Awarded

Untitled - treasury proposal #1040

- 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.

Polkadot Book for Beginners (final payment)

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.

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cloudflare Enterprise Plan for Subscan from January 2022 to April 2022

- The BrightTreasury app is being improved to help users submit proposals and understand the Treasury module in Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- The project is run by a team called Bright Inventions, which has 70 skilled members, including developers and designers.
- They want to add new features based on user suggestions and connect better with Polkassembly.
- There will be four main steps, called milestones, to achieve these improvements, including sharing ideas and adding new functions.
- Each milestone has specific tasks and costs in a digital currency called DOT.
- The team believes in working together and helping clients grow their ideas.
- The project started with support from the Web3.0 Foundation and is currently funded by Treasury funds.

BrightTreasury - v. 2.0 improvements & features

- Omni is a special computer program for businesses that helps users manage their digital assets.
- It works with something called Polkadot.js Apps and helps users see everything they need in one place.
- Users can do many tasks, like managing money and voting, all at once without much effort.
- The program is designed to be very safe and easy to use.
- The Nova Foundation team talked to businesses to understand what they needed for the software.
- There are plans and proposals for making this software even better.

Treasury Proposals