PoP Bounty – March 2026 Transparency Report

After laying strong foundations for the Proof of Personhood (PoP) bounty on Kusama in February, March was our first month officially operating, receiving and evaluating proposals.

1. Operations & Coordination

Battle-tested our decentralized internal tooling in a live operational context
- Additional to the tools described in the previous report, we now have a Kusama multisig to post our monthly reports on SubSquare (as opposed to a centralized bounty login/password to the Polkadot forum)
- Migrated initial internal working documents and meeting notes from notion to our private radicle.xyz repo
Continued outreach to external teams working on matters related to Proof of Personhood
Established a twice-weekly curator meeting cadence
Participated in the monthly Inter-bounty meeting

2. Proposal Review Process

We implemented our current communication flow with proposers and our Proposal Review Process :

Assign a curator as lead of an incoming proposal (rotation basis)
Create a Matrix communication channel with the proposer
Acknowledge receipt of the proposal
First review of the proposal by individual curators, followed by internal discussion
Lead curator summarizes key questions and communicates them to the proposer
If the proposer answers the questions and potentially updates the proposal, a second review is conducted by the curators. If not (silence for 14 days), proceed to step 7.
An internal vote is created on CoReVo — curators vote, commit, then reveal
Decision is communicated to the proposer, along with feedback if rejected or next steps if approved
All proposals (approved or rejected) are published on the PoP Bounty website along with the curator team's reasoning

3. Proposals

Received 4 proposals, all currently under review

4. Bounty Strategy: RFP Model

We are transitioning from only being open to any kind of proposals guided by our participation charter to also communicating our desire to fund specific projects, via an RFP (Request for Proposals). We are currently finalizing our first RFP and will communicate it publicly as soon as it is ready.

Summary

March marked the transition from setup to active operations. With four proposals under review, our internal processes fully running, and our first RFP on the horizon, we are moving into a more focused and structured phase of the bounty.

- The PoP Bounty Team