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### Bifrost Proposal Summary

- **Requested Amount**: 50,000 KSM
- **Purpose**: Provide base liquidity for KSM and vKSM in Bifrost Stable Swap.
- **Duration**: 18 months
- **Repayment**: Includes interest, expected to be around 55,437 KSM.
- **Previous Successes**: Similar proposals in 2022 and 2023 were successful.
- **Income to Kusama Treasury**: Bifrost has generated a total income of 8,370.5523 KSM.
- **Unique Features**: Includes LST Governance Capacity Inheritance (GCI) and Leveraged Staking (LoopStake).
- **Future Plans**: Support for bi-directional cross-chain between Kusama and Polkadot, enhancing KSM staking security and user participation.

Treasury proposal: KSM liquidity subsidy for KSM liquid staking token - vKSM

### Mimir 2.0 - Multisig and Proxy Optimization

- **Project Overview**: Mimir 2.0 aims to enhance multisig and proxy account features in the Polkadot ecosystem, making them more user-friendly and versatile.
  
- **Key Features**:
  - **1/N Multisig**: Allows users to create multisig accounts with a single signer, improving accessibility.
  - **Proxy Accounts**: Introduces a new account structure called Proxy accounts, which can delegate permissions for enhanced security and convenience.
  - **Batch Transactions**: Enables users to bundle multiple transactions together, simplifying complex operations.
  - **Cross-Chain Monitoring**: Provides safety checks to prevent asset loss during cross-chain transactions.

- **User Benefits**:
  - **Simplified Account Management**: Makes it easier for both individual and institutional users to manage their assets securely.
  - **Enhanced Security**: Offers advanced security features like delayed proxy and watch-only modes.
  - **Better User Experience**: Improves the overall user experience with features like transaction caching and optimistic proposals.

- **Integration**:
  - **Network Compatibility**: Mimir supports integration with dozens of networks within the Polkadot ecosystem.
  - **Application Integration**: Has been integrated with several applications, including Subsquare, Bifrost App, and Crust Files.

- **Social Impact**:
  - **Community Engagement**: Mimir has grown its Twitter following to over 2,000 and organized 8 events with around 200 participants.

- **Milestones**:
  - **Multisig Optimization**: Focuses on adapting 1/N multisig, transaction caching, and cross-chain transfer monitoring.
  - **Proxy Account Adaptation**: Includes normal and pure proxy accounts, with features like proxy relationship binding and permissions check.
  - **Watch-Only Accounts**: Allows users to monitor multisig accounts for enhanced transparency.

- **Budget**: The project is seeking a payment of 7,253 KSM ($166,120) for the development and implementation of these features.

Mimir 2.0 - multisig optimize and proxy pallet support

### Summary

- A new KSM/DOT liquidity pool has been created on Kusama's AssetHub, leveraging the Polkadot-Kusama bridge.
- The pool aims to improve liquidity and asset swaps between Kusama and Polkadot.
- An incentives plan is proposed to support the pool's growth, including rewards in KSM from the Kusama treasury.
- Rewards will be managed by a smart contract on the Kreivo parachain and will be time-locked to encourage long-term liquidity provision.
- Community input is sought to refine the incentives plan and ensure its success.
- The goal is to make the pool a key example of interoperability and innovation within the Kusama ecosystem.

Liquidity incentives for KSM<>DOT pool

### Proposal 370 Summary

- **25K KSM** moved to Asset Hub Treasury for advanced proposals.
- **3 KSM** payouts planned:
  1. 1 KSM immediately after enactment.
  2. 1 KSM after block 23105000 (about 14 days).
  3. 1 KSM after block 23255000 (about 24 days).
- Follow-up proposal to void the third payout.
- **2 KSM** already sent to Asset Hub Treasury.
- Proposal template for future multi-stage payouts.

Kusama Asset Hub Treasury - Multi-stage payout proposal

### ParaSpell

ParaSpell is a set of tools designed to simplify the use of XCM (Cross-Consensus Message Format) on the Polkadot and Kusama networks. It includes:

- **XCM SDK**: A core component that unifies XCM experiences across 50 parachains, allowing easy cross-chain calls.
- **XCM API (LightSpell)**: An API that simplifies XCM integration into dApps, reducing server load and costs.
- **XCM Router (SpellRouter)**: A tool for creating XCM calls that exchange assets during cross-chain transfers.

These tools are open-source, free, and designed to make cross-chain interactions easier for developers. ParaSpell has received multiple grants and awards for its contributions to the Polkadot ecosystem.

XCM ROUTER, XCM API & XCM SDK 5 months of maintenance and server cost coverage proposal

### Rust Course Proposal

- **Location**: Faculty of Informatics and Information technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.
- **Duration**: 12 weeks.
- **Structure**: 7 modules, 1 lecture and 1 tutorial per week, each 90 minutes.
- **Goals**: Teach students to write Rust applications, contribute to projects, and understand Rust's purpose.
- **Outcome**: Create a team of experienced Rust developers for the Dotsama ecosystem.
- **Schedule**: Discussion from October 9-15, 2023; Voting from September 16-29, 2023.
- **Details**: Full proposal available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vl8aR70PY5LxCUjE9LgncuEQzwT4xZq4kZ-M1_xll18/edit?usp=sharing).

Proposal: 12 Week Rust course at FIIT STU in Bratislava

### LightSpell XCM API

- **First XCM API** in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- **Won first place** in the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series APAC 2023.
- **Advantages**: Simplifies XCM message construction, reduces call time, and prevents user errors.
- **Tech Stack**: Typescript, Nest.js, ParaSpell XCM-SDK.
- **Free and Open Source**: Available under the MIT license.
- **Live API**: Available at [api.lightspell.xyz](https://api.lightspell.xyz).
- **Team**: Comprised of Dušan Morháč and Michael Absolon, with experience in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Proposal**: Aims to fund server costs and maintenance for the XCM API and SDK.

XCM API & XCM SDK 5 months of maintenance and server cost coverage proposal

- **Polkawatch** provides decentralization analytics for Kusama.
- Recently improved observability using Node-Red and shared updates in a blog post.
- Added support for Parachains, including those using Aura consensus, and shared details in another blog post.
- Found and reported 2 issues in Polkadot/substrate, collaborating with developers to resolve them.
- Implemented community feedback by adding Scaleway as a redundant IPFS endpoint.
- Seeking 9 months of continued operation for Polkawatch.
- Proposal created with a constrained Treasury, deferring new developments and claiming operational costs after 50% delivery.
- Detailed proposal available for review and feedback.

Treasury Proposal: Kusama decentralization analytics, 9 months Continued operation (50% already delivered)

### Better Treasury System Project Proposal

1. **Treasury System Audit**: Analyze current tools, research the market, and gather insights.
2. **User Research**: Explore community needs through interviews and create customer journey maps and personas.
3. **Review Summary**: Organize findings, prioritize issues, and create a public research report.
4. **Design Workshops**: Collaborate with the community to design and test improvements in chosen areas.

**How to Contribute**:
- Review the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ctwm5Tn6WsxJvL9cxhe9f7nxgZPl6TQ6WgaYinATjI0/edit?usp=sharing).
- Share feedback in comments or directly with the project team.

**Purpose**: Improve the user experience of the treasury system by involving the community in the process.

Better treasury system - invitation to review a project

- **Proposal**: Maintenance bounty for ParaSpell XCM SDK & XCM UI to enhance the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Funding**: Previously supported by Kusama treasury, Basilisk Parachain team, and Web3 Foundation.
- **Purpose**: Improve and maintain XCM SDK & XCM UI to simplify dApp development.
- **Repositories**: XCM SDK and other related repositories are hosted on GitHub.
- **Impact**: Unifies diverse XCM pallets, making integration easier and faster for developers.
- **Metrics**: SDK is used by KodaDot, a major Polkadot NFT marketplace.
- **Discussion Period**: Open for 7 days until May 27, 2023, with an invitation for community questions.

Treasury proposal: ParaSpell XCM SDK Maintenance funding for 5months

**KusamaHub Summary**

- **KusamaHub** has released a Beta Version: [beta.kusamahub.com](https://beta.kusamahub.com/)
- The team aims to expand and develop the platform over the next 6 months.
- They plan to provide tools and bots to help projects improve awareness and information availability.
- A full proposal is available: [KusamaHub 2' Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kr9HZk1sG9cFW2eTCNiKJLMbuDA0M2KCPChfo_Hl0iQ/edit?usp=sharing)
- Costs breakdown is detailed here: [Costs Breakdown](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jVC8S_7UrxzQVFmiWkDITrNCKOwazQcqsNRNY8XmXyM/edit?usp=sharing)
- They are making development more transparent with a public Trello account (coming soon).
- Projects needing help can request assistance via a Google form: [Form](https://forms.gle/fXLv4xBmm2dMupBw8)
- Community feedback is encouraged to improve **KusamaHub**.
- Contact details include Twitter, Email, and Telegram.

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