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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!

### Kusama Auction Enactment Issue

- **Issue**: Pending auctions on Kusama failed to enact due to a `BadOrigin` error.
- **Cause**: OpenGov requires the `AuctionAdmin` origin, but previous auctions used a 3/5 Council origin.
- **Proposal**: A new proposal aims to include the last auctions from LP26 and unenacted auctions from LP25 into LP27.
- **Action**: A new auction calendar will be proposed under OpenGov.
- **Proposal Hash**: `0x3f303aa09336575dd393dd38f26b1db6fe46eb8fb082b6abae93aa2bf79cd0e3`
- **Submission**: The proposal was submitted via Primate.
- **Image**: An image related to the proposal can be found [here](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fkusama-rpc.polkadot.io#/extrinsics/decode/0x1804081d052bd1e9469fc73e572f6019b15ab507656fa8b34937ee212544eb877c5c6dd0da0000000001c089010004000000004800e2a50100681d05337955059e29e88811a9ffbbcdc33a57bb70ce142b89f935fbeb795507e3f2482043060001c089010002000000004800e2a501006c).

Fixing the Last Auctions From The Auctions Schedule - Kusama Network

- Kusama's v9320 runtime upgrade caused migration issues for preimages and approved proposals.
- Two affected proposals: Genshiro's slot swap and Kintsugi's HRMP channel with Statemine.
- A new proposal aims to re-vote on these to enact community decisions.
- The proposal includes a `batch` call with `forceOpenHrmpChannel`, `forceTransfer`, and `registrarSwap`.
- Call hash: `0x83c439b8b621a3507c90c8a3ebd0c4b3d76962f853e1f11858e665aeafaeac14`.
- Call data and composition details are available.
- Voting is open for the community after Council approval.

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

- **Motion 577**: A recent motion passed, leading to all new collator slots on Statemine being reserved quickly.
- **Community Interest**: Some community members want to help by providing collation services to Statemine.
- **XCM Call Proposal**: This proposal suggests increasing the number of public collators from 8 to 12.
- **Call Data**: The proposed action involves executing call_data `0x15010c000000` on Statemine.
- **Community Support**: A community member (bLD) expressed interest, and others have shown support in relevant channels.
- **Council Decision**: The council is asked to decide whether to open these additional slots.

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Further increase of Statemine collators from 8 to 12.

- Hitesh from Describedot creates educational videos about the Dotsama ecosystem.
- They started a year ago and have made 34 videos.
- Their videos have grown by 28% weekly, reaching 30,000 views in a year.
- They received support from Polkadot and Kusama Council Members.
- They focus on teaching Polkadot and governance in simple Hindi.
- Users appreciate their videos, which help them understand the Polkadot stack.
- They aim to continue their work with a spending proposal.
- You can learn more about their proposal in the linked document.

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

### Proposal Summary

- **Current Setup**: Statemine has 8 collators, 4 operated by Parity (invulnerables) and 4 by public entities.
- **Proposed Change**: Reduce Parity's invulnerable collators to 2 and increase public collators to 8.
- **Rationale**: 
  - Promote decentralization by reducing reliance on Parity.
  - Align with Statemint's setup, which has 2 invulnerable and 6 public collators.
- **XCM Message**: Contains two encoded calls:
  - Set public collator slots to 8.
  - Reduce invulnerable collators to 2.

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

Statemine Runtime Upgrade to v9320

### KusaMint

KusaMint is a tool for NFT artists and collectors on the Kusama network. It helps people create and manage NFTs without needing to know how to code.

- **NFT Minter**: Easy-to-use interface for creating NFTs with different resources like base, slot, and common.
- **Snapshotter**: Tool to list all NFTs and their owners in a simple format.
- **Notification Bot Factory**: Create bots to track NFT sales and prices on social media.

KusaMint is designed for RMRK 2.0 but will support other protocols in the future.

KusaMint - A toolkit for creating/managing NFTs on Kusama

- Lucky Friday team is seeking funding to offer RPC services for Kusama and Statemine networks.
- They plan to use SOC 2 Type 2, CCSS-compliant facilities with dedicated bare-metal servers.
- The team has decades of data center experience and is concerned about centralization risks.
- They aim to support the Dotsama ecosystem with high-performance infrastructure.
- The proposal was well-received, with 21 likes and 0 dislikes.
- They request an initial funding of $11,200 and monthly recurring costs of $14,920.
- If the funding is insufficient, they will adjust in future proposals; if excess, they will return the extra funds.

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

- The council is asked to reject five proposals.
- Proposal 196 was submitted by mistake.
- Proposals 198 and 199 are for expired events.
- Proposal 209 has a revised version.
- Proposal 211 was submitted in error and is replaced by 212.
- Voting "Aye" means rejecting all these proposals.

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Housekeeping - Rejection of five redundant treasury proposals

Please reject - Created in error

**Encointer Funding Proposal Summary**

- Encointer is a common-good parachain on Kusama, active since January 2022.
- They are seeking additional funding for activities from October to December 2022.
- The requested amount is CHF 257,500 (USD 261,491).
- Their main goals include growing the Zurich community, onboarding new global communities, and integrating with other parachains.
- Encointer relies on grants and donations as it cannot promise returns on investment.
- They have already received partial funding through Motion 510.
- They are also seeking renewal of their common-good lease.

Encointer Growth Treasury Proposal 2/2

Un-brick Basilisk via paras.forceSetCurrentCode

**Motion 568 Summary**

- **Purpose**: Create a Spanish Content and Event Production Bounty.
- **Goal**: Reward Spanish content creators and ensure high-quality content.
- **Focus**: Speed, effectiveness, and control for content audits.
- **Criteria**: Defined assessment criteria for content quality.
- **Process**: Scalable submissions process.
- **Budget**: Details on budget and fund management are available.
- **Proposal**: Full details can be found [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/568).
- **Vote**: Please review and vote on the 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

**Proof of Chaos Project Update**

- The project rewards Kusama voters with NFTs to decentralize governance.
- They aim to improve voter participation with new tools.
- Two developers, niftesty and Thomas, will work on expanding the website.
- Gabriel will focus on making rewards more engaging and finding new utility use cases.
- The goal is to increase the value of NFT collections and achieve self-sustainability.
- Funds will also cover past project management expenses.
- Gabriel's pay rate has increased to $80/hour for transparency.
- The project seeks additional funding for continued development.

Further funding for Proof of Chaos

**Polkadot Forms Proposal Summary**

- **Creator**: SrSlayer, Polkadot & Kusama Ambassador
- **Objective**: To create "Polkadot Forms," a series of quizzes in English and Spanish to help the community learn about Polkadot and Kusama.
- **Format**: Weekly quizzes covering specific topics within the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- **Duration**: November, December, and January.
- **Goal**: Keep the community engaged and motivated through a positive contest dynamic.
- **Outcome**: Successful pilot test led to the formal proposal.
- **Feedback**: Community feedback is available on Twitter and Polkassembly.

Teach Polkadot & Kusama knowledge through a Forms Quiz

- **Ishita-** is the founder of **PolkaSafe**.
- She has a background in engineering and finance.
- She has been working in the crypto VC space for the last two years.
- Ishita became active in the DAO ecosystem and noticed a lack of user-friendly Multisig UX in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- PolkaSafe aims to build a user-friendly Multisig wallet UI for these ecosystems.
- The goal is to improve the UX for managing and transferring tokens in the Dotsama space.
- PolkaSafe is being built on top of Polkadot.js's security backbone.
- The full proposal can be read [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 Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Adapt BrightTreasury to support Governance 2.0 on Kusama, allowing both governance versions to coexist in one app.
- **Features**: Users can view and submit proposals, bounties, and tips for both Governance 1.0 and 2.0.
- **Team**: Bright Inventions, a team of over 70 developers and specialists, including blockchain experts and project managers.
- **Milestones**:
  1. Display Governance 2.0 proposals, bounties, child bounties, and tips (3 weeks, $16,000).
  2. Show details of Governance 2.0 proposals (1 week, $5,000).
  3. Enable creating and converting proposals in Governance 2.0 (2 weeks, $10,000).
- **Budget**: Total cost for all milestones is $31,000.
- **Target Audience**: Regular users and professionals who may not be familiar with blockchain terminology.
- **Project Link**: [BrightTreasury](https://treasury.bright.dev)

BrightTreasury - adapting to governance 2.0 

**DeStore Summary**

- DeStore is an online marketplace for real-world assets with a Digital Twin.
- It helps Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and DAOs get into Web 3.0.
- DeStore wants to add drop shipping to its system with Kusama's help.
- They will test this with a DAO and share the results in a case study.
- After the test, DeStore will offer a long-term solution for Kusama merchandise.
- The full proposal and more details are available in the linked documents.

DeStore | Kusama Merchandise Distributor & Dropshipping Trial 

### Fearless Wallet Desktop/Browser Plugin Proposal

- **Purpose**: Develop a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, and a desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- **Features**: Includes wallet, network, and asset management, settings, and dApp connector support.
- **Platforms**: Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- **Funding**: $268,400.00, or 6,389.41 KSM, based on the 7-day average KSM rate.
- **Milestones**: Includes browser extension, desktop app, management flows, settings, and dApp support.
- **Decision**: The proposal is an external motion, with the final decision left to the community vote.
- **Discussion**: Further details and discussions can be found on the [motion post](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/561).

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

- **Ishita-** is the founder of **PolkaSafe**.
- She has a background in engineering and finance.
- She has been working in the crypto VC space for the past two years.
- Ishita noticed a lack of user-friendly Multisig UX in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- PolkaSafe aims to build a user-friendly Multisig wallet for these ecosystems.
- The goal is to improve the UX for managing and transferring tokens.
- PolkaSafe is being built on top of Polkadot.js's security backbone.
- The project aims to bring more users to the Dotsama ecosystem.

### Summary of OnFinality's Proposal

- **Date:** 6th October 2022
- **Requested KSM:** 1,295.60 KSM (~$59,124.98)
- **Purpose:** To cover ongoing costs for high-performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Kusama and Statemine.
- **Key Achievements:**
  - Provided a free public API service for Kusama and Statemine.
  - Reduced prices for larger customers by 30-40%.
  - Onboarded new networks like Avalanche and Juno.
  - Achieved 99.94% uptime for Kusama and 99.99% for Statemine.
- **Enhancements:**
  - Introduced API Insights and cost optimizations.
  - Added support for Alibaba Cloud and new API plans.
  - Updated the website with a Network marketplace.
  - Improved health metric collection and recovery scripts.

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