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UniversalDot Foundation is creating a decentralized freelancing app using Substrate. They have already built a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with help from a grant by the WEB3 Foundation. The MVP is already deployed and can be explored through their documentation and demonstration videos. They are asking for more funds to continue developing and launching the app. The community's feedback is important for funding this project. The full proposal and additional project details can be found in the provided links.

Rejected

UniversalDot Foundation requests additional Treasury funds to continue developing and launching their decentralized freelancing application built on Substrate. The MVP has already been built, and they are seeking community feedback and funding. No specific price/timeframe/resources are mentioned.

Freelancing Platform Development

- A college blockchain project wants to teach students about Polkadot (Dotsama) in China.  
- They plan to work with 6 universities to create courses in Chinese.  
- The goal is to train 900 students and help 3,000 learn about blockchain.  
- They will share lessons online and pick the best student projects.  
- The team has experience with blockchain education in China.  
- They ask for 1,911 KSM (a type of cryptocurrency) to fund 3 months of work.  
- Previous proposals didn’t pass, but they improved their plan.  
- They will post updates every month to show progress.

WHO: GoJFTV1woTYY24MJhB3bBrWLrmH1RfHBxawo4Lt24fMbrnU

WHAT: Establish IUR-DAO and cooperate with six Chinese universities to offer PBA-based Chinese introduction courses, train instructors, carry out graduate project design and entrepreneurial practice, and guide outstanding graduates to participate in Polkadot Hackathon.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting 1911 KSM total allocation for August 2024 - October 2024 (3 months) depending on EMA(30) AVG rate (KSM = 22.29 USDT).

College Blockchain IUR(Industry-University-Research) Cooperation

### Summary of Bounty 11 Progress

- **Curator Request:** The previous curator of Bounty 11 failed to extend the expiry and is now unassigned. They propose to be reassigned to finish their work.
  
- **Achievements:**
  - Refactored vesting scan.
  - Extracted assets pallet scan and fixed bugs.
  - Added a package to scan recovery pallet business.
  - Supported proxy pallet scan.
  - Created a GraphQL server to serve business data.
  - Developed new front-end pages for vesting and recovery.
  - Refactored front-end pages for assets.

- **Failures:**
  - Failed to attract more developers through child bounties due to time-consuming collaborations.

- **Plan:**
  - Next step is to implement proxy-related UIs.

Executed

OpenSquare proposes to be reassigned as the curator of bounty 11 to continue their work. They have achieved several milestones, including refactoring vesting scan and creating a GraphQL server. They failed to bring more developers through child bounties. Their plan is to implement UIs related to proxies after finishing the proxy scan.

Reassign the curator of bounty 11

- **ParaSpell** is a set of tools to help projects work across different blockchains in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- **XCM SDK** is the main tool that makes it easy to send messages between 54 different blockchains.
- **XCM Router** lets you send one type of asset and receive another in just one step.
- **XCM API** is a lightweight tool that helps developers use XCM without needing to install extra software.
- **XCM Analyser** helps decode complex blockchain messages into easy-to-read formats.
- **XCM Visualizator** is a 3D tool that shows how messages move between blockchains.
- The team has won awards and grants for their work and continues to improve these tools.
- They are asking for $48,000 to keep these tools free and updated for the community.

ParaSpell is proposing to the Kusama community to fund the maintenance and assistance to other teams for their XCM tools, including XCM SDK, XCM Router, XCM API, XCM Analyser, and XCM Visualizator, for six months starting on August 1, 2024, for a total of $48,000. The proposal aims to keep the tools free and open-source for the Polkadot and Kusama communities.

ParaSpell XCM Tools Server costs coverage and 6 months of Maintenance Proposal

- A group wants to teach Chinese students about Polkadot (a type of blockchain technology).  
- They plan to work with 6 universities in China to create easy-to-understand courses.  
- The goal is to train 900 students per university and help 3,000+ students learn about Polkadot.  
- They will make videos, articles, and even NFT certificates for students.  
- The team has experience in blockchain education and government-approved training programs.  
- They will share monthly updates on their progress.  
- The project aims to bring more developers and users to Polkadot’s ecosystem.

WHO: GoJFTV1woTYY24MJhB3bBrWLrmH1RfHBxawo4Lt24fMbrnU

WHAT: Establish IUR-DAO and cooperate with six Chinese universities to offer PBA-based Chinese introduction courses, train instructors, carry out graduate projects, and guide outstanding graduates to participate in Polkadot Hackathon.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requested 1704 KSM total allocation for August 2024 - October 2024 (3 months).

- **Goal**: GrowDAO helps organizations in Latin America use blockchain technology for managing money, payments, and decision-making.
- **Plan**: Teach 22 organizations about blockchain, cover their fees, and give them small funds to try it out.
- **Current Work**: Working closely with organizations, sharing knowledge online, and promoting blockchain benefits.
- **Results**: A report with data, new DAOs onboarded, and a plan for future growth in the blockchain space.
- **Challenges**: Many organizations don’t know enough about blockchain, need help starting, and lack money to experiment.
- **Solutions**: 
  - Teach organizations about blockchain through special programs.
  - Offer incentives like funds and memberships to encourage blockchain use.
  - Create a program to help new DAOs start and grow.
- **Budget**: $20,000 for marketing, DAO setup, team salaries, and a treasury fund.

WHO: GrowDAO

WHAT: Enhance the use of the Kusama network by implementing real-world use cases in formal organizations and DAOs in LATAM, through tailored educational programs, personalized advisory programs, targeted onboarding and incentive programs, DAO incubator, and digital marketing strategies.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $20,000 over three months, including marketing, DAO establishment, team salaries, and GrowDAO treasury.

DAO: Driving Blockchain Adoption in LATAM Organizations

- A group wants to help more students in China learn about Polkadot/Kusama blockchain.  
- They will work with 6 universities to teach blockchain courses in Chinese.  
- Students will create projects, join hackathons, and learn about Polkadot/Kusama.  
- They plan to train 900 students and share videos and articles online.  
- The goal is to bring 3000 new users into the Polkadot/Kusama community.  
- They will report progress every month.  
- The project will cost $84,600 for 6 months.  
- The team has experience in blockchain education in China.

WHO: IUR-DAO, in cooperation with six Chinese universities.

WHAT: Establish an IUR-DAO and cooperate with universities to guide potential developers to the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem through a combination of undergraduate graduates' learning, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting 2917 KSM total allocation for August 2024 - January 2025 (6 months) depending on EMA(30) AVG rate (KSM = 29 USDT), which is USD 14,100 per month, totaling USD 84,600.

Proposal: College Blockchain IUR(Industry-University-Research) Cooperation

- Polkadot Belgrade event is planned to help the Polkadot and Kusama communities.  
- Last year, over 100 people attended and built new projects.  
- This year, they want even more people to join.  
- There will be workshops, talks, and fun activities.  
- A boat party is planned for networking.  
- The goal is to teach and create new ideas.  
- The event will be part of Belgrade Blockchain Week.  
- Contact Nikola for more details.

WHO: MVP Workshop

WHAT: Host Polkadot Belgrade event with workshops, panel discussions, and networking opportunities to enhance the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems, increase participation and engagement, and encourage collaboration among developers, enthusiasts, and stakeholders.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Full proposal can be found in the provided link.

Polkadot & Kusama Belgrade 2024 

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IGNORE THIS - Wrong Function Called

**Kanary** is an initiative designed to attract new users to the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems by leveraging the popularity of memecoins. It has formed partnerships with memecoin communities from various blockchains like Polygon, Base, BSC, and Solana, and has also collaborated with NFT DAOs. The strategy involves attracting users from outside the ecosystem rather than working internally.

Kanary has launched **Kusama Exploration**, an educational program to guide new users through practical learning and showcase the potential of Kusama and Polkadot. The initiative has received positive reception on platforms like YouTube and other media.

For more information, visit the [Kanary website](https://kanary.site), follow them on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/kanarytoken), or join their [Telegram](https://t.me/kanarytoken).

Kanary aims to attract new users to the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem through partnerships with memecoin communities. They propose an educational initiative called Kusama Exploration to guide users through a practical learning process. No information on price, timeframe, or resources.

KANARY - KUSAMA EXPLORATION

The Pink Community has submitted a Medium Spender request for 3,333 KSM to help achieve milestones like a CEX listing and liquidity for a market maker. They believe this capital infusion can help with their memecoin project, which was created without presales or private investors. The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13BjMbDskKxTYDhyOI2JkSW97fXYLL6PCDbwjOKouYSE/edit?usp=sharing).

WHO: The PINK Community

WHAT: Submitted a Medium Spender request for 3,333 KSM to create a memecoin from scratch, achieve milestones such as a CEX listing, liquidity for a market maker and more.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Potential Funding for PINK

- A plan to fund a bridge between two systems (P<>K) was cancelled.
- The bridge charges fees from users and pays rewards to relayers.
- The initial funding was supposed to come from the treasury.
- 10000 DOT and 2000 KSM were proposed to start the bridge.
- The bridge should later cover its costs with user fees.
- The funds were to be handled by a trusted Polkadot Fellow.
- If this plan was rejected, a slower funding process would be used.
- The exact details of the funding can be found in a GitHub issue.

Request withdrawn - replaced by whitelisted caller #361

### Proposal Summary

- **Objective:** Create a "DAO factory" in the Kreivo parachain to help users conduct real-world businesses.
- **Duration:** 3 months (Q2).
- **Scope:** Focused on onboarding 5 to 10 new DAOs by the end of Q2.
- **Budget:** 175,500 USD for 9 full-time employees over 3 months.
- **Funding:** 3,333 KSM (equivalent to 168,449.82 USD).
- **Additional Work:** Contribute to the Polkadot protocol through governance improvements.
- **Long-term Goal:** Address social inequality through ongoing experiments and developments.

Virto proposes a 3-month budget of 175,500 USD to onboard 5-10 new DAOs and build the most powerful DAO factory in the ecosystem. The funds will also be used to contribute to the core Polkadot protocol via the technical Fellowship. They are asking for 3,333 KSM, equivalent to 168,449.82 USD.

Virto team Q2

- **ParaSpell** is a set of tools for Polkadot and Kusama that help with cross-chain (XCM) transfers.  
- It has three main tools: **XCM SDK** (core tool), **XCM API** (simplifies XCM calls), and **XCM Router** (swaps assets while transferring).  
- **XCM SDK** works with 50+ chains and makes cross-chain transfers easy with one line of code.  
- **XCM API** helps developers by handling complex tasks, reducing server costs, and speeding up call creation.  
- **XCM Router** lets users send one asset and receive another in a single transaction.  
- The team has won awards and completed multiple grants to improve these tools.  
- They are asking for funding to keep these tools free and maintained for the community.

ParaSpell, a team of two, is proposing to maintain and assist other teams in implementing their set of common good XCM tools for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. They are seeking $30,000 worth of funding for 5 months of maintenance tasks and assistance, divided into $6,000 per month and $25 per work hour. The proposal aims to keep their tools free for the community and includes their XCM SDK, XCM API, and XCM Router. Voting will take place from February 9th to February 22nd.

XCM ROUTER, XCM API & XCM SDK 5 months of maintenance and server cost coverage proposal

- **Request**: Asking for 3,333 KSM to help people try new ideas on Kusama.
- **Problem**: Many people want to experiment but don’t have enough money to start big projects.
- **Solution**: Create a special fund managed by trusted people to help pay for these experiments.
- **Timeline**: The money will be used for 6 months, then returned to the Treasury.
- **Signatories**: Four experienced people will manage the fund.
- **Goal**: Help more people try new ideas without needing a lot of money.

WHO: Kusama ecosystem agents Eduardo Cardoso, Rafael Yahlomi, Tommi Niemi, and Adam Steeber.

WHAT: Propose funding a multisig-managed governance proxy to place decision deposits on root track referenda or other-track referenda.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requested amount of 3,333 KSM for ~6 months, then refunded back to the Treasury.

Funding a Decision Deposit Sponsor

- Encointer asked for money to keep working until December 2023.  
- They made a plan to keep their project running without needing more money soon.  
- They fixed their phone app and made it better.  
- They helped communities in Tanzania and Argentina.  
- They made a group in Zurich to help more people use their project.  
- They want to keep their project working well with a small team.  
- They will focus on helping places where their work can do the most good.

Encointer team requests **CHF 89,000** for Sep-Dec 2023 to maintain and grow their self-sustainable economy project on Kusama. They aim to support global south communities and have achieved significant progress in integrating their runtime into the fellowship repository and stabilizing their mobile app.

Encointer Retroactive Funding for Sep-Dec 2023

### System Parachain Collator Bounty on Kusama

- **Purpose**: Fund System Parachain Collators on Kusama, similar to Bounty 20.
- **Coverage**: Asset-Hub and Bridge-Hub System Parachains.
- **Goal**: Incentivize efficient performance, minimize censorship, and ensure ongoing activity.
- **Funding**: Covers infrastructure costs and staking rewards.
- **Duration**: 6 months, starting from 1 January 2024.
- **Amount**: 1954.46 KSM for the two System Parachains.
- **Details**: Available in a [Google Document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14pRUj8WZPO75DuwDl4HoZU97v_Rmfx0bZ2KFqFW-qkE/edit).
- **Discussion**: Open on [Polkassembly](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2613).

System Parachain Collators propose funding for Kusama's Asset-Hub and Bridge-Hub System Parachains. They request 1954.46 KSM for infrastructure costs and staking rewards for a 6-month period starting on January 1, 2024.

Funding of Kusama System Parachain Collators

- Stakeworld runs services connected to its RPC nodes, like a database size overview.
- The database size service gets data from archive RPC nodes and is mentioned in the Polkadot wiki.
- Funding for RPC services was not approved, so Stakeworld might stop or reduce these services.
- Stakeworld revived its snapshot service, which helps users sync their nodes faster.
- The snapshot service is useful because Beefy, a new feature, temporarily disables warp sync.
- Stakeworld is considering adding RocksDB support to the snapshot service for a few months.
- They hope to continue these services but need funding to do so.
- More details and a funding proposal can be found in their GitHub repository.

Stakeworld plans to scale down/stop some services due to lack of funding, including the database size overview service. They are seeking funding to continue this service and revive their snapshot service, which will include rocksdb for a few months until warp sync gets re-enabled with beefy. See their proposal for more details.

Database size service and temporary snapshot service revival

Please ignore

- Collators on Kusama System Parachains get small rewards for their work.
- They need more funding to do their job well and not cut costs too much.
- A long-term solution is needed to pay Collators fairly.
- For now, the Treasury can help by giving them money through a bounty system.
- This proposal asks for 844.654 KSM to pay Collators for their work from October to December 2023.
- Starting January 2024, a new bounty system will handle payments.
- The community is asked to review and share thoughts on the proposal.

WHO: Collators on System Parachains.

WHAT: Proposal to secure 844.654 KSM for Collators on the Kusama System Parachains network for services delivered for 3 months - 10-12/2023.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 844.654 KSM for 3 months - 10-12/2023. Future cost compensation will be done under the Kusama System Parachain Collators Bounty 20 starting from January 2024.

Kusama System Parachain Collators - Tips Q4/2023

- A recent referendum for the Proof of Chaos project was rejected because it didn’t get enough support.
- The project is now asking for less money (20% less) to keep building.
- Proof of Chaos helps people participate in governance on Polkadot and Kusama by rewarding them with NFTs.
- They have made it easier to vote and earn rewards, and their code is open for everyone to use.
- The project has already worked on Kusama, Rococo, and is now working on Polkadot and other parachains.
- They want to help more people join governance and make the network stronger.
- The team has worked with other projects like Parity, Encointer, Kilt, and Kodadot to improve the ecosystem.
- They are also planning to reimburse the first 10 creators who help with rewards.

Proof of Chaos requests 802KSM ($16842) for retroactive funding and artist subsidies. They aim to increase participation in on-chain governance on Polkadot and Kusama. The requested amount is reduced by 20% from their previous proposal. Passing this proposal is a prerequisite for further implementation of their roadmap.

Proof of Chaos Funding

- **Project Name:** Proof of Chaos  
- **Goal:** Encourage more people to participate in governance on Polkadot and Kusama.  
- **What They Built:**  
  - A system where anyone can mint NFTs for participating in governance and earn royalties.  
  - A new website and codebase for faster updates and multi-chain support.  
  - Tools for voting and rewarding governance participants.  
- **Funding Request:** 1172KSM ($20,420) for past work and future plans.  
- **Future Plans:**  
  - Reimburse the first 10 creators who reward governance participants.  
  - Focus on marketing and expanding the project.  
- **Open Source:** Their code is available for others to learn from and use.  
- **Ecosystem Impact:** They work with other teams to improve the Polkadot and Kusama networks.

Proof of Chaos is requesting 1172KSM ($20420) for retroactive funding, artist subsidies, and to reimburse the first 10 reward creators. The project aims to bring more participants to on-chain governance on Polkadot and Kusama to secure the network through increased decentralization. The proposal includes a revamped codebase, multi-chain support, a referenda sendout UI, and a voting UI with unique features. Passing the proposal is a prerequisite for further implementation of the roadmap.

- Stakeworld is asking for funding to keep their public RPC services running for Kusama, Westend, and Encointer in Q3 2023.
- They provide important services like RPC endpoints, validators, collators, and bootnodes for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- In the last 30 days, they handled over 218 million RPC requests for Kusama and 24 million for Westend.
- They scaled back some services after a previous funding request was rejected.
- Stakeworld is an active participant in the Polkadot ecosystem, contributing to validators, collators, and the wiki.
- They need funding to continue maintaining their RPC services.
- More details are available in their full proposal.

Stakeworld requests retroactive funding for maintaining public rpc services for Kusama, Westend, and Encointer in Q3 2023, including commons, for which they served 218.360.781 Kusama and 24.120.290 Westend rpc requests in the previous 30 days. They are active participants in the dotsama ecosystem and hope for positive funding outcomes. No specific price/timeframe/resources mentioned.

Public rpc services for kusama, westend and encointer including the common chains in Q3 2023

### LightSpell XCM API

- **First XCM API** in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem.
- **Winner** of the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series APAC 2023.
- **Advantages**: Simplifies XCM message construction, reduces call time, and prevents user errors.
- **Free and Open Source**: Available under the MIT license.
- **Live API**: Accessible at [https://api.lightspell.xyz](https://api.lightspell.xyz).
- **Team**: Comprised of Dušan Morháč and Michael Absolon, with experience in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Proposal**: Seeks funding for server costs and maintenance from October 1st to February 1st.
- **Documentation**: Comprehensive guides available at [https://paraspell.github.io/docs/](https://paraspell.github.io/docs/).

WHO: LightSpell team

WHAT: Maintain the first XCM API in Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem, including its core component - XCM SDK, for free for the community from 1st October to 1st February.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

[33] Origin: MediumSpender