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### Kusama Runtime Upgrade Proposal

- **Runtime Version**: Upgrade to v9340
- **Key Changes**:
  - Support for safely destroying large assets
  - Allow alliance fellows to give up voting rights
  - Add collectives as trusted teleporters
  - OpenGov: Proxy definitions and Kusama tweaks
  - Bounties use SpendOrigin
  - Non-interactive staking
  - OpenGov: Abstentions
  - Allow Root with OpenGov origins
  - Add `with_weight` extrinsic
- **Proposal Hash**: `0x0debc0e862468363f53cf1ea4d451ec2fdfc4aeb37a3189354df9597636c55b9`
- **Submission**: Uses `set_storage` call, not `set_code`
- **Process**: Requires Council vote followed by community referendum

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Runtime v9340 Upgrade On Kusama: Fixing OpenGov Parameters and more!

- OpenGov is now running on Kusama.
- There’s a problem with auctions: they can’t start because of a `BadOrigin` error.
- The auctions need a special permission called `AuctionAdmin` to work, but the old ones don’t have it.
- A new proposal is being made to fix this and include the auctions that didn’t start.
- The proposal will also add new auctions to the schedule.
- The community wants to fast-track this proposal to fix the issue quickly.
- The proposal has a special code called a hash: `0x3f303aa09336575dd393dd38f26b1db6fe46eb8fb082b6abae93aa2bf79cd0e3`.
- More details can be found in the links provided.

Fixing the Last Auctions From The Auctions Schedule - Kusama Network

- A new vote is happening on Kusama to fix issues from a recent upgrade.
- Two proposals, one from Genshiro and one from Kintsugi, need to be voted on again.
- The proposals were already approved but got stuck due to the upgrade.
- The new vote includes actions to open a channel and swap slots.
- The community needs to vote quickly to keep things on track.
- The call hash and data are provided for transparency.
- Council approval is needed first, then the community will vote.

Fixing the disappeared approved proposals (by the community) on relaychain from Genshiro and Kintsugi

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External Motion: Approval of Treasury Proposal 227 - KAGOME C++ implementation

- A motion was passed to open new collator slots on Statemine.
- All new slots were quickly reserved.
- Community members want to help by providing collation services.
- A request is made to increase public collators from 8 to 12.
- A community member (bLD) and others showed interest and readiness.
- Joe supported the idea.
- The council needs to decide if more slots should be opened.

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Further increase of Statemine collators from 8 to 12.

- Hitesh from Describedot creates educational videos about the Dotsama ecosystem.
- They have made 34 videos in one year and got 30,000 views.
- They got support from Polkadot and Kusama Council Members.
- Their videos help people learn about governance and networks in simple terms.
- They focus on teaching the Polkadot stack to Hindi-speaking audiences.
- Their first milestone was covered by WagMedia.
- They are working on a new proposal for more content.

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Treasury Proposal: Production of Dotsama ecosystem tutorial videos for Hindi audience

- There are 8 collators on Statemine: 4 run by Parity and 4 by the public.
- A proposal suggests reducing Parity's collators to 2 and increasing public ones to 8.
- Statemint has 2 Parity collators and 6 public ones.
- The goal is to decentralize and rely less on Parity.
- It also aims to match or improve Statemint's setup.
- Two changes are proposed: set total collators to 8 and reduce Parity's to 2.
- This is to make Statemine more decentralized and aligned with Statemint.

Statemine Collator Update - Reduce invulnerables from four to two and increase public collators from four to eight

Statemine Runtime Upgrade to v9320

- **KusaMint** is a tool for making and managing NFTs on Kusama.
- It helps people without coding skills create NFTs easily.
- It works with RMRK 2.0 and will support more protocols later.
- Features include:
  - **NFT Minter**: Create NFTs with different types of resources.
  - **Snapshotter**: Get lists of NFTs and their owners.
  - **Notification Bot Factory**: Make bots to track sales on social media.
- The team is asking for 1493 KSM to build these tools.
- They hope this will help more artists and collectors join the Kusama NFT community.

KusaMint - A toolkit for creating/managing NFTs on Kusama

- Lucky Friday wants to help the Kusama and Statemine networks by providing RPC services.
- They have experience running validators, collators, miners, and vaults on Kusama and Polkadot.
- They plan to use secure, high-performance servers to offer reliable services at a fixed cost.
- They are concerned about centralization risks from using cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud.
- Their goal is to support the growth of the Dotsama ecosystem and important apps like Polkadot.js and Talisman.
- They shared a proposal on November 4, 2022, which received positive feedback.
- They are asking for $11,200 initially and $14,920 monthly after completing milestones.
- They will adjust funding requests based on market changes and return any extra funds to the treasury.

Lucky Friday | Cost-Effective Proposal for High-Performance Bare-Metal RPC Nodes

- A motion is asking to reject five proposals.
- Proposal 196 was submitted by mistake by an unknown group.
- Proposal 198 is for an event that already happened and doesn't need money anymore.
- Proposal 199 is for another event that already happened and doesn't need money anymore.
- Proposal 209 was replaced by a new, updated proposal.
- Proposal 211 was a mistake and was replaced by proposal 212.
- Voting "Aye" means agreeing to reject all these proposals.

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Housekeeping - Rejection of five redundant treasury proposals

Please reject - Created in error

- Encointer is asking for funding to continue its work until December 2022.
- They are a common-good parachain on Kusama, which means they help the community without making money.
- They need CHF 257,500 (about USD 261,491) to keep working.
- Encointer started on Kusama on January 9, 2022, and has shared reports on their progress.
- Their main goals are:
  - Growing their community in Zurich to test their ideas.
  - Helping new communities, especially in less developed areas.
  - Working with other parachains to make their system fair and inclusive.
- They rely on grants and donations because they don’t make money from their work.

Encointer Growth Treasury Proposal 2/2

Un-brick Basilisk via paras.forceSetCurrentCode

- Motion 568 is about creating a Spanish Content and Event Production Bounty.
- It rewards people who make good Spanish content about Polkadot.
- The goal is to make sure the content is high quality and useful.
- There are rules for how the content is checked and approved.
- The proposal includes details on how much money will be used and how it will be managed.
- People can vote on this idea to decide if it should happen.
- More information is available in the original proposal.

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Spanish Content and Event Production Bounty

Runtime v9320 Upgrade On Kusama Network

Extending Encointer's common good lease by 48 weeks

- The Proof of Chaos project encourages people to vote in Kusama's governance by giving them NFTs as rewards.
- They are building tools to make voting more fun and fair.
- The team wants to hire two developers to improve their website and tools.
- Gabriel, the project leader, will focus on making rewards more exciting and useful.
- They aim to make the project self-sustaining by increasing the value of their NFT collections.
- Gabriel hasn't taken payment upfront and only asks for funds when needed, sharing the project's risks.
- They are asking for more funds to cover past expenses and future development.
- The community can review their proposal and give feedback.

Further funding for Proof of Chaos

SrSlayer, a Polkadot and Kusama Ambassador, has proposed creating "Polkadot Forms," a series of forms and tests in English and Spanish to help the community learn about the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. The tests will cover specific topics and be distributed weekly from November to January. The goal is to keep the community engaged in learning and attract new users who want to learn in a fun way. The full proposal can be found on Google Docs, and community feedback is available on Twitter and Polkassembly.

Teach Polkadot & Kusama knowledge through a Forms Quiz

Ishita is the founder of PolkaSafe, a company that aims to create a user-friendly Multisig wallet UI for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. She has a background in engineering, finance, and crypto VC. PolkaSafe's mission is to help digital asset users manage and transfer their tokens safely and easily. They are building this product on top of Polkadot.js's security backbone to improve the current drawbacks of managing funds via Multisig. You can read the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJyqo9Py3Tv_N9nw3D1Ggpkxk0ZfHuT9NnnIwMdv1pU/edit?usp=sharing).

Proposal: PolkaSafe proposes to build  a user friendly Multisig for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem

- BrightTreasury is a web app that helps people use the Treasury system on Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- The team wants to update BrightTreasury to work with Governance 2.0 on Kusama, while still supporting the old version.
- Bright Inventions is the team behind the app, with over 70 experts in tech and design.
- The project has three parts: showing proposals, showing details, and allowing users to create new proposals in Governance 2.0.
- The team will work in sprints, with some members working full-time and others part-time.
- The total cost for the project is $31,000, split across the three milestones.
- The goal is to make it easier for more people to use the Treasury system, even if they are not experts in blockchain.

BrightTreasury - adapting to governance 2.0 

- DeStore is a marketplace for real-world assets with a Digital Twin, helping SMEs and DAOs get into Web 3.0.
- They want support from the Kusama Community to add drop shipping to their system.
- They need a loan to test DAO drop shipping and want to sell Kusama merchandise.
- After testing, they will create a case study for SMEs and DAOs to learn from.
- DeStore plans to offer a long-term solution for Kusama merchandise using Web 3.0 tech.
- Links to their proposal, discussion, video, and Twitter are provided.

DeStore | Kusama Merchandise Distributor & Dropshipping Trial 

Fearless has proposed a treasury proposal for a wallet browser extension and desktop application. The proposal includes:

1. A browser extension for Chrome, Chromium-based browsers, and Mozilla Firefox.
2. A desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
3. Wallet, network, and asset management features.
4. Settings and chain account management.
5. dApp connector logic support.

The proposal is open for community vote as a referendum. The requested amount is $268,400, which will be recalculated based on the 7-day average KSM rate. The first milestone includes all the mentioned features.

External motion: Approval of Treasury Proposal 212 - Fearless Wallet Desktop/Browser Plugin Proposal

OnFinality is requesting 1,295.60 KSM to continue providing high-performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Kusama and Statemine. They have been offering a free public API service for the past three months, which has helped grow the ecosystem, scale existing projects, and provide valuable data on validator node performance. In the last quarter, they focused on cost optimization, network expansion, and enhancing their Ultimate API service. They have reduced costs for larger customers, onboarded two new networks (Avalanche and Juno), and introduced new API-specific paid plans. OnFinality has also delivered API Insights, cost optimizations, support for Alibaba Cloud, and updates to their website. They have maintained a high level of service stability and reliability, with a 99.94% uptime for Kusama and 99.99% for Statemine over the last 90 days.

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