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- A project to create a private money transfer system for Kusama Hub  
- Prize pool: $43,000 with extra rewards for finders and supervisors  
- Supervisors will oversee the project and return unused funds  
- Timeline runs from March to July 2024  
- Project includes smart contracts, a user-friendly website, and security features  
- Work is split into 3 milestones with payments for each step  
- All code will be open-source and shared publicly  
- Goal is to make private transfers easy and safe on Kusama Hub

Executed

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KSM RFP #1 - Shielded Kusama Hub Transfers - $50k Total Prize!

The Fellowship Collective is a group that works on projects related to Polkadot. They have rules that members must follow. If someone breaks these rules, they might be removed from the group. A person named Invarch did not follow the rules, so Gabe, who is an important member, thinks Invarch should not be part of the group anymore. The rules are called "tenets" and they are:

1. Always support Polkadot and not do things that hurt it.
2. Understand and follow the ideas and beliefs of Polkadot.
3. Follow the group's rules, habits, and ways of voting.
4. Be nice to other members and the people in the community.

TimedOut

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Remove Gabe from the fellowship

Reducing Inflation is a proposal to adjust Kusama's inflation parameters. The proposal suggests reducing the annual inflation rate from 10% to 5%, as the ecosystem has matured enough for long-term sustainability. The changed parameters include setting MaxInflation to 5% and changing UseAuctionSlots from true to false. The proposal also discusses reducing ideal bulk coretime sales to increase demand for KSM and adjust the core business model. The ideal bulk proportion is suggested to be changed from 100% to 40%. The proposer, a Kusama enthusiast, hopes the proposal will be well-received and contribute to the ecosystem's growth.

Rejected

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Reducing inflation and setting a realistic target for coretime sales

Birdbrain is a proposal to establish a leaderless Krievo-based collective as Kusama's on-chain innovation agency. The collective aims to coordinate the 10M DOT pledged by the Web3 Foundation to drive progress, unite KSM holders, ecosystem stakeholders, and new talent under a banner of bold innovation. Birdbrain addresses Kusama's fragmented efforts, unclear coordination, and erratic funding by uniting talent, coordinating chaos, and creating a cultural symbol. The collective can evolve into a multi-faceted face of the network, including a collective, brand, bounty, agency, bridge, product, template, and platform. Birdbrain is driven by principles of sustainability, regeneration, optimism, leadership, equity, diversity, support, scalability, and experimentation. Membership is based on the submission of original ideas, visuals, concepts, or artifacts as tribute to the network. The objectives of Birdbrain include activating funds, redefining Kusama, and reigniting its potential as a cultural force.

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Wish for Change: Establish Birdbrain as Kusama’s on-chain innovation agency

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[Runtime 1.4.2] Upgrade Asset Hub

This message is about a proposal to give money to help Public RPC Providers for 7 months. RPC Providers help with a computer system called Kusama. The proposal will cost $107,237.98 in total. The money will be given to the best service providers who follow the rules. If the service is not good, the providers can lose money or not get any. This plan has helped to reduce other funding requests and make providers charge a fair price. More information can be found in a link provided.

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Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 25

KSM trading has started on Hydration after referendum #490 approved 33,333 KSM in Treasury LP, allowing liquidity between Kusama and Polkadot chains. When transferring assets between the two chains, if a user doesn't have enough KSM/DOT, a portion of the asset is swapped for the native token to pay fees. However, the current liquidity is not enough, causing users to lose more assets to fees than expected. A new proposal aims to provide 333 KSM to a 2/2 multisig with signers Leemo & lolmcshizz. This will be split between Kusama AssetHub and Polkadot AssetHub to provide a base level of liquidity on each network, ensuring users only pay expected fees when making transfers. Any extra tokens will be returned to their respective treasuries.

small_spender

Polkadot/Kusama Asset Hub Liquidity for Bridge Fee Swaps

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SmallTipper

- **Kusama DAO Academy (KDA)** teaches blockchain to companies and schools in Latin America.  
- It focuses on tools like multisig, DIDs, and NFTs in Kusama/Polkadot.  
- **Goal:** Train 100 students in 6 months and partner with 2 universities.  
- **Funding needed:** 1,050 KSM (~$21,000) for 6 months.  
- **Future plans:** Open-source materials and paid certifications ($50 per student).  
- **Team:** GrowDAO has taught big companies and universities before.  
- **Why Kusama?** It supports fast, experimental projects.  
- **Help needed:** Community feedback and partnerships.

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Online Educational Program for C-Levels : A future Kusama DAOs Academy proposal. 

- A new upgrade (v1.4.1) fixes a staking bug.  
- The bug affected staking with nomination pools.  
- Changes come from a special Polkadot-SDK branch.  
- You can check the changes on GitHub.  
- Voting is happening on the Whitelisted Caller track.  
- The Fellowship is deciding if it should be approved.  
- A post-mortem explains the bug in detail.

Kusama Runtime Upgrade to v1.4.1

- Bloque helps people in Latin America use debit cards even if they don’t have a bank.  
- It works with Kusama’s blockchain to keep money safe.  
- Businesses can use Bloque to offer their own debit cards.  
- Users can load money with stablecoins and spend it anywhere.  
- Bloque’s first customer is CocoWallet, helping unbanked people in Colombia.  
- Every card swipe helps Kusama’s blockchain grow.  
- Bloque partners with Visa, Pomelo, and banks to make cards easy to use.  
- It plans to help 10,000 more people by 2025.

Empower businesses to launch debit cards and store their value in Kusama.

- Kusama wants 10 million DOT from Web3 Foundation to grow and experiment.  
- The money will help Kusama become a place for new tech like ZK (zero-knowledge) projects.  
- Kusama was first made as a test network for Polkadot but now wants to be its own independent network.  
- The DOT will be used over two years for grants, events, and projects on Kusama.  
- Some funds may go to hackathons, workshops, and ZK research.  
- Kusama wants to be a place for bold, creative, and experimental ideas.  
- The community must approve this plan before it happens.

A New Kusama Vision - 10 Million DOT from W3F & Transition Away From Being A Canary Network

PLEASE VOTE NAY

- A new tool lets developers add prepaid debit cards to their apps easily.  
- It uses Kusama, a type of digital money, to store value.  
- Works with big companies like Visa and banks in Latin America.  
- Helps people buy things online or in stores using crypto.  
- Keeps money safe with special security tricks.  
- Supports countries like Colombia and Mexico first.  
- If there’s a problem (like a refund), the system fixes it automatically.  
- Made by a team with experience in Web3 and finance.

Open debit card for developers powered by Kusama

Kusama is having a referendum to upgrade to version 1.4. This upgrade will let people in nomination pools join in making decisions, stop giving money to a group called Kappa Sigma Mu Society, and make some changes to how things work on Kusama. The upgrade will happen around 8am UTC on February 19th.

[Whitelisted Caller] Upgrade Kusama to v1.4.0

PLEASE IGNORE 

- A project called **chaOS** shows how a brand can change and grow, not just by changing a logo but by repositioning the whole project.  
- **Wish For Change (WFC)** is a proposal to get feedback from Kusama holders about evolving the Kusama brand.  
- Web3 Foundation owns the Kusama and Polkadot trademarks and might allow others to use them.  
- If the WFC passes, an official **Request for Proposal (RFP)** will follow to get ideas for the brand's evolution.  
- The RFP is a work in progress, and everyone is encouraged to share ideas and improvements.  
- Kusama wants designers and creative people worldwide to help redesign its brand.  
- This is the first step in giving more control and direction to the Kusama network through OpenGov.

[Wish For Change] Kusama brand evolution inc clarifying licensing / trademarks.

Deregister parathread 3390

- **Requested Amount:** 33,333 KSM  
- **Goal:** Help Kusama and Polkadot work better together by adding KSM to a special pool called Hydration Omnipool.  
- **How it works:** The KSM will be added to the pool to make trading easier between Kusama and Polkadot.  
- **Control:** The KSM will stay under the control of Kusama and OpenGov.  
- **No middleman:** This makes it simple to move value between the two chains without needing a central exchange.  
- **Similar to DOT:** It’s like how 1,000,000 DOT were added to the pool earlier.  
- **Result:** This will create a very liquid and easy way to trade KSM on Polkadot.

Kusama Hydration: Treasury LP

- Encointer is asking for funding for the second half of 2024.  
- They achieved a democratic decision system for their Zurich community.  
- Communities can now decide how to spend their money together.  
- The team won a Swiss blockchain award.  
- A new community started in Nigeria using solar power.  
- The Tanzania community is growing steadily.  
- Total funding requested: 64,300 CHF (70,910 USD).

Encointer Retroactive Proposal for July-Dec 2024

- The change increases `schedulerParams.lookahead` from 2 to 3.
- `scheduler.lookahead` shows which parachains will be scheduled soon.
- Currently, it shows info for only 2 blocks ahead.
- `asyncBackingParams.allowedAncestryLen` allows candidates to be built on 3 blocks.
- This creates a mismatch between the two values.
- Increasing `schedulerParams.lookahead` to 3 fixes this mismatch.
- It aligns the claim queue with async backing parameters.

[Whitelisted Caller] Update schedulerParams.lookahead configuration parameter to 3

- This is a request for more money to help Kusama's System Parachain collators.  
- Collators keep the network safe and working well.  
- They need 4,116.24 KSM to keep things running.  
- Past funding has helped, but more is needed now.  
- The full details are in a linked document.  
- Previous votes have supported collators since 2023.  
- This helps the network stay secure and decentralized.

Kusama System Parachains Collator Bounty #20 Top-Up Proposal - Jan/2025

- A proposal wants to fund 5 global summits to bring more investment to Polkadot and Kusama.  
- It follows a similar proposal that failed in Polkadot OpenGov.  
- Kusama has unique opportunities for artists, hackers, and innovators.  
- New projects like Virto, Brale, and dUSD stablecoin could attract investors.  
- If approved, HIC Fund II will invest in Kusama projects and use dUSD.  
- A Krievo DAO will help find and support new projects.  
- Summits will be held in Singapore, Istanbul, London, Zurich, and Riyadh in 2025.

Prestel & Partners: Family Office Investor Conference Series for Polkadot & Kusama.

- ParaSpell makes tools for moving things between blockchains  
- Their main tools are XCM SDK, XCM API, and XCM Router  
- These tools help developers build apps that work across many chains  
- The team has won awards and published research papers  
- They're asking for funding to keep their tools running for 6 months  
- Their tools are free for everyone to use  
- The team has 2 members who work full-time on the project  
- They've helped many projects in the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem

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