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PolkaTalent is a new project by Kunveno and Virto, creators of Kreivo. It is part of the work3spaces vision, a decentralized marketplace to connect freelancers with companies. The project aims to help freelance professionals in Web3. They are recruiting Web3 freelance developers for early user journey interviews to design intuitive UX flows. Interviews will be from April 7 to April 11, and participants will be compensated with 4 KSM for a 45-60 minute call. Apply before April 7 to join and help shape the future of decentralized work.

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We&rsquo;re excited to officially introduce PolkaTalent, a new project developed by <a href="https://kunveno.xyz/">Kunveno</a> in collaboration with the amazing <a href="https://virto.network/">Virto</a> crew&mdash;the builders behind Kreivo, one of the most forward-thinking networks in the Kusama ecosystem focused on simplifying the creation and management of decentralised organisations.
All of this feeds directly into our <a href="https://cloud.disroot.org/s/S9F8qEJj973tggb">white paper</a>, where we detail how PolkaTalent fits into the broader work3spaces vision&mdash;a decentralised marketplace designed to connect freelancers with companies seeking top-tier talent, built on fair reputation, transparent value, and trustless coordination.
PolkaTalent is part of our broader mission to unlock new pathways for freelance professionals in Web3. Think of it as a decentralised talent engine that starts by listening to those who know the industry best&mdash;you.
We&rsquo;re currently recruiting Web3 freelance developers active in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems to join us for early user journey interviews. Your insights will help us design intuitive UX flows tailored to real dev needs and workflows in this space.
📆 Interviews will run from April 7 to April 11.
💰You&rsquo;ll be compensated with 4 KSM for a 45&ndash;60 minute call.
If you are a Web3 developer excited to shape the future of decentralised work and co-create with us from day 1, <a href="https://blocksurvey.io/polkatalent-developer-ux-journey-u2jumdYtQ0W7nV3a574B2g?v=o">apply here</a> before April 7.
Let&rsquo;s build something incredible, together.

PolkaTalent: Recruiting Web3 freelance devs for early user journey interviews

### Summary

- **Purpose**: Funding an account used for community activities on Kusama.
- **Activities**: Payouts for community validators and clearing submission deposits.
- **Duration**: Expected to last 4 months.
- **Growth**: Validator payees expected to grow from 168 to 200.
- **Updates**: Scripts for clearing deposits need updating.
- **Efforts**: Reducing payout flooding at era ends.
- **Development**: Working on grouped payouts feature.
- **Transparency**: Public can view transaction history.

Paradox is seeking community support to fund an account for various community good activities, including payouts for community validators and clearing submission and decision deposits on Kusama. The funding is expected to last approximately 4 months, with a price and timeframe not specified.

Funding an account used for common-good activities

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BigTipper

Jungle Inc. and Minus Wells aim to create a video discussing Polkadot mechanics, future vision, and insights into Polkadot 2.0. They will do it in exchange for 3 DOT, challenging the trend of big influencers seeking $51k for average content. The goal is to elevate understanding and awareness for everyone who tunes in. No timeframe or additional resources mentioned.

Adam Steeber recently led a community-driven runtime upgrade, documented in a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlxjSstvsmM).
- He addressed hodler concerns through [Referendum 235](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/235).
- This was the first community-led runtime upgrade.
- A proposal has been made to reward his efforts with a treasury spend.
- The proposed tip is 15.79 Kusama (KSM) tokens.
- The proposal is detailed in [Referendum 274](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/274).
- The aim is to recognize his hard work in decentralizing the ecosystem.

WHO: The proposer.

WHAT: Proposing a modest tip to recognize Adam Steeber's efforts in addressing hodler concerns and pioneering the first community-led runtime upgrade.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 15.79 Kusama (KSM) tokens through Referendum 274.

[Big Tipper] Advancing Decentralization: @asteeber's Educational Video on Runtime Upgrade

- Imbue Network got funding and completed most of their goals.
- They noticed issues with how money is spent and created a system called Imbue Grants to fix it.
- They showed how it works on a test network called Rococo.
- Next, they want to show it on Kusama by giving a grant and then refunding most of the money back.
- They have 5 people who will approve the grant.
- They think the treasury should support XCM transfers for better flexibility.
- They will move money to a special account to make the demo work.
- They want feedback from the community to improve their system.

Hey Everyone,
UPDATE:&nbsp; We decided to go down the big tipper track to keep things simple. See <a href="../post/2600#jhMYwkbfxhpPu7PHt7sD">comment</a>
Sam Elamin from Imbue. We have been very busy since receiving funding from the treasury and have shipped almost all our milestones One thing we did notice over the past few months has been the tension around treasury spending. We think Imbue is set up perfectly to solve issues around accountability and funding and have built out the Imbue <a href="https://www.imbue.network/blogs/imbue-grants">grants</a>&nbsp;
We also did a live demo of it on <a href="https://twitter.com/thekusamarian/status/1693704945717870736?s=46&amp;t=zgh35N80b7sSgM--juphNw">AAG</a> with our chain on Rococo
What we want to do next is do a demo of what this process looks like on Kusama.&nbsp;
The goal of the demo is to showcase refunds going back into the treasury&nbsp;
We will be launching a grant for 10 KSM with 2 milestones
1) Milestone 1 for 1 KSM (10%). This will get approved 2) Milestone 2 for 9 KSM (90%). This will get refunded back to the treasury
We have 5 approvers lined up
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<li>Giles, an engineer @ parity and part of the fellowship</li>
<li>Daniel from Parity and part of the SBP</li>
<li>
Bryan: Polkadot fellow and co-founder of Acala
</li>
<li>
Sam: Polkadot fellow and co-founder of Imbue Network
</li>
<li>
Beatrice: Imbue core team member
</li>
</ol>
A demo like this should ideally be going through the small/big tipper track but that is not currently possible because the treasury &mdash; currently - does not support XCM transfers,
We believe the treasury should support xcm transfers going through the different treasury tracks, this demo will be further evidence of that need
Because of this we will have to transfer the funds to the parachain soverign account then do a proposal on Imbue to allocate the funds to the grant escrow addres
We strongly believe this is the best way to ensure accountability and transparency while still remaining flexible enough to support different curators for different grants/projects
Kusama was meant for expermintation and to drive innovation, and this is a perfect example of this.
Imbue grants was built to solve a key community need, as such we would love your feedback on both this proposed demo as well as how we can best serve the community's requirements

Imbue wants to showcase their grants process on Kusama by launching a grant for 10 KSM with 2 milestones. The goal is to showcase refunds going back into the treasury. Milestone 1 for 1 KSM will get approved, while Milestone 2 for 9 KSM will get refunded back to the treasury. The demo will be evidence of the need for the treasury to support XCM transfers. Imbue believes their grants process is the best way to ensure accountability and transparency while remaining flexible enough to support different curators for different grants/projects.

Introducing Imbue Grants

- A person is asking for money to pay for their work checking other people's ideas for Kusama.  
- They have checked 9 ideas so far and did a good job.  
- They want to be paid $50 for every hour they worked, and they worked 2 hours on each idea.  
- They are only asking for money for 7 of the 9 ideas they checked.  
- They followed rules from a past vote to do their work.  
- You can see their work in a special document and a table they made.  
- They are saying thank you to the Kusama community.

The proposal requests funding for audit reports on Kusama treasury proposals at a rate of $50/hour for 2 hours in each proposal. The proposal has conducted 9 high-quality audits so far and requests tips for 7 of them. More information can be found in the proposal document.

For 7 Kusama treasury proposal Audits

OneBlock+ proposes to continue the Polkadot Hackathon program from November 2023 to January 2024, with a final demo day in mid-January 2024 in Hong Kong. They request $368,499 USD | 90,540 DOT from the Treasury, with 5/6 of the fee to reward the hackathon winners and 1/6 to reimburse them for operating expenses. The goal is to promote Substrate and encourage developers to create projects and join the Polkadot ecosystem.

Rejected

Tip for Polkabeat: Measuring the decentralization of Parachains

6mths funding for Polkachu's Payout Bot

- A person wants to become an auditor for a community project.
- They have done 10 audits to show they are good at it.
- They are asking the community to let them join the team.
- They also want a small reward for the audits they already did.
- The reward is 1 KSM for each audit, totaling 10 KSM.
- More details about their work and the proposal are in a document.
- The community can discuss and decide if they should join.

WHO: The candidate seeking to join the auditor team.

WHAT: Getting onboarded as an auditor and receiving KSM value as a token of gratitude for the audit work done so far.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 1 KSM/audit for a total of 10 audits. No specific timeframe or additional resources mentioned.

Proposal auditor onboarding for Referenda #67 extension

WHO: Polkadot community and Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network. 

WHAT: Proposal to secure 6,075.79 DOT for Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network for services delivered for the period of 2 months - 08-09/2023. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal aims to post-pay monthly operating costs of service providers until a more suitable solution (Bounty) is established.

Tip for Goku

### Summary of the Proposal

1. **Reward Adam**: Propose to reward Adam Steebar with 8 KSM for his work on Open Governance details and discussions on GitHub.
2. **Test Batch Statements**: Use this proposal to test the use of batch statements for issuing rewards, allowing multiple recipients.
3. **Fund Public Validator Payouts**: Allocate 2 KSM to a public validator payout account as a "finder's fee."
4. **Open Governance Contribution**: Adam compiled and maintained details related to Open Governance, contributing to community discussions on GitHub.
5. **Economics Skill Set**: Adam applied his economics skills to aid the community, regardless of the outcome.
6. **Batch Calls Testing**: This proposal tests the ability to split tips among different parties, which was not possible in the previous governance model.
7. **Public Staking Reward Bot**: 20% of the tip is directed to a public staking reward payout bot, equivalent to a former finder's fee.
8. **Future Model**: If successful, this test could establish a model for future payments requiring multiple recipients.

WHO: The proposer
WHAT: To provide a reward to Adam (8 KSM), test the use of batch statements to issue rewards, and fund an account used for public validator payouts as a `finder's fee` (2 KSM)
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

For analysis of Open Gov parameters 

- Claudio is asking for 24 KSM (about $605.76) for 3 videos he made.
- The videos are about Polkadot vs Cosmos, Subwallet, and Mangata X.
- One video is dubbed in Spanish.
- WagMedia couldn't pay him because they ran out of funds.
- Claudio already spent time and effort making the videos.
- He shared links to the videos for proof.
- The payment address matches the one in the video descriptions.

WHO: Claudio

WHAT: Requesting 24 KSM (approx $605.76) in tips for 3 videos produced for WagMedia

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 24 KSM, current KSM price of $25.24. No specific timeframe or additional resources mentioned.

[Big Tipper] - Tip request for videos in Spanish

### Summary of Math Crypto's Batch Delegation Guide

- **Purpose**: Provides a guide and tool for delegating all Gov2 tracks on Kusama to a single account in one transaction.
- **Resources**: Includes a [steps guide](https://www.math-crypto.com/opengov/batch-delegate/) and a [web page](https://backend-opengov.math-crypto.com/) with a delegation hash generator.
- **Benefit**: Simplifies the process for users who want to delegate multiple votes at once.
- **Proponent's Action**: The guide's proponent plans to use the new Gov2 system for a tip in an unused track.
- **Status**: Gov2 is operational and ready for use on Kusama.

Approved

WHO: Math Crypto

WHAT: Provides a batch delegation guide and web page with a delegation hash generator for OpenGov/Gov2 on Kusama.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

[31] Origin: BigTipper