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Subsquid Lab Official has requested 47,597.91 DOT ($202,291.10) from the Polkadot treasury to cover ongoing development and maintenance costs for public SQD Archives. These archives provide on-chain data access for public chains in the Polkadot ecosystem and are used by major projects like Polkassembly, Talisman, and RMRK. In Q1 2024, SQD transitioned to a paid model for supporting parachains but continues to offer free access to public chains. They also made significant contributions to support ink! v5 and addressed community demands. Achievements include the full migration to ArrowSquid, decentralizing Archives Tethys Testnet, and the mainnet bootstrap. In Q1 2024, they served 1.57 terabytes of data and 80 million archive requests, with the highest daily data transfer being 313.12 Gb.

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SQD (fka Subsquid) - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q1 2024)

### Summary of Proposal

- **Date**: September 2024
- **Proponent**: Amforc
- **Requested DOT**: 65,000
- **Purpose**: To demonstrate Polkadot's scalability by filling blocks with transactions for about 30 minutes.
- **Funds Used**: DOT will cover transaction fees and temporary existential deposits (EDs).
- **Funds Returned**: At least 80% of spent DOT in fees will be returned to the treasury. Excess DOT will also be returned.
- **Amforc's Role**: Amforc will not take a cut and operates validators that may collect some transaction fees.
- **Kusama Test**: A parallel referendum on Kusama will be executed first to test for bugs before proceeding with Polkadot.

WHO: Amforc 
WHAT: Showcase Polkadot's scalability by filling blocks with transactions for 30 minutes, requesting 65000 DOT to pay for transaction fees and temporary financing of existential deposits. 
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: At least 80% of DOT spent in fees will be returned to the treasury. No cut will be taken by Amforc. Full proposal available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YZNxvBqmpiVvHwq0yQ0EmGsnI7eCh1pieyFQ0WoNkAM).

Showcasing Polkadot’s Capabilities: The Spammening

Skullz suggests creating a logo for Polkadot on Telegram, as other ecosystems have. No information is provided on price, timeframe, or resources.

Rotating DOT Logo on Telegram - Emoji Pack on Telegram

OpenGov referendum 494 has received a lot of support from the community. The storage network has completed phase 1 and some extra parts. Weekly updates are posted on the forum. A book with technical details and instructions on how to test the storage network is available online. Work continues on phase 2 tasks.

Two additional projects are being worked on that contribute to Polkadot:

1. Move has been integrated into Substrate, allowing builders to integrate the Move VM and execute Move smart contracts. This means anyone can now create a Move parachain on Polkadot.
2. A full team is working on Strawberry, the client implementation of JAM, and is close to the first milestone.

PolkaStorage is being added to Polkadot as a native storage offering. It uses DOT exclusively as the fee token and is inspired by the idea of a ubiquitous supercomputer. PolkaStorage relies on other networks less and brings in storage providers to the ecosystem, with service fees paid in DOT. It uses some Filecoin libraries but is a custom implementation tailored to the needs of the DOT ecosystem.

Eiger's Polka Storage is being integrated with JAM's Preimage Lookup System and Data Availability. This provides access to larger data capacity that doesn't fit in account state and serves as the underlying storage layer for resupply of unrequested data that needs to be provided to validators on request. This allows for the best of both worlds: JAM with Data Availability, where apps can access this data and only keep crucial parts on the JAM state.

WHO: Eiger Co.

WHAT: Completed phase 1 of the storage network, integrated Move to Substrate, and working on Strawberry client implementation of JAM.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Implementing a Polkadot-native system parachain for data storage: Phase 2/3

Hello there! I am a Polkadot agent named Saimon. I organized a Polkadot event in Barcelona, Spain, and I did a lot of work for it. I spent money on drinks, snacks, and pizza for the event, which cost me 187.25 euros. I wasn't paid for this work, so I am asking for a tip to make up for it. 

The event was important because it was for big bosses of companies like NTT DATA, and we talked about how Polkadot can help their businesses. I was in charge of many things, like organizing the event, inviting people, and even explaining some things about Polkadot. 

Here is a summary of what happened at the event:
1. People came and registered.
2. I talked about Polkadot Enterprise Solutions.
3. NTT DATA directors talked about their Web3 Experience.
4. Representatives from Web3 Foundation, Kilt protocol, and Tanssi Network talked about Polkadot Projects.
5. Everyone networked and ate pizza.

I think this event was a big step in helping Polkadot technology reach many more people and businesses. I am asking for 250 DOT as a tip, which is the same as the Business Development bounty for Spain and Andorra.

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

Polkadot and EasyA have announced the finalists of their joint Harvard Hackathon. The event was part of the #180DaysOfPolkadot campaign, which aimed to educate and engage Web3 developers in the Polkadot ecosystem. The campaign was a follow-up to the successful 2023 #60DaysOfPolkadot developer education campaign. The hackathons in London and Harvard attracted a large number of participants, with 350 and 300 hackers respectively, and resulted in the creation of 56 and 55 projects. The event also featured Indy500 racer Conor Daly, who expressed his enthusiasm for the EasyA and Polkadot developer ecosystem. The campaign successfully educated over 100,000 developers on Polkadot and achieved 80% completion rate. The event was supported by various Polkadot ecosystem teams, parachains, and developers. EasyA is now focusing on supporting the top teams and builders to continue building on Polkadot and is working closely with the Unique Network team to funnel builders using NFTs on Unique Network towards their CodeCraft grants programme.

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 a leading education brand in the Philippines that focuses on crypto and blockchain, and supports Polkadot. They have completed a grant covering nationwide education, marketing, business development, and on-ground activations, which helped Polkadot break ground in local markets.

Bitskwela's past work includes:
- Deliverable Tracker: [link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dl4ZLoHCDf-2BxsWLFX1hodSAkzmIXnnT8WXidVPxkk/edit?usp=sharing)
- Proof of completion: [link](https://app.ogtracker.io/smallSpender/325)

With support from Polkadot Insider, OpenGuild, and HA Max Rebol, Bitskwela plans to continue their Polkadot-related initiatives in the Philippines. Their upcoming proposal includes:
1. Eight Polkadot-related short guides (updating and enhancing past 20 guides)
2. Twenty-seven KOL short-form content
3. Twenty-seven educational articles
4. Dedicated monthly Polkadot Builder Spaces
5. Inclusion in Bitskwela's monthly online town halls
6. Bi-monthly educational threads, features, and write-ups
7. At least twelve mass media features dedicated to Polkadot
8. Regional university event & talk placements
9. At least two local Bitskwela conferences
10. Cumulative 7,500,000+ minimum reach and circulation achieved within the Philippines

Bitskwela is seeking feedback from the Polkadot community on how to best support Polkadot in the Philippine market. The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M_szE5L8UulUv9bW3vRcBTYDzfP4d2DLKlJkTQeK3h8/edit?usp=sharing).

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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

- 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

Remarkers.io is an NFT marketplace for Polkadot that offers unique and rare collectibles. It has completed development in several areas, including NFT swaps, trading with stablecoins, auto teleport, a new user interface, NFT listing, creation, and viewing owned NFTs and collections. The founder, Ashutosh Singh, has experience in various projects and aims to bring NFTs to Polkadot. Remarkers.io has had 600 visitors in the last 60 days and is an open-source project. The funding breakdown for the project is provided, with a total of $4400 for 1100 work hours over 6 months.

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.

Treasury Proposals