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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.

Awarded

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.

Klever Mobile Wallet Inclusion of Kusama (Milestone 3 & 4)

### 2022 Summer Polkadot Hackathon Proposal

- **Organizers**: OneBlock and Parity Asia
- **Previous Events**: Successfully hosted Polkadot Hackathons in March and June 2021
- **Objective**: Promote Substrate framework and convert learners into builders
- **Planned Events**: Two hackathons in June and December 2022
- **June Event**: Potentially aligned with Polkadot Decoded on June 29-30, 2022
- **December Event**: Exact dates to be determined (TBD)
- **Impact**: Previous hackathons helped developers use Substrate for projects
- **Request**: Financial support for operations and prizes

Rejected

OneBlock  The 2022 Polkadot Hackathons proposal 

- **Project Goal**: Make it easy for people to create, transfer, and burn NFTs on Statemine using KodaDot, a user-friendly interface.
- **Problem**: Right now, creating NFTs on Statemine is hard and not user-friendly.
- **What Will Be Done**:
  - Add a simple way to move KSM (Kusama's token) between Kusama and Statemine.
  - Build a tool to create, show, and manage NFTs easily.
  - Make it open-source so others can use and improve it.
- **Main Features**:
  - Create and manage NFT collections.
  - Show NFT details and metadata.
  - Transfer or burn NFTs.
  - Check balances to make sure users can mint NFTs.
- **Team**: Led by Matej Nemcek and Viktor Valastin, who have experience in blockchain and user interfaces.
- **Cost**: The project needs 27,000 € to complete.

Integrate Statemine interaction into UI of KodaDot

- **What:** PolkaStats is asking for 2.939 KSM to fund its operations for 3 months (September to December 2021).
- **Why:** PolkaStats is a block explorer for Kusama that helps users with staking and economic data.
- **How:** The money will pay for servers from Hetzner and Digital Ocean.
- **Cost:** 0.979 KSM per month, totaling 2.939 KSM for 3 months.
- **Who:** PolkaStats is part of La Colmena, a Spanish crypto community.
- **Different:** It focuses on Proof of Stake, uses JavaScript, and has a user-friendly design.
- **Past Funding:** PolkaStats has received funding twice before for similar periods.

Proposal to fund PolkaStats operation costs for Kusama network from 01.09.2021 to 01.12.2021

- A new tool is being made to help people create and move assets on Statemine.
- It will have a simple website to use.
- You can see how much money you have on the relay chain and Statemine.
- It helps you create new assets.
- It checks if you have enough money to do things.
- It shows all the steps needed, including moving money between chains.
- It does all the steps for you and tells you how it’s going.
- You can see the designs and give feedback.

UI for easier creation of assets on Statemine

Voxel Bridge is a special artwork that opened on August 10th, 2021. It is a big event in modern art because it exists in three different places: under a bridge in Vancouver, in an augmented reality app, and in the Kusama Network. The people who made Voxel Bridge have a report with all the details about how they created it, and they want everyone to know about it. They also made a video to show the artwork, which will be available for people to see by the end of September 2021.

Voxel Bridge 3rd and Final Milestone // Installment 3

- The post is about a request for funding to support the maintenance and development of dotreasury, a tool for exploring the Kusama/Polkadot treasury.
- They need money for server costs, which are $1350 for the last 3 months.
- They also need $5000 for ongoing development work, like improving the website and fixing bugs.
- A new feature is being developed to let people grade proposals, costing $1500.
- The total cost requested is $7850, which will be converted to KSM (a type of cryptocurrency) based on the current price.
- The work benefits both Kusama and Polkadot, but they are asking for funding from Kusama first.
- The team behind this project is OpenSquare, which works on creating tools to help projects and developers work together.

dotreasury maintenance from 05.2021 to 07.2021 and part of M3 features development

- Fearless Wallet is a mobile app for managing cryptocurrencies.
- It supports multiple networks like Polkadot, Kusama, and Statemine.
- Users can manage different tokens without switching accounts.
- It uses one private key for all accounts in a META-account.
- The app is open-source and works on iOS and Android.
- It is non-custodial, meaning users control their own funds.
- Over 25,000 active users and 150,000 daily requests.
- Developed by SORAMITSU and funded by Kusama Treasury.

Fearless Wallet - Multi-asset & networks support proposal

SubQuery and Fearless Wallet are working together to create an open source API for the Kusama blockchain. This API will help developers build applications that can access important data from the Kusama chain without having to directly query the chain data. The project has three milestones:

1. Create an open-source SubQuery project for common data.
2. Document and publish learning material and tutorials.
3. Implement the SubQuery project for Kusama.

The second milestone focuses on implementing the SubQuery project for Kusama, making it open source and available for everyone to use. This will improve the interoperability of decentralized applications (DApps) and parachains, and attract more developers to work on Kusama. The API is designed to work across any parachain, and the developers welcome feedback from the Kusama community to improve it over time.

Open-Source DApp API: Milestone 2

Ask! is a project that aims to provide contract frameworks and compilation tools using AssemblyScript. It allows contracts to run in the FRAME Pallet-Contracts and call each other. The development of v0.2 was completed a month ago, and v0.3 will add new features and improvements.

Main features of v0.3 include:
1. A project management tool called `ask-cli` that helps create and manage Ask! projects.
2. Performance optimizations, such as merging `@storage` and `@contract`, optimizing key generation logic, reducing calls to `seal_set_storage`, and defining the export format of Map and Array in metadata.json.
3. System parameter types in custom `env` to meet specific requirements.
4. Unit testing and documentation to help developers learn and use Ask!.

The development timeline for v0.3 is 10 weeks with a cost of $93,000. Verification of v0.3 can be done through the official npm library, examples, tutorials, and API documentation.

Patract's treasury proposal for Ask! v0.3 (AssemblyScript Contract)

- SubVT is a mobile app for iOS and Android devices.  
- It helps people manage validators on Substrate-based blockchains.  
- The app sends notifications about validator activities.  
- It includes tools to monitor node performance.  
- Users can view reports on validator earnings.  
- The proposal requests funding for the first 3 milestones.  
- The funding amount is 103.4747 KSM.  
- More details are in the linked document.

Treasury Proposal: SubVT (Substrate Validator Toolkit - former Subvalt) for iOS and Android - Milestones 1-3 of 5

**Proposal Summary: Integrating Kusama Support into DotScanner.com**

- **Objective:** Add Kusama support to DotScanner.com.
- **Cost Issue:** Hosting DotScanner is expensive, and adding Kusama support would likely double costs.
- **Proposal Focus:** Begin development with milestones 0 and 1.
- **Full Proposal:** Detailed proposal available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CYklxaMkBfZvf2ZEHj-OXgbGjrnvLDFvvvCl7ZkQcYk/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Funding Request:** 18.5 KSM, calculated based on the 30-day KSM rate.
- **KSM Rate Source:** [Kusama Subscan](https://kusama.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price).

DotScanner.com Kusama Integration & Extra Features Milestones 0 & 1

CryptoLab is a website that helps people manage their cryptocurrency investments, especially in staking. It is designed for non-technical users and aims to make staking as easy as investing. The website offers features like Portfolio Benchmark and Portfolio Management to help users choose validators and track their revenue. CryptoLab supports both Polkadot and Kusama networks, and this proposal is for milestone 1 on Kusama. The website also provides wireframes for better understanding.

Treasury Proposal - CryptoLab Staking Website (milestone 1)

Treasury proposal: a statemint fungible asset explorer by OpenSquare

- A new project aims to create a common API for DApps on Polkadot and Kusama.
- It will help apps like wallets and explorers work better with different blockchains.
- The project is a team effort between SubQuery/OnFinality and Fearless Wallet/SORAMITSU.
- First, they will make an open-source tool for sharing data.
- They will also create guides to help developers learn how to use it.
- The goal is to make DApps work better together and attract more developers.
- The first step is to design and share a common API for Kusama.
- They will ask the community for feedback to improve the API.

Open-Source DApp API - Milestone 1

Kusama has a proposal to make educational videos about KSM technology and philosophy. The first two videos are done. You can find the proposal and watch the videos on the links provided. People named Bruno and PARACT have commented on the proposal.

Kusama Explainer Video Series - Part 2

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 quickly set up or restore their infrastructure. The service includes daily snapshots, a website with metadata and download links, incident management, and redundant implementation setup. The website polkashots.io has been providing snapshots for validators for six months and is the only provider of this service. The proposal requests funding from the Kusama treasury every six months to cover operational expenses, including labor and cloud costs. The budget is calculated based on the exchange rate of KSM/EUR and includes a 5% slippage and conversion fee. If approved, work will start immediately.

Polkashots.io maintenance + improvements

VLN: Sube v1.0

- **Klever Wallet** is a popular crypto wallet used by over 2.5 million people worldwide.
- It supports 10 blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron, with more being added.
- The wallet is available on iOS and Android and offers features like staking, swapping, and buying crypto.
- Klever wants to add support for **Kusama**, a blockchain in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- They are asking for funding to include Kusama in their wallet.
- Klever has 50 developers and a 24/7 support team to help users.
- The wallet is secure, with features like facial recognition and military-grade encryption.
- Klever plans to expand its features into the Polkadot ecosystem in the future.

Klever Mobile Wallet Inclusion of Kusama (Milestone one and two)

The Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website (VRC) has entered Phase 2, which enhances the ranking method to better represent user preferences. The VRC score is now a major factor in the manual selection process, and new metrics have been added to reduce the information load on nominators. A new filtering technique helps to reduce the overall set of validators, making it easier for nominators to make appropriate selections. A staking dashboard has also been introduced, providing visual and numerical information about the network.

The proposal covers the development of milestones 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The majority of the work for these milestones has been completed, with the team finalizing details on M10 for further development. In Phase 2, the team extended previous work and incorporated three major upgrades:

1. A new manual selection for validators, taking into account custom scoring and a filtering technique to remove quantitatively dominated validators from the overall lists.
2. A dashboard that shows general information and graphs with metrics over time, making it easier to cope with the ever-changing nature of the network.
3. A process for nominators to cultivate their on-chain nominations by comparing past nominations to the most recent era and flagging critical events.

The proposal also includes a way to feature not-elected validators to incentivize their inclusion in the user's validator set. The final part of the VRC Development covers milestones 6 to 10, with a total estimation of EUR 4,000.00. Payment conditions include one submission per milestone, with subsequent milestones to be paid after delivery. The overall timeline is 5 weeks.

Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2) - Milestones 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Final submission)

### Stylo Wallet Maintenance Proposal

- **Purpose:** Covers maintenance costs for Stylo Wallet, including general upkeep, upgrades, and infrastructure.
- **Networks:** Supports both Kusama and Polkadot, alternating every six months.
- **Duration:** Covers May to October 2021.
- **Amount Requested:** 2,880.00 EUR or 8.90 KSM.
- **KSM Rate:** 323 EUR/KSM (based on monthly average).
- **Frequency:** Submitted bi-annually.
- **Beneficiary Account:** `ESByNCnB6Q3p5VQVEcEMvQCk6y6ahuSEv22oxxrQ2ybfggr`.
- **Past Info:** Detailed past upgrades and budgets available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18LI0BB5nnyhQJZW4-SdWOWy_Z6W3kObJUKSv53aU-fg/edit?usp=sharing).

Stylo wallet - recurring payment to cover maintenance costs

OnFinality is a SaaS platform that helps blockchain developers by providing infrastructure services for the Kusama/Substrate community. They recently launched a shared node API Service and are listed in the Polkadot.js app. They want to get funding to cover the costs of running two pools of Kusama nodes for Q2 2021. In Q1 2021, they served over 252 million requests. They will keep their free tier for users and maintain one-click deploy dedicated node access. You can access their public API service by creating a free account or connecting through Polkadot.js.

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Ongoing Costs for Q2 2021)

CryptoLocally is a global P2P exchange that allows people to trade cryptocurrencies without a middleman. They support many blockchain networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more. They make it easy for everyone to use cryptocurrencies and DeFi by offering many ways to buy and sell them. CryptoLocally wants to help Kusama and Polkadot by filling gaps that other exchanges don't cover. They hope to be a part of this ecosystem for a long time. You can read more about their plan by clicking on the link provided.

Treasury Proposals