- 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.

Awarded

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).


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.

**About the project**
The goal of the proposal is to fund new features for the BrightTreasury app. The first version of the app is already available at treasury.bright.dev. We would like to further integrate with Polkassembly and add some improvements based on user feedback as well as integrate Tips and child-bounties mechanism. More details about the planned scope can be found in the description of each milestone.

Project Link : [https://treasury.bright.dev](https://treasury.bright.dev)
Link to any documentation already published: [https://github.com/bright/bright-tresury](https://github.com/bright/bright-tresury)

BrightTreasury is a standalone web application along with a PWA representation that allows performing basic actions on the Treasury module of Polkadot and Kusama Substrate networks (with a potential to support any Substrate-based network with Treasury module). It allows a more intuitive and lightweight flow of submitting proposals as well as an overview of the Treasury related actions.

Our focus is on the regular user’s actions rather than the council perspective for this first release. We want to attract more professionals who could contribute to the community with their ideas and skills but at the same time may not be as fluent in blockchain customs and terminology.

The first development phase of this project was funded by the Web3.0 Foundation Grants Program. Currently, BrightTreasury maintenance is funded by Treasury funds and is available in the production environment at https://bright.treasury.dev. 

**The Team behind it**

Bright Inventions is a team of 70 developers, project managers, UX/UI designers and operations specialists - experts in mobile and web applications, systems integration, IOT devices and Blockchain platforms. 

We believe that building a software product is about people working together in a collective way. By offering complex support – mobile and web development as well as IT consultancy we try to eliminate roadblocks towards engaging clients as partners at every step of the process. 

We support startups, digital agencies as well as medium to big businesses. We cooperate with startups, accelerators and incubators. Whatever the client profile is, we always  aim to establish a satisfying partnership for both sides. Since 2012 we have built software for more than 40 businesses worldwide.

The BrightTreasury team currently consists of:

Agnieszka Olszewska - Technical Lead, blockchain specialist. 
She is a senior backend developer with a main interest in data modeling. She started her software development career 10 years ago and from then she began discovering a lot of new technologies. Among them there are JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, Node.js, NestJS. Most recently she’s been engaged in developing blockchain based solutions with Substrate.

Alisa Kashytska - UI/UX design
She is a UI/UX designer with a passion for digging deep into the product domain and understanding the user's perspective. She has worked on the design for multiple web/mobile solutions and lately has been responsible for UI redesign of Parity Building Blocks Android and web apps.

Łukasz Kuderewski - fullstack developer
He is an optimist, always willing to learn new things. Mechatronics engineer who fell in love with programming. He has always been interested in a holistic approach to programming problems, which is why after working as a frontend, he is now fulfilled as a fullstack.

Robert Koprowski - fullstack developer, blockchain specialist
He is an experienced and ambitious blockchain enthusiast. Graduated from the University of Edinburgh, he lived in various locations around the world to settle now in Gdańsk. Originally a Backend Developer who decided to extend his skills and become Fullstack Developer, always trying to learn something new.

Katarzyna Łukasiewicz - Project Manager
She has been working with agile methods for over 10 years, both as a researcher and a practitioner. She believes in teamwork and a power of user centered mindset. With experience in leading international projects, she knows how to support and encourage timely and high quality deliveries.

**Costs and budget**

The total cost is a sum of budgets for the four milestones.

The cost covers all necessary development, design and management efforts performed by the team introduced in the "Team behind it". 

After each milestone a summary of what has been accomplished along with a link to documentation and guidelines how to test will be posted in the Discussion of the proposal.

**Milestones**

Milestone 1 - Add proposals’ and bounties’ description and title to Polkassembly  
Dates: 2022-02-28 to 2022-02-28  
Cost: 393.4 DOT  
Currently BrightTreasury displays the Proposal and Bounty information that were added through Polkassembly. The goal of this milestone is to support the flow other way around. We want to allow users to share to Polkassembly the Proposal or Bounty contextual information they add via BrightTreasury. Whenever a user converts an Idea to Proposal or adds a new Bounty using BrightTreasury, she/he will be asked if they want to share the description to Polkassembly as well. If the user agrees, she/he will need to confirm the identity and the description will be shared automatically. There will also be the possibility to do it later. 
It will include the following user stories:

- US.1 Ask user if description can be shared to Polkassembly
- US.2 User identity confirmation 
- US.3 Convert BrightTreasury structure to Polkassembly structure (+ information “This proposal was added through BrightTreasury. For more info & discussion, check BrightTreasury link...”)
- US.4 Preview Polkassembly post (no editing) 

Milestone 2 - Improvements & change requests  
Dates: 2022-03-14 to 2022-04-03  
Cost: 936.68 DOT  
Within this milestone we would like to present the users with a set of smaller features that were suggested to us in the testing phase of the app. They should improve the overall user experience and engage the community in discussions. 
It will include the following user stories:

- US.5 Import blockchain identity context info & add blockchain avatar for all types of accounts 
- US.6 Deleting own account by the user 
- US.7 Tagging users in the discussions (+search/filter users) 
- In-app notifications
- Mail notifications
- US.8 Add reactions for comments in discussions (thumbs up & down) 
- US.9 Add markdown interpretation for description fields (Ideas/Proposals/Bounties) with preview 
- US.10 Password reminder/recovery 

Milestone 3 - Implementation of child-bounties  
Dates: 2022-04-03 to 2022-05-02  
Cost: 1064.75 DOT  
In this milestone we want to integrate the new child-bounties pallet in BrightTreasury Bounties module.
It will include the following use stories:

- U.S. 11 As a curator I can create a child-bounty within a curated active bounty.
- U.S. 12 As a curator I can share child-bounty description to Polkassembly
- U.S, 13 As an anonymous user I can view the child-bounties list
- U.S. 14 As an anonymous user I can view the child-bounty details
- U.S. 15 As a curator I can propose a child-bounty curator and his fee
- U.S. 16 As a child-bounty curator I can accept the nomination
- U.S. 17 As a child-bounty curator I can reject the nomination
- U.S. 18 As a parent-bounty curator I can unassign the child-bounty curator (and slash his deposit)
- U.S. 19 As a curator I can edit the contextual info of a child-bounty (title, description, people who do the work) and report progress.
- U.S. 20 As a child-bounty curator I can award a chosen beneficiary for the child-bounty
- U.S. 21 As a bounty or child-bounty curator I can claim the payout of the child-bounty (the reserved amount will be paid out to the beneficiary account)
- U.S. 22 As a bounty or child-bounty curator I can close an active or added child-bounty
- U.S. 23 As a user, I can view the details of closed child-bounties (only for Polkadot and Kusama networks)
- U.S. 24 As an anonymous user I can see the parent-bounty value left
- U.S. 25 As a logged-in user I can discuss the child-bounty 
- U.S. 26 As a child-bounty owner I can get the discussion email and in-app notifications
- U.S. 27  As a user taking part in discussion I get the email and in-app notifications

Milestone 4 - Add Tips mechanism  
Dates: 2022-05-02 to 2022-05-23  
Cost: 891.71 DOT  
The main goal of this milestone is to integrate the Tips funding mechanism to BrightTreasury, in a similar manner as Proposals and Bounties. Users will be able to browse through tips, introduce a new one or support an already added tip. Tips module will also include Polkassembly integration - two way sharing of the contextual information.
It will include the following user stories:

- US.28 As a logged-in user I can create a tip request 
- US.29 As an anonymous user I can see the on-chain tips list
- US.30 As an anonymous user I can filter the tips by the status
- US.31 As an anonymous user I can see the on-chain tips details
- US.32 As an anonymous user I can see the polkassembly tips details
- US.33 As a tip owner I can share tip details to polkassembly
- US.34 As an anonymous user I can see the tippings list  
- US.35 As a logged-in user I can discuss the tip 
- US.36 As a tip owner I can get the discussion email and in-app notifications
- US.37 As a user taking part in discussion I get the email and in-app notifications 
- US.38 As a tip owner (in-app owner, finder) I can claim the tip pay out
- US.39 As a tip owner (in-app owner, finder) I can cancel the tip
- US.40 As an anonymous user I can view the tips history (list, details, discussion)  

Link to this proposal info & discussion in BrightTreasury app: [https://treasury.bright.dev/proposals/93/info?networkId=polkadot](https://treasury.bright.dev/proposals/93/info?networkId=polkadot)




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.


**Omni Software Requirement Specification:**
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jFQ43ybWIPpXa205Q2UsSkVsTpVmq20afh7ZPfRjrZo/](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jFQ43ybWIPpXa205Q2UsSkVsTpVmq20afh7ZPfRjrZo/)

**Omni: Polkadot Enterprise desktop app Treasury Proposal - Milestone 1:**
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L9v0aK4IPEzrtfWEuJeKeIj2BRCE3OZ8_Y0r1SH25Nw/](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L9v0aK4IPEzrtfWEuJeKeIj2BRCE3OZ8_Y0r1SH25Nw/)

![](https://i.ibb.co/vh15Cvm/Omni-SRS.png)

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Omni is a desktop enterprise application** that works around the limitations of Polkadot.js Apps and can provide a single point-of-view for stakeholders with advanced needs in the entire ecosystem. It should sync shards (i.e. multi-sig & proxies should not need manual construction for each signatory), support complex proxy/multi-sig combinations, should amalgamate multiple operations into a single transaction, and handle staking, asset management, and voting across all shards in a single user-operation.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal is to primarily **handle all of these situations with minimum effort from the user side**. Focused on security, Omni aims to provide convenient access for complex token management & create complex operations which may involve several shards.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For past 3 months, the Nova Foundation team conducted interviews with enterprise stakeholders to create initial **Omni Enterprse software requirements specification**: [Omni SRS](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jFQ43ybWIPpXa205Q2UsSkVsTpVmq20afh7ZPfRjrZo/)
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Please feel free to review **M1 treasury proposal**: [Omni M1 treasury proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L9v0aK4IPEzrtfWEuJeKeIj2BRCE3OZ8_Y0r1SH25Nw/)

Omni: Polkadot Enterprise desktop app Treasury Proposal - Milestone 1

- PolkaWorld is a big group in China for the Polkadot community with over 50,000 followers.
- They want money to help pay for their work for the next three months.
- In 2021, PolkaWorld shared 584 articles and got almost 1 million views on Wechat.
- They hosted 43 online events that 48,551 people attended.
- PolkaWorld made 100 videos on Wechat with 182,759 views.
- They had meetups in 5 Chinese cities, with 2,149 people signing up.
- They also hosted a special metaverse meetup that 1,300 people joined.

This is a proposal from PolkaWorld to cover the next 3 months (March 2020 - May 2022) ops and maintenance costs.

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 in the following ways, and in 2021:

- PolkaWorld published a total of 584 articles and received 993,051 views in the Wechat ecosystem in 2021;
- Hosted 43 online broadcast on Wechat Channel and 48,551 people join us;
- Published 100 videos in Wechat Channel, got 182,759 views;
- Build a new website, and published 565 [articles](https://polkaworld.pro/) and 237 [timely news](https://polkaworld.pro/alerts)
- Published 110 videos on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/PolkaWorld), got 36,000 views
- Hosted 9 meetups in 5 different cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Xi’an) in China, 2149 people registered the meetup and more than 50% of people came to meet each other;
- Host 1 [Polkadot metaverse meetup](https://polkaworld.medium.com/recap-for-polkadots-first-metaverse-meetup-a-bitter-sweet-experience-e26a77a27b28) in DCL, 1300+ people jump into the meetup;

Please find more in our monthly reports:

 - [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/63](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/63) 

- [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/74](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/74) 

Milestones and budget can be find [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-M31dUIWSB3ecsZBvysekMpLDrC8CoQoYnEaurdUD_M/edit).


PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal for 3/2022 - 5/2022

- A virtual conference called "Smart Contracts on Polkadot - WASM" is being organized.
- The goal is to bring people together to talk about WASM and its role in building applications.
- The conference will last one day and will be held online using the Hopin platform.
- Supercolony has contributed a lot to WASM and the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They plan to hold 3-4 events next year, including the Polkadot Hackathon.
- Feedback on marketing and the agenda is welcome.
- Collaboration with WASM-related projects is encouraged.

Hi there!

We are going to organize the first **Smart Contracts on Polkadot - WASM conference** to bring the community together. Our plan is to collaborate with WASM stakeholders and discuss and answer questions like  - “Why the WASM is the base layer of decentralized application development.” From our side, we've already done a huge contribution to WASM, ink!, Polkadot ecosystem, and OpenBrush(like the OpenZeppelin, but for ink!) as [Supercolony](https://supercolony.net/)

**This proposal is for a 1-Day Virtual conference event.**

**[Proposal Document here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15GwKbLImLXyBcozf6PkAmL7UJ9Bzll7kajoNca1UwPc/edit#)**

Streaming platform: We`re planning to use Hopin as the conference platform. Moreover, the subscription is designed for the year, and we're already planning the next event - Polkadot Hackathon. Our aim is to organize approximately 3-4 events in the next year!

Would love to get feedback on this plan regarding the marketing, agenda development and ideas.
We are welcome to discuss the collaboration with WASM-related projects/teams too!

Smart Contracts on Polkadot - WASM conference (Virtual)

- Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend are digital networks that provide public services through APIs.
- In the last three months, their API answered over 23 billion requests, which is a big increase.
- They used a lot of data, around 71 terabytes, to serve these requests.
- The highest single-day response was more than 515 million.
- Westend had 377 million responses, and Statemint had 295 million.
- Due to high demand, they had to improve their technology to keep up with the requests.
- The total running cost for these services is about $101,122.20.

***Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint and Westend. Posted here for any discussion before moving to a Treasury Proposal***

Over the last 3 months (October, November, December 2021) we've provided a scalable free public API service so that everyone can access public pools of managed Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend nodes.

Between 2021-10-01 and 2021-12-31 our Polkadot API service has:
- Served an unprecedented total of 23,897,857,938 (23 billion) responses (an increase of 334% on the previous quarter)
- Accumulated over 71 TB of data egress (up 313% on Q3)
- The highest daily total was 515,417,945 responses in a single 24 hour period
- Our rolling 7 day average at the end of this period was over 227 million responses each day.
- Westend had over 377 million API responses in the period
- Statemint had over 295 million API responses in the period
- All time totals for Polkadot is 35,146,213,629 (35 Billion) since November

![Q4 Data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSRvBZAOy2Zz2F5FygZHdSHFFGbdpvka9rz_zLzdz0JDaTBZVkrlX1FdnA4tIUjroW0-pms0Q06N-YN/pubchart?oid=1506257754&format=image)

This last quarter was huge for Polkadot and OnFinality, the demand for our services was unprecedented. In early November we experienced a surge of activity coinciding with the announcement of the Polkadot Parachain Auctions that took us to our highest daily response count of over 515 million responses in a single day.

Towards the end of this period we also noticed additional load on the compute component of our resourcing that we believe is due to the first 5 parachains connecting to the main relay chain and the additional block verification that resulted. We scaled up the compute component of our infrastructure to maintain service levels as a result. Additionally we are closely watching the work that Dwellir is doing in the ecosystem to propose improvements to the RPC nodes.

Additionally, our experience shows significant performance improvements in terms of response times when the CPU usage is less than 50%. We observed a noticeable drop of service quality (in terms of response times) when the node is under load.

This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend. The total combined running cost is USD $101,122.20

[The full writeup is here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UjcKMwoUOLrbFjBU_5HVofR6nQ-yDQ8wE7yPLB2AN_M/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2021)

### Stylo Wallet Maintenance Proposal

- **Purpose:** Covers maintenance costs for Stylo Wallet, supporting Kusama and Polkadot networks.
- **Duration:** Six months (May to October 2021).
- **Amount Requested:** 2,880.00 EUR or 8.90 KSM.
- **KSM Rate:** 323 EUR/KSM (based on monthly average).
- **Frequency:** Bi-annual submissions for maintenance and upgrades.
- **Beneficiary Account:** `ESByNCnB6Q3p5VQVEcEMvQCk6y6ahuSEv22oxxrQ2ybfggr`.
- **Past Information:** Details on past upgrades and budgets are available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18LI0BB5nnyhQJZW4-SdWOWy_Z6W3kObJUKSv53aU-fg/edit?usp=sharing).

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.

Stylo wallet - recurring payment to cover maintenance costs

- **Libwallet** is a lightweight library for making cryptocurrency wallets. 
- It is easy to use and understand. 
- The wallets can work on different platforms like apps, websites, and even special devices. 
- The project is asking for **1273.95 DOT** to help with its development. 
- It plans to finish the work in **6 weeks**. 
- For questions, you can contact them via email or on their chat channel.

# Libwallet spending proposal

_**License:** GPLv3_  
_**Requested amount:** 1273.95 DOT_  
_**Timeline:** 6 weeks_  
_**Contact:** 📧 [contact@virto.team](mailto:we@virto.team); 🗨️ [#virto-network](https://matrix.to/#/#virto-network:virto.community)_  

Libwallet is a lightweight and very portable library with simple to understand and use abstractions that allow creating chain-agnostic crypto wallets able to run in all kinds of environments like native applications, hosted wallets, the browser or even embedded hardware.

**🔗 More information in the original [discussion](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/825) 🔗**

 Libwallet treasury proposal

See details on [the discussion here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/797)

Value used from the proposal document of:

EUR 104000 = USD 118061.84

2022-01-23 23:04:48 (+UTC), Block #8712309

DOT Price ( USD ): 18.2248;

Number of DOT: 6,478.0791

DOT EMA30 Price ( USD ): 25.7591;

Number of DOT: 4,583.2988

DatDot.org 

ZKValidator is asking for money to host an online event about privacy and zero knowledge proofs in the Polkadot ecosystem. Here are some important points about their proposal:

- They want to use €8000 from the treasury to pay for the event.
- The goal is to make more people aware of why privacy is important in blockchain.
- The event will help people connect and share ideas.
- ZKValidator has held similar events before, including a workshop in 2019 and a virtual event in 2021.
- They are looking for support and welcome feedback on their proposal.

ZKValidator is submitting a treasury proposal to fund a virtual event to raise the profile of privacy and the use of zero knowledge proofs in the Polkadot ecosystem. We are a mission driven validator with the goal of promoting more extensive adoption of privacy and zkp tech in the blockchain space.

The proposal would use €8000 in DOT from the treasury to fund the event. The full proposal is viewable through the link [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qKy8-dGO8w2GUMDW6qiEalhB0iTUKJsYBYUErnOx28w/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1). The key points and motivation for the profile are as follows:

- Privacy is a blocker to more extensive adoption of blockchain technology.
- Hosting an event raises awareness of the importance of privacy on Polkadot and encourages discussion in this subject area.
- An event also provides a platform for networking - new connections can be made and ideas shared.
- We previously hosted a privacy focused workshop for Polkadot in the Summer of 2019, the write up is here and a virtual event in April 2021, with the recordings of the event viewable here. We hope that you will support our proposal and welcome any feedback.

Thank you for your consideration!

ZKValidator virtual event for Polkadot

- The proposal is to fund the Bright Treasury app's maintenance costs.
- Bright Treasury is a web app that helps users work with the Treasury on Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- The app makes it easier to submit proposals and see Treasury actions.
- It uses a special method called CI/CD for updates and testing.
- The project aims to attract more people to contribute who might not be experts in blockchain. 
- There are links to learn more about the app and its documentation.

**This proposal was added through BrightTreasury. For more info & discussion, check [BrightTreasury](https://stage.treasury.bright.dev/proposals/85?networkId=polkadot)**

## About the project

The goal of the proposal is to fund the Bright Treasury app maintenance costs. We have automated tests and deployment of infrastructure templates with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). The infrastructure as code approach lets us have an easy run and update of the environment.

Project Link : [https://treasury.bright.dev](https://treasury.bright.dev)
Link to any documentation already published: https://github.com/bright/bright-tresury

BrightTreasury is a standalone web application along with a PWA representation that allows performing basic actions on the Treasury module of Polkadot and Kusama Substrate networks (with a potential to support any Substrate-based network with Treasury module). It allows a more intuitive and lightweight flow of submitting proposals as well as an overview of the Treasury related actions.

Our focus is on the regular user’s actions rather than the council perspective for this first release. We want to attract more professionals who could contribute to the community with their ideas and skills but at the same time may not be as fluent in blockchain customs and terminology.


Bright Treasury maintenance 01.2022 - 03.2022 (t)

Polkadot India is working to educate people in India about Polkadot and Substrate. Here are the main points:

- They started two programs: DotFriday (a webinar series) and Substrate Saturdays (a bootcamp series).
- These programs began in September 2021.
- They have been successful and the community is growing quickly.
- They want to reach 1500 crypto fans and 1000 developers by February 2022.
- More information about their events is available online.

Polkadot India aims to sensitize the Indian crypto community about Polkadot and Indian developers about Substrate. 

To this effect we have created two properties DotFriday(A Guest Webinar Series), and Substrate Saturdays(A Bootcamp Series) and have been running them since September 2021. 

Our properties have been seeing glimpses of success and the community has been growing rapidly since September, and we propose to continue hosting such events with an aim of impacting 1500 crypto enthusiasts and 1000 developers by Feb 2022. 

Link to Polkassembly [post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/764). 

Detailed proposal along with relevant links/ metrics from previous events + details of upcoming events are shared [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FhydhPMUzO9Kh5yi-axS1TumCPkNH9e8?usp=sharing). 

6 Polkadot Webinars + 3 Substrate Bootcamps in India 

- Polkassembly helps with the governance of Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- This proposal is asking for money to pay for running and maintaining Polkassembly.
- The payment will happen every three months (quarterly).
- Funds are requested for the first three months of 2022 (January, February, March).
- The maintenance costs include upgrades and infrastructure.
- The proposal will alternate between Polkadot and Kusama for funding every three months.
- More information about the proposal can be found in a linked document and discussion.

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

The full proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hb3d_wItFmijFTG_hbQEtCoLaeiLfaNlc0iY5GCS-LQ/edit?usp=sharing). Disussion can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/803)

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury

- Clients need RPC nodes to connect to the Polkadot network.
- If these nodes are not available, users can't access the network.
- This proposal is about getting money to keep a new RPC service running.
- The new service is in Scandinavia and will help the network become more decentralized.
- The RPC service is now online and ready to use.
- More details can be found in the linked documents.  
- The DOT rate can be checked using a specific tool.

Most clients that need to connect to the Polkadot network are dependent on RPC nodes to interact with the network. Should the set of existing registered RPC nodes be unavailable, many users will not be able to access the Polkadot chain.

This proposal is about covering the maintenance costs of running a new RPC service for the community. The services is hosted in Scandinavia and will help to further decentralize the network.  

- We have already submitted a [Pull Request](https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/pull/6116) for our RPC service, and the service is now publicly available online. 
- Our full proposal can be [read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHGFJfPmssOzS3u0JCXHvaYsMe5yHbcx4rgOCkRJScQ/edit?usp=sharing).
- DOT rate based on 30 day avg tool by [Subscan](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price).

Proposal: Polkadot RPC node Dwellir

- MIDLDEV OÜ is a company from Estonia that helps the Polkadot network by taking daily snapshots of its database.
- These snapshots are important for node operators and validators to recover quickly if they lose data.
- The snapshots are stored in a compressed format and can be downloaded from a website called polkashots.io, which has been running well for a year.
- MIDLDEV also manages issues and provides a backup plan for their services.
- The cost for running this service includes monthly payments for engineers and cloud usage, totaling about 12,919.77 EUR for a specific period.
- The snapshots support both Polkadot and Kusama networks, ensuring both can recover easily from storage problems.
- This proposal seeks funding in Polkadot's cryptocurrency to continue providing these snapshot services.

This treasury proposal is Between the Polkadot Council and MIDLDEV OÜ, a company registered in Estonia with registry number 14973249, commonly known as MIDL.dev.

## Service description

* A functioning infrastructure to provide usable blockchain database snapshots for the Polkadot network, to the benefit of node operators and validators,
* New snapshots at least once per day. Snapshots are filesystem dumps of the Polkadot node storage backend files, of variety RocksDb, of type pruned, with a depth of 1000 blocks, compressed in 7z format, that can be used by validators to quickly spin up or restore their infrastructure,
* A website frontend at polkashots.io with relevant metadata and download links, including a permanent link that always redirects to the most recent snapshot,
* Best effort incident and problem management,
* Redundant implementation setup which allows for continuity, seamless upgrades and basic disaster recovery & contingency management.

## Context
Node operators must have a contingency plan for loss of storage. For us at MIDL.dev, it consists of regularly taking snapshots of the node filesystem and backing it up for recovery if needed. We regularly generate these archives for our own benefit as well as the community. All cloud automation code used for generation of snapshots is [open-source](https://github.com/midl-dev/polkadot-snapshot-generator) so node operators can easily replicate the setup in order to be in full control of the generated snapshots.

The website polkashots.io has been operational for a year now. It has had excellent uptime. It is very frequently mentioned in the Validator Lounge Matrix channels and there are youtube videos referencing them. It is beneficial to the ecosystem by providing a path for validators to quickly and safely recover from a storage failure or migrate their operations.

## Alternatives

The warp sync feature has been implemented in Polkadot 0.9.9, however it still requires several hours for a full sync.

A unique snapshot service that many independent validators relies on constitues a centralization risk. It remains our hope that other ecosystem participants will step in and offer an alternative service.

## Operational expenses

The labor cost is 1200 EUR/month including 2 engineers in 2 geographical locations (Western US and Western Europe).

In addition, we pass along the cloud costs with a 50% markup.

Polkashots is hosted on google cloud. Google cloud has the concept of "projects" which allows for segregation of costs. The cloud cost is determined as follows:

* from June 1 to October 10, 2021, polkashots was hosted in a google cloud project shared with other MIDL.dev services named "MIDLUS" for which we estimate about 30% of the costs were incurred by generation and download of Polkadot snapshots.
* from October 11, 2021 to November 30, 2021, we moved polkashots to a dedicated google cloud project named "MIDLPS", allowing for the most precise cost calculation. We arbitrarily allocate 50% of these costs to Polkadot and 50% to Kusama. A dedicated project for each network would incur overhead costs that we do not feel are necessary.

A majority of these costs are network egress. Google cloud egress costs are in the higher range, similar to Azure and Amazon. Google cloud has two tiers, premium ($0.12/Gb for most regions) and standard ($0.85/Gb for most regions). The premium tier is using google private network across the globe. Polkashots uses the premium tier.

The costs have gone upwards after the introduction of parachains. This is due to the increased storage requirement of the relay chain node in the presence of parachains: as of this writing, a pruned polkadot node with 1000 blocks uses 18Gi of storage (7z compressed). In other terms, it costs the treasury $2 each time someone downloads a Polkadot snapshot. We expect this cost to go up again soon as more parachain slots become active.

The usage of the best cloud platform money can buy is justified by the benefits: a faster download speed and better reliability means that the nodes are more apt to recover quickly in case of accidental loss of storage, making the entire network more resilient.

Screenshots of the billing console are attached for reference.

## Usage

From the MIDLPS billing screenshot, we can see 17,262 Gibibytes of download from the period Oct 10-Nov 31 from all regions excluding Asia and Australia. Polkadot snapshot size is 17Gi and Kusama snapshot size is 50Gi, so assuming a medium download file size of 34Gi, there were 500 downloads during the period, or **10 downloads per day**. This is a combined figure for Polkadot and Kusama networks.

## Note

This proposal is for the Polkadot portion of polkashots. We already submitted a [similar proposal](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/412) to the Kusama council, who accepted it.

## Budget

```
| Cost item                                      | cost             |
|------------------------------------------------|------------------|
| Labor, monthly                                 | 1,200 EUR /mo    |
| Labor, total for period                        | 7,200 EUR        |
| Cloud costs, MIDLUS June-Oct 10                | 7,737.79 EUR     |
| 30% Polkadot portion, MIDLUS + 50% markup      | 3,482.00 EUR     |
| Cloud costs, MIDLPS Oct 11-Nov                 | 2,983.69 EUR     |
| 50% Polkadot portion, MIDLPS + 50% markup      | 2,237.77 EUR     |
| Cloud costs, total for period                  | 5,719.77 EUR     |
| Total for period                               | **12,919.77 EUR**|
| Exchange rate DOT/EUR (subscan EMA30 12/28)   | 26.38 EUR (29.925 USD)    |
| Total base price in DOT                        | 489.76 DOT       |
| Slippage + conversion fee 5%                   | 24.48 DOT        |
| Proposal (DOT)                                 | 514.24 DOT       |
```

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