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**Title:** Budget for Russian-Speaking Polkadot & Kusama Community Support

**Proponent:** ETdYaUAqUWTTA6hXm9edwDWEn6iBYaRK2mJCUwaKQzfqQYS

**Date:** 10 May 2024

**Requested Allocation:** 5555 KSM (approx. $160,000 or $13,333 per month)

**Purpose:**
- Increase education, awareness, and presence of Polkadot & Kusama in the Russian-speaking community.
- Produce content, host events, moderate chats, and prevent scams.

**Context:**
- Russian-speaking community is active but lacks content and enthusiasts.
- Over 250 million Russian speakers globally, with significant crypto activity.
- Kusama Treasury offers potential for growth, especially post-bridge launch.

**Bounty Sections:**
- **Content Creation:** Translate and produce Russian-language content.
- **Chat Moderation:** Support and maintain Russian-speaking channels.
- **Event Hosting:** Fund local events for community building.
- **Anti-Scam Activity:** Protect the community from scams and phishing.

**Problem Statement:**
- Lack of incentives for Russian-speaking content creators.
- Poor representation of Polkadot & Kusama in Russian-speaking environments.
- Insufficient offline activities and interest from companies.

**Submission Guidelines:**
- Be original, respectful, truthful, responsible, and proactive.
- Categories include audiovisual content, written content, translations, and event organization.

**Full Proposal:** [Link to Full Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mIh2WMMWlv2j3VLO44tP2RVp1mEwBbh9hmhWgwjEW8/edit?usp=sharing)

Rejected

WHO: Kusama Treasury WHAT: Budget for rewards to increase education, awareness, and presence of Polkadot & Kusama in Russian-speaking community through content creation, chat moderation, anti-scam activity, and events for 1 year PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 5555 KSM (approximately 160K$ or 13,33K$ per month) for 1 year.

Bounty Proposal: Russian-speaking community support and development

- Subscan is a tool that helps people explore and understand the Kusama network.
- It costs a lot to keep Subscan running, including servers, security, and people.
- They are asking for money from the Kusama treasury to cover costs from January 2023 to March 2024.
- They worked hard to reduce costs in 2023 and saw good results, like cutting their Google Cloud bill by over 50%.
- They added new billing details for October 2023 to March 2024 to show costs are growing slowly.
- The Kusama network hasn’t paid for Subscan in 15 months, which is causing financial problems.
- If they don’t get funding, they might have to stop adding new features, which could hurt the Kusama ecosystem.
- They are asking the community for support to keep Subscan running smoothly.

Executed

Subscan proposes to be reimbursed for operation and maintenance fees from the Kusama treasury from January 2023 to March 2024. The proposal includes billing information covering October 2023 through March 2024, with ongoing block production growth naturally increasing GCP expenses. The proposal aims to ensure the continuous operation and maintenance of Subscan, which serves as a vital block explorer and analytics tool within the Substrate ecosystem. The cost of the proposal is not specified.

Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Kusama & Asset Hub (Kusama) Networks (from January 2023 to March 2024)

- This proposal was made because Adam Steeber asked for more ideas for Kusama.  
- The goal is to create groups around ideas to reduce treasury spending.  
- It shows community support for ideas and allows for future discussions.  
- 50% of the treasury would go to bounties, cutting the burn rate by 50%.  
- Stake Plus won’t be involved in these groups.  
- The proposal also suggests creating a group to check if past projects met their goals.  
- Up to 50 people can join, with 4 auditors checking each project.  
- Reports will be made public to improve governance.

WHO: Up to 50 independent ecosystem agents.

WHAT: Establish a proto-collective tasked with auditing historical deliverables of Polkadot treasury proposals, ensuring proponents meet their obligations and safeguarding the treasury's assets.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Auditors Proto-Collective

- This proposal was made to support new ideas in the Kusama community.  
- It aims to create groups around ideas and reduce the treasury's spending.  
- The proposal suggests funding Twitch streamers who promote Polkadot during their streams.  
- Streamers could get $1,500 monthly for including Polkadot branding and games.  
- Curators helping with branding would be paid $125/hour plus expenses.  
- The goal is to support up to 60 streamers and encourage community involvement.  
- If no one leads the idea, the funds can be returned to the treasury later.

WHO: Polkadot ecosystem

WHAT: Establish a Proto Collective offering $1,500 monthly to Twitch streamers who integrate Polkadot branding into their streams and dedicate a portion of their streaming time to Polkadot games. Curators overseeing branding distribution compensated at $125/hour plus expenses, supporting up to 60 streamers.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Gamers Proto-Collective

- This proposal was made to help the Kusama community by creating bounties for new ideas.
- It aims to support ideas in principle and reduce the burn rate of the treasury by 50%.
- Stake Plus will not be involved in these new collectives.
- If someone wants to lead a collective, they should submit a full proposal with curators.
- The proposal also requests $75,000 from the Polkadot Treasury for a Regional Marketing Proto Collective.
- The funds will support up to 20 teams for creative marketing campaigns to promote Polkadot.
- Regional Marketing Directors will guide these efforts to increase Polkadot's visibility.

Regional Marketing Proto-Collective

- A referendum is about choosing curators for a bounty.
- The bounty is for finding security bugs in the Polkadot and Kusama bridge.
- Curators will check how well the bounty works and decide rewards.
- They have different skills to help make the bounty successful.
- More information about the curators and what they will do is available in a document.

WHO: Curators
WHAT: Evaluate effectiveness and attribution of reward for Polkadot <> Kusama Bridge Security Bug Bounty
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified

CURATORS PROPOSAL FOR BOUNTY 27 - POLKADOT <> KUSAMA BRIDGE SECURITY BUGBOUNTY

**Proposal Summary**

- **Proponent**: Fy6erZmPp78ZY2cN945FU9KnKdATmxvG2eB9a1kh2VX33xz
- **Date**: March 1, 2024
- **Requested KSM**: $250,000 (5102 KSM)
- **Objective**: Improve security of bridges between chains.
- **Risks**: Bridges are targets for malicious activities, leading to financial losses.
- **Solution**: Implement a Security Bug Bounty Program.
- **Community Involvement**: Engage bug bounty hunters to find vulnerabilities.
- **Details**: Full proposal includes threat model and context details.
- **Impact**: Protect both source and destination blockchains.

**WHO**: Fy6erZmPp78ZY2cN945FU9KnKdATmxvG2eB9a1kh2VX33xz

**WHAT**: Implement a Security Bug Bounty Program for bridges in Polkadot and Kusama to ensure utmost security and community involvement.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES**: $250,000 (5102 KSM) requested on 01.03.2024. Full details in attached proposal.

POLKADOT <> KUSAMA BRIDGE SECURITY BOUNTY

This referendum is about choosing curators for Bounty #25, which is about Public RPCs for Relay and Systems Chains. The curators are people who will help manage the project. Here are the curators:

1. Alex Dimitrijevic - Works at Parity Technologies.
2. Ivy Network - A group of people.
3. Eric Poh - Boss of Pinknode.
4. Leemo - Works with Nova Wallet, Robonomics, ChaosDAO, GM Parachain, HydraDX, and Basilisk Council.
5. lolmcshizz - Works with HydraDX.

These 5 curators will work together in a group of 3 out of 5. They will use a special account called "Any Proxy" for the curator account. Here are the account numbers:

- Kusama Pure Proxy: EYKL3c77TTotRo7bopubDJ9Zt4jEjcpFPA1D2axsWhQZ3Xq
- Kusama Multisig: GY8p88FVXFjrBokNfbuGi3nCNbbo5cHt3iGG5PyY6SHk7Xo

GM &ndash; This referendum proposes the Curators for <a href="../bounty/25">Bounty #25</a> &ndash; Bounty Proposal for Public RPCs for Relay and Systems Chains. Please review the bounty and <a href="321">previous referendum</a> which funded this bounty for more info.
 The proposed curators are:
<ul>
<li>Alex Dimitrijevic (Infrastructure &amp; Tooling Lead [Ecosystem Success] at Parity Technologies)</li>
<li>Ivy Network (Collective)</li>
<li>Eric Poh (CEO of Pinknode)</li>
<li>Leemo (Nova Wallet / Robonomics / ChaosDAO / GM Parachain / HydraDX &amp; Basilisk Council)</li>
<li>lolmcshizz (HydraDX)</li>
</ul>
The 5 curators are part of a 3/5 multisig which is set as an Any Proxy for the Pure Proxy account which is being proposed as the curator account.&nbsp;
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/y8G8ZNp/rpc-proxy.png" alt="" width="640" height="607" />
Kusama Pure Proxy: EYKL3c77TTotRo7bopubDJ9Zt4jEjcpFPA1D2axsWhQZ3Xq
Kusama Multisig: GY8p88FVXFjrBokNfbuGi3nCNbbo5cHt3iGG5PyY6SHk7Xo

WHO: Alex Dimitrijevic, Ivy Network, Eric Poh, Leemo, lolmcshizz.
WHAT: Proposed as curators for Bounty #25 for Public RPCs for Relay and Systems Chains.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Proposing Curators for Bounty #25

- A group of companies (BlockOps, Dwellir, LuckyFriday, OnFinality, RadiumBlock, RockX, and Stakeworld) proposed a plan for better public RPC services in Polkadot and Kusama.
- RPC services are important for apps like Polkadot.JS and wallets to work well.
- The plan aims to make these services high-quality, decentralized, and affordable.
- There are two ways for RPC providers to apply: one focuses on cost, and the other on service quality.
- The budget is $400,000, split between Polkadot and Kusama treasuries.
- Providers will be monitored, and their performance will be shared publicly.
- The plan includes a 6-month operations phase where providers must meet service standards.
- Feedback and suggestions from the community are welcome to improve the proposal.

A joint-proposal by several RPC providers outlines a procurement strategy for public RPC services in Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. The proposed budget is $400,000, split between Polkadot and Kusama treasuries, and aims to ensure high-quality, decentralized, and cost-effective services for essential applications like Polkadot.JS and wallets. RPC providers will be evaluated based on predefined standards and will be paid monthly in arrears based on the EMA7 day average price of DOT/KSM. The proposed budget provides a 12-month runway for assessment.

Bounty Proposal for Public RPCs for Relay and System Chains

- Subscan is a tool that helps people explore and understand the Substrate ecosystem.
- It needs money to keep running, like for servers and people who work on it.
- They are asking for money from the Kusama treasury to help from January to September 2023.
- They have worked hard to make it cheaper to run, and costs have gone down a lot.
- They want the community to help decide what new things to work on starting in November 2023.
- They will share more details about this plan in December.
- You can read more about their plan in a special document they made.

WHO: Subscan team

WHAT: Proposing reimbursement of operation and maintenance fee for Subscan for the period January to September 2023 from the Kusama treasury, and a gradual shift towards a community-developer collaborative model starting from November 2023.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Kusama & Statemine Networks (from January to September 2023)

- **Date**: 16 October 2023  
- **Invoice to**: Kusama common good fund  
- **Summary**: Decent Partners full stack collective  
- **Cost**: £103,000 (Total with VAT: £123,600)  
- **Total KSM**: 9,495  
- **Use of funds**: Working capital, loans, deposits, voting  
- **Voting policy**: Aye for directions, Nay for domains, Abstain for conflicts  
- **Contact**: @lightbulbwelsh:decent.modular.im

WHO: Decent Partners
WHAT: Retroactive funding for their full stack collective
COST: £123,600 ($161,000)
TIMEFRAME: Retroactive as of 16 October 2023
RESOURCES: 9,495 KSM, working capital, recoupable loans, decision deposits, and voting.

Funding: Decent Partners full stack on/off chain collective

CANCELLING + RESUBMITTING - PLS IGNORE.

Polkadot sponsored Coindesk Consensus conference, held from April 26-28, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The proposal includes a 20 x 40 booth, participation of **15 ecosystem teams**, branding on conference materials, and main sponsorship of the Coindesk anniversary event. The proposal also covers Polkadot’s participation in the Coindesk Consensus hackathon, called the “HackerEarth Web3athon”, which occurs between April 17th and June 30th, with **seven ecosystem teams** participating. The proposal aimed to cover the costs of Polkadot's participation. More information can be found on the provided link.

- Encointer is asking for money from the Kusama Treasury to cover costs for July and August 2023.  
- They also plan to ask the Polkadot Treasury for money starting in September.  
- The amount they need is about $234,000.  
- Encointer helps both Kusama and the whole Dotsama ecosystem.  
- Some people want teams to get paid after they finish their work, but Encointer says this is hard for small teams.  
- The founder of Encointer, Alain Brenzikofer, has worked without pay for a long time.  
- They hope people will approve their request because of Alain’s unpaid work.  
- More details are in their proposal document.

Encointer proposes to cover their expenses for July and August 2023 from the KSM treasury, amounting to CHF 213,000. They also plan to submit a proposal to the DOT treasury to cover their expenses from September onwards. They oppose retroactive funding but highlight the founder's unpaid work as pre-investment.

Encointer Lease2 Treasury Proposal 2/2

WHO: Encode Club and Polkadot.

WHAT: Requesting funding for the second online hackathon prizes, running the third online hackathon, and running the accelerator. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Total of £40k in DOT, utilizing the funding allocated for the 4th tranche scheduled for Q4 of 2023 from the initial agreement outlined. Second online hackathon in October, third online hackathon and accelerator in Q4 of 2023.

- Web3 Group is organizing a big hackathon in Mexico to teach students about blockchain and the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The event includes smaller hackathons in different cities and a main hackathon in Mexico City.
- Students will learn about Rust programming and how to build apps using Gear Protocol.
- The goal is to introduce more people to Polkadot and Kusama and create new apps for the ecosystem.
- Over 1,000 students from 30+ universities will participate.
- The event will have workshops, coding challenges, and a conference with speakers.
- The total budget is $140,000, with support from the Gear Foundation.
- The event will take place from April 28 to June 18, 2023.

Web3 Group proposes to organize a series of hackathons and a conference in Mexico City to educate students about the Polkadot ecosystem, with a budget of 4.701 KSM (140,000 USD) based on EMA7 value 29,78 on the 04/05/2023. The events will be held from June 1-18, 2023, and will include four regional hackathons, a mega hackathon, and a conference. The proposal aims to enhance awareness and comprehension of the DotSama Ecosystem and its Parachains, build a community of skilled developers, and create new minimum viable products (MVPs) for all participating Parachains using decentralized applications.

Proposal for Mega Web3 DotSama Bootckathons 

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WHO: Quadrivium, Soramitsu, SRLabs, and Web3 Foundation
WHAT: Prepare KAGOME for upcoming Polkadot features, improve RPC and WASM performance, conduct external security audit, and conduct general maintenance
PRICE: Requested DOT 253,862
TIMEFRAME: Not specified
RESOURCES: Quadrivium C++ developers, Soramitsu for DevOps, QA, and security services, SRLabs for security audit, and Web3 Foundation as technical advisor.

- A report was shared about child bounties approved by the community.  
- A request is being made to add more funds to the Infrastructure Maintenance Bounty.  
- This bounty helps teams funded by the treasury to maintain their projects.  
- It reduces the need for new proposals and saves time.  
- The bounty has been active for about a year and supported many projects.  
- More funds will help continue this work.  
- Details about achievements, goals, and funding are in a proposal document.

WHO: The proposal is made by a team. 

WHAT: They aim to request a top-up of the Infrastructure maintenance bounty to aid teams that have been funded by the treasury before for the development of their ideas, to maintain infrastructure and perform continued operations. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The details of the requested top-up can be found in the proposal document.

Infrastructure Maintenance Bounty Top-up request 

**KusamaHub Summary**

- **KusamaHub** has released a Beta Version: [beta.kusamahub.com](https://beta.kusamahub.com/).
- The team plans to expand and develop the platform for the next 6 months.
- They aim to provide tools and bots to help projects improve awareness and information availability.
- A new, transparent development format will be introduced using Trello.
- Project owners can request help with bot setup or development through a Google form.
- The team encourages community feedback for future improvements.
- Contact details include Twitter, Email, and Telegram.

WHO: KusamaHub team

WHAT: Expand the team to provide a product ready for use by anyone in the community while helping projects with development tools and bots to improve awareness, interest, and availability of information related to their projects.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Costs breakdown available in the proposal document for the next 6 months of development.

Treasury Proposal: KusamaHub 2' Proposal for Continued Operations and Development

- OpenBrush is a tool for making smart contracts in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The proposal asks for funding to develop new features for OpenBrush.
- OpenBrush helps developers create smart contracts more easily.
- The team wants to make educational materials and new standards for smart contracts.
- They plan to work with other projects like Astar, AlephZero, and Phala.
- The goal is to make Polkadot smarter and easier for developers to use.
- The full proposal has more details about their plans.

Brushfam proposes to develop the 8-9 and 11-12 milestones of OpenBrush, a core infrastructure product for ink! smart contracts in the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal aims to create educational materials, establish new standards for smart contracts, contribute to the development of ink! smart contract language, and introduce new features to make OpenBrush more flexible. The price for the proposal is 3404.65 KSM.

OpenBrush 8-9, 11-12 milestones development (WASM smart contracts)

Please reject! Incorrect request amount specified 

- A discussion happened on Polkassembly about a project.
- The project is now up for a treasury vote.
- The full details of the project are in a Google document.
- This is a special vote called "referendumV2."
- Only the person who made the proposal can change its details.
- If you are that person, you can log in and share more about your idea.

WHO: The proposer address E5oiBDNmhArBxBXK3C7phyGY9HB5zqtrVFxfeMzD9UV1hoa.

WHAT: A treasury vote for a proposal discussed on Polkassembly.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Elixir Docs

### Polkagate Extension

- **Purpose**: A user-friendly browser extension for interacting with Polkadot/Substrate blockchains.
- **Features**:
  - Manage accounts, transfer funds, and view balances.
  - Support for Crowdloans, staking, and Ledger devices.
  - Detect phishing websites and manage proxies.
- **Availability**: Available on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
- **Milestone 1**: Completed with various functionalities.
- **Milestone 2**: Planned features include identity management, OpenGov integration, light client support, social recovery, and miscellaneous updates.
- **Budget**: Requested allocation of 6,533.71 KSM (approximately 210,000 USD).
- **Full Proposal**: Detailed information can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOe8dNXycpu4RTmktVBeH9RAV-QW3jeUTHPxMw2rp6M/edit?usp=sharing).

Polkagate extension/wallet allows users to interact with Polkadot/Substrate based blockchains through a browser. The budget of **210 kUSD** is requested for the development of milestone 2, which includes adding identity management, OpenGov features, light client integration, social recovery, and other updates.

PolkaGate 2nd milestone

- East Asia has many skilled blockchain engineers looking for new projects.
- **HackaDOT 2023** is the first-ever hackathon in East Asia to bring these engineers together and promote Substrate and Polkadot technologies.
- The event will include workshops and activities similar to those at **Sub0 2022**.
- It will be part of **Buidl Asia 2023** and held both online and offline.
- The hackathon will run for 2.5 months, from March 22 to June 11, 2023.
- Goals include promoting Substrate, introducing developers to Polkadot, and showcasing real-world uses of the technology.

**WHO**: The organizers propose the FIRST-EVER hackathon in East Asia to unite blockchain engineers and promote the Substrate technology and Polkadot ecosystem.

**WHAT**: The HackaDOT 2023 aims to promote Substrate as an open-source framework, navigate local developers into the Polkadot Ecosystem, and showcase how Polkadot live-ecosystem leaders are building use cases using their technology.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES**: The hackathon will be held both online and offline from 22 March to 11 June 2023, with 2.5 months of execution. The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KT2EaGNAhdKvD1dv7AtlYFkN3wcvN7oSsshPROptvf8/edit?usp=sharing).

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