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- 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.

Awarded

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

Rejected

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.

Robots Waiting for Kusama: Milestone 1

The DotSama Experience - A virtual journey through the Kusama & Polkadot Networks

- A video is being made to help people understand how Polkadot and Kusama networks work.
- The video will show how the networks are built and how they function together.
- This is part of Phase 2 of the project, following the completion of Phase 1.
- The project uses music and visuals to explain the complex processes of Polkadot and Kusama.
- Links are provided to see the plans for Phase 2 and the results of Phase 1.
- The project is an experiment to make learning about these networks fun and easy.
- The current value of KSM (Kusama's token) is $383.69 USD.

Kusama Spending Proposal - Educational Music Video (Phase 2), Polkadot and Kusama Networks protocols and dynamics by NibbleBits

- **Proponent:** DQKDxdDvG6CMPasExAHC9H9VSpB6d8CcKnspphwXs28FzC6  
- **Date:** November 10, 2021  
- **Requested Funding:** $14,728 for 3 months ($4,909 per month)  
- **Purpose:** To keep Parachains.info running and improving.  
- **What It Does:** Helps people find and compare Polkadot and Kusama parachain projects.  
- **Problem Solved:** Makes it easier to understand parachain auctions and projects.  
- **Special Feature:** Shows auction events on a timeline, which helped during a specific auction.  
- **More Info:** Full details are in a linked document.

Proposal: Maintenance and future development of Parachains.info

Speck Wallet is a web extension designed for Kusama and Polkadot users to interact with their networks in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Brave. It has features like sending and receiving funds, address book, multi-wallet support, real-time fiat balance, access management, developer documentation, staking support, and hardware wallet support. The wallet will first support Kusama and Polkadot networks, with the possibility of expanding to other networks later. The project has three milestones, with payments alternating between Kusama and Polkadot, starting with Kusama. The current milestone is Milestone 1, and the Kusama rate is $403.06. You can find more information in the full proposal and recent discussions on Polkadot.

Speck Wallet - A new user-friendly wallet extension for the Polkadot ecosystem

Pinknode is a node-as-a-service platform that provides API endpoints and node operation services for the Polkadot ecosystem. They launched their MVP in June 2021, offering free API endpoint access to users for both Polkadot and Kusama mainnets and testnets. Pinknode has served over 200 million requests through custom and public endpoints. Their Phase 1 proposal aims to enhance the front-end for better user experience, management, and monitoring capabilities. This will help developers manage their project keys, gain insights into usage patterns, and collaborate with team members to manage infrastructure needs. The proposal covers half of the estimated budget, with the other half being covered by Polkadot Treasury.

Pinknode - Proposal: Improved dashboard for managing infrastructure

Polkassembly is a part of Polkadot and Kusama governance. It helps with decision-making and discussions. This proposal asks for money to keep Polkassembly running and to pay for things like maintenance and workers. The money will be used for the months of October, November, and December in 2021. They want the Kusama treasury to give them the money this time. You can read the full proposal by clicking on the link.

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Kusama Treasury

Statescan NFT business implementation and features polish

This page talks about a free public API service that helps people access Kusama, Rococo, and Statemine nodes. This service helps grow the ecosystem, scale projects, and test networks. Here are some important points:

1. In the last 3 months, the service had 8 billion requests and 56 TB of data.
2. The highest day had 229 million requests and 1.5 TB data.
3. Kusama had 10 billion requests since November, and the last billion took only 7 days.
4. The service made some improvements like a better dashboard, more data, better routing, and better health tools.
5. They want to help all parachain teams at launch.
6. You can use their public API service for free with 500,000 requests each day.

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2021)

Encointer is planning to launch its mainnet as a common good parachain on Kusama. They have a proposal that includes preparation tasks and operation expenses for onboarding. Many councillors have already shown their support for Encointer's plan. The proposal includes a description, budget, and roadmap. Encointer wants a common good parachain slot before slot 20 for 8 lease periods. At the end of the lease, they will check if Encointer has a working solution, an active ecosystem, integration with other parachains, and good governance. The treasury spend is 35,800 USD, which is equal to KSM at today's 30-day average price.

Encointer pre-launch expenses to become common good parachain

Nibble bits is a creative duo from London with over ten years of experience in visual effects. They have worked on projects like Jungle Book, music videos for Ed Sheeran and Chance The Rapper, The Last of Us 2 trailer, Xbox Series X cinematic, and Ridley Scott's Hennessy short-film. They have also worked with brands like Apple, Samsung, and Heineken.

Nibble bits is working on a project to create a visual interpretation of the Polkadot and Kusama protocols. This project aims to help people understand the technology behind these protocols through a music video. The video will focus on the rhythm of the music and the design chosen to represent the stages of the protocol processes. The project is an experiment for educational purposes and should be enjoyed as a piece of art.

The proposal for this project can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E14oPe0YU8jXA7Rp4khelZwGTNqJsFfEUTi9tRpVrDo/edit?usp=sharing). The current KSM rate is $345, based on a 30-day average rate tool by Subscan. This proposal covers the first allocation for two months of work, and a second final proposal will be submitted after a council review of the progress report.

Kusama Spending Proposal - Educational Music Video, Polkadot and Kusama Networks protocols and dynamics by NibbleBits

### Kusama Network RPC Service Proposal

- **Purpose**: Improve and maintain RPC nodes for Kusama network.
- **Impact**: Ensures users can access the Kusama chain if existing nodes fail.
- **Development**: Focuses on deployment automation (JuJu Charm) and multiple DNS registrars.
- **Pull Request**: Submitted to Polkadot.js Apps for RPC service integration.
- **Maintenance**: Covers first 3 months of upkeep while making improvements.
- **KSM Rate**: Uses 30-day average tool by Subscan for rate calculations.
- **Full Proposal**: Detailed document available for further reading.

 Proposal: Kusama RPC-node Dwellir

- Klever Wallet wants to add support for Kusama, part of the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They are asking for funding to make this happen.
- Klever Wallet has over 2.5 million users and 500,000 active users each month.
- The team has 50 developers and 24-hour support staff.
- They have already completed some steps (M1, M2, M3) with treasury funding.
- This is their second and final proposal to finish the integration.
- They shared a link to their full proposal for more details.

Treasury Proposals