Kusama System Collator Bounty 2nd Top-up

Dear community,

This proposal requests a top-up for Kusama system parachain collators covering seven months, from July 2026 through January 2027.

The programme remains unchanged from Referendum 643:

30 funded community invulnerable collators across AssetHub, BridgeHub, People, Coretime, and Encointer
3 curators at $250 per curator per month
$425 per month for hosting and local infrastructure
No funding for permissionless collators, staking rewards, tool development, or a separate coordinator fee

The total request is $60,725. Using the EMA7 KSM price of $3.5177 from 1 September 2026, this equals approximately 17,262.70 KSM.

This top-up is needed earlier than expected because the lower KSM price has reduced the runway from Referendum #643. The number of funded collators and the monthly funding model have not increased.

New proposal can be found here: https://gist.github.com/paradox-tt/61d47533f8d652c5ee380047e8ed00ac (we'll update the calculation here, please refer to above for the correct one)

Regards,

System Parachain Collator Bounty Curator Team

Edited

A request for additional funding to support Kusama system parachain collators for seven months, from July 2026 to January 2027.

The program continues to fund 30 community collators across five networks, plus three curators and hosting costs.

The total request is $60,725, which equals about 17,262.70 KSM.

This extra funding is needed because the KSM price is lower, which shortened the previous funding period, but the number of collators and costs have not changed.

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