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**Polkadot js Plus Extension**

- **Overview**: A user-friendly wallet for Polkadot/Substrate blockchains, based on the original Polkadot js extension with added features.
- **Features**: Includes balance viewing, fund transfers, transaction history, QR code generation, staking, nomination pools, crowdloans, governance, and social account recovery.
- **Motivation**: Created to address user complaints about the complexity of the original extension.
- **Milestone 1**: Focuses on UI/UX redesign, nomination pools, and proxy account support.
- **Milestone 2**: Includes governance enhancements, identity management, and light client integration.
- **Community Feedback**: Adjustments made based on community input, reducing the budget for redesign and prioritizing critical features.
- **Future Goals**: To make the extension more standalone and decentralized, improving user experience and security.

Awarded

Polkadot js plus 1st treasury proposal

- **Event**: Latin America Hackathon
- **Objective**: Unite Latin American developers and promote Substrate technology
- **Duration**: 8 weeks (26 September to 19 November 2022)
- **Structure**: 
  - 6 days for pre-hackathon activities
  - 6 weeks for the hackathon
  - 10 days for judging
- **Focus**: Both web2 and web3 technologies
- **Location**: Online
- **Discussion**: [Kusama Polkassembly post](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1790)
- **Full Proposal**: [Google Docs link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1esL7hKvim9k1S5_PArJaBp80uFlfsE41zD_qUAue1BU/edit#heading=h.o0bnr72yk8mj)

POLKADOT HACKATHON LATAM

### Bounty #3 Summary

- **Objective**: Develop a signing solution to connect dApps and mobile wallets using Beacon Network.
- **Teams Involved**: Beacon team, Fearless Wallet team, Nova Wallet.
- **Timeline**: Completed by June 2022.
- **Funding**: Split into two parts due to financial risk. First part distributed in November 2021, second part in June 2022.
- **Challenges**: KSM price drop in 2022 led to insufficient funds for the second part.
- **Request**: Council asked to top up 1543.17 KSM to cover costs.
- **Future Plan**: Integrate Beacon SDK into Polkadot.js extension for broader adoption.
- **Contact**: Hanwen Cheng (Curator), Pascal (Beacon Network), Anton (Nova Wallet), Petrov (Fearless Wallet).

Bounty #3 Top-up Request

Proposal: parasnaps.io six months maintenance

- **Berlin Blockchain Week**: A week-long event from September 12th to 18th.
- **Organizers**: Led by parachains like KILT Protocol, Phala Network, Subsquid, and others.
- **Format**: Daily Polkadot-focused events on different topics (Cloud services, UI/UX in DeFi, NFT & metaverse infra, Polkadot updates).
- **Event Styles**: Varied, from boat parties to panel discussions and NFT art gallery events.
- **Live Streaming**: All events will be live-streamed and published on Polkadot's official platform.
- **Communication**: Events will be shared on the official Berlin Blockchain Week Telegram channel and the official events calendar.
- **Objective**: To promote the Polkadot brand and showcase the diversity of the ecosystem.
- **Full Proposal**: Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lNnZesUGUTBpr4k9fHLbr61J8qSWppc1/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108843802777947823356&rtpof=true&sd=true).

Parachain Event Series - Blockchain Week Berlin

### Sublab Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Develop tools for developers in the Substrate ecosystem.
- **Focus**: Create open-source libraries for mobile platforms in Polkadot and Kusama.
- **Team**: 3 engineers, including a Senior iOS Engineer and a former Technical Lead from Fearless Wallet.
- **Current Goal**: Start with SCALE codec development, as no ready-to-use libraries exist in Swift or Kotlin.
- **Milestone**: Implement SCALE codec and basic Substrate client libraries.
- **Mission**: Lower the entry barrier for mobile developers by providing reliable, well-documented libraries.
- **Financing**: Requesting $81,900 for the milestone, with plans to release code on GitHub and package managers.
- **Community**: Open to feedback and questions via the proposal document.

Sublab proposal #KSM-1: Foundation. Mobile SDKs for SCALE codec, Substrate client, fully covered with tests and provided with documentation

**KusamaHub Summary**

- **KusamaHub** is an analytic tool for NFT projects.
- It collects data from blockchain, social media, and project websites.
- Users can discuss and share opinions about projects.
- The tool provides detailed analytics on sales, prices, and holders.
- It includes features like a calendar, news, and widgets.
- Creators can add detailed information about their projects.
- Users can vote and comment on projects and creators.
- The platform aims for transparency and easy management.

KusamaHub

### Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI)

- **Purpose**: Supports wildlife conservancies and NGOs in building Web3 capacities for ecosystem protection.
- **Partners**: Includes Kodadot, Unique Network, Kilt Protocol, Momentum, and Ocean Protocol.
- **KWT Hackathon**: Focuses on wildlife identification using computer vision and Web3 technologies.
- **Dates**: October 7 to November 6.
- **Prizes**: 320 KSM in total, distributed among winners and runners-up.
- **Challenges**: Lion identification and predator-farmer conflict management.
- **Target Participants**: Labs, startups, and companies with expertise in Web3, token engineering, and computer vision.
- **Open Source**: All software developed must be open-source.

SNI Hackathon with Kenya Wildlife Trust: Treasury Proposal

**ONE-T Web Insights Proposal Summary**

- **Objective**: Create a web platform for visualizing Kusama network performance reports.
- **Features**: Include network status dashboards, validator data, real-time charts, and APIs.
- **Data Source**: Aggregates on-chain data from parachains.
- **Current Status**: ONE-T has been sending daily reports since April 2022.
- **User Base**: Over 170 members in public rooms and 250 active validator report subscriptions.
- **Daily Reports**: Sends over 600 reports daily to subscribers.
- **Maintenance**: Proposal includes ongoing operational costs.
- **Alpha Prototype**: Available at [apps.turboflakes.io](https://apps.turboflakes.io/#/one-t/kusama/parachains/overview).

ONE-T Web Insights proposal

### Summary of Polkawatch Proposal for Kusama

- **Kusama and Substrate**: Kusama and Substrate-based blockchains have potential for decentralized computing.
- **Decentralization Levels**: The level of decentralization depends on how the community deploys and operates these systems.
- **Polkawatch**: An analytic tool designed to measure the decentralization of Polkadot/Substrate’s validation process.
- **Proposal Goal**: To implement Polkawatch for Kusama to assess its decentralization.
- **Detailed Proposal**: The full proposal is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f7ZWZ0W6Njp5r3qnEVnh4vulBGDBHrQ7Fgzmpqazrl4/edit?usp=sharing).

Proposal for roll-out of Kusama Decentralization Analytics

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### Summary of Proposal

- This proposal is for paying infrastructure costs of the Polkadot network and its testnets.
- It covers costs from January 1st to June 30th, 2022, for services like GCP, Datadog, and Cloudflare.
- The goal is to simplify the billing process and make it easier for community management and supervision.
- The total amount requested is 13,091 USD, to be paid in KSM based on the EMA7 price on the submission date.
- The KSM amount calculated is 217.632.
- Detailed billing information is available in a linked document.

Subscan | Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Kusama Network

**Chrawnna Corp.** is a company that creates Dotsama-focused news and content. Here's what they did in 2022:

- **Q1**: Started 5 weekday news videos and created **WagMedia**, a Discord reward system.
- **Q2**: Launched **The Kusamarian** brand, got over 1,000 Twitter followers, and made 19 videos for **Polkadot Decoded Reloaded**.
- **Q3 & Q4**: Asked for less money to make content, planned a tutorial show, and wanted to improve **WagMedia**.
- They connected several treasuries to **WagMedia**, including the Kusama Treasury.
- They want to expand **WagMedia** to include more translations and non-English communities.
- They aim to decentralize award distribution and improve their bot, **The Concierge**.
- They made a proposal to add more features to **Bounty #12**.
- They shared a 6-month maintenance proposal with their team and plans.

The Kusamarian 6 Month Maintenance Proposal

### Governance Participation Rewards Project

- **Duration**: 4 months
- **Participating Wallets**: Increased by 700%
- **Turnout %**: Increased by 100%
- **Proposal**: Covers past expenses and funds website and side projects
- **Website**: Includes a quiz and vote module
- **Full Proposal**: Available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4M16KKLkHxtbgklZR8fA6TjwETvupGnImlO0Aujg1s/edit?usp=sharing)

Funding Governance Participation Rewards

- RadiumBlock aims to be a Web3 infrastructure provider for DotSama.
- They focus on providing high-quality RPC services for the Kusama network.
- The proposal covers ongoing costs for Q2 2022.
- Their infrastructure is low latency, geo-distributed, and scalable.
- They aim to ensure a reliable and healthy decentralized network.
- The detailed proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i0qCZTA9tL1zh7Z-cO_-aPaDJp88dyYy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114172945417100820622&rtpof=true&sd=true).

RadiumBlock Public Endpoint Service for Kusama (Q2 2022)

Treasury propoal: KSM initial liquidity subsidy for KSM staking liquidity derivative - vKSM

### Encointer Financing Proposal Summary

- **Project**: Encointer, a common-good parachain on Kusama.
- **Launch**: Onboarded on January 9, 2022.
- **Community Growth**: Launched a real community in Zurich in May 2022, growing to 130 users with 800 transactions in 40 days.
- **Funding Request**: CHF 340,000 (USD 350,892, KSM 6271.63) until September 2022.
- **Main Goals**:
  - Grow the Zurich community to prove viability.
  - Onboard new communities globally, especially in less developed regions.
  - Integrate with other parachains for sybil-defense and democracy.
- **Financial Strategy**: 70% of capital in DOT and KSM, but recent market corrections have reduced the runway to ~2 months.
- **Funding Source**: Relies on grants and donations as a common-good project.
- **Full Details**: Available in the [detailed proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eTyZGCTCzo7ZGonVtAmJmc5QYYI0qYHab6z8w56B_F0/edit?usp=sharing).

Encointer Growth Treasury Proposal

### Pendulum's Polkadot Decoded Viewing Event

- Pendulum hosted a special event for the DotSama ecosystem during the Polkadot Decoded program.
- Over 400 attendees were expected.
- Attendees could watch Polkadot Decoded talks live.
- They met key figures in the DotSama ecosystem.
- Pendulum hosted extra Polkadot-themed talks and panels.
- The event featured a coworking space, food, and drinks.
- An afterparty with DJs and fun activities followed the main event.

Polkadot Decoded: Pendulum Hub Viewing Party Berlin

### Summary

- **ParisDotComm** is a 3-day conference and workshop event.
- It will be held from **July 19-21** at the Arab World Institute in Paris.
- The event is organized by leading projects in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- The main goal is to bring together the Dotsama Ecosystem during ETHCC 2022.
- It aims to discuss Parachain progress and foster new collaborations.
- The event is led by experienced teams, including Elisabeth, Benjamin, and David.
- Over 10 partners are already involved.
- The event aims to create a space for exchange and collaboration in the blockchain world.

ParisDotComm 2022 event support - a complete Polkadot event during ETHCC - Paris

Funding Proposal for Polkadot Decoded Event Viewing Party Juba

- The event was held on the first day of Polkadot Decoded 2022 in Berlin.
- It was a Happy Hour event with drinks, food, and music.
- The venue featured green trees, music, and graffiti, reflecting Berlin's culture.
- The event was hosted by Acala, Astar, HydraDX, Interlay, and Manta Network.
- The proposer's address is FZXTQvVwJofMARvgpmJspmXa9fRBVTEzPY8qJSnWKA4dAyn.
- More details are available in a Google Docs document.
- The event link is on Eventbrite.

 Polkadot Decoded 2022 - Side Event in Berlin, Germany (Happy Hour)

Funding Proposal for Polkadot Decoded New Delhi Edition Event

### BrightTreasury Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Fund the integration of BrightTreasury with Polkassembly.
- **Purpose**: Share proposal ideas and comments between BrightTreasury and Polkassembly.
- **Benefit**: Facilitates discussions among users, especially those less familiar with Polkadot governance.
- **Project Link**: [BrightTreasury](https://treasury.bright.dev)
- **Features**:
  - Integration of proposal ideas on Polkassembly.
  - Cross-posting of comments between platforms.
  - "Likes" feature in BrightTreasury with UX improvements.
- **Target Audience**: Users who are new to Polkadot governance.
- **Milestones**:
  - Integrate ideas on Polkassembly.
  - Integrate comments on Polkassembly.
  - Add "Likes" feature and improve UX in BrightTreasury.

BrightTreasury - further integration with Polkassembly

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### Fearless Wallet Proposal Summary

- **Fearless Wallet** is an open-source mobile app for iOS and Android, and a library for Substrate.
- It is non-custodial, decentralized, and has a superior UX/UI, performance, and security.
- The wallet has over 130,000 users and 50,000+ active users monthly.
- It handles over 1 million daily requests to Kusama and Polkadot.
- The proposal focuses on UI/UX updates, NFT integration, democracy feature integration, XCM cross-chain teleports, staking updates, and a dApp connector/signer.
- The requested amount for the first submission is $318,500, to be recalculated based on the 7-day average rate.
- The first milestone includes new Wallet UI/UX, nomination pools, and half of infrastructural costs.
- A previous grant completion report and final demo are available.

Treasury Proposals