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small_spender

[Small Spender] Set up the Kusama Vision ZKProofs Multi-Asset Bounty

[Small Spender] Set up the Kusama Vision Art and Social Experiments Multi-Asset Bounty

[Small Spender] Set up the Kusama Vision POP Multi-Asset Bounty

- DeServe is a new global RPC service for Kusama.
- It has 8 locations across 5 continents for fast access.
- It is 87% cheaper than the current main provider.
- It already serves over 36 million requests daily on Polkadot.
- The proposal asks for 3,003 KSM to start the Kusama service.
- Services will include Kusama, Asset Hub, and others.
- Performance and costs will be shared publicly every month.
- It is built by Helikon, a trusted Polkadot team.

Rejected

medium_spender

DeServe.network Global Kusama Archive RPC Deployment - Proposal #1

- Encointer is a special part of Kusama that helps prove people are real online and lets communities create their own money.
- This request is for money to keep Encointer running for 9 months, like paying for computers and websites.
- Before October 2025, just as many people used Encointer as another important part of Kusama called Asset Hub.
- Encointer helps real people in places like Tanzania and Nigeria by making local money and using solar power for computers.
- The money will pay for important things like computers that make blocks, public websites, and tools to see how the system works.
- This does not pay for making new features or growing the community, just keeping it running.
- Encointer has won awards and helped start new businesses in Africa.
- The team has gotten money from Kusama before to keep things going.

[Medium Spender] Encointer System Chain – Infrastructure Operations (Apr–Dec 2026)

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whitelisted_caller

Runtime Upgrade v2.2 For All System Chains

- This is an updated plan to pay people who help run the Kusama network.
- The new plan is simpler and costs less money than the old one.
- It only pays a smaller group of 30 important helpers, not 62.
- Each helper will get $250 a month, which is less than before.
- The plan asks for a total of about 26,796 KSM to cover different months of work.

big_spender

System Parachain Collator - Top up 2026 - Revised.

treasurer

System Parachain Collator Bounty - Top up (2026) - Please vote NAY

- **What is Subscan?**  
  Subscan is a tool that helps people see and use data from the Kusama network, like checking transactions, blocks, and votes.

- **What does this proposal ask for?**  
  Subscan is asking for money to keep working for 6 months (July to December 2025) on five parts of Kusama.

- **How much money?**  
  They want $141,624, which will be paid in KSM coins based on an average price.

- **What will the money be used for?**  
  The money pays for basic maintenance, like keeping the data service running, fixing bugs, and updating the system when Kusama upgrades.

- **Why is it important?**  
  Many people in the Kusama community, like developers, validators, and voters, use Subscan to get important information. Without it, their work would be harder.

- **Will costs go down in the future?**  
  Yes! Subscan is working to make their system cheaper. They plan to lower prices starting in 2026.

- **What about past work?**  
  Subscan has been funded by Kusama before to do similar work, and they have a history of completing their tasks.

[Kusama] Subscan 2025 Q3-Q4 Funding Proposal: Basic service fee for the Kusama Relaychain and Kusama public parachain (AssetHub, Coretime, BridgeHub, People)

- This is about keeping the Kusama Technical Fellowship as its own group.
- A new rule says you can't remove or merge it without a special vote by Kusama token holders.
- This rule is being made because some people want to combine it with the Polkadot Fellowship.
- The community that would be affected should get to decide.
- This does not stop the two groups from working together right now.
- It also doesn't mean the Kusama group needs its own separate money.
- It just says you need a vote before making it go away.

wish_for_change

[WFC] No Fellowship Removal Without Kusama Vote

- X-Crystal is a project on the Kusama network.
- Join by sending an invitation transaction.
- Members can mint XCT tokens.
- Sometimes, you might get a gem NFT called XCG.
- Check the Mint tab on the website for rules.
- Find the code on GitHub.
- Use the given contract addresses for membership, NFT, and token.
- Email for questions or bugs.

X-Crystal is now live

beneficiary

- Bloque lets people use stablecoins easily through a simple code tool.
- You can now watch real-time spending on Kusama Hub for the first time.
- They have processed over $405,000 in payments with more than 4,300 transactions.
- They are working with four fintech companies and have real customers.
- The team is asking for funding to keep growing and make their system stronger.
- They want to add support for local currencies like COP and MXN.
- Their goal is to help more companies use stablecoins for payments.

Support Bloque, the ONLY revenue generating project in Kusama:  72K USD in 6 installments, scale 5x.

Runtime Upgrade 2.1.0

- Encointer is asking for funding to continue its work for the second half of 2025.
- They want 73,811 Swiss Francs (about 93,821 US Dollars).
- They created a stablecoin system that lets communities swap it for USDC.
- They made a documentary and got featured in an article about their work in Africa.
- Their app now has a "Bazaar" feature to help local businesses advertise.
- Their communities in Tanzania and Nigeria are still active despite real-world problems.
- They earned about 13,000 Swiss Francs from sources other than their treasury.

Encointer Retroactive Treasury Proposal for July-Dec 2025

Runtime Upgrade to version 2.0.7

- Bloque is a tool that lets apps use stablecoins easily with just a little bit of code.
- You can now watch real money move through the Kusama network live on their website.
- They have processed over $307,000 in payments from customers since November 2025.
- They are working with four companies and want to add support for local currencies like Colombian Pesos.
- The team is asking for $90,000 to keep their team working and make their system stronger for six months.
- Their goals include making a profit, handling more payments, launching a new debit card, and keeping their system running reliably.
- The founder is working very hard and needs more help to continue growing.

Stage 3: Support the ONLY project generating revenue in Kusama. Expand, strengthen, and scale Card infrastructure for Kusama.

Runtime Upgrade 2.0.6

- We found out the old bounties system can't work with our new plan.
- So we're making a new system for bounties instead.
- The old bounties numbers 35, 36, and 37 won't be used.
- We'll make new bounties when the new system is ready.
- The people in charge of the bounties will stay the same.
- This is just a tech update, not a change in who's involved.

Please Vote Nay

- Kusama Shield is a special tool that keeps your money private on the Kusama network.
- It's like a secret pool where you can swap over 40 different types of digital money.
- You can swap one type of money for another with very small fees.
- It uses advanced math called Zero Knowledge to keep everything safe and private.
- The team wants to make it even better and easier for other developers to use.
- They are asking for funding to work on it for about 7 months.
- You can see their work and code online.

Kusamas Shield v2, Bounty 32 top up

- This is a plan to keep important parts of Kusama running smoothly for six more months.
- It pays for computers called "collators" that help run five key networks: AssetHub, BridgeHub, CoreTime, People, and Encointer.
- The collators get paid based on how much work they do, like how many blocks they create.
- The plan also pays for a little bit of staking rewards and the costs to run the computers.
- A new tool is being built to make checking the work easier and more reliable.
- The total cost for six months is about 17,456 KSM.
- That is equal to about $129,152 USD.

System Collator Bounty Topup - 6 mths

- Bloque makes it easy for apps to use stablecoins.
- It's like a toolkit for money that works with Kusama.
- They want to add support for local money like pesos and reals.
- They are already helping real companies with payments.
- You can see live data of people spending money through their system.
- They are asking for $90,000 to keep their team working for 6 months.
- They have already started sharing some money back to the Kusama treasury.
- The founder is working very hard and needs more help to keep going.

Stage 3: Expand, strengthen, and scale Card infrastructure for Kusama.

- **What's Changing:** The parachain host's lookahead value is increasing from 3 to 5.
- **Why:** This change will make parachain block production more reliable and improve block times.
- **More Info:** You can read the full details in the linked ticket comment.
- **When:** The change is scheduled to take effect at block #31993343, estimated for January 26, 2026, at 09:45:27 UTC.

[Whitelisted Caller] Change config schedulerParams.lookahead to 5

- Kusama is changing how it handles tokens to respond to network activity.
- Instead of setting a fixed limit, it will burn (permanently remove) some tokens.
- The base creation of new tokens is being reduced from 7.82% to 5%.
- Half of all transaction fees will be burned.
- Small percentages of Treasury funds will also be burned regularly.
- These burns aim to lower overall new token creation to about 4.25%, a big decrease.
- This plan works alongside another to reduce network costs.
- The goal is to make Kusama's token economics healthier and more responsive.

 Sustainable KSM Economics via Burn Mechanisms (v1.2)

- Adam is a cybersecurity expert who helps keep the Polkadot and Kusama networks safe.
- He runs two validators, which are like special computers that help the network run smoothly.
- Adam wants to be a registrar on Kusama, which means he would help verify people's identities on the blockchain.
- He built a special website (dotid.app) that makes it easy for people to get their identity verified automatically.
- You can also talk to Adam directly for help if you don't want to use the website.
- He offers his help for free and is known for responding quickly to questions.
- Adam is already helping as a temporary registrar and wants to continue supporting the community.

general_admin

ECH0.RE Registrar Application

- Kusama's token supply and inflation are too high, hurting its price and popularity.
- A past update that lowered rewards briefly helped the price go up.
- The proposal suggests making Kusama more like Bitcoin to fix this.
- It wants to cut new token creation in half every four years starting in 2026.
- It plans to limit the total number of Kusama tokens to 21 million.
- It also aims to remove the minimum fee for validators.
- These new rules would be permanently written into the system's code.

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