- LimeChain is now in charge of GiantSquid, a tool that helps find data in the Polkadot system.
- They created a report about their work and talked to users to gather feedback.
- Based on this feedback, they have a new plan called "Phase 2 for Giant Squid."
- Phase 2 includes new features like making it easier to find cross-chain transfers and track staking and voting.
- They will also make a new table to show all account events at once, which will be easier to use.
- They are asking for **169,520 USDC** to help pay for the new features and other costs.
- Feedback from the community is very welcome, and they hope to turn it into a treasury proposal.

Giant Squid Phase 2

RegionX parachain is a trustless marketplace for Coretime on Polkadot. It aims to help teams benefit from its features and delegate governance and revenue to DOT holders. The proposal seeks funding for deployment on Kusama and improving the Coretime Hub user interface. Polkadot is a scalable platform for hosting rollups, and attracting new teams is important. The marketplace is needed for secondary Coretime purchases, immediate use, and scaling on the go. RegionX parachain will use DOT as its native token for governance and fees, but it will not be a system chain to avoid burdening the Polkadot Fellowship.

RegionX - Coretime Marketplace Production Deployment Phase 1

The Gray Paper Reader is a tool that helps people work with the Gray Paper for JAM, the next generation of Polkadot Cloud. It makes sharing, annotating, and tracking changes in the document easier. The tool is open-source and already used by the community. FluffyLabs.dev, the creator of the tool, is asking for support to keep improving it.

The Gray Paper is important because it explains JAM in detail, but it's not easy to read and understand. There are over 20 teams working on JAM, and they all need to read the Gray Paper. The Gray Paper changes over time, and it's hard to keep track of these changes.

The Gray Paper Reader solves some problems with the PDF version of the Gray Paper. It's hard to share a part of the document, and notes can get lost when the document is updated. The Gray Paper Reader has features like an archive of different versions, easy switching between versions, and sharing short links to specific parts of the document.

The Gray Paper Reader is already being used a lot in the official chat room for the Gray Paper. The team behind it, FluffyLabs.dev, is asking for $21,000 to keep improving the tool. They have a plan for what they want to do in the future, and you can read more about it in their full proposal.

[Retroactive Funding] JAM GrayPaper Reader

Brad, a popular video-game streamer, is requesting $25,000 for promoting Polkadot on various platforms like TikTok, Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, and Discord. From July 10, 2024, to January 27, 2025, he displayed a large neon Polkadot logo and discussed Polkadot during live-streams, resulting in about 20 million total video and stream views. His audience is mostly young people under 35 years old. Brad plans to use some of the funds to expand his reach and collaborate with other content creators to grow his audience.

 Live-Streamer Retroactive Proposal

Talisman is proposing to create a mobile wallet for both iOS and Android devices, aiming to enhance the user experience and make their web3 journey seamless. The wallet will be compatible with the existing Talisman browser extension wallet and Portal web application. The project requires $598,100 in funding and is planned to be developed from March 2025 to September 2025.

Key features of the Talisman mobile wallet include portfolio management, wallet connect, one-click stake, cross-chain swap and transfers, biometric authentication, and buy/sell crypto options. Unique features will also be added, such as account synchronization across devices, AI-powered trading, backup to cloud, and referral rewards.

The mobile wallet is expected to benefit the Polkadot ecosystem by increasing competition, boosting user engagement, and expanding revenue opportunities. Community support for the mobile wallet has been positive, with many users requesting a mobile app.

Talisman's mission is to design for the user, advocate for the user, and build for the user in the Polkadot ecosystem. They have achieved significant traction, with over 140,000 active installs, 19,000 active users, and users in 189 countries. The Talisman mobile wallet aims to continue this growth and bring new users to the Polkadot ecosystem.

Talisman - Mobile Wallet Proposal

WebZero team represented Polkadot at Consensus in Austin by hosting a Blockspace Mansion for five days. They also managed the Polkadot track sponsorship at the EasyA hackathon. The event was a success, with 535 guests and 21 team submissions. The team focused on marketing, hosting, and managing events to attract teams and promote Polkadot. The Blockspace Mansion provided a casual and inviting atmosphere for guests and helped put Polkadot in front of a larger audience. Contact: info@joinwebzero.com, WebZero TG Chat. Full proposal and requested amount can be found in the provided links.

Retroactive Funding Proposal For The Blockspace @Coindesk Consensus 

This proposal aims to bring 1 million user wallets to the Polkadot network through ongoing user funnels at strategic Billfold venues. It funds the production of four Bash events in the first half of the year and the placement of Billfold PoS in strategic venues, generating at least 1 million wallets and transactions in 2025. The Polkadot community has trusted PMEI to bring Billfold into the ecosystem, and now they want to drive as much usage to Polkadot as possible through existing and new Billfold users. Every new event attendee at a Billfold venue will get a new Polkadot wallet and be encouraged to transact on the network. PMEI is focused on creating self-sustaining user funnels through new venue partnerships, driving usage to the network through loyalty engagement and facilitating payments. They are not charging an agency fee on this proposal, only covering hard costs.

{bash} events 2025 - (March to July) - creating permanent user funnels.

Nova Wallet has proposed its 6th plan to add new features like in-app swaps, a seamless DApp browser, an upgraded portfolio view, SwipeGov with AI summaries, and support for a new Polkadot Ledger app. They also want to make governance improvements and runtime updates. Nova Wallet is a popular and secure app for the Polkadot ecosystem, with many users and staking options. This proposal is retroactive, meaning they will work on these features and then ask for funding after they are completed. The goal is to keep improving the app and maintain a high-quality, open-source, and community-focused mobile application. You can read the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10x9cYyNMV92Ol58Eped-fFNRUniRjTUfU2lEGyIqtyc).

Nova Wallet 6th Proposal: Retroactive Reimbursement: Swaps, Seamless DApp Browser, Portfolio, SwipeGov, New Polkadot Ledger, Runtime Updates, and more

- A problem happened with AssetHub assets that were supposed to go to a Relay Chain Proxy, making them unavailable.
- A preimage was pulled just before the confirmation period ended to fix this issue.
- You can check that the preimage was pulled through a specific link.
- Pure Proxy Replication is a future solution, but it’s unclear when it will be available.
- Waiting for this solution could mean the assets remain useless for a long time.
- They decided not to submit a main reference for a temporary fix because it could take a long time.
- Your vote can help fix the payout problem more quickly.

Ratify Payout APPROVED by Ref. 1346 - Token Terminal

The Ideal Network (IDN) is a randomness infrastructure for Polkadot's ecosystem. The team, formed during the Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Buenos Aires, includes Juan Girini, Tony Riemer, Carlos Montoya, and Coleman Irby. They are requesting 300,250 USDC over three months to deliver a trustless Drand Bridge, cross-chain randomness delivery infrastructure, a security audit by SRLabs, and network deployment and maintenance.

Polkadot's ecosystem lacks a reliable method for generating frequent, high-quality random values, which is critical for creating fair and secure decentralized applications. The Ideal Network will unlock publicly verifiable randomness for Polkadot's World Computer, introducing a game-changing infrastructure that solves critical blockchain challenges. They are building a trustless bridge to the Drand distributed randomness beacon, enabling a standardized randomness layer that delivers secure, verifiable randomness at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions like Chainlink VRF.

The Ideal Network enables use cases across multiple domains, including secure network consensus and governance, fair DeFi mechanisms, provably random gaming experiences, unbiased and dealer-free gambling, transparent NFT generation, and front-running-resistant transaction pools. Beyond randomness, IDN introduces timelock encryption, a cryptographic mechanism that allows messages to be securely encrypted and revealed only at specific future blocks.

The work done is supported through collaborations with Web3 Foundation, NIST, and the University of Colorado. Several projects have expressed interest in integration, including Asset Hub, Bittensor, ChainSafe, and PolkaStorage.

Ideal Network: The Randomness Layer for Polkadot's World Computer

- **Interstellar** is a project aiming to make Web3 (the next version of the internet) easier and safer for everyone to use.
- It focuses on **smart accounts**, which let people use Web3 without needing to know about private keys or seed phrases.
- Unlike other systems, Interstellar is **decentralized** and **non-custodial**, meaning users have full control and it’s not run by a single company.
- It offers features like **one-tap backups**, **drainer protection**, and **gas abstraction** to make using Web3 simple and secure.
- Interstellar is built on **Polkadot**, a blockchain platform, and aims to provide better, safer alternatives to current smart account systems.
- The project has **9 milestones** and is requesting **606,380 USDC** to fund its development.
- Early partners include **Acala**, **SubWallet**, and others.
- Interstellar’s goal is to make Web3 **accessible**, **user-friendly**, and **secure** for everyone.

Next-Gen Smart Account Features – powered by Polkadot

The Polkadot Staking Dashboard proposal aims to continue the development of the platform from January to June 2025. The proposal is led by Ross Bulat and Joel Kenny, requesting $82,000 USDT for the project. Key points include a 6-month development timeframe, funding in USDT stablecoin, a focused development roadmap on user experience and network upgrades, a strengthened team structure, and a continued commitment to open-source development and community engagement.

The proposal's objectives for Q1-Q2 2025 are to improve staking accessibility and user experience, implement Plaza upgrade support, support nomination pool bonding migration, enhance network security, and maintain support for Smoldot and Polkadot API. The Staking Dashboard aims to be the most accessible and reliable platform for Polkadot network participation, with simplified staking processes, faster dashboard sync times, robust support for network upgrades and features, enhanced user education and support, and global accessibility through multi-language support.

The deliverables include staking dashboard enhancements, support for "Plaza" upgrades, support for nomination pool bonding migration, streamlining wallet connection interface, layout plans to sunset the need for staking support in JS Apps, improving application architecture, introducing "Easy Mode" staking setup, speeding up one-click pool joining, rewards calculator, share/invite links, improved nomination management, resources section overhaul, improved multi-language support, GraphQL Staking API plugin growth, and continued hosting of the Staking Dashboard.

The Staking Dashboard plays a vital role in Polkadot's ecosystem by providing an intuitive gateway for users to participate in network security, supporting both direct staking and nomination pools, ensuring smooth transitions during network upgrades, offering comprehensive staking education and guidance, maintaining open-source code for ecosystem transparency, and broadening global accessibility through strategic language expansion.

Polkadot Staking Dashboard 2025 (Q1-Q2) Funding Proposal

Subscan is a helpful tool in the Polkadot network that helps people find important information about the blockchain. They asked for money to keep making the platform better and to pay for things like storage and development costs. They used to get money from the Polkadot Treasury, and now they are asking for more to keep improving and maintaining the platform.

Subscan has made many updates and improvements in the past, and they have a plan for what they will work on in the future. They want to make sure that everyone can use the platform easily and that it works well for developers, people who check the network, and regular users.

Subscan has also started showing ads to make some money, and they will use that money to help pay for everything they need. They are asking for a total of 163,507.88 USDT to help with their costs for the next few months. They want to keep making Subscan better and more useful for everyone in the Polkadot community.

Subscan Q3/Q4 2024 Funding Proposal: Basic service fee & Development cost for the Polkadot, Westend, and Rococo Ecosystems）

OG Tracker is a tool that helps track OpenGov proposals on Polkadot. This proposal aims to continue and improve OG Tracker. Here's what they plan to do:

1. Keep tracking OpenGov approved proposals.
2. Add community voting and an "Overdue" badge to help make decisions.
3. Put all collected Proof of Work into the OG Tracker app to make things more transparent.
4. Improve the Self-Report feature.
5. Show the whole history of an approved proposal.

You can read the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6H0n7CcjN5r_Em-IvyrtwIY_3wxCivNzHXwFM2s2Ig/edit?tab=t.0). They have already done a lot, and you can see their progress [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LQc4gEgOpwmqu5Csa6cPM3J6QHw9eXi7eNDhV2EJ_Hc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9jizlweryl1e). They want to keep making things better and welcome everyone to join and help.

OG Tracker 2026

This proposal is asking for money to pay for work done to help the Polkadot ecosystem from July 1 to November 1, 2024. The person did many things like talking to new teams, helping with events, and making a handbook for Polkadot. They want to be paid $45,000 for working about 25 hours each week during that time. They have done a lot of work to help Polkadot grow and hope that the people in charge see how important their work is. Some of the main things they did include making the Polkadot Handbook, talking to teams that left Polkadot, and helping with business development and community activities.

Retroactive Funding for Ecosystem Activities

dAppForge is an AI-powered plugin designed to help Polkadot developers build decentralized applications, appchains, and parachains more efficiently. The project has completed two of its four milestones, with the aim of reducing development time and making it easier for new developers to join the Polkadot ecosystem.

**Summary of Important Points:**
- A previous treasury proposal was submitted and completed.
- Milestone 2 of dAppForge V1 is now completed, with videos demonstrating the plugin's capabilities.
- The plugin is available on GitHub and can be used for code generation and autocompletion for substrate and ink!.
- The plugin provides insights into the code generated, helping developers understand substrate/ink! better and build faster.
- Two of the four milestones have been completed, with the remaining two focusing on fine-tuning the AI model, integrating Solidity, developing a monetization strategy, and creating a knowledge graph for Rust programming language.

**Overview:**
- Tagline: AI-powered plugin for Polkadot developers that reduces development time.
- Brief description: dAppForge aims to enable Polkadot developers to build better dApps, appchains, and parachains faster, lowering the entry barriers for new developers. The AI model is trained on Substrate and ink! and can be used for code generation and autocompletion.
- Motivation: Substrate and ink! can build great parachains, appchains, and dApps, attracting millions of users, which is crucial for the blockchain industry. dAppForge aims to empower existing developers and make it easier for new developers to join and build on Polkadot, including those familiar with Solidity.

dAppForge Milestone 3 

A problem occurred with a proposal called Ref. 1303, where a Relay Chain Proxy was set to receive AssetHub assets, making them inaccessible. To fix this, a new proposal is needed. The original proposal can be found [here](1303). The preimage was pulled before the confirmation period ended, and you can verify it [here](https://polkadot.subscan.io/extrinsic/0xec8ca6dbcfee1b25201b9e95b61e6eb890f7eee9d4f21aee060da7005d79c42c). Waiting for Pure Proxy Replication to solve this issue is not ideal, as it will take many months. Submitting a Root Ref to replicate the proxy was also considered, but it would take too long and tie up resources. Voting on this new proposal will help fix the payout issue approved in Ref. 1303.

Ratify Payout APPROVED by Ref. 1303 - The Kus

This proposal aims to create a collaborative strategy for Africa to increase awareness, adoption, and growth of Polkadot, a blockchain platform. The plan involves building a supportive community of agents representing Polkadot in Africa, with a focus on developers and content creators. The strategy includes educational sessions, community engagement, ecosystem representation, developer outreach, and encouraging the building of Polkadot native apps and integrations. The plan is divided into four phases: icebreaker events, Rust community activations, developer workshops, and community meetups. The team behind the proposal includes Bekka, Kratista0s, Sanchez, and Victor, who are also responsible for the Polkadot Africa X account. The requested amount for the project is $92,880, with the duration set from January to June 2025. The initiative will primarily focus on Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Uganda, with a goal to eventually reach out to North and South African regions as well.

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot Africa Community Growth (West and East Africa regions) 

- A new proposal has been created to request funding in USDT.
- The money will be used to maintain a tool called substrate-api-client from January to June 2025.
- The substrate-api-client is a library that helps people connect to special nodes and works well with small devices.
- It is similar to another tool called Polkadot-js and allows developers to work with Polkadot and Kusama chains easily.
- This proposal is part of ongoing efforts to get funding for maintenance.
- The group is asking for $33,200 for the project.
- More information can be found in the full proposal linked in the content.

Maintenance for the substrate-api-client Jan-25 to Jun-25

Asset Decentralized Identifier Communication (AssetDIDcomm) is a project that aims to create a secure, encrypted, and decentralized data storage and messaging system for digital assets. It uses DID verifiable credentials to allow digital asset owners to store and retrieve encrypted data and messages throughout the asset's lifetime. The system will use the Kilt Protocol and Crust for digital identity and decentralized storage, respectively.

Xcavate, a foundational protocol built on Polkadot, focuses on tokenizing real estate assets for community investment and decentralized governance. They plan to launch their blockchain through Agile Core Time on Polkadot and have been accepted into the UK's FCA sandbox for regulatory compliance.

Traditionally, tokenizing real-world assets like real estate involves many third parties and can lead to issues such as data breaches, data manipulation, and lack of accountability. AssetDIDcomm aims to solve these problems by providing a decentralized and secure method for data storage and communication related to digital assets.

The project has gathered support and use cases from various members of the Polkadot ecosystem, including Archisinal, Aventus, and Mandala Chain. They believe that AssetDIDcomm can improve data security, transparency, and efficiency in various industries, including planning, construction, and government projects.

The main problems AssetDIDcomm aims to address are centralized storage, security and access, and data manipulation. By providing a decentralized solution, the project hopes to increase investor confidence, improve accountability, and reduce costs associated with data breaches and forensic investigations.

Creation of an AssetDIDcomm System with AssetDID Credential Verification

This page is about a request for funding to continue the development of ReactiveDOT and DOTConnect. ReactiveDOT is a library for React and Vue, and DOTConnect is a wallet connector UI library. The goal is to release their first stable versions. The plan includes incorporating community feedback, finalizing public APIs, achieving 65% test coverage, providing detailed documentation, creating tutorials, and releasing version 1. The funding request is for 67,600 USDC from December 2024 to March 2025, for 3 months, 65 workdays, and 520 hours of work.

ReactiveDOT: funding request for the first stable version

The Polkadot Virtual Machine (PVM) Debugger is a new tool designed to help developers work with PVM implementations. It has features like breakpoints, memory inspection, and can run programs on multiple PVM clients at the same time. This tool was made because there were no good tools for debugging PVM programs before. It can help find mistakes and make sure PVM programs work the same way on different clients.

The team who made the PVM Debugger, FluffyLabs.dev, is asking for money to help them keep working on the tool. They want to make it better and add more features. The PVM Debugger is already done and can be used by anyone for free. It is on a website called GitHub, where people can see the code and help improve it.

The team has a plan to make sure people use the PVM Debugger and give them feedback. They will talk to people on the internet and make changes to the tool based on what people say. They want to make sure the PVM Debugger stays helpful as Polkadot changes and grows.

Treasury Proposal: Retroactive Funding for PVM Debugger

EasyA is excited to announce the next phase of their collaboration with Polkadot, called #360DaysOfPolkadot. After a successful 2024, they plan to upgrade the in-app EasyA Polkadot course to Polkadot 2.0 and host two hackathons at Harvard University and in London. The timeline for this project is from November 2024 to April 2025, with a requested allocation of USD $392,500. The target metrics include 120,000 developers starting the crash course, 100,000 completing it, 600 in-person hackathon attendees, 100 hackathon projects, and over 10 million social media impressions. The proposal is available for review, and feedback from the community has been incorporated into the final proposal.

Milestone 1: EasyA x Polkadot: In-person hackathons and in-app Polkadot 2.0 crash course (#360DaysOfPolkadot)

We had a successful 2024 program and now we are moving to the next step, called Tranche 2. This will help people who learned in our classes and bootcamp to join a big event called the Polkadot Hackathon. There, they can use their new skills to work on cool projects and help make the Polkadot system better.

So far, we had over 350 people join our classes and bootcamp, and they learned a lot. We want to keep this going by having them join the Hackathon.

For Tranche 2, we need some money to help make the Hackathon happen. We are asking for $385,000, which will be given to us in three parts. We already got the first part in July, and we are waiting for the second part in November, and the last part in early 2025.

You can find more information about our plans in these documents:

- [Proposal for Tranche 2](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KP9f9Xjjcj1TN-p48dVkf2SHWq49zdeSSh5e8Omk-h4/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Original presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xfg_WM6BDqY2JRdYxaboqdGpebTzZYcTEWwRjG5-cuE/edit#slide=id.g2822edb8ffc_0_6)
- [Original proposal that was approved](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/703)

With Tranche 2, we will help people who finished our classes and bootcamp to join the Hackathon and use their new skills on real projects. This is important to help people grow and make the Polkadot system better.

Encode x Polkadot 2024: Tranche 1 update and discussion ahead of request for Tranche 2

Mimir 2.0 is an upgraded multisig product designed to improve asset management and governance within the Polkadot ecosystem. It offers features like 1/N multisig, batch transactions, staking, and proxy accounts, enhancing flexibility and security. Mimir has onboarded over 230 multisig accounts and served more than 1,400 addresses, supporting 22 networks, including those in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. The proposal requests 134,500 UDST for the development and optimization of Mimir 2.0, which aims to introduce new features and improve existing ones to support the growth of the Polkadot ecosystem.

Treasury Spends