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medium_spender

This 6-month proposal is to renew funding for the NFT Content Creators initially funded by Bounty 12.

Supporting young creators is crucial to educating early adopters of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Decentralization is equally critical, and this effort by each Director to independently build a plan of action best suited to their units will help take content creation to the next level.

This proposal does not only aim to continue funding NFT content creation, however.

It seeks to build the prototype of an NFT system of accountability and reputation. This prototype will lead to higher quality content and lower expenditure long term, as well as provide indicators of trustworthiness to content consumers.

Please consider the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jGJzzQYUcHmSLUYnwrxsY_5uwB7Tgi6CvomSOZseV5s/edit?usp=sharing). 

Prior discussion can be found [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2101)


Pnin

Confirming

6 Month Funding for NFT Content Creation Guild

Dear community,

Based on the recent experience with the increasing number of treasury proposals, I am presenting the following proposal aiming to improve the Governance 2.0 experience through a series of referenda proposal audits.

[The original discussion.](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2138)

**Governance 2.0 Referenda Audits**

**1. Problem**

Since the launch of Governance 2.0 on Kusama I spent many hours reading, reviewing, and trying to understand many treasury discussions and proposals. I try my best to understand every proposal before forming an opinion and voting. For the majority of the proposals, I try to provide feedback to the proposer explaining the reasons for either supporting or rejecting the proposal. So far I feel like proposals are sort of a wild game at the moment.

Most proposals are not very well structured, lack information, and include budgets that seem very hard to defend. Proposals can also be very diverse with a focus on different areas that not everyone can be familiar with. For all these reasons it is significantly time-consuming for voters to truly understand the proposal and cast an educated vote on it.

With the given time constraints, it is not surprising that proposals are receiving very little or no feedback at all. The feedback is often provided in a free form and is not always clear and precise. Such insufficient information has little use for other voters. It provides low assurance to other community members that the reviewer has objectively formed an objective opinion on the presented proposals.

**2. Available solutions**

The official Polkadot treasury page, Kusama and Polkadot Wiki provide a good source of information and documentation. Most of this information and guidelines explain the “old” Governance 1.0 system or in other words, it relates to the very specific set of proposal reviewers – Councilors. With the Governance 2.0 introduction, the set of reviewers dramatically increased from a limited set of councilors to a much wider Dotsama community. For this reason, all the documentation needs to be adjusted so it can be better presented to the wider audience where not everyone needs to be an expert in the field to have a good understanding of the proposal content.

**3. Proposal Solution**

This proposal aims to create a clear and precise framework for creating and presenting the proposals. This framework is not meant to be a strict requirement but more as a set of guidelines for the proposers to successfully present their project and increase their chance to defend the proposal and win community approval.

As the counterpart to the proposal framework, the equally important audit framework will be created as guidance for the reviewers. This audit aims to provide more precise feedback to the proposer and give a sufficient and educated review that can be later used by other voters to form their opinion on the proposal.

In a young system like this, creating these guidelines is simply not enough. To create a better treasury proposal system, a great level of engagement is required. For this reason, I propose a temporary Project manager/auditor role for a period of 3 months. The main task of the PM is to actively follow the governance tracks, objectively check and audit the proposal content according to the proposal guidelines and produce and publish the audit according to the created framework. The task of the PM is to be available to the community and gather feedback and accordingly adjust the framework.

**4. Key deliverables:**

Proposal template – a document with predefined categories and as many pre-filled and guided data (examples) as possible.

Feedback template – directly related to the proposal template. Possible checklist for each category with additional room for the feedback

Produce a minimum of 30 one-page audits with included feedback on active treasury proposals or proposal discussions

**5. Key objectives/ Success criteria**

Reduce the time required to write a detailed and comprehensive proposal – measured by the proposal owner's feedback

Higher community involvement in the governance – measured by the number of members involved in discussions, number of provided feedback, and number of interactions with one-page reviews

All these points are taken from the full proposal document.

[Full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Ze8Z_f9Pa3kjALGnhu-58DNdajFQ74ONbuDeWcaFoU/edit#heading=h.5x0d5h95i329)






Governance 2.0 Referenda Audits

Team [Polkascan](https://polkascan.org/) has had conversations with the people from [Subsquid](https://subsquid.io/) in which we agreed that their blockchain data archivers and public API's (Squids) are a good fit for our [Polkascan Explorer](https://github.com/polkascan/explorer). We would like to combine their efforts with ours and expand our data library and explorer with the public Subsquid services. After doing research, we've created a new proposal to make this possible.

You can find all details in our [proposal document](https://github.com/polkascan/social-contract/blob/master/kusama/referendum-83-treasury-subsquid-integration-polkadapt-abstraction.md).

Deciding

Subsquid integration with Polkascan block explorer

##### Hello everyone!

This proposal aims to continue the work of the Poltuguese Content Guild, (previously called Portuguese Unit), which has been funded to date by Bounty 12.

We will continue the work we have done so far. From this proposal, the focus of the Poltuguese Content Guild will be on producing original content, something that gives more value to the content producer, creates authority and brand recognition.

Here is the full proposal, it is in two languages, [Portuguese](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RTV8KsLIDzs7qWXTf4Iyqr7wvtffMrJo1fH99ck8fU0/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1) and[ English](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CgYvcCT4WdhYPYMHB5qehDY4j9gTDIw94qqN9mtqwA8/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1).

[Here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2125) is the discussion about this proposal.

I made some changes to the original proposal, as suggested by some feedbacks received. I lowered the funding proposal from 6 months to 4 and added spreadsheets with all the content produced by the team, along with the rewards for content.
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##### Olá a todos!

Esta proposta visa dar continuidade ao trabalho da Guilda de Conteúdo Poltuguês, (anteriormente chamada de Unidade Portuguesa), que foi financiada até o momento pelo Bounty 12.

Iremos dar continuidade ao trabalho que fizemos até hoje. A partir desta proposta, o foco da Guilda Poltuguês será a produção de conteúdo original, algo que dá mais valor ao produtor de conteúdo, cria autoridade e reconhecimento de sua marca.

Aqui está a proposta completa, ela se encontra em dois idiomas, [Português](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RTV8KsLIDzs7qWXTf4Iyqr7wvtffMrJo1fH99ck8fU0/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1) e [Inglês](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CgYvcCT4WdhYPYMHB5qehDY4j9gTDIw94qqN9mtqwA8/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1).

[Aqui](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2125) esta a discussão sobre esta proposta.

Fiz algumas alterações na proposta original, conforme sugerido por alguns feedbacks recebidos.
Baixei a proposta de financiamento de 6 meses para 4 e adicionei tabelas com todo o conteúdo produzido pela equipe, juntamente com as recompensas pelos conteúdos.



4 Months Funding for Poltuguese Content Guild

Governance V2 went live for Kusama on 22nd Nov (22/11/22). Polkassembly successfully launched the governance v2 [dashboard](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/gov-2) on the same date allowing the community to start participating in the new truly decentralized governance.

As of 18th January, 72 referendums have been created across various tracks. We recently witnessed the power of OpenGov when two governance bodies voted in a simultaneous and coordinated way to approve an on-chain proposal and help improve the overall network.

The proposal is intended to fund the expenses made while development of OpenGov.
The milestones & respective costs include all the necessary product, research, development, design and management work to reach the defined goals. Read the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vWOiKBG_lARiy0EXDATxvt0htJ_N_LmtOnzirutAvns/edit?usp=sharing).
We are excited to see how OpenGov improves on-chain governance for the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem while inspiring other blockchains to learn and adapt to such governance models.

Proposer: Polkassembly

Proponent: F1wAMxpzvjWCpsnbUMamgKfqFM7LRvNdkcQ44STkeVbemEZ

Cost: $92,210 - 3238 KSM.

Full Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vWOiKBG_lARiy0EXDATxvt0htJ_N_LmtOnzirutAvns/edit?usp=sharing
Discussion Post: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2150
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Treasury Proposal for Polkassembly Opengov Development

Hello everyone in DotSama community, happy new year! 

This is DrCAO, I am Ex. community manager at Parallel Finance and Para Space, and also director of Chinese community in WagMedia under Bounty 12. I'm a long-term supporter of DotSama, and I'm also active in supporting many other parachains in Dotsama project. This is my first proposal in Web3 in my whole life, and I am full of excitement and nervousness.

My first proposal to build AIWeb3 Chinese community unit. The mission of the AiWeb3 Chinese community is to continue building the community to support the Chinese content creators to focus on content creation in Dotsama, build connections for different parachain projects, and provide the latest information in Dotsama. The Chinese content creators can focus on researching and generating high-quality content, including dubbing, translating and also original content in Dotsama. In addition, we will put more resources into supporting the early-stage content creators so that they can build up the audience and brand.

I have modified the original proposal based on the feedback from the community, and you can see the community discussion of the proposal here: [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2095](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2095). 

**The discussion posted on Jan. 2 received very positive feedback with 13 likes and 0 unlikes, we really appreciate your support on this proposal!  I would love to get feedback from the community so that I can come up with the best proposal, and I'd be happy to answer any questions and tweak the proposal as needed!**

DotSama社区的各位，祝大家新年好！

我是DrCao—— 我之前在 Parallel Finance 和 Para Space 担任社区经理，同时也是WagMedia里Bounty 12的中文社区负责人，我是DotSama的长期支持者，并且也很活跃的支持 Dotsama 中的许多其他平行链项目。这是我第一次在Web3中发起提案，有一些激动和紧张。

这是我的第一个提案，建立一个“爱Web3中文社区”，爱Web3中文社区的使命是继续建设Dotsama社区，支持中文内容创作者专注于 Dotsama 的内容创作，为不同的平行链项目建立联系，并提供 Dotsama 的最新信息。中国内容创作者可以专注于研究和生产高质量的内容，包括在 Dotsama 中的配音、翻译和原创内容。此外，我们将投入更多资源支持早期的内容创作者，让他们建立受众和品牌。

根据社区的反馈，我已经改进了原先的提案，你们可以到这查看社区的讨论和反馈: [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2095](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2095)

这个提案的讨论在1月2号发布，收到了很正面的回馈，有13个likes，0个unlike，非常感谢大家对这个提案的支持！

Executed

AIWeb3 Chinese Unit proposal (爱Web3 中文社区提案)

**Proponent**: Subsquid Lab Official - FAyqRVLZmXVUU9pNeG8w8SxS5xRgN8FRGeWLL6u9S32TMHc

**Short description**: Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable data indexing infrastructure for most of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem (and growing).

**Raw data**: [Archive Infrastructure metrics - July, August, September](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQBQPYlsB-2JLecP-0OXxfFEzlbPZsGGaFR5aCFLB1-KA7g6TqUnmHNM34dHl_yj9Xf9VWhw_gfUN58/pubhtml)

**Requested KSM**: 1,447.28 KSM*
*added 33.33 KSM due to bond associated with our proposal in governance 1.0. This proposal supersedes the proposal made with governance 1.0 = https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/246 . Further we added another 6.66 KSM due to an issue with u128 conversion for the requested amount in Polkadot JS. 

**Previous proposal**:

https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/171

https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/134

# Motivation
Archives are an important piece of Polkadot and Kusama data infrastructure provided by Subsquid. They provide access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot, with more chains getting support as the ecosystem grows. They are being used as a data source for Squids and for efficient data exploration and ad-hoc queries. An up-to-date list of Archives is kept in a public Archive Registry
# Achievements
At the end of Q2 Subsquid released a new generation of Archives, together with a major version of the SDK, both code named “Fire Squid”.
The improvements brought by this release include:
- Substantial performance increase, with the ability to deploy a new Archive for a chain as big as Kusama, and the indexing to be ready in roughly a day
- Fire Squid Archives support batch requests, which lead to a hundredfold increase in performance of indexing project connecting to them (squids)
- Fire Squid Archives expose two separate gateways, configured and tuned for different uses (one for data exploration by humans, the other one specifically for programmatic and batch access)
- Fire Squid Archives “unwrap” proxy, sudo and batch calls, tracing the origin, but making them much easier to access them
Subsquid has also engaged in continuously improving the product, iteratively working on adding features, such as EVM Transactions indexing, and subscriptions to queries in the Graphql endpoints of indexing projects created with the Subsquid SDK (commonly called squids).
# Statistics
Between 2022-09-03 (when tracking has started) and 2022-09-30 Subsquid’s Archive infrastructure has collectively:
- Served a total of 129,468,038.2 (~129 million) queries in the month of September alone
- Our 7 day average peaks above 5 million queries and adjusts around 3.3 million queries per day at the end of the period
Data from the month of October confirms the linear trend, allowing us to make assumptions for the months of July and August, given the steady growth of queries over time shown.

Full report [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQji6zUckBRq3Q8H0xOSLjmFDUkKHckt9SiSIIMdCw_Ck_qpiAhFltGxnNavCmFJcebiBznKO_dleis/pub)

Subsquid - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q3 2022)

Please reject this proposal, the amount requested is not correct. 

Please vote on this one instead:

**[https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/66](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/66)**

Rejected

AIWeb3 Chinese Unit proposal (爱Web3 中文社区提案)  -   PLEASE REJECT THIS, the amount of KSM is not correct!

**DO NOT vote for this, polkadot js converted to the wrong amount of KSM**

**Proponent**: Subsquid Lab Official - FAyqRVLZmXVUU9pNeG8w8SxS5xRgN8FRGeWLL6u9S32TMHc

**Short description**: Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable data indexing infrastructure for most of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem (and growing).

**Raw data**: [Archive Infrastructure metrics - July, August, September](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQBQPYlsB-2JLecP-0OXxfFEzlbPZsGGaFR5aCFLB1-KA7g6TqUnmHNM34dHl_yj9Xf9VWhw_gfUN58/pubhtml)

**Requested KSM**: 1,440.62 KSM*
*added 33.33 KSM due to bond associated with our proposal in governance 1.0. This proposal supersedes the proposal made with governance 1.0 = https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/246

**Previous proposal**:

https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/171

https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/134

# Motivation
Archives are an important piece of Polkadot and Kusama data infrastructure provided by Subsquid. They provide access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot, with more chains getting support as the ecosystem grows. They are being used as a data source for Squids and for efficient data exploration and ad-hoc queries. An up-to-date list of Archives is kept in a public Archive Registry
# Achievements
At the end of Q2 Subsquid released a new generation of Archives, together with a major version of the SDK, both code named “Fire Squid”.
The improvements brought by this release include:
- Substantial performance increase, with the ability to deploy a new Archive for a chain as big as Kusama, and the indexing to be ready in roughly a day
- Fire Squid Archives support batch requests, which lead to a hundredfold increase in performance of indexing project connecting to them (squids)
- Fire Squid Archives expose two separate gateways, configured and tuned for different uses (one for data exploration by humans, the other one specifically for programmatic and batch access)
- Fire Squid Archives “unwrap” proxy, sudo and batch calls, tracing the origin, but making them much easier to access them
Subsquid has also engaged in continuously improving the product, iteratively working on adding features, such as EVM Transactions indexing, and subscriptions to queries in the Graphql endpoints of indexing projects created with the Subsquid SDK (commonly called squids).
# Statistics
Between 2022-09-03 (when tracking has started) and 2022-09-30 Subsquid’s Archive infrastructure has collectively:
- Served a total of 129,468,038.2 (~129 million) queries in the month of September alone
- Our 7 day average peaks above 5 million queries and adjusts around 3.3 million queries per day at the end of the period
Data from the month of October confirms the linear trend, allowing us to make assumptions for the months of July and August, given the steady growth of queries over time shown.

Full report [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQji6zUckBRq3Q8H0xOSLjmFDUkKHckt9SiSIIMdCw_Ck_qpiAhFltGxnNavCmFJcebiBznKO_dleis/pub)

Subsquid - Public data indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q3 2022) - DO NOT vote for this, polkadot js converted to the wrong amount of KSM

Polkadot Insider is a media site that emphasizes on researching, creating insightful, educational contents of the Dotsama ecosystem, bringing HOTTEST news in the FASTEST ways, and the most important is to support projects built on Dotsama ecosystem to engage the community easier by creating marketing campaigns on Polkadot Insider.

Started from June, 2022, Polkadot Insider was created, and gained attention from Polkadot community on Twitter through our professionalized-simple content format, because we know the fact that, Twitter is the platform that people love to surf reading about cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, and a friendly content interface would easily catching their attention. The results is absolutely worth - until now December 2022, Polkadot Insider’s traffic is more than 1 million impressions per month. You can check out the [performance report](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IDgIenmOBgLvcpDq_hhKp5jePqNrT6o7?usp=share_link) of the Polkadot Insider’s page.

The following proposal seeks funding for the production and development of Polkadot Insider in the next 4 months (from February 2023 to May 2023). This proposal is generated to officialize our contribution to the Dotsama ecosystem due to the last 6 months we seek a small amount of funding from separate projects to contribute directly to them.

The objective of this proposal is to create a valuable media site for Dotsama that brings insightful content, fast news, and support promoting projects from different segments. Also, we intend to expand our work to the Youtube platform where we create an instructional library for users who love Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem!!
Moreover, you can check again the [last discussion](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2083) to have a better comparison. (I didn't clear the process so that I make new discussion)
To compare with the previous discussion, checking feedback from Raul, Kryptochain, Anaelle, and Polkadotter, there are some points I have updated:
- Detailed 6 months' performance of our Twitter community in a very details report.
- Detailed marketing strategy in the "Outreach part" of the full proposal.
- In the last discussion, I called 148K for 6 months for maintaining our Twitter page, 60 How-to videos, 12 interview videos. In this new proposal, I adjusted down the cost to $61390 for 4 months for our Twitter page, 30 How-to videos, and 8 interview videos and manage a Crew3 community to get more potential users and enthusiasts on board (it would down 37,8% if we count on one month).
- Audience target update: I updated our main target audience would be firstly in South Asia (when in my proposal mentioned about it more details).
- Detailed Video plan that I would complete time by time.
- Detailed budget distribution for each part.
- Our official collaboration form for projects that have a campaign can contact us (we intend to diversify marketing campaigns for all projects have related to Dotsama with the same amount of content in terms of "special campaigns". 
- We'd expand time to deep-dive more amazing utilities to create content with this proposal as we mentioned in the documents, and Polkadot Insider daily would go higher than we did in the last period of time when we didn't have enough budget to invest enough time for it, still we got good results.
- Lastly, we will start in February because we put it on chain in January.


Some important documents: 
1. [Full proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZxVkqFmYMCbojl9ZLR9TC61DV4O9SDZhXlfIhz0PMu8/edit?usp=sharing)
2. Full Treasury Proposal Spending [folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g2SRskVS-SirMFAj9wvZ2p75aa2TaGv7?usp=share_link) of Polkadot Insider
3. [Public Report](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jW2nFwOFAi2QbTlaJnSP5WNzSb0a1kGm?usp=share_link) for the community to check our work (we'll update the report weekly for anyone who is interested in checking it, but the full report will release after the period of the funding request.
4. Video Youtube [plan](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18lAiD1oTsJ1StuAE9ko9JdeHeN_QrzNkvi2L6h6ehgY/edit?usp=share_link)

Finally, thanks for all the support and recommendation from all the wonderful people who commended the last discussion, especially those who support me to adjust this proposal in detail.

We will launch our full report from metric performance,  the community feedback and further strategy for the next phrase in the beginning of June. 

You can check the discussion [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2102)!

Polkadot Insider - Production of Dotsama ecosystem contents [NEW PROPOSAL]

Hello everyone!

Bounty 12 has evolved over the past few years into an impressive content generation machine that supports early-stage creators on their journey to becoming confident and independent stewards of the story of Polkadot and Kusama by incentivizing them with KSM rewards and sub-bounties. Now we're taking the next step forward. In an effort to decentralize even more, Directors of specific units will now completely and independently head their units while utilizing WagMedia's tools to further the growth of the creators incubating under their tutelage.

This proposal aims to continue the funding of the Paraverse Content Creators (previously General Unit in WagMedia) which supports creators who report on and create original content to help promote Polkadot and Kusama, especially content focused on parachains, the relay chains that secure them, governance, and general principles collectively held by the community. For greater than a year, creators within this group have generated content on the relay chains and nearly every parachain in the ecosystem. This content has been produced in many different formats including interviews with founders, long-form articles, Twitter threads, YouTube and TikTok videos, and more.

The tools and methods we use to evaluate and reward content have improved as well and you can [learn all about the proposal here.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hhu6K0sMqlsND2rxCNmHj55zdc6ATRKm3KxOJbSmpPs/edit?usp=sharing)

You can see the community discussion of the proposal over the past week [with response to comments here.](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2089)

We appreciate your support and look forward to spreading the story of Polkadot and Kusama even further! 

6 Month Funding of the Paraverse Content Creators

Dear Community,

We finally have a [governance dashboard](https://www.kusamagovernance.com/) (currently only includes gov1 data)!

While the [Proof of Chaos](https://www.proofofchaos.app/) project aims to incentivise governance participation, until now there was no way to actually measure the impact of these efforts. We decided to build this dashboard since no alternatives were available and received treasury funding for the undertaking.

*To align interests with a successful outcome and ensure delivery we only asked for approximately **half** (10500 Euros) of the funding up-front ([the original proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gj4HMhI4syYFu5tGwR86m_Vqs7HzxneEH4qGETaSaEA/edit?usp=sharing)). These funds have already been **received** by us through [Proposal 145](https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/proposals/145). After receiving positive feedback on the related [discussion post](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2091), we are now creating this proposal for the **remaining funding** (9200 Euros).*

*9200 Euros = 9824 USD*

*Using the EMA7: 24.65 USD/KSM*

*9824 / 24.65 = 398.5 KSM*

#### The dashboard is split into 3 parts

**Main dashboard**

Presents the most important statistics to show insightful trends.
<a href="https://ibb.co/vB1cvPT"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/3s1TYNj/Screenshot-2023-01-01-at-14-22-44.png" alt="Screenshot-2023-01-01-at-14-22-44" border="0"></a>

**Single referendum view**

Displays all relevant information for a specific referendum.
<a href="https://ibb.co/ZgCqT88"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/qgwT1ss/Screenshot-2023-01-01-at-14-51-54.png" alt="Screenshot-2023-01-01-at-14-51-54" border="0"></a>

**Single account view**

Provides insights into the voting behaviour of a specific wallet.
<a href="https://ibb.co/Wy8Gk1h"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/VSnJg81/Screenshot-2023-01-01-at-14-54-36.png" alt="Screenshot-2023-01-01-at-14-54-36" border="0"></a>

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We initially projected delivery to be in July 2022 and sincerely apologise for the **delay**. While work commenced immediately, we were not fully satisfied with previous iterations. Note that this project was largely executed by data analyst Claudia Yuan as to allow the existing devs for the Proof of Chaos project to keep focused on our other efforts.

### Explanation of the design choices:

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For the dashboard we built a custom [SubSquid indexer](https://github.com/Proof-Of-Chaos/indexer) that indexes all relevant governance data in real-time. You can query the data [here](https://squid.subsquid.io/referenda-dashboard/v/0/graphql).

**Drawbacks**:

1. Subsquid indexers are currently still running on **centralized** servers.
2. The indexer needs to be updated each time there is a **runtime upgrade** with **breaking changes** to the existing logic. 

##### *Centralisation*

Currently all Subsquid indexers are running on the company's servers. While Subquery may have a more decentralized product, we still went with Subsquid due to the ease and speed of development with their solution. The support received from the Subsquid team as well as their commitment to the Polkadot Ecosystem also played a significant role in our decision. Note that Subsquid is working towards decentralisation.

##### *Breaking changes through Runtime upgrades*

This should be less of an issue as the Kusama network becomes more stable and runtime upgrades become "less invasive".



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For the [frontend](https://github.com/Proof-Of-Chaos/dashboard) we went with a Python Framework called Dash. While this helped us to build quicker, it limited us in flexibility. This route was chosen due to Claudia's familiarity with Python.

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### Continuation of the project...

We are of course interested in extending the dashboard to also include **OpenGov** (Gov2) data. This would be required to measure the effect of our incentivisation efforts going forward. It would involve updating the indexer to incorporate all OpenGov events + extrinsics as well as adapting the front-end to the new type of data (charts/filtering by tracks etc.).

Feel free to also throw any **feature requests** you may have in the comments of the [discussion post](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2091). Thank you very much.

Kusama Governance Dashboard

Hello, I'm Claudio and you probably recognise me from the KryptosChain Youtube channel. 
Some of you already know that I've also started a Youtube channel to also help educate the Romanian community on the Polkadot ecosystem.
The channel can be found here with the name [Polkadot Romania](https://www.youtube.com/@polkadotromania)

I started this channel at the end of June 2022 and you can find all the details in the proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/121qMKEzJyioIyWvtDw7aYGuZsW9mfNBXc3Crd6Wf2b0)

The idea is to continue funding it for continuation so that the education can continue for Romanians in their native language.

The asking amount is **1,359.67 KSM** for **83** educational videos & at least **2 Twitter Spaces** per month to help drive more engagement through from other Romanian Crypto communities, which is worth approximately **$33,380** at the current market rate.

As always, if you have any questions or doubts, please feel free to ask in the comment section below. 

Happy New Year 2023 everyone & let's help the Polkadot ecosystem grow, together !

Regards,

Claudio

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**Update !**

This referendum is currently winning and there are 8 days and 13 hours left from the time of writing this before a decision is made. Should this pass, the proposal from this [discussion](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2093) will no longer happen until a later time when funding for both channels will be requested and re-calculated based on the KSM price at the time and the dates would be modified. 

However, that being said, should 46 pass, I will continue to also deliver Polkadot content to my English channel so as to maintain the community up to date, but the quality will not be the same as if funding would be allocated to it due to the inability to pay a video editor and having to do the work myself.
Should referendum 46 not pass, I will then go ahead and launch the proposal from the [discussion](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2093) as a referendum on chain. I hope this is understandable. Thanks as always for your time !

[Medium Spender] - Funding for Video Content for Polkadot Romania

## 1kv insights - website and analysis

Validators are the core of NPOS networks like Polkadot and Kusama. In order to avoid concentrated risk with few validators, it is important that the set of validators is sufficiently diverse and decentralized. The Thousands Validators Programme (1kv programme) encourages decentralization of the validators by giving a platform to individuals that want to start running a validator. 

- This proposal will **build dashboards with the historical performance and statistics of the 1kv validators**. This unique and detailed insight is important for independent nominators and staking pool operators that are deciding to stake with a 1kv validator.

- With all the data collected, the proposal intends **to answer fundamental questions about the 1kv programme**; for example, is the network more decentralized, does it fulfil its promise for long-term participants to become independent, ... Optimizing the 1kv programme will benefit the whole network.

- Lastly, we intend to **document the inner workings of the 1kv scoring mechanism**. This will allow operators to better align themselves towards the priorities that 1kv wants to incentivize.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MathCryptoDoc/dotsama-snippets/main/1kv-insight-proposal/alpha-site.png)

Since the last month, we have made available an [alpha version of the proposed 1kv insight page](https://insights.math-crypto.com/). It is functional but with only a few metrics. It has 20 to 30 unique visitors *daily*.

For more details including costs, see our full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mv0GbmkmtOz132C3C1byOK4PVjXxlB4MUak0YYQAaWs).

The proposal has been up for discussion [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1953) since 10 Nov 2022. Community feedback was incorporated.

Requested funding: USD 39'923 or KSM 1'533 based on EMA7 at the time of submission.

[Medium Spender] 1kv insights - website and analysis

A while back I started preparing a proposal for writing 3 articles within the broader topic of privacy preserving legal transformation in Polkadot. You can find the previous proposal [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1505). I had sought feedback via the Kusama Direction channel back then and the topic of Power of Attorney (PoA) was a clear favorite. Therefore, I have now decided to pursue that topic specifically.

To reinforce that, I got feedback from the community members that as a first step to win the community's trust and prove added value, it might be better to focus on a smaller funding amount and as such limit the proposal to just one article. That's exactly my plan now.

Finally, I've been told that by limiting the scope of research to the Swiss law only, the impact for the community might be reduced. As such, I've decided to expand the scope and focus on building a general legal framework to regulate on-chain PoA. The authorities (especially in Europe) will face the same types of challenges when dealing with digitising the legal system and I aim to provide a framework and guidelines for addressing these issues from first principles (both legal and technological). In order to ground my research in a practical environment and not just theoretical constructs, I will use the Swiss juridical system to provide examples where appropriate.

You can find the full proposal on [my GitHub](https://github.com/legal-julia/power-of-attorney-on-polkadot). Below is the summary of the topic and as always, feedback is very welcome:

**On-chain Power of Attorney: challenges and promises for a legal system.**
- How is PoA currently enforced in EU & Switzerland, who benefits from it and who can abuse it?
- Private key ?= full access revisited: a need for additional, trusted verification (or else take all my money).
- A partially government-controlled blockchain - pros and cons. Could a parachain be the solution?
- Encrypted 'allow-revoke' mechanism, revealable only to selected parties, by the means of substrate chain and a user-friendly app.

The resulting research article will be submitted to an open-access journal.

On-chain Power of Attorney: case study in the Polkadot ecosystem from a legal perspective.

Originally posted [here](https://kusama.subsquare.io/treasury/proposal/231).

Hello Kusama community,

This proposal is for a retroactive grant of my two open source, free tools. One for selecting the best validators and another for gathering staking income in a spreadsheet. You can try the validator selector [here](https://james-sangalli.github.io/dot-validator-selector/) and the staking income spreadsheet generator [here](https://james-sangalli.github.io/dot-staking-income-web/).

I originally set out to create these tools because I was struggling with staking. Selecting the best validators and tracking your staking income were unsolved issues at the time and they are still causing confusion for many. Therefore, I decided to solve my own problems and the problems of others by creating simple, easy to use tools that would get the job done. 

You can read the full proposal [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YT2qssdH12AtWFRloRnBanK6H1sGuE6EaX782d4qK40/edit?usp=sharing).

Thank you for taking the time to consider this proposal!

Polkadot/Kusama staking tools proposal

This on-chain proposal is for Project Gweihir. [**All details of the project can be found here**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zcD9WJbxp5wqw3rTYHmJHjGBSqytFmnBUeY0RvC-2Rg/edit?usp=sharing). In short, we would like to build an open-source Chainlink external adapter for Kusama chaindata and a proof-of-concept dApp. This infrastructure will allow smart contracts on Ethereum to use Kusama chaindata.

Previous discussion and context [**can be found here**](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2028).

We are asking for ~2,811 KSM = ~$83,000 using EMA14 on Kraken. We came to this number by taking the weighted average price of all KSM-USD trades on Kraken from December 1st, 2022 at 18:00 UTC to December 15th, 2022 at 18:00 UTC (13,274 data points).  That came out to a KSM price of ~$29.73 USD. This EMA14 figure can be verified using [**Kraken's API**](https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Trades?pair=KSMUSD&since=1669917600000000000).

We chose enactment at block #16000000 to put this in the tax year of 2023.

Thanks for all the support and feedback!

Adam Steeber
CTO - Steeber Solutions LLC

p.s. though some UIs say that medium spender can only spend up to 500 KSM, this figure was increased to 3,333 KSM in v0934 [**when the `QUID` unit increased by 10x**](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/blob/release-v0.9.34/runtime/kusama/constants/src/lib.rs#L29).

Origin: MediumSpender