promise we made to this ecosystem to provide enterprise grade services to the community. Our services all exceeded our 99.9% target, with 99.99% uptime for Polkadot over the last 90 days. This is an important measure as we surpassed our largest ever day, with over a billion API responses processed by our service in a single 24 hour period in late January.

You’ll note that there was a significant increase in the amount of data egress over the previous quarter (55% growth to 110TB). We’ve been constantly scaling our nodes to meet this rising level of demand while maintaining our target 99.9% uptime (actual was 99.99%). We are currently working on new load balancing solutions to better route this traffic to different node types and expect that we will soon be able to handle more traffic with less resources.

Between 2022-01-01 and 2022-03-31 our Kusama API service has:

- Served a total of 17,841,881,373 (17 billion) responses
- Accumulated over 110 TB of data egress (up 44% on Q4, 2021)
- The highest daily total was 340,585,751 responses in a single 24 hour period
- Our rolling 7 day average at the end of this period was over 201 million responses each day.
- Westend had over 465  million API responses in the period
- Statemint had over 302 million API responses in the period
- All time totals for Polkadot is 1,919,138,536,720 (1.9 Trillion) since November, 2020
- At the end of this period the 90 day uptime for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend was 99.99%, 99.98%, and 100%

[The full proposal is here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lgzqzhk4NFNLNbShfMlT4MbrIrhFFDNwlNCvD2Kt7mo/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2022)

- A community was launched for Polkadot in September 2021.
- The community has grown to over 9,000 members, including investors, developers, and students.
- They hold monthly events called Dot Friday (webinars) and Substrate Saturday (bootcamps).
- The goal is to reach 5,000 more crypto fans and 1,000 new developers in the next three months.
- They plan to host three more Dot Friday webinars and six Substrate bootcamps.
- They are seeking a grant to help with this project.

***NOTE (May 5, 2022): Sorry, we accidentally entered the Bond value in the value field. Pleae bear with us while we work with the Polkadot team to identify the right way forward from here.*** 

After a community launch in September, in over 7 months we have built a 9000+ community including investors, developers, students, web3 entrepreneurs as well as crypto & blockchain enthusiasts. Our monthly event properties - Dot Friday(Guest Webinars) and Substrate Saturday(Bootcamps for Developers) have seen growing traction and to keep growing the Polkadot community in India. 

Now, with an aim of impacting 5000+ more crypto enthusiasts and 1000+ new developers over 3 months (Apr, May & Jun 2022), here's a proposal for our next set of 3 DotFriday Webinars and 6 Substrate Bootcamps, paving way for the bigger plans ahead toward building an Indian blockchain & web3 community. We hence seek the Polkadot Treasury Grant to make this possible.

Details along with complete proposal can be found in [this post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1009). 

- OneBlock wants to get money to hold the 2022 Summer Polkadot Hackathon in China.
- They have organized two successful hackathons before in March and June 2021.
- The hackathons help teach and promote a tool called Substrate for developers.
- OneBlock is partnering with Parity Asia to have two more hackathons in June and December 2022.
- The previous hackathons helped students learn and build projects using Substrate.
- They received positive feedback from developers about the events.
- This proposal is to ask for money to support the upcoming hackathons.

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

OneBlock, in collaboration with Parity Asia, successfully organized, operated and promoted the two Polkadot Hackathons in [March 2021](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/30) and [June 2021](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/62). OneBlock propose to continue the Polkadot Hackathon program in the year of 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. 

OneBlock, aligning with Parity Asia’s Substrate initiatives, plans to run two Polkadot hackathons in June 2022 (potentially along with Polkadot Decoded on June 29-June30 2022) and December 2022 (exact dates TBD). 

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 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/1aGzWrQVfuWdAJND80bTxKi-u4htjjypGEtnDAWcJvBc/edit?usp=sharing).

Please feel free to comments!



OneBlock  The 2022 Polkadot Hackathons proposal 

### Kusama Network RPC Service Proposal

- **Purpose**: Improve and maintain RPC nodes for Kusama network access.
- **Impact**: Ensures users can connect to Kusama if existing RPC nodes fail.
- **Development**: Focuses on deployment automation and multiple DNS registrars.
- **Pull Request**: Submitted to Polkadot.js Apps for RPC service integration.
- **Proposal Details**: Available in a Google Doc.
- **Maintenance**: Covers first 3 months and M1 improvements.
- **KSM Rate Tool**: Provides 30-day average KSM rate by Subscan.

This is a treasury proposal whose proposer address (12Vv2LsLCvPKiXdoVGa3QSs2FMF8zx2c8CPTWwLAwfYSFVS1) is shown in on-chain info below. Only this user can edit this description and the title. If you own this account, login and tell us more about your proposal.

 Proposal: Kusama RPC-node Dwellir

- Multisig is a tool used in Substrate networks for managing funds and permissions.
- The Subscan multi-sig app helps users create and manage multi-signature accounts easily.
- Since 2021, they have fixed bugs and added new features while improving the user experience.
- New features are being developed in three milestones, with the first two already completed.
- Users can import and export multi-signature accounts, making it easier to manage them.
- The app supports different networks and allows custom configuration for new chains.
- Future plans include more features based on community requests and educational materials.
- They are seeking funds to support the development and maintenance of the tool.


`Multisig` is an important module in the Substrate ecological network, which is of great significance for the fund management and permissions. It is widely integrated into the runtime by the networks that developed based on Substrate, and is gradually accepted and used by more users. Subscan multi-sig app is designed to help users create and manage multi-signature accounts and extrinsics. We keep working to provide users with a more convenient multi-signature tool, and will aim for this goal in the future.

Since [the grant delivery](https://github.com/w3f/Grant-Milestone-Delivery/blob/master/deliveries/multisignature_management_tool_milestone_2.md) in Aug 2021, we have also fixed some disturbing bugs, and have been adding many new exciting features and enhancing UI/ UX for the multi-sig tool. The goal of this proposal is to seek funds for the new features developed for **Subscan multi-sig app** ([Github](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react)). 

**These new features are divided into 3 Milestones:**

- **We have already completed Milestone 1 and 2**, and released (open sourced) it for anyone to use. Welcome to use and experience the [Subscan multisig tool](https://multisig.subscan.io/). 

- We sincerely welcome suggestions and feedbacks from the community to help us improve UX. **Over the next 3 months, we will complete Milestone 3 and add more community-requested features**.

**More details can be found on Github:**

- [Milestone 1: August-December 2021](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/milestone/1)
- [Milestone 2: January-March 2022](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/milestone/2)
- [Milestone 3: April-June 2022](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/milestone/3)

It can be seen that the number of commits is much more than Issues. Many small features are not recorded here, and the actual workload will be more.

In summary, our work focuses on two points:

**- Make it more convenient for users to use multi-signature related functions.
- Improve compatibility and facilitate more network integration.**


**Here are some details of the main features:**

- Custom endpoints for new network
The default support networks include Polkadot, Kusama, Darwinia, Crab and Pangolin. Users can now add custom substrate-based chain by configuring name, endpoint and explorer(optional).
With this function, we can now serve all networks with standard multisig modules, without the trouble to deploy another fork instance. Thus, it becomes a convenient facility in the Polkadot ecosystem, and users without coding experience can configure networks with ease.
![](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/subscan-explorer/treasury-proposals/master/multisig-treasury-proposal-2022-Aug//custom-endpoint.png)
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/78)

- Historical multi-sig extrinsic indexing
Historical multi-sig extrinsics (including confirmed/cancelled ) are stored and indexed using SubQuery.  Accounts(member account + threshold) with extrinsic history will be stored as well. This is a prerequisite for importing multi-sig account from url.
![](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/subscan-explorer/treasury-proposals/master/multisig-treasury-proposal-2022-Aug/history-extrinsics.png)
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/88)

- Import a multi-sig account (which has multi-sig extrinsic history) from url. (e.g. [https://multisig.subscan.io/account/1x8aa2N2Ar9SQweJv9vsuZn3WYDHu7gMQu1RePjZuBe33Hv#r%3Dwss%3A%2F%2Frpc.polkadot.io](https://multisig.subscan.io/account/1x8aa2N2Ar9SQweJv9vsuZn3WYDHu7gMQu1RePjZuBe33Hv#r%3Dwss%3A%2F%2Frpc.polkadot.io)）
We know that a multi-signature account can be assembled and saved locally for the sent multi-signature extrinsic, according to the threshold and member accounts. Thus, when a user shares a url containing an endpoint and a multi-signature address, the corresponding threshold and member accounts are queried and saved locally for information viewing and further operations.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/137)

- Import & export a multi-sig account through json file
Creating a multi-sig account by manually input dozens of member accounts can be quite annoying. This feature can save us the trouble of doing so.
![](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/subscan-explorer/treasury-proposals/master/multisig-treasury-proposal-2022-Aug/export.png)
![](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/subscan-explorer/treasury-proposals/master/multisig-treasury-proposal-2022-Aug/import.png)
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/121)

- Optimize the acquisition method of call data to adapt to more usage scenarios
When a member initiate an extrinsic from other tools such as [polkadot.js/apps](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/explorer), the call data may not store on chain, and user can manually input the call data which will be verified correspondingly.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/61)

- Compatible with metadata v14 upgrade
Some related data structure have changed, such as call data stored on chain. We’ve made relevant adjustment to make it compatible with metadata v14 upgrade.

**UI/UX improvement:**

- Refine the general UI layout.
- Show estimated reserve amount when submitting an extrinsic.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/84)

- Optimize call data display in extrinsic list on account detail page.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/119)

- Distinguish between cancelled extrinsic and confirmed extrinsic.
- Add connection timeout message.
- Optimize wallet list.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/148)

- Show multi-sig account balance.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/94)

- Improve performance and load speed.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/149)

Future plans:

- Optimize network configuration architecture, support external chain submit RPC endpoint and subquery GraphQL endpoint configuration by PR.

    We are committed to building multi-sig tools as an open, highly compatible infrastructure like the polkadot.js app. In order to achieve this goal, we still need to complete these tasks: [Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/157)

    - Open source SubQuery schema/template so that external chain can deploy and host the node by themselves.
    - Submit PR to include the RPC endpoint and subquery GraphQL endpoint into the menu.
    - Automatically check the format and usability of PR (subsequent manual review will be carried out).
    - Update README to provide instructions.


- Batch import/export multi-sig accounts
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/138)
- Deploy the SubQuery service for networks that have frequent  multi-sig extrinsics.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/151)
- Simplify transfer operations.
Currently it requires user to select module and call to make transfer extrinsic. To make it easier, we plan to add a separate entrance for transfer.
![](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/subscan-explorer/treasury-proposals/master/multisig-treasury-proposal-2022-Aug/transfer.png)
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/136)

- Add “favorite” and “share” multi-sig account features.
[Issue & PR related](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/issues/143)
- Add more community-requested features.
- Add user education docs, videos, etc.


---

**Funding**

development and maintenance cost:

- [Milestone 1: August-December 2021](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/milestone/1): $32,100
- [Milestone 2: January-March 2022](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/milestone/2): $35,800
- [Milestone 3: April-June 2022](https://github.com/itering/subscan-multisig-react/milestone/3): $34,400

**Total proposed amount: $102,300**

---

**Funding usage:**

The above-mentioned funds are used for the labor cost of subscan multi-signature tool milestone1-3 (9 months in total) development. Here is the detail:

- Front-end development engineer: 1 full-time, 1 part-time
- Product Manager: 1 part-time
- Test Engineer: 1 part-time
- UI & UX Designer: 1 part-time

The average monthly labor cost is **$11k**. Due to the different working hours of part-time staff each month, the funds applied for each milestone are also slightly different.

---

2022-04-21 06:04:54 (+UTC), Block #9967626

DOT EMA30 Price ( USD ):  `19.389`

Number of DOT: `102,300 USD -> 5,276.305 DOT`

[https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/price_converter?value=102300&type=time&from=USD&to=DOT&time=1650522208](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/price_converter?value=102300&type=time&from=USD&to=DOT&time=1650522208)

Please refer to the previous discussion: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/981


User experience optimization and new function development of Subscan Multi-sig Tool

- This is a proposal for more money to help with RPC services.
- RPC services are important for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend.
- They want to keep these services running on special computers in Sweden.
- They have had many users, with Polkadot getting over 8 million requests every day.
- Statemint has about 245,000 requests daily and Westend has around 27,000.
- The proposal includes one goal, or milestone, to achieve.

This is a follow-up proposal on what we submitted in the beginning of [January](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/81), 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 Q1 2022 our Polkadot RPC service served on average **8,122,333** requests per day.

In mid Q1 2022 we also turned on public RPC services for Statemint and Westend. Since the start, Statemint has served on average **245,000** requests per day, and Westend has served **26,900** requests per day.

- Our full proposal can be [read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XCWPiSzLJ_jG04d82VEdvL_r5QBtS-akRrh1ABRhmas/edit?usp=sharing).

Polkadot RPC services Dwellir Q2 2022

- RadiumBlock is a service that helps with Web3 and focuses on the Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- They want to submit a proposal to keep their validator snapshot service running for the first quarter of 2022.
- This service provides important information (snapshots) for both Polkadot and Kusama communities.
- They have planned to ask for money from the Polkadot Treasury this time and will ask from Kusama next time.
- RadiumBlock is trying to involve different places and companies for better support.
- They adjusted their request to 100 DOT and have changed their fee estimate to 8% due to price changes.
- They would like feedback on their proposal and thank everyone for considering it.

Hello Polkadot Treasury

[RadiumBlock is an aspiring Web3 infrastructure service provider](https://radiumblock.com/) focused on the Dotsama ecosystem. We would like to submit a treasury proposal for the maintenance of radiumblock.com's [validator snapshot service](https://radiumblock.com/snapshots) for Q1 2022. The snapshot service provides both polkadot and kusama snapshots. The detailed proposal can be found [here](https://radiumblock.com/proposals/polkadot/2022/Polkadot_Snapshots_Q1_2022.pdf).

Although this service benefits both Polkadot and Kusama communities, we believe that the amount is reasonable enough to request it from the Polkadot Treasury. We plan to alternate between Kusama and Polkadot treasury per quarter. 

Very much in the spirit of decentralization, we have explicitly tried to provide both geographical as well as infrastructure provider diversity. Here is a summary table of the snapshot providers and information about their infra and geographical we compiled(to the best of our knowledge).

Snapshots | Infra Provider | Geo Location

RadiumBlock.com | Hetzner | Finland

Polkadots.io. | Google Cloud | US

Polkachu.com | Digital Ocean | EU

Parasnaps.io | ? | ?

Based on instructions we have adjusted the DOT amount to 100 DOT using todays DOT rate (EMA30) from https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price
Given the increased volatility we have seen the last few days we have slightly adjusted the slippage to 8%(vs 5% listed in our original proposal). 
We request the payment to be made to our DOT wallet(same as the proposer address) 13GtCixw3EZARj52CVbKLrsAzyc7dmmYhDV6quS5yeVCfnh1


We welcome your feedback.

Thank you for your consideration!

RadiumBlock



radiumblock.com's Dotsama validator snapshot service for Q1 2022

please see the [proposal](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/949) for details.

Proposal for Ask! v0.4 (original Ask-lite v0.1, ink! in AssemblyScript)

- Paulo Zago is a member of the Portuguese-speaking Polkadot community.
- He creates videos, podcasts, and articles about cryptocurrency for Polkadot.
- He started his YouTube channel on July 25, 2021, and has made 23 videos.
- His YouTube channel has almost 24,000 views and 528 subscribers.
- Paulo shares tips that have been recognized by the Polkadot and Kusama council.
- He moderates the Portuguese Telegram group for Polkadot and Kusama.
- Paulo plans to make 36 educational pieces in three months to help beginners.
- He translates content into Portuguese to make it easier to understand.

Hello,
my name is Paulo Zago, I am an active member of the Portuguese-speaking Polkadot community. I produce cryptocurrency content and tutorials for the Polkadot ecosystem on my [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/PauloZagoYT) channel, [Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3WUO44czt7om3nbn45hARe) and [Articles](https://app.subsocial.network/5562).

I started creating content on my YouTube channel on the 25th of July 2021 and I have already produced 23 videos about the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. 
I currently have a total of 23,990 views and 528 subscribers on my YouTube channel. 

Due to my dedication to contribute to the development of the Polkadot ecosystem, some Tips of my content were requested and endorsed for the Polkadot and Kusama council and I am currently the moderator of the Polkadot and Kusama Portuguese Telegram group.

My proposal is to create 36 educational contents during a period of 03 months with the frequency of 03 contents per week. These contents will be developed for the Polkadot ecosystem in 3 different media formats. Each content will be produced specifically for each graduate.

I try to research and study the content produced around the world by the Polkadot community and translate it into Portuguese with a simple and easy to understand language to help beginner users.



See the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CwX86-WTrfOuKRDc33craMR93azh6AzRmjEdFOh1Gog/edit?usp=sharing).

Discussion page Polkassembly [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/956). 

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/paulo__zago/status/1506706392148844557?s=20&t=gk8UIo0cZw1lomLn2f3OPw) with community feedback

Feel free to leave a feedback below. 
All opinions are welcome.


Proposal for production of Polkadot Ecosystem content in Portuguese language Q2

- The university has a program to engage students.
- They want to request £60,000 for funding.
- This money is for hackathon prizes and team grants.
- They need £3,950.96 specifically based on recent average calculations.
- The funding will help with the costs of running an accelerator.
- There are reports available for more information on the funding.

As part of our university engagement programme (see [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLFxCpO7y1fyIfcdTpDQGkbuPoGy2mFvlusYb1tTe74/edit#slide=id.gc2bb29227c_0_1294l)), we would like to request our fourth and fifth phases of funding (£60,000) to pay hackathon prizes.

The amount we are therefore requesting is 3950.96 (based on the 30 day moving average of 19.919 according to Subscan) to pay grants to accelerator teams and cover the cost of running the accelerator.

Please find a report the report of tranches 4 and 5 [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/934).


Encode Club Polkadot Club - Tranche 4 and 5 funding

### Proposal Summary

- **Objective:** Integrate Kusama support into DotScanner.com.
- **Challenges:** Hosting costs for DotScanner are high, adding Kusama support could double expenses.
- **Proposal Focus:** Begin development with milestones 0 & 1.
- **Full Proposal:** Detailed proposal available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CYklxaMkBfZvf2ZEHj-OXgbGjrnvLDFvvvCl7ZkQcYk/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Cost Estimate:** 18.5 KSM, calculated based on the 30-day KSM rate from [Subscan](https://kusama.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price).

Rejected

This is a treasury proposal whose proposer address (1hBsvxbKZwmAGyTbpfctcq5nTZWGqtDSw6L8sdajnPRJj7z) is shown in on-chain info below. Only this user can edit this description and the title. If you own this account, login and tell us more about your proposal.

DotScanner.com Kusama Integration & Extra Features Milestones 0 & 1

- The Polkadot Ecology Research Institute wants help from the Polkadot Treasury for six months of operating costs.
- They plan to create fun and easy-to-understand Chinese content about Polkadot.
- Their goal is to help Chinese users learn about Polkadot in a friendly way.
- They also want to share updates about important Polkadot projects.
- This work will help more people know about Polkadot and participate in its growth.
- They previously received funding from the Polkadot Treasury and completed their goals.
- They are asking for about $104,760 for the next six months.

The proposal aims to seek support from the Polkadot Treasury for the 2022/3-2022/8 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 September 2021, [we have established a Polkadot Treasury for our 2021/9-2022/2 operation cost, and get funding from the Polkadot Treasury](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19is5Ihn_0HEfOwUbsaDQzX7n89oRlWYwpt6eDWeabw0/edit). We have completed all the goals. [Please check our report to learn more.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sNjxO6lPnA_fdtThuM3hgU1eM62irpEHOMVG6kgfwtY/edit?usp=sharing)

So this is a proposal for our six months operation cost. We apply approx 104,760.00 USD total allocation for 2022/3-2022/8 and [you can get all details here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTWu_x7ULOKLz5Vmk2BMNj_THXFyXkDbKbpQRvKnBCw/edit?usp=sharing).

Treasury proposal: The 2022/3-2022/8 operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- A new Polkadot brand font is being created using open-source design.
- The font will have three styles: light, regular, and bold, plus a special variable version.
- It will connect the Polkadot community visually and help developers.
- The font will include a wide range of characters from the Latin alphabet and a "pan-African" character set.
- Cyrillic letters will also be added for more international use. 
- The proposal includes tracking the font's value in USD and EUR.
- The total cost will include taxes.

We propose the completion of an open source Polkadot brand typeface based on existing initial creative. The final fonts will be in three weights; light, regular and bold, as well as a cutting-edge variable font. The brand font will visually link the eco-system on a typographic level and offer value you to the development community as a visual asset.

We propose to extend the font's usability by extending the core latin-based alphabet to include a wide-ranging 'pan-african' character set. We also propose adding the cyrillic script to further bolster international use of the font.

[Read full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aRcL-xlOnEklvhaBoBnl8u7bL1jLjX_QRKK9_wHanFs/edit?usp=sharing)

- DOT Rate based on [30day avg tool by Subscan](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price): 18,70 USD / 17 EUR.

- Total allocation includes TAX.

Opensource Brand Typeface

- The Polkadot Ambassador program has grown to 2,247 members in less than a year.
- Ambassadors help teach people about Polkadot and organize community events.
- To celebrate their hard work, they are giving awards called Ambassador's badges.
- The badges will be given as physical items and also as digital NFTs.
- There will be a special event called PolkaOscar on December 28, 2021, where winners will be announced.
- A physical award ceremony will happen at the Polkadot Decoded event in June 2022 in several cities.
- Ambassadors who can’t attend the event will receive their awards by mail.
- The badges can be shaped into characters, allowing people to create their own unique collection.

It’s time to celebrate!

Polkadot Ambassador's program has grown significantly in a little less than a year (we are currently 2247 candidates and ambassadors according to the data provided on October 31, 2021) and our amazing community continues to grow. It is a fact that our Ambassadors have made an enormous contribution to the success of the Multichain future by educating our community about Polkadot technology, organising workshops and meetups, and pushing forward Web3 technologies for mass adoption.

We want to award each ambassador for the relevant work done which has made Polkadot a success. With these Ambassador’s badges, both in a physical form and as a NFT; we, the Ambassador’s community celebrate the success of the Polkadot Community and Network.

Following the online PolkaOscar ceremony that took place online on December 28, 2021, we began minting and distributing ambassador’s NFT badges.Our original plan was to only post 3D badges to all ambassadors; but thanks to the Polkadot Decoded event in June we’ll have the opportunity to meet and hand some awards in person. We believe that taking the chance to host a physical PolkaOscar award ceremony will add spark to our movement.

The Polkadot Decoded event will take place in Berlin, Mexico City, New York, and Shanghai on June 29th & 30th 2022. Therefore, we will only post badges to those ambassadors who won’t be able to make it to the physical event. This way we will increase the chances that everyone will be awarded, and we will add a physical and virtual chapter to the wonderful history of our community.

The printing process must begin as soon as possible in order for the printing company to finalise 3d works, package the figurines and ship them to the event destination or to individuals on time for the event. About Polkadot Kings & Queens Characters: The very idea of ​​assembling and varying characters fits very well with the social story. Games like the Sims, where you collect a hero similar to yourself or Memoji from Apple, all works and plunges us somewhere into our childhood.

Ambassador’s Badges are the characters made from cubes that you can assemble yourself, according to your taste and colour preferences. Your first badge can be the beginning of a regular collection - small and static, or something big and dynamic: games, cartoons, merch, the metaverse. This project is about personalities, anyone can find himself in a chelobrik and can build his own little cheloworld. Kusama Princes & Princesses and Polkadot Kings & Queens are a symbol of the Power of The Community and The Power of an Individual in this ecosystem. We are Decentralised but United by the ideal of building a new creative, decentralised and fairer world.

Link to the proposal discussion [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/730)
You can find the proposal (with a breakdown of costs) [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bTjb9CwnLnKbpQaHoASMJ9sTSee6eA22_yr5sADStmw/edit?usp=sharing)

3D Badges for Polkadot Ambassadors for PolkaOscar, June 2022

- The Polkassembly platform wants to make improvements to help users better understand and use it.
- They plan to change the look and feel (UI & UX) of the platform to make it easier and more fun to discuss and manage things.
- New features will include tools for money tracking, events, and learning resources about Polkadot.
- The team is dedicated to adding more features based on what the community needs, and they will work hard every quarter.
- Some new things being developed are better website performance, custom notifications, and rewards for users who help out.
- They have already made changes like creating a homepage and adding community discussions to attract more people.
- In the future, they want to add more educational content and improve the way users can create proposals.
- Overall, they aim to make the Polkassembly platform a favorite place for information on governance in the Polkadot ecosystem.

This submission proposes new features on the Polkassembly platform. The product roadmap outlines the transition and development of Polkassembly platform to improve UX, enhance UI and add some features which will bring a lot of value to the users of the platform.

### Product philosophy + Milestones/Features
Please find our Pitch deck here - [Link](https://docsend.com/view/yzq59fr3zzquvkns)

**Note** - The product roadmap is flexible when it comes to prioritizing feature development and timelines are subject to change based on community requirements for features but consistent efforts will be made to ensure that every quarter there are more tasks done than mentioned in the milestones.

**Product plan**

The product roadmap primarily focuses on 3 things-

- Improve UI & UX of existing platform to ease governance discussions
- Add new features like treasury analytics, parachains info, events calendar, etc..
- Educate the community on Polkadot and substrate ecosystem and simplify the learning process for people moving from web2 -> web3(Tentative pipeline - [Link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1esbMkfIfZSYoLHor-y5v97pLHrDF8GnnoSrYg60INiU/edit?usp=sharing))

**Milestones**

[![](https://i.ibb.co/tm5CyPZ/pitchdeck.png)](https://ibb.co/r7Jynfb)


**Additional features that are in development in this quarter include**
- Create treasury proposal from Polkassembly platform(enhanced UX)
- Other features as requested by Council members, community and partner chains - Flexibility for adding more features beyond our defined roadmap will help Polkassembly become user’s go-to place for Governance and information on Polkadot ecosystem.
- Merge sign-in/sign-up process
- Improve website performance and load speed
- Introduce an option to select network when signing in
- Merge the treasury proposal creation process to provide a simplified UX to complete entire process on Polkassembly platform
- Treasury analytics page - Detailed treasury spend and inflow with latest events
- Personalized Notifications to stay updated on latest activity for a custom list of protocols
- Introduce rewards & NFTs for contributing voters and participants
- Make polkassembly live for multiple chains
- Addition of child bounty support: Feb W3
- Aggregation of data across multiple parachains: March W3
- Increased focus on educational content and ecosystem updates: Feb W3 
- Experience Overhaul & Upgrade for the Product (Polkassembly)
- Launch of updated Product Home: March W1
- Launch of update for all Product pages: April W1
- Enhanced landing page for each protocol. The protocol page will have the following information
- Description of protocol
- All relevant links - discord, twitter, github, reddit, youtube, etc
- An option for protocol owners to add custom links would be created later
- All relevant links - discord, twitter, github, reddit, youtube, etc
- News & Events and activity feed for that protocol
- Custom Calendar view for each protocol
- Enhanced view for various tabs - Treasury, Bounty, Tips, etc. 

Please find the mock design below along with the link to figma design file

![](https://i.ibb.co/h9PYtmg/homepage.png)
![](https://i.ibb.co/sH6w0jQ/calender.png)

Figma Design files for 

- [Home page](https://www.figma.com/proto/42APiTcMqSnnqT2zttgf9M/Polkassembly-Final?node-id=136145%3A256226&scaling=scale-down-width&page-id=136145%3A256110&starting-point-node-id=136145%3A256226&hide-ui=1)
- [Calendar](https://www.figma.com/proto/42APiTcMqSnnqT2zttgf9M/Polkassembly-Final?node-id=136155%3A230768&scaling=scale-down-width&page-id=136145%3A257324&starting-point-node-id=136155%3A230768&hide-ui=1)
- [Link Multisig](https://www.figma.com/file/ko3Sks2oLSnW7ogk7UoMQO/Link-Multisig?node-id=0%3A1)
- [Child bounty](https://www.figma.com/file/u6eNe9N0G1257aEyDpNFfK/Untitled?node-id=0%3A1)

**Features Completed**

**Polkassembly Website & Social**: Dec’21 to Present

- Creation of a homepage for Polkassembly to build towards the vision of educating users about governance in the Polkadot ecosystem
- Creation and development of social channels to increase the audience for governance discussions and build awareness

**Multi-Sig & Proxy**: Jan’22

- Integration of the ability to add multi-sig and proxy on Polkassembly, adapting the platform based on community feedback

**Moonbase Integration**: Jan’22 to Feb’22

- Launch and integration of feedback from the Moonbase team to bring the community to Polkassembly for Governance

**Design & Experience changes**: Jan’22

- Improving experience on login, settings and navigation
- Addition of error messaging

**Dashboard view for independent parachains**: Jan’22 to Present

- Improving the experience for users by allowing them to view all on-chain activities in a dashboard view for each parachain
- Viewing news, upcoming events, and much more as a part of the dashboard

**Calendar Integration**: Feb’22 to Present
- Integration of an on-chain + off-chain calendar for events in the polkadot ecosystem in a parachain agnostic form
- Allowing users to create events for greater visibility along with the option of adding events to their google/social calendar

**Improving integration of Treasury functions**: Jan’22 to Present
- Visibility on treasury proposals along with stats from the treasury
- Creation of treasury proposal from Polkassembly | The PRD and design is for Tips but the same would be used to develop it for Treasury Proposal
- [Design](https://www.figma.com/file/vLHdo4BJMDl0sliebC20MU/Create-treasury%2FTip-proposal?node-id=0%3A1)
- [Short PRD](https://www.notion.so/Create-Treasury-Proposal-20f975684aff48a088db8aff52ce8527)
- Linking discussion post to treasury
- Integration of treasury analytics

**Tip calculation and threshold data**: 
- Improved tips calculations and started showing proposer’s tip, expected tip and list of council members along with a status against each Jan’22


Total Proposal amount: 4690 DOT

Link to Proposal: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRgHh5DJoVxlUUhCaaxV95ACcwCiErJ73ES6uAhji6o/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRgHh5DJoVxlUUhCaaxV95ACcwCiErJ73ES6uAhji6o/edit?usp=sharing)

Polkassembly Product Improvement Proposal

- The project is proposed by Nicholas Hong and focuses on helping developers learn about Polkadot and Substrate.
- The total money needed for the project is $80,000, and they are asking for $50,000 to start.
- The project aims to improve the quality of hackathon submissions by teaching developers before the hackathons.
- They want to help 150 global developers get better at using Polkadot and Substrate.
- The learning will happen through "Learn-and-Earn" campaigns on a platform called StackUp.
- StackUp rewards developers with money for completing small tasks or "quests" that help them learn.
- This approach makes learning fun and encourages developers to complete more tasks.

**Proponent:** NicholasHong/Tribe/StackUp `1FJCfJzPnuPTeSZnpwMetY5yZi56t2RRxvHsrAYkzwvfCFC`

**Date:** March 2022

**Overall Project Allocation:** $80,000 USD 

**Requested Allocation Through This Submission:** $50,000 USD *(covers first payment milestone -  phase 0 of this project - please see full proposal for more details - proposal link at the end of this post)*

- DOT amount calculated via EMA on 11 Mar 2022 at GMT+0 1111hrs - 1 DOT ~ 18.135 USD. $50k USD ~ 2757 DOT

**Short description:**

Reviewing Polkadot Hackathon: APAC Edition that took place in Quarter 4 2021, the organising team at AngelHack (a subsidiary of Tribe) identified gaps in the participants’ level of knowledge when attempting to learn Substrate, impacting the quality of the hackathon submissions received. By raising the number of quality of submissions, the Polkadot ecosystem can become even more vibrant.

With the series of 2022 hackathons planned by AngelHack together with Web3 Foundation, the team at Tribe aims to level up the participant’s prior knowledge of the Polkadot Ecosystem and fundamentals of Substrate pre-hackathon, in hopes to result in better submission quality.

Specifically, Tribe proposes to provide Learn-and-Earn campaigns to onboard global developers onto the Polkadot developer ecosystem, growing Polkadot’s active developer base with new developers that are equipped with strong foundational knowledge and hands-on development experience. Targeting 150 global developers to be onboarded through this engagement.

The Learn-and-Earn campaigns will be conducted through StackUp - Tribe's newest business offering - a platform that rewards developers with monetary incentives for completing tasks that level up their skills and knowledge. StackUp breaks the typical learning journey into smaller, bite-sized pieces (that we call quests), offering users real currency rewards for finishing each quest. This format of smaller exercises with incremental rewards, encourages learners to tackle more quests and learn more, as well as encourages them to follow through and finish the quest.

Full Proposal Link: [Link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NxH0-hxjttIXOxWgS0yURCpj2u2kJTCdT7gbFISqZSI/edit)

Proposal: Learn-and-Earn Campaigns for Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2022

- Supercolony is organizing the first Smart Contracts on Polkadot - WASM conference.
- They received funding approval from a treasury proposal, known as motion 152.
- The conference will have an online platform and aims to bring the community together.
- The main organizers, who are in Ukraine, had to move for safety reasons.
- They lost access to funds because of their move and are looking for ways to recover them.
- A new plan involves creating a new treasury proposal using a new account to retrieve the funds.
- The funds from the old account will be marked as "Lost" since they can't be accessed anymore.

As many of you know, [Supercolony](https://supercolony.net/) requested funding from treasury to organize the **first Smart Contracts on Polkadot - WASM conference** and bring the community together to discuss this particular topic. The proposal was approved, after some discussions regarding budget and platform for online event, by [motion 152](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/152) a few days ago (more information on budget, milestones, roadmap and agenda can be found there). 

The conference website can be visited [HERE](https://wasm-conference.com/). 

Given recent events, and since the main organizers of the conference are located in Ukraine, they had to move from Kyiv for safety purposes. The holders of the beneficiary multisig for the proposal (`16PtCn76c7SB8mMDnuWsq5BjtaDetH8apZh5hRrHtLA3ce1W`) unfortunately lost access to the address while going away from Kyiv and have asked me what the alternatives to recover the funds, given they are still working to deliver the conference to the community.

After discussion with the community regarding the two original alternatives to help save the funds, a third one and more viable was presented: to vote on a new treasury proposal with Supercolony's new account (the comment that originally suggested this can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/904#eeec650b-7afc-42c0-b7eb-3ffa6c9fe0ab)). 

- New address (with verified identity): [14QZaDL6Pj8TWdjoe2honAsoVKSytSc74rNcTZxfnJqSwaxc](https://polkadot.subscan.io/account/14QZaDL6Pj8TWdjoe2honAsoVKSytSc74rNcTZxfnJqSwaxc).
- Original discussion to help recover the funds can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/904).
- The proposal aims to fund the **Smart Contracts on Polkadot - WASM conference (Virtual)**: the specs of the proposal, including budget, agenda, speakers and other elements can be found on [the original proposal](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/152).**The old funds will be marked as "Lost" since they cannot be moved, and the account will be monitored**. 

Helping Supercolony Recover Funds From Treasury Proposal - A new vote on the proposal

Subscan is a tool that helps people explore blockchain networks that use Substrate. Here are some key points:

- It supports different chains like Polkadot and Kusama.
- Subscan offers features beyond just basic services, like fixing bugs and improving user experience.
- They have noticed more users, which makes it harder to keep everything working well.
- Subscan is starting to earn money to support their work.
- They want to keep costs low for users while still providing good services.
- In 2021, they spent a lot on infrastructure with totals over $38,000 for several months.
- They mainly use services like Google Cloud for their operations.


Subscan is an aggregated Blockchain explorer for Substrate-based chains. We have supported several chains:

- Relay chain: Polkadot, Kusama
- Testnet: Westend, Rococo
- Public parachain: Statemine

We not just provide basic explorer services for the above networks, and develop new features, optimize the ux and fix bugs as always.
Please refer to the version update document:
> https://medium.com/subscan

Over the past few months，We have seen an encouraging trend in the number of users and their level of activity. However, with the rapid growth of users, stability and reliability in infrastructure are becoming a challenge. As a result, Subscan has to expend more resources to ensure the quality of the service. 

Actually, Subscan is starting to generate some revenue, which mainly comes from the development fee and O&M fee to support the new network. As our original supporters, Parity/W3F helped a lot in the early stage of Subscan. We don't want to charge the team a high premium O&M fee to gain profits, instead we will do more development and research to provide better explorer services to repay the ecosyetem. Therefore, we decided to only apply the necessary infrastructure costs as O&M fees, and the rest of the cost such as human resources and development will on the subscan team. We look forward to growing rapidly and taking on more and more responsibilities.

## Current Service Scale of Subscan

Below are some metrics from Cloudflare and Subscan's monitoring system for the last few weeks.

*Subscan traffic overview:*
![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/subscan-cloudflare.png)

*Subscan API traffic and distribution:*
![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/subscan-qps-per-network.png)



## Billing Info

The infrastructure cost refers to what we have spent on Google Cloud Platform.

### September 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/09_2021.jpeg)

Subtotal in September: $9,370.69

### October 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/10_2021.jpeg)

Subtotal in October: $8,495.50

### November 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/11_2021.jpeg)

Subtotal in November: $10,057.64

### December 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/12_2021.jpeg)

Subtotal in December: $10,349.90


### Total Amount

**$9,370.69 + $8,495.50 + $10,057.64 + $10,349.90 = $38,273.73**

*Compute Engine*, *Cloud Logging*, and *Cloud SQL* are the three primary services, among which *Compute Engine* alone constitutes around **75%** of the total cost. Detailed billing info and other relevant proof are available upon request.

The estimated infrastructure cost we spent on Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo adds up to **$28,705** according to the request distribution chart. Therefore, the amount we are requesting is **1483 DOT**.
> 1 DOT ≈ 19.355 $USD (EMA 30: 2022-02-24 08:33:42)


## References

- Subscan for Polkadot Network: https://polkadot.subscan.io/
- Subscan Service Status: https://subscan.statuspage.io/

The source code of this proposal is hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/blob/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-Sep-to-Dec/).


The Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot Network from Sep 2021 to Dec 2021.

- Subscan is a special tool that helps people explore blockchain systems like Polkadot and Kusama.
- They started using a service called Cloudflare Enterprise to make their website faster.
- The Cloudflare service has been working well for the last six months.
- This proposal is about asking for money to pay for Cloudflare from January to April.
- The total cost for the Cloudflare service is $15,300, but they are only asking for 85% of that amount this time.
- They are requesting $13,005, which is about 671 DOT (a type of digital money).
- Subscan plans to keep improving and will aim to pay for more costs by themselves in the future.

## About Subscan

Subscan is an aggregate high-precision blockchain explorer for Substrate-based chains. We have been supporting several influential blockchains, including Polkadot, Kusama, Rococo, and Westend. For many users, Subscan is their first stop in the blockchain world. As we continue to deliver new features and support more blockchains, our user base is on the steady rise. Therefore, high robustness and availability are currently among our major concerns.



## About the previous proposal

In the [previous proposal](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/60), we explained **Why We Can't Do Without a Firewall?**
and **Why We Need the Cloudflare Enterprise Plan?**

We greatly appreciate the support from Polkadot Treasury and all the community members, Subscan has integrated with Cloudflare Enterprise since August 16th, the enterprise plan really helps us reduce the service latencies significantly. It has been working smoothly for the past 6 months, with no noticeable Cloudflare incidents up to now.

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/cloudflare-enterprise-2022-Jan-to-Apr/cloudflare-data.png)


The previous proposal was for advance payment, now I am here to update the whereabouts of the money. Although Subscan has integrated with Cloudflare Enterprise since August 16th, due to trial and commissioning, the first two months are free and the formal payments began on October 15. The invoice is as follows:

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/cloudflare-enterprise-2022-Jan-to-Apr/cloudflare-invoice-10.png)



## Total Amount

This time we apply for the fee from January 15, 2022 to April 14, 2022, and the invoice is as follows:

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/cloudflare-enterprise-2022-Jan-to-Apr/cloudflare-invoice-01.png)



This proposal is for Subscan's Cloudflare enterprise plan (mid-January to mid-April), the Cloudflare enterprise service fee is **$15,300**. 

In the last proposal, we applied for 100% of the cost of Cloudflare enterprise service. As Subscan grows, we will strive to cover more and more costs. This time, we decided to reduce the application proportion to 85%, and it will be less and less in the future until complete financial independence.

Therefore,  the amount we are requesting is :

**15,300 * 85% = 13,005 $USD**

**1 DOT ≈ 19.355 $USD (EMA 30: 2022-02-24 08:33:42)**

**13,005/19.355 ≈ 671 DOT**

In case we missed any information or you have any questions, please feel free to send us an inquiry.

## References

- Cloudflare Enterprise plan: <https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/enterprise/>
- Cloudflare Argo: <https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/>

The source code of this proposal is hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/tree/master/cloudflare-enterprise-2022-Jan-to-Apr).


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