- Saimon is a Polkadot agent who organized an event in Barcelona, Spain.
- The event featured discussions on Polkadot Enterprise Solutions, NTT DATA Web3 Experience, and various Polkadot projects.
- Attendees included important leaders from NTT DATA and representatives of the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Saimon covered expenses of EUR 187.25 for drinks, snacks, and pizza but is requesting compensation for these costs.
- The event was aimed at high-level executives from NTT DATA and their clients.
- NTT DATA is a major IT services company recognized globally for its brand value.
- The goal of the event was to promote Polkadot technology to more organizations.

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Compensation tip for Business Development activity and grow C-Level ecosystem

- The EasyA team hosted hackathons to support developers in the Polkadot community.
- They asked for $370,000 to fund the second part of their project, the #180DaysOfPolkadot.
- Over 110,000 developers started a special course, and many completed it.
- The hackathons drew large crowds, with 650 people attending and creating more than 100 new projects.
- Big companies and universities helped them, including schools like Harvard and MIT.
- They want to keep building and connecting developers with resources for success in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The initiative shows great results, and the community is excited about what's next!

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WHO: EasyA
WHAT: Requesting $370,000 retroactive funding for Milestone 2 of #180DaysOfPolkadot, including prize money for winners.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $370,000, approved in masterplan referendum with 88% AYE vote, as of September 2024.

EasyA x Polkadot - Developer Growth via In-Person Hackathons and Crash Courses (#180DaysOfPolkadot): Milestones 1 & 2 Report

Bitskwela is an education brand in the Philippines that focuses on crypto and blockchain, especially Polkadot. 

- They completed a grant for education and marketing over the last six months.
- Their work helped Polkadot grow in local markets.
- Bitskwela will submit a new funding proposal for more Polkadot projects in the next week.
- Planned initiatives include creating guides, articles, and media features about Polkadot.
- They aim to reach at least 7.5 million people in the Philippines.
- Feedback from the Polkadot community is encouraged to help them improve.

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Bitskwela - Expanding Polkadot to the Thriving Philippine Web 3.0 Community

### SubWallet Proposal Summary

1. **Overview**: SubWallet is a non-custodial wallet for Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems, offering browser extension, mobile app, and web app.

2. **Achievements**: 
   - Supports 150+ networks.
   - Over 1.6 million installs and 800,000+ users from 100+ countries.
   - Active community of 50,000 members on social platforms.

3. **Key Features**:
   - Multi-chain asset management.
   - Built-in XCM transfers.
   - Staking options (Nominate, Nomination Pool, Liquid Stake).
   - Hardware wallet support (Ledger, Keystone, Polkadot Vault).

4. **Integration Highlights**:
   - New Polkadot Ledger app.
   - Polkadot <> Kusama bridge.
   - Polkadot <> Ethereum bridge.
   - Native asset swaps on Asset Hub.

5. **Community Impact**:
   - Contributes to ecosystem growth through comprehensive product suite and marketing efforts.
   - Efficient treasury spending with retroactive funding approach.

6. **Proposal**: Seeks funding from Polkadot Treasury for work done from December 2023 to July 2024. Detailed proposal and costs are available [here](https://subwallet.notion.site/Retroactive-SubWallet-08-Months-Development-6b114811ed4543f58b26c02b6d33c690).

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[Retroactive] SubWallet 08 Months Development

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- The Polkadot Staking Dashboard now has new features like DHT p2p lookups and Premium Geolocation.
- Polkawatch is helping nominators see important analytics about their nominations.
- In the last year, Polkawatch provided 20,000 reports to 7,000 nominators.
- Many nominators care about decentralization and check their nominations carefully.
- Polkawatch was supported by the Web3 foundation and other organizations.
- They are working to keep costs low, which is about $3.5K per month for all users.
- Polkawatch plans to fund its operations for the first three quarters of 2024.
- A detailed proposal is available for more information, and feedback is welcome.

WHO: Polkawatch

WHAT: Seeking retroactive funding for continued operation and maintenance of Polkawatch for Q1-Q3 2024, which costs roughly USD 3.5K per month (or 0.5 USD per user/month) including full archive nodes of Relay and People chains.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Polkawatch, Decentralization Analytics, Retroactive Infrastructure and Maintenance Q1-Q3 2024

- **2020 Summer:** Started researching blockchain projects, focused on Polkadot due to Gavin Wood's vision. Shared educational videos on Polkadot with friends and joined a Facebook group.
- **2020 Fall/Winter:** Continued accumulating DOT and shared educational content about blockchain technology.
- **2021 January:** Created a Twitter account to share enthusiasm for Polkadot, interacting with other ecosystem enthusiasts.
- **2021 July:** Joined ChaosDAO, despite initially not knowing what a Discord server was.
- **2021-2022:** Became involved in supporting and promoting artists using NFTs within the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **2022 October:** Hired as the Director of Fellowship and Protocol Relations at Lucky Friday, becoming the second employee.
- **2022 November:** Started appearing regularly on AAG as a panelist, evolving roles to include timekeeping and "State of the Phunk."
- **2023-2024:** Continued active involvement, including applying to speak at events, hosting watch parties, and leading initiatives within Lucky Friday.

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Ryan, also known as Phunky, is requesting a tip of 1000 DOT for his 4+ years of ecosystem activism and engagement. He has been actively involved in promoting Polkadot through social media, supporting artists, participating in ChaosDAO, and working for Lucky Friday. He has also contributed to the community by attending meetings, hosting watch parties, and providing feedback. Ryan hopes that his contributions demonstrate his value to the ecosystem and is seeking support from the community.

Tip for 4+ Years of Phunky Polkadot Activism

Remarker is a marketplace for trading unique digital items called NFTs on the Polkadot network. 

- Users can easily swap NFTs with each other.
- They can buy NFTs using stable digital coins like USDC and USDT.
- A special feature called Auto Teleport helps move tokens easily between different areas in the Polkadot system.
- The platform has a new, user-friendly design that makes using it easier and more fun.
- You can list your own NFTs for sale and create new ones.
- Users can see their NFTs, trades, and collections all in one place.
- The founder, Ashutosh Singh, has a background in creating technology and wanted to bring NFTs to Polkadot.
- The project is open-source, meaning anyone can see and improve its code.

WHO: Remarker

WHAT: Completed development of NFT marketplace for Polkadot, including NFT swaps, trading with stablecoins, auto teleport, new UI, NFT listing and creation, and user views.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $4400 for 1100 work hours over 6 months. No additional tips requested in case of DOT price instability.

Only Retroactive Funding Proposal: Completed Remarker Development

[Small Tipper] Tip for Creating a UI for the Substrate Kitties Tutorial

- The proposal is about improving security for Polkadot, a platform for building apps.
- It plans to help with audits, which check if projects are safe, and encourages new ways to make money.
- PAL has already helped secure many projects by sharing funds for security checks.
- The new changes will allow more types of projects, not just parachains, to apply for security help.
- Curators will make sure only trustworthy projects get funded by using different criteria.
- The proposal also suggests paying curators a monthly salary instead of a small fee, to motivate them more.
- New curators with strong security backgrounds are added to help improve Polkadot's safety.

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The PAL initiative proposes to expand its scope beyond parachain audits to a more holistic approach to Polkadot security, including coretime consumers, Solidity smart contracts, and common-good security initiatives. The proposal limits payouts to a maximum of $100,000 per chain and per 6 months, with a maximum of $250,000 for security tooling. The curator fee will be replaced with a monthly salary of $3,000 worth of DOT per curator. Two new curators will be added to the team.

Changes to PAL Security Bounty

Kheopswap.xyz is a new website created to help users trade assets on the Polkadot network. Here are some key points:

- The site launched on April 24, 2024, and is focused on making it easy to swap and manage digital assets.
- The proposal is asking for 14,092 DOT (a type of cryptocurrency) to support past and future work on the project.
- Kheopswap uses a special tool called PAPI to make development easier and is open-source for other developers to learn from.
- Over 1,700 people have visited the site in the last month, showing interest and activity.
- The project has plans for more features, like helping users create new tokens and making it easier to connect wallets.
- The creator has over 20 years of experience in tech and is also working on other projects in the same field.
- The goal is to grow Kheopswap into a useful tool for the Polkadot community while ensuring it can support itself financially.

WHO: Developer with over 20 years of experience.

WHAT: Seeks retroactive funding of 14,092 DOT for the development of Kheopswap.xyz, a web front end for the Polkadot Asset Hub DEX features.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $62,400 to be paid in DOT, based on the 7-day EMA price of DOT. The funding is retroactive to cover the development efforts and to support future infrastructure costs as the platform grows. No top-up will be requested even if the DOT price continues to decline.

Kheopswap retroactive funding

- Subscan helps people understand the Polkadot network.
- It needs a lot of resources like servers and staff to run.
- We want to get money from the Polkadot treasury to keep Subscan going from October 2023 to June 2024.
- We have worked hard to lower costs, like cutting monthly expenses on Datadog from over $4,000 to about $1,500.
- Even though we have more data now, the costs for running Subscan are lower than before. 
- We will keep looking for more ways to save money for Subscan.

WHO: The Polkadot community

WHAT: Reimburse the operation and maintenance fees for Subscan for the period from October 2023 to June 2024 from the Polkadot treasury.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Specific details can be found in the proposal document.

Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot & Westend & Rococo & Statemint & Rockmine  Networks (from October 2023 to June 2024)

- A new NFT portal was created by Parity in late 2023.
- The original website had problems and was not usable.
- The portal helps people make and share NFTs easily.
- Someone updated the website and made it work again.
- It now connects to different digital wallets.
- You can visit the portal at polkadot.nftportal.io.
- The code for the portal can be found on GitHub.

WHO: The proposer
WHAT: Fixed and took ownership of NTF portal created by Parity, updated it, got a domain, linked Netlify, and deployed the website.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

[Small Tip] NFT Portal update and ownership adquisition

- Polkadot Live is a special computer program for managing cryptocurrency on MacOS and Windows.
- It helps users keep track of their crypto accounts, see notifications, and manage subscriptions.
- The program was created by Ross Bulat and is developed by Dane Bulat with funding from Polkadot OpenGov.
- Users can import their accounts, receive balance alerts, and submit transactions with Polkadot Live.
- It can be used by traders, investors, developers, managers, and supporters of decentralization.
- The project is asking for money to continue its development for the next 8 months.
- They plan to improve the app and make it available for more types of computers, including Linux.

Polkadot Live seeks funding for the second development phase of their cross-platform desktop application. They plan to complete engineering tasks in 6 months and spend the final 2 months on code cleanup and optimization. The total cost is $154,600, with $121,600 allocated to a senior full-stack engineer, $25,000 to JKRB Investments, and $8,000 for miscellaneous costs. The deliverables include an augmented codebase, a stable release of the app, and updated documentation. The proposal is for 32,4011 DOT, valued at $154,600.

Polkadot Live: Milestone 2 Development Proposal

- PlutoWallet is a special mobile wallet made for Polkadot that supports NFTs.
- The developers have been working on it for over 18 months and are excited about it.
- Some team members have learned about blockchain at a school in Berkeley.
- They want to work with the Polkadot community to make a great product.
- They believe wallets are really important for using Polkadot and help keep it safe.
- The team wants to help other projects and teams in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The wallet focuses on being decentralized, which means it isn’t controlled by one group.
- They are open to feedback and want to hear suggestions from users.

WHO: PlutoWallet team, consisting of enthusiastic developers with knowledge from Polkadot Blockchain Academy.

WHAT: Building the first Polkadot dApp focused mobile wallet with full-featured NFT support that leverages Account Abstraction for achieving the best user experience and safety possible.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified. The proposal aims to establish PlutoWallet as reputable and trustworthy partners for the Polkadot DAO to help build user-centric solutions for anyone to use and benefit from.

PlutoWallet 1st proposal: Account abstraction, Full featured NFT support, Transaction Analyzer

- Chainwire helps Polkadot projects share their news by publishing press releases.
- They have successfully published over 1,180 articles for 24 Polkadot projects, reaching around 22.7 million views.
- Chainwire works with many well-known websites like CoinTelegraph and Decrypt to share these announcements.
- They aim to make it easy for all Polkadot projects to get attention and recognition through strong branding.
- Chainwire proposes a funding request of 75,000 DOT to continue their work for the next six months.
- With their services, Polkadot projects can quickly reach their target audiences and gain visibility. 
- They have a proven record of helping various blockchain projects successfully share their news.

Chainwire, a blockchain PR distribution platform, is proposing to offer its services to all Polkadot-based projects for generating strong PR, branding, and recognition for their news and overall projects. They are requesting 75,000 DOT to execute at least 50 "Premium" campaigns, each having 75 published articles and syndications with an average reach of 800,000 estimated views. The funding should suffice for a minimum of six months. The proposal aims to help Polkadot maintain its leadership position in the blockchain space.

50 Polkadot Ecosystem PR campaigns in the most influential media

- The ink! smart contract programming language is popular for its easy use and effective deployment in the Polkadot community.
- Audits for ink! were done in 2022 and 2023 to check for issues, but fewer complex contracts were tested back then.
- This proposal aims to audit ink! 5.0 to find new problems and improve the code.
- Auditors will look closely at the storage layer and how ink! works with XCM.
- A comprehensive report will be shared with the public after fixing major findings to help other developers.
- A blogpost will summarize the audit results and suggest ways to improve security in the ink! programming language.
- If any bugs are found in sample contracts, the auditors will let the community know responsibly.

**WHO:** Parity Technologies and SRLabs will conduct a comprehensive audit of the ink! 5.0 smart contract language and implementation.

**WHAT:** The audit will identify vulnerabilities and areas of improvement in the codebase, with a focus on the storage layer and XCM integration.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** Not specified.

**DELIVERABLES:** A comprehensive audit report, an ecosystem blog post, and responsible disclosures for any bugs discovered in the selected ink! contracts.

**ENGAGEMENT:** Read the full proposal for more details, learn about Parity Security and SRLabs, and provide feedback to refine the approach.

**150 SYMBOLS SUMMARY:** Parity Technologies and SRLabs will audit ink! 5.0 smart contract language and implementation to identify vulnerabilities and areas of improvement. Deliverables include a report, blog post, and responsible disclosures.

ink! 5.0 Codebase Security Audit

### Summary

- **Objective:** Open XCM channels between Polkadot parachains to improve interoperability.
- **Current Issue:** Many parachains lack DOT in their "Child" accounts, making it difficult to open XCM channels.
- **Proposed Solution:** Deposit 2261 DOT into the "Child" accounts of fourteen parachains to facilitate channel openings.
- **Benefits:** Increases accessibility of parachain tokens on Polkadot DeFi platforms, enhances XCM traffic, and simplifies integration.
- **Implementation:** Targeting specific DOT amounts for each parachain based on size and potential use cases.
- **Feedback:** Initial feedback supports the initiative, with 72% of voters in favor of using treasury funds for this purpose.

Polkadot Treasury will deposit 2261 DOT into the Polkadot relaychain "Child" accounts of fourteen parachains to make it easier to open XCM channels between chains. The proposal aims to increase the amount of XCM traffic, make more parachain tokens accessible to Polkadot DeFi on Hydration, Bifrost, Moonbeam, Astar, and remove one technical barrier to further integration and use case development between chains. The proposal will be implemented by submitting governance proposals to each parachain to open channels. The proposal will cost less than $1k and will be paid in DOT.

Treasury Proposals