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Polkadot proposes to develop a new liquidity pool for asset hub to enable early-stage teams to bootstrap initial funding in a sustainable manner. This would create tighter economic alignment between the treasury, native stablecoin integrations, and next-gen parachain teams. The proposal suggests introducing a bespoke LBP design to Kusama Asset Hub, which would lower barriers to entry for teams wishing to launch on coretime and smooth their path to liquidity in ACP and eventual CEX listings enabled by AH. The estimated cost for this proposal is $20-40k depending on eventual complexity.

WFC: Add a Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP) pallet to asset hub to enable initial price discovery and funding for next gen parachains.

Executed

The proposal is calling for Parity to reduce the price of registering a new project on Kusama, which is currently 1110 KSM (over $21k), compared to Polkadot's 3300 DOT (around $14k). The author suggests a price reduction to around 120 KSM to attract more developers and projects to Kusama. The proposal also urges KSM holders to take action and prevent Parity from pushing developers towards Polkadot.

Decrease the amount of reserved KSM when register thread id with code/genesis. Warning to all KSM holders and devs!

Kusama community proposes incentivizing parachains from treasury based on the amount of KSM coins on sovereign accounts. The distribution of KSM incentives to parachain/rollups will be automatic and proportional to the total KSM during the spending period. The proposal aims to drive development activity and real product on Kusama. The cost and timeframe for the proposal are not specified.

Wish for Change. Make Kusama Great Again.

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nay, wrong track. sorry.

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WHO: Kusama System Parachain Collators
WHAT: Proposal for a bounty top-up to cover infrastructure costs and staking rewards for five Kusama System Parachains (AssetHub, BridgeHub, Coretime, People and Encointer) for a 6-month runway, aiming to incentivize the best performance, minimize censorship, and maintain liveliness by securing treasury funding for the operational costs.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Funding amount of 7,926.62 KSM starting from July 1, 2024.

Bounty top-up of the System Parachain Collators funding on Kusama

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Encointer requests retroactive funding of CHF 49,350 for its expenses in Jan-Jun 2024. The proposal addresses concerns of duplicated spending and high treasury expenditure by producing a video and waiving 50% of team members' salaries. Encointer aims to build a common-good chain on Kusama for a more democratic and inclusive web3. Main achievements include community development, adoption of Encointer faucet, prototype for democratic community governance, and decentralization of infrastructure.

2nd Encointer Retroactive Proposal Jan-Jun 2024 (Waiving Salaries)

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Update Kusama v1.3.0

Ideal Labs proposes retroactive funding to develop and maintain a drand to Substrate bridge, bringing verifiable randomness to Kusama. The proposal includes a drand bridge pallet, a node template supporting arkworks host functions, a chain extension, and a contract environment for using randomness in ink! smart contracts, along with a demo dapp. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use module for other networks to acquire secure verifiable randomness and timelock encryption capabilities. Resources and timeline are not specified.

Drand Bridge Pallet | Retroactive Funding

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WHO: Alina, Rust/Substrate developer and Polkadot Blockchain Academy alumni.

WHAT: Creating beginner-friendly technical content on YouTube to attract more developers to the Kusama ecosystem.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting a tip of 110 KSM for the work already done. No specific timeframe or additional resources mentioned.

Retroactive tips for Rust content to onboard developers into PolkadotSDK

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SmallTipper

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WHO: Abdul Kabugu, a Polkadot contributor and developer.

WHAT: Create a unified platform for developers and users to discover and engage with apps, blockchains, wallets, and explorers built on the Polkadot ecosystem.

PRICE: $10,000 ($4,700 for Phase 1 and $5,300 for Phase 2).

TIMEFRAME: Phase 1 (Design and Prototyping) - 1.2 months, Phase 2 (Public Launch) - 1 month.

RESOURCES: UI/UX design, prototype development, feedback collection, public release, user feedback, bug fixes, ongoing support, and continuous improvement.

Polkadot Apps/Tools Discovery Platform

Kusama proposes to allow OpenGov to change the parameters of the burn mechanism, which currently burns 2% of treasury funds if not spent. This will enable tokenholders to control the protocol and avoid unnecessary burns. The proposal suggests that it should be quite trivial to make the BurnDestination configurable on runtime/governance as part of the new inflation pallet.

WFC: Allow OpenGov to change the parameters of the burn redirect if not currently possible with upcoming inflation pallet

WHO: H1qzURXmYGLfwMsviLpMeN8S9zjAPmc1LBCSeQkCAieKUFs

WHAT: Develop a BI and AI-powered information service platform for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem to address information fragmentation, improve information retrieval and transaction efficiency, enhance user experience, and increase user satisfaction.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 3270 KSM ($56833) from 2024/08/20 to 2024/11/20. Kusama treasury to receive 5% equity, while Polkadot treasury to receive 10% equity.

QueryWeb3

Subscan requests a reimbursement of $56,144.12 USD from the Kusama Treasury to cover the operation and maintenance fees for Subscan from April to June 2024, including server infrastructure, security, and personnel costs. The reimbursement will ensure the continuous operation and maintenance of Subscan, contributing to the growth and development of the Kusama network. The final KSM amount will be calculated based on EMA7 at the time of official submission.

Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Kusama & Statemine Networks (from April to June 2024)

WHO: Unspecified group proposing a new discussion forum. 

WHAT: Proposing a new discussion forum with structured debates, enhanced navigation, in-depth analysis, Q&A and compromise, proposal review, analytics dashboard, timeline slider, and chat functionality. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

OpenGov Argumentree: improve decision quality

Mimir 2.0 - multisig optimize and proxy pallet support

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

[Big Spender] Wrong proposal, please vote nay

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

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 curator of bounty 11

It Remains proposes to integrate Kusama and its Canary symbol into its media franchise, including books, TV series, WEB3 games, NFTs, augmented reality, and digital collectibles. The integration will include in-story gamification, KSM exclusive discounts, KSM rewards, and Kusama logo sponsorship at future events. The initiative aims to promote KSM among a vibrant community of nerds, gamers, and blockchain natives. For a detailed proposal, check the provided document.

Kusama X It Remains Integration and Promotion

Kusama is negotiating a $30m financing deal with ABO Digital to acquire stablecoins for the treasury, allowing for more active strategic planning and budgeting. ABO Digital would receive a 10% discount on the spot price EM7/14/30 etc, and there is a structuring fee for the deal. The deal is a convertible note structure, meaning the Kusama treasury receives stablecoins immediately while ABO has 12 months to sell down their received KSM. The size of each call on the facility is up to the Kusama community, and there is no obligation to draw down from the funding. The stablecoins from this deal can be natively minted in Kusama AH, with the yield remaining within the ecosystem.

WFC: Negotiate a $30m structured financing deal between Kusama and ABO Digital to acquire stablecoins for the AH treasury via a series of strategic draw downs over the next 3-5 years.

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