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- **Issue**: Deposits from Treasury spend proposals are locked due to the decommissioning of Governance 1.0 on Kusama.
- **Referendum 301**: Enacted the decommissioning, causing the deposit issue.
- **Referendum 301 Solution**: Proposes to slash and refund deposits to proposers.
- **Similar Action**: Similar to Referendum 73 on Polkadot.
- **Invalid Proposals**: Proposals 291, 292, 293, 294, and 296 are identified as spam and excluded from the refund.
- **Excluded Bonds**: Bonds from rejected proposals are also not included in the refund.
- **Objective**: To resolve the deposit lock issue and refund valid proposers.

Executed

treasurer

WHO: Kusama community 
WHAT: Slash Kusama Gov 1.0 treasury deposits and refund corresponding amounts to proposers in a batch call 
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified

Rejecting Kusama Gov1.0 Treasury Proposals and Facilitating Bond Reimbursement whenever appropriate

### Summary of Kusama Relay Chain XCM Issue

- **Issue**: Kusama relay chain adds `SetTopic` instruction to XCM programs, which XCM v2 doesn't support.
- **Problem**: Relay chain sends XCM messages in v2 format, causing errors when destinations use v3.
- **Impact**: Mismatched XCM versions lead to failed transactions between relay chain and parachains.
- **Solution**: Set `safeXcmVersion` to v3 on the relay chain.
- **Outcome**: Relay chain will send XCMs in v3 format by default.
- **Long-term**: Defaulting to v3 is a strategic move for future compatibility.

whitelisted_caller

WHO: The proposal does not mention a specific organization or individual.
WHAT: Set the Kusama relay chain's `safeXcmVersion` to v3 to avoid XCM version mismatch issues.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal does not mention any specific cost or timeframe for implementation.

Setting the relay chain's safeXcmVersion to v3

- A bug in Kusama runtime 1000000 caused funds to get stuck.
- Worked with Parity developers to find and fix the bug.
- Created a GitHub issue to explain the problem and solutions.
- Shared details about the bug on Twitter.
- Suggested ways for parachain teams to avoid the issue.
- Made a test script to check the bug and verify the fix.
- Plans to set up tests to prevent similar bugs in the future.

small_spender

WHO: The proposer and Parity devs.

WHAT: Debugged and identified the root cause of the XCM bug in the new Kusama runtime 1000000, created Github issue, Twitter thread, suggestion to parachain teams, and a test script to reproduce and verify the fix.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Help debug and mitigate Kusama XCM issue

general_admin

Is Kusama(ie. Polkadot) actually open to collaboration with interested parties or still hung up on petty tribalism? Canary in the coal mine.

Kusama Welcomes Cardano Partner Chain

- Bounty 14 on Kusama is being closed.
- It is replaced by Bounty 24 on Polkadot.
- The bounty funded the Moderation Team, but they now get funding from Polkadot.
- Closing the bounty will return leftover funds to the treasury.
- The curator was already removed because their expiration date passed.
- This allows anyone to remove the curator without permission.

WHO: Will | Paradox | Ecosystem Janitor

WHAT: Proposing the closure of bounty 14 on Kusama as it is replaced by bounty 24 on Polkadot. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Closing Bounty 14 - Moderation Team Bounty

This is a ReferendumV2 post. It can only be edited by the proposer of the post .

Influx new builders and teams into the Polkadot ecosystem and boost the development of user-centric apps, dApps, and innovative toolings through Easybuild, a three-tiered retroactive reward system. The program aims to attract and integrate new builder teams by providing clear milestones, integrated support and mentorship, and funding. The program is cohort-based and consists of six-month modules that have a "building lag." The target is to attract 10-15 teams every month for 6 months to present their MVPs and initiate prototype development, propel 20 teams total from prototype creation to public beta testing, and onboard at least 6 teams in total, moving from beta testing to ecosystem integration.

- 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.

medium_spender

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

TimedOut

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WHO: WiseAdvice, led by Sumit Kapoor
WHAT: Orchestrate an educational campaign with a focus on Polkadot's technology, including interviews and videos for the Indian audience.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting 28,489 DOT (USD $149,000) on 23rd November, 2023. No specific timeframe or resource allocation mentioned.

- Uai so serious? managed the Polkadot Brasil Twitter account for 4 months.
- The account grew from 400 to over 645 followers during this time.
- Uai created posts, hosted Twitter Spaces, and represented Polkadot Brasil in discussions.
- Uai is a Brazilian builder, founder of a web3 podcast, and contributor to Bankless Brazil DAO.
- The proposal requests 35 KSM to reward Uai's efforts and improve his work tools.
- Uai plans to use the funds for better tools, health improvements, and spreading awareness.
- The community supports Uai's work, as shown by the voting results.

Polkadot Brasil proposes to reward Uai so serious? with 35 KSM for his contribution to managing the Polkadot Brasil Twitter account for the past four months. Uai so serious? has significantly contributed to the growth of the social media presence by creating engaging posts, hosting Twitter Spaces, and actively participating in other Spaces while representing the Polkadot Brasil account. The proposal includes materials such as the account's performance statistics, recent and upcoming Twitter Spaces, and proof of representing the Polkadot Brasil account during a call with SubWallet team. Uai so serious? plans to use the tip to upgrade his work tools and improve his health by buying an adjustable table and a comfortable chair.

Small Tip for "Uai So Serious?" for managing the Polkadot Brasil Twitter account and other initiatives.

Approved

[Whitelisted Caller] Referendum #297: Upgrade Kusama v1,000,000

referendum_killer

Referendum #295 tries to kill #287 & #289. People are disagreeing with each other tremendously, but they are still legit treasury proposals. Just vote Nay if you don't like it. Trying to kill them is clearly done in bad faith. So this is a counter referendum for referendum #295.

Kill Referendum #295 & Slash Proposer's Deposit

Kill Referenda 287 & 289 Slashing Decent Partners' Benefactor

- Kusama and Polkadot use groups of 5 validators to check parachain blocks.  
- A new idea suggests reducing the group size to 3.  
- Right now, 2 out of 5 validators must approve a block.  
- With 3 validators, only 2 approvals would still be needed.  
- This keeps the system fair and avoids conflicts.  
- Smaller groups help spread the work more evenly.  
- If some validators are slow, blocks might be skipped slightly more often.  
- But since groups change every minute, this shouldn’t be a big problem.

The backing group size on Kusama (and Polkadot) has been set to 5 (configuration->activeConfig->maxValidatorsPerCore). This proposal is aiming at reducing the group size to 3. Currently, when a parachain produces a block, it requires 2 out of 5 backing validators to verify and sign it in order to back it and move forward. With 2-of-3, we'd guarantee that backing quorum is a group supermajority, so there're not two competing 2/5 backed candidates. And one extra validator is allowed to be slow. Smaller backing groups should also contribute to distributing the load of approval-checking more evenly. There's a small risk, however, that with slow/unresponsive validators, parachain slots might be skipped more often with 2/3 instead of 2/5. This should not be an issue in practice since validator groups rotate every minute.

WHO: The proposal does not specify a particular organization or individual.

WHAT: The proposal aims to reduce the backing group size on Kusama and Polkadot from 5 to 3.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal does not mention any specific price, timeframe, or resources required for implementation.

Set backing group size to 3

Burn the Kusama treasury and turn the canary into the phoenix.

big_tipper

BigTipper

- **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.

Rejected

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.

- A Rust programming course is being proposed for a university in Bratislava  
- The course will last 12 weeks with lessons and practice time each week  
- Students will learn to build apps, understand Rust's features, and work on projects  
- The goal is to create skilled Rust developers for the Dotsama ecosystem  
- The course has 7 modules, weekly exercises, and a final project  
- Funding will cover guest teachers and video materials  
- Voting on the proposal will happen in October 2023  
- All course details are in the linked proposal document

## Dear Kusama community,

**Allow me to introduce you to our [proposal for 12 Week long Rust academic course](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vl8aR70PY5LxCUjE9LgncuEQzwT4xZq4kZ-M1_xll18/edit?usp=sharing) held on [Faculty of Informatics and Information technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava](https://www.fiit.stuba.sk/en.html?page_id=749).**

## Aim of this proposal:

The proposal aims to establish Rust course at Faculty of Informatics and Information technologies in Bratislava. It covers costs of special guests as well as costs for video. The expected outcome is to create an experienced Rust team capable of working on Dotsama ecosystem projects. This will benefit both our University and the ecosystem. Our faculty has an entire research group that focuses on Blockchain. Recently, we had an idea of forming a Rust course. This course aims to gain a team of Rust developers who can help us work on projects and innovations for Dotsama ecosystem. As we know, getting motivated developers into the ecosystem is a very hard task nowadays.

### High-level goals for students

1.  Ability to write custom CLI/server applications using popular crates or to contribute to existing projects
    
2.  Get practical, hands-on experience, so that students can create and write their own projects
    
3.  Deep dive, intermediate-level Rust skill
    
4.  Understand the problems Rust aims to solve
    
5.  Ability to judge whether Rust fits project requirements
    
6.  Understand why Rust features are the way they are
    

### Course structure

-   7 modules
    
-   12 weeks, 1 lecture of 90 minutes and 1 tutorial of 90 minutes per week
    
-   1 exercise set per lecture, to be completed during tutorial or at home
    
-   1 final project with a small report to be completed during the mentoring session or at home
    

**More details on course and each individual lecture can be seen in full proposal document below.**

## Proposal schedule

-   Discussion: 9. Oct. 2023 - 15. Oct. 2023
-   Voting: 16. Sept. 2023 - 29. Oct. 2023

## Documents associated with this proposal:

**[Full proposal (Contains detailed information on course structure)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vl8aR70PY5LxCUjE9LgncuEQzwT4xZq4kZ-M1_xll18/edit?usp=sharing)**

[**Delivery document (with Youtube video to lecture, photos of hanged posters at the faculty,  Github repo with all course materials)**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s-X9pQEGhotrfbTrLCZo2_MdhOuAE9QvjtzjQGsUzW0/edit?usp=sharing)

WHO: Faculty of Informatics and Information technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

WHAT: Proposal for a 12-week Rust academic course.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Costs of special guests and video covered. Discussion from 9 Oct. 2023 - 15 Oct. 2023, voting from 16 Sept. 2023 - 29 Oct. 2023. Full proposal and delivery document available.

Proposal: 12 Week Rust course at FIIT STU in Bratislava

- **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

big_spender

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

referendum_canceller

Feel free to vote AYE to cancel. Given preimage was missing, the proposal will probably timeout.

Cancelling initial Decent Partners collective proposal as missing preimage. 

CANCELLING + RESUBMITTING - PLS IGNORE.

- Encointer's lease ends on November 14, 2023.
- They want to extend the lease by 48 weeks.
- Encointer is now officially a system chain, approved by the Polkadot Fellowship.
- The Encointer runtime will move to the fellowship repository soon.
- The Encointer team promises to keep the network running for at least another year.
- They thank their infrastructure supporters: IBP, onFinality, and Stakeworld.

lease_admin

WHO: Encointer Association

WHAT: Proposing to extend Encointer's system chain lease by 48 weeks.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

System Chain Slot Renewal for Encointer

small_tipper

SmallTipper

- 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

Bounty 24 was created as a test by the W3F Tech Ed team. This referendum seeks to remove it as part of good chain housekeeping.

Cleanup on aisle 24 - Tech Ed test bounty

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OpenGov Referenda

Origin for signaling that the network wishes for some change

Able to spend up to 333,333.3333 KSM from the treasury at once

Managing the composition of the fellowship

Able to spend up to 8.3333 KSM from the treasury at once

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Able to spend up to 333.3333 KSM from the treasury at once

Able to spend up to 3,333.3333 KSM from the treasury at once

Able to spend up to 33,333.3333 KSM from the treasury at once

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