[Small Spender] Tip for Dark Prague Oct 3-5 2025

Hi dear Kusama community,

This my late tip request from the Dark Prague event:
https://darkprague.com/

Context:
Kusama was a General Sponsor, presence paid by the W3F.
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Bill was supposed to come for the ecosystem talk, but had to be replaced in last minute by Mideg Dugarova
(technical educator at Web3 Foundation).
I was asked to come a week before the event starts, to fill in the Kusama Space (that you can see in my tweets) with community members, it was a late minute request.

Community members present at Dark Prague (sorry i probably forgot a couple):

Florentina (ValidAndina)
Jeeper (OpenGov Watch)
Daniel (Polkadot Czechia)
Daniel Olana (Kusama DV light)
Paulkadotter (Permanence DAO)
Kukabi (Helikon Labs, Permanence DAO)

Let's be 100% honest, the event couldn't be told as a success for Kusama, we had a bit of brand exposition for sure, but we were lacking "material to sell" to people.
We didn't have any news about the announced bounties at Web3summit, so hard to push builders to come & build on Kusama. The narrative to push was a bit light without real announcements from W3F.

Privacy is making a comeback recently in the web3 narrative and in the mainstream discussions (Chat Control, UK digital ids), so I think the ecosystem should definitely be present at these cypherpunk events, with better guidelines.
The thing is we need products to showcase.
Ex: Zashi wallet was here showcasing ZEC privacy product right in the middle of ZEC revival and price pump.

List of event tweets:

I'm requesting to cover:

Airbnb : 365,90€ (3 nights)
Volotea: 112,03€

Total = 477,93€ = 554.30792 US Dollar
(02/11 rate: 1 EUR = 1.15981 USD)
KSM Total = 55 KSM
(EMA 7d = 10$ roughly)

I'm NOT requesting to cover:

Food
UBER+Bolt taxis
Time spent at the event, it's pure volunteering even if i had to take 2 days-off from my "TradFi job" (I'm an IT consultant before being Bifrost Community Lead).

Cheers,
Thomas - Bifrost Community Lead / former Kusama DV / Le Nexus member

NB: i'll recuse from voting with Le Lexus DV.

Edited

Kusama was a sponsor at the Dark Prague event.
A community member was asked to help fill the Kusama space at the last minute.
Some Kusama community members attended, but the event was not very successful for Kusama.
There were no new updates or products to show people, which made it hard to attract builders.
Privacy is becoming important in web3, and Kusama should be at these events with better materials.
The request is for 55 KSM to cover travel and stay costs.
The person is not asking for food, taxis, or payment for their time.

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