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- A new proposal is asking for funds to improve and maintain RPC services for Kusama and Statemine.
- It has two main goals:
  1. Keep running RPC services on better hardware to make them faster.
  2. Keep improving the RPC Performance toolkit, which helps all Substrate-based nodes.
- Last quarter, the Kusama RPC node handled over 5.5 million requests daily.
- A report was published about fixing performance issues, and a toolkit was created to help node operators.
- The toolkit has already made the RPC services more stable and capable.
- The full proposal can be read in a linked document.

Awarded

Update 2, RPC-node Dwellir

- A video about a news digest project is available online.
- The project helps people get daily news without confusion or bias.
- Many people liked the project and shared their thoughts.
- You can see what people said in a feedback form.
- The full plan for the project is in a document.
- People can share more thoughts in the video comments or on Twitter.
- The project team thanks the council for their time.

Proposal for funding Chrawnna Corp. Q2 Video Production of Dotsama News, Culture, Trends, Tech, & Education.

**PureStake and Decoded 2022: NY Chapter**

- PureStake organized Decoded 2022: NY Chapter with a budget of $500,000.
- They received $362,708 due to market volatility.
- Additional DOT tokens are needed to cover the full cost.
- A tip was initially suggested but later changed to a treasury proposal.
- The current DOT rate used for calculations is $6.969.
- PureStake received the allocation at $7.18 and used a 7-day average rate of $9.90.
- The original treasury proposal details can be found [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/127).

Rejected

Treasury proposal to cover difference in DOT rate from approval to transfer of funds for Decoded 2022: NY Chapter

- **Proposal Name**: Polkadot and Kusama Among the Stars  
- **Proposed by**: MrExcel  
- **Location**: Northern Chile  
- **Goal**: To create a unique experience for the Latin American blockchain community.  
- **Activities**: Talks in schools and universities, NFT contest, visits to astronomical observatories, hybrid meetups, and community bonding.  
- **Dates**: April 1-3, 2021  
- **Requested Funds**: 494.214 KSM (around $59,800 USD).  
- **Purpose**: To promote the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems and connect with the community.

Dotsama Among The Stars - Event Experience

- The first item of the RMRK2 Collection has been sent out to first-time voters.
- Voters get a shelf and an item, with more items added each time they vote.
- The goal is to make the collection self-sustaining without needing Treasury funds.
- The collection was originally planned as pixel art but is now more artistic.
- The change was made possible by working with talented artists.
- The project aims to make voting more fun and interactive.
- The creator hopes the community sees this as an improvement.
- Future plans include improving the collection and encouraging more voting.

Governance Rewarder Proposal - Milestone 2, 3 + General

- Encointer is asking for money to help run its parachain on Kusama.  
- They shared a detailed plan showing their costs from January to March 2022.  
- They also shared how much they spent in 2021 and their future plans.  
- They want to make Web3 more inclusive for everyone.  
- The total cost they need is $42,300.  
- This includes $27,300 for running the parachain and $15,000 for Subscan Indexing.  
- They used a 30-day average KSM rate of $140.155 per KSM.

Encointer parachain infrastructure and maintenance Q1 2022

- **Event Name**: Polkadot and Kusama Among the Stars  
- **Location**: Northern Chile  
- **Dates**: April 22, 23, 24, 2021  
- **Activities**: Talks in schools and universities, NFT contest, visits to astronomical observatories, hybrid meetups (in-person and streaming), and community bonding.  
- **Goal**: To create a unique experience for the Latin American blockchain community and promote Polkadot and Kusama.  
- **Requested Funds**: 439.7 KSM (around $59,800 USD at the time).  
- **Proposer**: MrExcel (Francisco Albornoz).  
- **Contact**: Email: fra.albornoz@gmail.com, Discord: mrexcel#1321.

- A proposal for a program called "Blockathon DAO pilot" to teach and build public goods.
- Created by Daniel Bar, who works on projects like Bitfwd, MetaPrime, and KodaDot.
- Happens from March 1-20, 2022.
- Asks for 156.90 KSM (worth $50,000) to fund the program.
- A 3-week learning program called "Learn 2 Earn" focused on Substrate (a blockchain tool).
- Ends with a competition called Blockathon.
- Helps Substrate teams find talented people and helps people find jobs in the Substrate ecosystem.
- Goal: Teach people about Substrate and connect them with projects.

Blockathon DAO pilot - Public goods learn + build 2 earn supporting DotSama ecosystem

- Kusama has very low voting rates, often less than 1%.
- Low voting is not good for a democratic and decentralized network.
- A new project rewards voters with NFTs to encourage more participation.
- Voters in recent referenda have already received NFTs.
- The creator is asking for community feedback on the project.
- More details and the full proposal are available online.
- A discussion link is provided for community input.

Governance Rewarder Proposal - Milestone 0, 1

- **Kusamaverse Project**: A 3D virtual world for the Kusama ecosystem where users can connect, participate, and create value together.
- **Activities**: Includes staking, parachain auctions, hackathons, and social gatherings in a shared metaverse experience.
- **Goal**: Make Kusama more accessible and engaging for both technical and non-technical users.
- **Current Issues**: The existing tools are complex and not user-friendly, making it hard for many to participate.
- **Team**: Odyssey, with experience in Web3 and blockchain since 2013, has organized large hackathons and built 3D collaboration tools.
- **Milestone 1**: Focuses on creating the first version of the Kusamaverse.
- **Future Plans**: Milestones 2-4 will build on the initial version, adapting based on feedback and learnings.

Building the Kusamaverse - milestone 1

- Extrinsics.io is a platform for building and signing extrinsics in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- It offers a user-friendly interface for both new and experienced users.
- Key features include a unified screen for encoding/decoding extrinsics, an intuitive decoder view, and an editable decoder UI.
- The platform supports signing extrinsics for both Kusama and Polkadot networks.
- The project has one milestone and is estimated to take 3 months to complete.
- Feedback is welcome, and the proposal covers all expenses.
- The Kusama rate is set at $206.654 based on Subscan's 30-day EMA.

Extrinsics.io - An improved extrinsics builder for Polkadot and Kusama

- A new website is being proposed for the DOTSAMA community.
- It will show wallet data like fees paid, wallet worth, and spending charts.
- Other features include total deposits, withdrawals, and monthly stats.
- The project is asking for 85.084 KSM (around $17,585) to build it.
- The full proposal can be found on Google Docs.
- Feedback and ideas are welcome from the community.
- Contact Lorimer Jenkins on Twitter, LinkedIn, or email for more details.

My Wallet Treasury Proposal

- Over 3 months, a public API service helped people use Kusama and Statemine nodes.
- The service handled over 9 billion responses, with 60 TB of data sent out.
- The busiest day had almost 400 million responses.
- Statemine had over 314 million API responses.
- More parachains connecting to Kusama increased the workload, so they upgraded their system.
- They noticed better performance when the CPU usage was below 50%.
- The total cost for running this service was $45,949.51.

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q4 2021)

- Jay Chrawnna creates educational and news videos for the Dotsama community.
- Started on June 11, 2021, with 102 videos across 5 series.
- Videos have 57,687 views and 3,118 watch hours.
- Proposal seeks funding for a daily show called "SER, Have ya’ Heard?"
- The show covers Dotsama news, culture, interviews, tutorials, and trends.
- Funds will support production, marketing, and community involvement.
- Full proposal and discussions are linked for more details.
- Community feedback is welcome.

Proposal for funding production of the week-daily SER, Have ya’ Heard? Community News Digest

- **SubVT** is a mobile app for iOS and Android that helps people run validators on Substrate-based blockchains.
- It has completed **Milestones 1-3**, which include planning, design, and backend work.
- The team is now working on **Milestones 4-5**, which involve finishing the app and testing it.
- They plan to start beta testing in May and release the app in June.
- The app will first support Polkadot and Kusama, with more networks added later.
- The team is also working on notifications, like SMS and emails, to keep users updated.
- They need **18,680.00 EUR** (about 82.23 KSM) to finish the project.

SubVT (Subtrate Validator Toolkit) Milestones 4-5 of 5

- SNI's Winter 2022 Hackathon is a 3-day online event with a 1-day showcase in Amsterdam.
- It includes two contests: a tech hackathon and a creative writing competition with NFT generation.
- The hackathon focuses on three themes: representing non-human life, governance models, and capturing nature's value.
- Winners will receive prizes totaling $15,000 USD in KSM equivalent.
- The event aims to develop tools that give nature an identity and make it profitable.
- The writing competition, "Nature Speaks!", invites creative works inspired by nature, with winners' works published and minted as NFTs.
- The event is supported by partners from the Kusama ecosystem, including Unique Network and Kilt Protocol.
- The final showcase will take place at De Ceuvel in Amsterdam in May 2022.

SNI’s Winter 2022 Hackathon Prizes

Statescan is a new explorer for Kusama and Polkadot asset parachains, including Statemine, Statemint, and Westmint. They are requesting a maintenance fee for the last four months (September 2021 to December 2021). They use three Hetzner VPS servers and two Contabo VPS servers for hosting and development. The total server cost for the four months is $210.48. Statescan has been continuously developing and maintaining the product, including integrating Statemint, improving performance, enhancing features, fixing bugs, and creating monitoring scripts. They are requesting $7,000 for one developer's work over the last four months. The total cost is $7,210, and they will alternate between Kusama and Polkadot for payment every four months. They will use the 30-day average rate from Subscan to calculate the total KSM allocation at the day of submission.

Statescan maintenance from 09.2021 to 12.2021

Nomi is a tool created by TurboFlakes to help people in the Polkadot and Kusama communities with staking. It helps users find the best Validators to nominate and makes the nomination process easier. The creators want to improve Nomi by adding new features and making it look better. They have already made some changes and released a new version called Nomi v2-beta. You can try it out at their website and give them feedback. They have also shared a detailed proposal with more information about their plans.

Nomi Tool Proposal: Nomi is a decision support tool for Nominators in NPoS networks

This proposal is about getting more money to improve the RPC service for Kusama. There are two main goals:

1. Use better computers to make the service faster.
2. Hire a developer to make the service use resources more efficiently.

They found a problem with the RPC service and want to fix it. This will help all RPC service providers save money. The proposal talks about two parts, but they will submit more parts later. You can find more information about the RPC service and the full proposal online.

 Proposal: Update 1, RPC-node Dwellir

The Kusama Council and MIDL.dev, an Estonian company, have proposed a treasury plan to provide blockchain database snapshots for the Kusama network. This will help node operators and validators with a functioning infrastructure. The service includes daily snapshots, a website for metadata and downloads, and incident management. MIDL.dev regularly generates these snapshots for their own use and the community, with open-source cloud automation code. The website, polkashots.io, has been operational for a year and is beneficial to the ecosystem by providing a quick recovery path for validators.

The proposal's operational expenses include labor costs of 660 EUR/month for two engineers and cloud costs with a 30% markup. The costs have increased due to the introduction of parachains, which require more storage. The proposal is for the Kusama portion of polkashots, and a similar proposal will be submitted to the Polkadot council. The total budget for the period is 8,931.14 EUR, which is equivalent to 32.34 KSM, considering the exchange rate and fees.

Polkashots.io maintenance

- Patract is making tools for Polkadot's Wasm contract technology.
- They updated tools like Himalia and Ask! to work with new changes in Wasm contracts.
- They fixed and improved features like debugging messages and signature recovery.
- They spent money on cloud servers for their API service, Elara.
- Himalia (a tool for Wasm contracts) was updated to support new formats and added new test cases.
- Elara (an API service) costs $74,980 for maintenance and cloud services.
- In total, they spent $77,380 in 2021, which is about 234 KSM.

Patract Labs' maintenance cost for Kusama of 2021

Nova Wallet is a mobile app for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. They have a new proposal to make the wallet even better. Here are the main ideas:

1. Add a DApp browser: This lets you connect to any web app in the ecosystem.
2. Integrate Statemine/Statemint tokens: You can use tokens from these networks in the wallet.
3. Add NFT support: You can now use and manage unique digital items called NFTs.
4. Improve staking: Make it easier to support the network by "staking" your tokens.
5. Rework and improve the user interface: Make the wallet easier to use based on what people say they want.

Nova Wallet wants to make an open-source, community-focused app that works well with all networks and has many features. They already finished a big project for the Kusama Council and community, and now they want to keep making the wallet better. You can read more about their proposal here: [Nova Wallet Proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W5EYOi8lxE6Xx3Zk9TKKrCOPGLYxqlcgjm0fgw5gaow/).

Nova Wallet Proposal: DApp browser, Statemine/Statemint integration, NFT support, Staking & UI rework and improvements

Proposal: CHAOS 2021 - Kusama Conference (Virtual)

Proposal: Parachain Lease Offering Dashboard

"Robots Waiting for Kusama" is a proposal to show the capabilities of the Kusama network for robotics technicians. The proposal has 5 milestones with 10 robotic devices each. The first milestone includes:

1. Talking to universities about using 10 robots for a demonstration.
2. Helping university members with technical support.
3. Getting the robots ready and making sure everything works.

For each robot, they will:
- Check and fix the robot's software if needed.
- Turn on the robot.
- Collect and send information about how the robot is working.
- Make a video, write down what they did, and share a report.

They are asking for 850 KSM (Kusama coins) to get the robots ready and pay for other costs. The first milestone will take about 12 weeks to finish.

Treasury Proposals