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### Polkadot Treasury Proposal Summary

- **Proposer:** Winkrypto
- **Date:** July 28, 2021
- **Requested DOT:** 2041 DOTs (equivalent to $30,000)
- **Objective:** Increase Polkadot's brand recognition and community influence in APAC.
- **Partners:** Winkrypto and ChainNews, top blockchain media in APAC.
- **Plan:** Customized media and marketing services to boost Polkadot's exposure.
- **Activities:** Publicize Polkadot events, highlight outstanding projects, and promote ecosystem development strategies.
- **Expected Output:** 12 articles on events, 10 articles on projects, and 2 articles on Polkadot's APAC strategy.

Marketing and PR Proposal for Polkadot in APAC

- Subscan is a blockchain explorer for Substrate-based chains like Polkadot and Kusama.
- It has faced DDoS attacks, which led to the need for a firewall to protect the service.
- Cloudflare was chosen as the firewall and CDN provider to help mitigate DDoS attacks.
- Subscan experienced service interruptions due to Cloudflare's Pro plan limitations.
- The Cloudflare Enterprise plan was recommended to improve availability and reliability.
- The Enterprise plan includes features like Argo smart routing and better WAF rules.
- Subscan received financial support from the Polkadot treasury to upgrade to the Enterprise plan.
- The upgrade aims to enhance Subscan's performance and user experience, especially in China.

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Cloudflare Enterprise Plan for Subscan from August 2021 to October 2021

**Summary of Proposal:**

- Integrated Kusama with DotScanner.com.
- Plans to develop Milestones 2-6 for both Polkadot and Kusama.
- Requests $854 for increased hosting costs in July and August.
- Total request is 626 DOT.
- 560 DOT for development, valued at $15 each.
- 66 DOT for hosting fees, valued at $13 each.

DotScanner.com Kusama Integration & Extra Features Milestones 2-6

**Polkadotters Community Proposal Summary**

- Founded in August 2020, Polkadotters is the largest Polkadot community in the Czech/Slovak region.
- The community aims to go international and has started publishing content in English.
- The founder left a full-time job to become a Polkadot ambassador, focusing on promoting Polkadot and Web 3.0.
- Social media presence includes:
  - Facebook: 4.3k members
  - Twitter: over 1.5k followers
  - Medium: over 600 followers
- Content creation includes:
  - Over 60 original articles in Czech and English
  - YouTube: over 20k views on Polkadot videos in Czech
- Other activities:
  - Founding the DOT Validator Alliance
  - Education on Substrate and development
  - Participation in hackathons and cryptocurrency events
  - Support in testnets and helping new projects
- The proposal requests 2,736 DOT (~$41,280) to cover community activities and content creation.
- The founder is open to feedback and adjustments to the proposal.

 Funding of Polkadotters community

- **Proponent**: 12WarfbFeUm5L9Fs5zkTaQQH7L5hqaGPEgM9vQ1UFK8kiUSK
- **Date**: June 16, 2021
- **Requested DOT**: 829 DOT (~ $25,000)
- **Objective**: Address the lack of a non-technical book explaining Polkadot.
- **Proposal**: Create a book focused on Polkadot from a non-technical perspective.
- **First Draft**: 90% completed, available for feedback.
- **License**: Creative Commons License (CC BY).
- **Edited**: October 6, 2021.

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Proposal to expand the Polkadot ecosystem with a book for blockchain beginners

### Metis: Wasm Contract Standard Library

- **Developed by**: Patract Labs
- **Purpose**: To create a Wasm contract standard library similar to Openzeppelin-contracts.
- **Features**:
  - Provides components like Token, Access, and Security.
  - Supports ink! and Ask! versions of contracts.
  - Includes components for ERC20, ERC721, ERC777, ERC1155, and more.
- **Goals**:
  - Reduce developer burden.
  - Absorb Solidity ecosystem experience.
  - Explore best practices for Wasm contract development.
- **Challenges**:
  - Lack of reliable common contract implementations.
  - Difficulty in contract combination and expansion.
- **Roadmap**:
  - **M1**: Basic component macros and components.
  - **M2**: Complete component development support.
  - **M3**: Rich component library for governance and financial mechanisms.
- **Timeline**:
  - **M1**: 3 developers over 5 weeks.
  - **Cost**: $31,500, requesting 1525 DOT.

Patract's treasury proposal about Metis M1 (ink! and Ask! Standard Library)

### Summary of Polkadot Treasury Proposal

- **MIDLDEV OÜ** is an Estonian company providing blockchain database snapshots for Polkadot.
- **Services** include daily snapshots, a website ([polkashots.io](https://polkashots.io/)), and redundancy for continuity.
- **Context**: The service has been operational for 6 months, benefiting validators with quick recovery and migration.
- **Future Evolution**: The service may adapt to new Polkadot technologies like "warp sync."
- **Operational Costs**: 1000 EUR/month for labor and 300 EUR/month for cloud services.
- **Funding Request**: 8,700 EUR bi-annually, with a 5% slippage for DOT conversion.
- **Payment Conditions**: Funding covers upcoming 6 months, with work starting upon approval.

Polkashots.io maintenance + improvements

- The proposal limits the number of validators to **1200**.
- It keeps other parameters the same, like the **20000** limit for nominators and **20 DOTs** stake.
- The proposal started as an **external motion** and needs community approval.
- There's ongoing discussion about a **minimum DOT stake limit** for validators.
- These limits are for **network safety** and will increase as the network grows.
- The proposal's details can be found [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W8J1zSPobzNMSAoAWaSeTWvLRI7QdmwH/view?usp=sharing).
- More context is available in the [last runtime upgrade post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/88).
- **Vote** if you agree with the proposal!

Limit on the maximum number of validators, based on scaling issues

### Summary of Proposal

- **Purpose**: Increase the number of people who can nominate in the Polkadot network.
- **Current Issue**: Existing nominators cannot change their intentions due to current limits.
- **Solution**: A pull request will change the logic to allow more people to nominate without affecting current nominators.
- **New Limits**: 
  - Nominator capacity will increase by 2500, making the total 22500.
  - Stake threshold will increase to 40 DOTs.
- **Time-Sensitive**: These changes will be included in the next Polkadot runtime upgrade.
- **Stability**: If too many new nominators join quickly, the stake limit may need to be increased again to keep the system stable.
- **Preimage**: Available [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pp8mkUkFCkYiauUAe2RXFBhzk5wgulGV/view?usp=sharing).
- **Action**: Please vote on the proposal at your convenience.

Upgrade the nomination limits on Polkadot

Subscan is a blockchain explorer for Substrate-based chains like Polkadot, Kusama, and Westend. It has been growing rapidly, with many users and high activity levels. However, this growth has led to high infrastructure costs, which are currently not fully covered by revenue. Subscan is seeking financial support from the Polkadot Treasury to continue improving its service. The infrastructure costs for the past three months (March to May 2021) totaled around $20,786.73, with most of the expenses going to services like Compute Engine, Stackdriver Logging, and Cloud SQL on Google Cloud Platform.

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The Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot Network from March 2021 to May 2021

### Proposal Summary

- **Purpose**: Requesting support from the Polkadot Treasury for the operating costs of the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute from June to August.
- **Objective**: Create high-quality, original Chinese content to explain Polkadot in a more understandable way for Chinese users.
- **Goal**: Increase awareness and participation in Polkadot and its ecosystem among Chinese users.
- **Activities**: Follow up on outstanding Polkadot projects to keep the community informed about the latest developments.
- **Funding**: Seeking approximately 1,883.18 DOT for the three-month period, based on the EMA(30) average rate.
- **Details**: More information can be found in the provided document.
- **Feedback**: Open to questions and feedback from councillors.

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