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- Rotki is a tool for tracking and managing your cryptocurrency portfolio.
- It works with popular blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin.
- Now, Rotki is adding support for Kusama Network, another blockchain.
- In Milestone 2, Rotki will show your Kusama transactions and staking profits.
- You can see your staking history and how much you've earned.
- All your data stays private and secure on your own computer.

Awarded

Kusama integration in Rotki - Milestone 2/2

### PolkaStats Proposal Summary

- **Project**: PolkaStats is a Substrate block explorer focused on providing staking and economic data for validators and nominators.
- **Origin**: Developed by La Colmena, a crypto community in Sevilla, Spain, which supports open-source projects and blockchain business models.
- **Unique Features**:
  1. Specializes in Proof of Stake chains.
  2. Built using JavaScript (frontend and backend).
  3. Uses Vue.js/Nuxt.js frameworks for frontend.
  4. Offers incipient wallet functionalities.
- **Kusama Metrics**: In the last month, PolkaStats had 2,800 unique users, 4,500 sessions, and visitors from 89 countries.
- **Previous Funding**: Last proposal was approved in September 2020, covering operational costs.
- **New Proposal**: Requests 6.27 KSM for operational expenses from December 17, 2020, to March 17, 2021, to cover server costs for Kusama and Westend networks.

PolkaStats treasury expense proposal - operation costs for Kusama, 17.12.2020 - 17.03.2021

### Summary of Treasury Proposal

- **Purpose**: Provide Kusama snapshots on Polkashots.io.
- **Snapshots**: Include archive and full node (pruned) snaps for Parity and Rocks.
- **Duration**: Initial submission for one month.
- **Cost**: 325 EUR, equivalent to 6.40 KSM (including 10% slippage surplus).
- **Next Steps**: Deploy snapshot engine upon acceptance, submit next proposal after one month.
- **Council Question**: Preference for monthly or quarterly proposals?
- **Submitted by**: MIDLDEV OÜ, a company registered in Estonia.

Rejected

Make Kusama database snapshots available on Polkashots.io

### dotreasury M2 Summary

1. **Account System**: Includes account registry, login/logout, and binding with web3 addresses.
2. **Funded Projects**: Details on funded projects, including summaries, fund usage, and related links.
3. **Remarks Support**: Allows logged-in users and anonymous users to leave remarks on expense and project details.
4. **Burnt Records**: Lists of burnt records without detailed information.
5. **Treasury Income Distribution**: Displays income sources like gas and slashing, possibly with a doughnut chart.
6. **Previous Work Polish**: Fixes and improvements based on M1 feedback.
7. **Time and Cost**: Estimated at 1.25 months with a cost of 438 KSM.
8. **Future Plans**: Includes integrating Polkadot after M2 and building a reputation system for treasury participants.

OpenSquare's treasury proposal for dotreasury M2

**Fearless Wallet**

- Mobile app for iOS and Android.
- Developed by SORAMITSU with Kusama Treasury support.
- First native app for Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems.
- Non-custodial, directly communicates with blockchain.
- Stage 3 focuses on Staking, app improvements, and library expansion.
- Budget split between Kusama and Polkadot treasuries.
- Proposer address: FyLYnuNoMAVkz1VZMMGZFHDPghQQm1916fCon1CqNt2aXbX.

Fearless Wallet - Stage 3 Proposal - Staking, Libraries expansion, App Improvements

### Summary of the Proposal

- **Purpose**: The proposal aims to help scam victims and combat illicit activities in the Polkadot community.
- **Provider**: Merkle Science, a blockchain analytics company, will focus on monitoring the Polkadot protocol.
- **Timeline**: The solution is planned to launch in December 2021.
- **Features**: The proposal includes phase 1 development and monitoring services.
- **Partners**: Collaboration with Michalis (Web 3 Foundation) and RTTI-5220 (Polkadot Council).
- **Monitoring**: Priority access for monitoring addresses on https://polkadot.js.org/phishing/.
- **Funding**: DOT rate calculated using Subscan's 30-day average tool.

Merkle Science - Proposal: Polkadot Transaction Monitoring

**OnFinality** is a platform that helps developers build blockchain apps by providing infrastructure services. They recently launched a shared node API service for the Kusama/Substrate community.

- They aim to make blockchain infrastructure easier to set up and use.
- They are applying for funding to improve their platform.
- The first milestone includes better analytics and geolocation routing for better service.
- They served over 5.54 million requests in one day.
- They offer a free tier with 500,000 requests per day.
- They also provide a one-click deploy dedicated node service.
- You can access their services through a free account or Polkadot.js.

High Performance Public Infrastructure - Milestone 1

**Polkadot Comics Treasury Proposal**

- **Project**: Create Kusama and Polkadot tutorials in comic format.
- **Goal**: Educate newcomers, expand the Polkadot audience, and keep the community updated.
- **Team**: Dan (Designer) and Alex (Copywriter, SMM Manager).
- **Experience**: Interested in Polkadot since 2019; created Polkadot Comics.
- **Budget**: $3060 for 12-14 weeks, with $510 per comic.
- **Milestones**: Two phases, each 6-7 weeks, costing $1530 each.
- **Social Media**: Active on Twitter, with over 300,000 impressions and 1000 followers.
- **Comics**: Original illustrations, open-source, and shared on social media.

Kusama Comics: visual explainers and Polkadot/Kusama blockchain promotion in social media. 

**Phase 2 of the Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website (VRC)**

- Improves the ranking method from Phase 1 by making the scoring model more customizable.
- Includes new metrics like performance based on historic data to help nominators.
- Introduces a new filtering technique to simplify the selection of validators.
- Adds a staking dashboard for visual and numerical information about the network.
- Allows users to import nominations and check for critical events.
- Follows a code of conduct to act in the interest of the network and nominators, ensuring objectivity and user preferences.

Proposal: Validator Resource Center and Ranking Website for Kusama (Phase 2)

### KodaDot NFT Explorer Project

- **Objective**: Extend KodaDot with an NFT explorer to allow users to explore, issue, query, and send NFTs.
- **Features**: Mint, transfer, and burn NFTs, with buy and sell features for a marketplace.
- **Target Audience**: Non-technical users who can use the platform from mobile devices.
- **Technology**: Built using VueJS, compatible with various NFT standards like ERC-1155, ERC-1633, and ERC-998.
- **Team**: Led by Matej Nemcek and Viktor Valastin, with backgrounds in VueJS and blockchain.
- **Current Work**: Prototypes for NFT exploration and AR/VR integration are already in progress.
- **Future Goals**: Create a user-friendly interface and explore new NFT applications like AR/VR and bundled scenes.

KodaDot NFT explorer

**Proposal Summary**

- **Objective**: Increase the Polkadot Spanish community by creating an Educational Hub.
- **Need**: Spanish-speaking community members need easy-to-understand information about the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Actions**:
  - Develop a Spanish community webpage.
  - Create guidelines and tutorials.
  - Produce Spanish blog posts, guidelines, and papers.
  - Translate Polkadot and Kusama Wiki and official documents.
- **Features**:
  - Website with video tutorials, translations, and official information.
  - Submission form for community content.
  - Information on validators and staking.
  - Space to learn Rust and other DOT-related languages.
- **Milestones and Budget**: Detailed in a linked document.
- **Next Steps**: Subsequent parts of the development will be proposed after council review.

POLKADOT EDUCATIONAL HUB IN SPANISH

### Ask! Smart Contract Language

- **Language**: Based on AssemblyScript (AS) and runs on Substrate FRAME Contracts.
- **Annotations**: Uses annotations like `@constructor` and `@action` to define contract interfaces, similar to ink!'s `#[ink(constructor)]` and `#[ink(message)]`.
- **Compilation**: Compiles TypeScript (TS) files into WebAssembly (WASM) bytecode using the `asc` compiler.
- **Compatibility**: Aimed to be fully compatible with ink!'s existing standards.
- **Components**: Includes `Contract Framework` and `Contract PreProcessor` to handle contract writing and metadata generation.
- **Tool**: `ask-cli` helps manage Ask! projects, similar to `cargo-contract` for ink!.
- **Future Plans**: Development phases include defining specifications, encapsulating APIs, and providing toolsets and sample code.
- **Cost**: Estimated cost for v0.1 is $93,000, with a monthly average of $56 per KSM.

Patract Hub's proposal for Ask! v0.1 (ink! in AssemblyScript)

**OnFinality**

- OnFinality is a platform that helps blockchain developers by providing infrastructure services.
- They recently launched a shared node API service for Kusama/Substrate.
- They are asking for funding to keep this service free for everyone.
- In January 2021, they handled over 3.2 million requests in one day.
- They offer a free tier with up to 500,000 requests per day.
- In the future, they might offer paid tiers for more requests.
- You can access their service through a free account or using Polkadot.js.

Treasury Proposal - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Ongoing Costs for Q1 2021)

### Virtual Niche Exhibition Summary

1. **Exhibition Dates and Locations**:  
   - From March 26 to April 11, 2021, in Beijing's UCCA Labs and Shanghai's JinArt Gallery.

2. **Purpose**:  
   - To promote Kusama Network and its cryptoart capabilities among artists, encouraging them to create and adopt cryptoart.

3. **Events**:  
   - Includes workshops, a crypto art creation competition, and a one-day cryptoart summit in Shanghai.

4. **Key Technologies**:  
   - Features Kusama Network's ORMLcrypto pallet, PolkadotAssetJS, RMRK.app, and Unique Network.

5. **Challenges Addressed**:  
   - High-quality artist demand, lack of efficient buyers, and educating non-crypto artists about blockchain and cryptoart.

6. **Opportunities**:  
   - Attracting traditional galleries and digital art collectors with user-friendly cryptoart solutions.

7. **Confirmed Artists**:  
   - Includes renowned artists like Ben Gentill, Mario Klingeman, and others.

8. **Milestones**:  
   - Four main phases: a crypto art competition, media announcements, grand openings in Beijing and Shanghai, and technical workshops.

"Virtual Niche" - The World's First Crypto Art Exhibition with Kusama Network

### Summary of the Proposal

- **Objective**: Ramp team wants to add support for KSM (Kusama) to their existing SDK, which already supports Polkadot.
- **Problem**: The Kusama ecosystem needs easier access for new users, as current methods involve centralized exchanges, which can be a barrier.
- **Solution**: Ramp offers a streamlined fiat-to-crypto on-ramp within apps, similar to Stripe for crypto, making it easier for users to buy KSM.
- **Benefits**: This would shorten the onboarding process from days to minutes, benefiting the Kusama ecosystem.
- **Request**: The team is asking the treasury to help with upfront costs to reduce risk and speed up integration.
- **Details**: The full proposal includes adjusted cost estimates and can be reviewed [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ksfQnat8jmwdLb-H_fJ3zxM9JoiVCFLCM3O9tTaPDZ4/edit?usp=sharing).

Ramp's treasury proposal for adding KSM to Ramp's SDK so that KSM could be bought frictionlessly across multiple dApps and wallets

**SubBooster: An Open Source Remote Compiling Tool for Substrate Developers**

- **Project Overview**: SubBooster is an open-source tool designed to speed up remote compiling for Substrate-based projects. It aims to reduce compilation time to 4.5 minutes and integrates features like on-chain identity.

- **Benefits**: The tool saves time for developers, lowers the entry barrier for newcomers, and creates more use cases for on-chain features like identity and voting.

- **Milestones**:
  - **Milestone 1**: Automates backend services and integrates with Kusama/Polkadot on-chain identity.
  - **Milestone 2**: Completes features and scales user onboarding.

- **User Targets**: Expects 200 users after Milestone 1 and 500 users after Milestone 2.

- **Technical Roadmap**: Includes backend automation, on-chain integration, and user onboarding over 4 months.

- **Post-Milestone Plans**: Continues service for 2 months and aims to keep it as a public infrastructure with minimal costs.

- **Treasury Request**: The team consists of 2 developers and 1 part-time community manager. A detailed budget is available.

- **Contact**: For more information, contact Kevin (no4long@gmail.com) or Popeye (popeye-rs@163.com).

Treasury proposal: SubBooster, an open source remote compiling tool for Substrate developers.

### Summary

- **Himalia** is a project aimed at providing multi-language SDKs for smart contract development in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- It focuses on supporting WASM-based DApp development and will offer SDKs in languages like Golang, Python, Java/Scala/Kotlin, and C#.
- **PatractGo** (Golang) and **PatractPy** (Python) are the first SDKs to be developed, supporting micro-service and script development, respectively.
- These SDKs will help developers interact with smart contracts from different terminals and languages, expanding DApp application scenarios.
- The project is part of Patract Hub's efforts to support WASM contract development.

Patract Hub's treasury proposal for Himalia v0.1 & v0.2 (WASM contract sdks in Go and Python)

- Rotki is a privacy-focused portfolio tracker for cryptocurrencies.
- It plans to add support for the Kusama Network, similar to Ethereum and Bitcoin.
- This will allow users to import accounts, check balances, view transactions, and see staking info.
- Rotki is open-source and keeps your data encrypted on your own computer.
- The project is part of a larger proposal with specific milestones.
- More details about the proposal and timelines can be found in the linked document.

Milestone 1 - Native Kusama support in Rotki

### Validators Ranking Treasury Proposal Summary

- **Milestone 1** was completed on 23.09.2020 for 95.14 KSM (USD 2,373.00).
- **Milestone 2** is on hold, with JSON and form developed but identity remarks not integrated.
- This proposal covers **Milestones 3, 4, and 5**, all completed.
  - Milestone 3: EUR 1,000.00
  - Milestone 4: EUR 1,000.00
  - Milestone 5: EUR 1,000.00
- **Total proposal**: 81.08 KSM (based on 37 EUR/KSM rate).
- Original proposal: [Link](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/48)

Payment for completion of milestones 3, 4 and 5 of Validators Ranking (Phase 1)

### OpenSquare Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Improve the treasury mechanism by incorporating community feedback and introducing a retrospective process.
- **Details**: The full proposal and discussions are available in [Post 352](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/352).
- **Milestones and Expenses**: Detailed information on milestones and M1 expenses can be found [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/352#182dea63-f93f-4f66-aa4f-e7a03bb483ab).
- **Team**: OpenSquare is a team focused on fostering collaboration between projects and developers.
- **Team Members**: Meet the OpenSquare team [here](https://www.opensquare.network/team/).

OpenSquare's proposal: extend treasury with community remarks and reputation building(M1)

### Metis: Wasm Contract Standard Library

- **Developed by**: Patract Labs
- **Purpose**: Create a Wasm contract standard library similar to Openzeppelin-contracts for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Key Features**:
  - Implements common contract components like ERC20, ERC721, and AccessControl.
  - Supports both ink! and Ask! versions of Wasm contracts.
  - Provides code examples and helper libraries to reduce developer effort.
- **Challenges Addressed**:
  - Lack of reliable common contract implementations.
  - Difficulty in achieving contract combination and expansion.
  - Absence of reliable public components and experience accumulation.
- **Roadmap**:
  - **M1**: Basic component macros and testing support.
  - **M2**: Complete component development support.
  - **M3**: Rich component library and API support for governance and financial mechanisms.
- **Timeline**:
  - **M1**: 3 developers over 5 weeks to implement and test Access, Security, and Token components.
- **Cost**: $31,500 for M1, funded by a Treasury Proposal of 1525 DOT.

Patract's treasury proposal about Metis M1 (ink! and Ask! Standard Library)

- Everdreamsoft proposes to build a library for NFTs on the Kusama network.
- The goal is to simplify the process of creating, viewing, and transferring NFTs.
- The project includes a web app to visually display NFTs from a Kusama wallet.
- An open-source library will be provided for developers to create their own NFT galleries.
- The library is written in Typescript and uses PolkadotJS.
- It supports the RMRK protocol and plans to integrate other pallets in the future.
- The library has an abstract architecture to easily add new NFT pallets.
- The proposal includes a class diagram to outline the library's structure.

PolkadotAssetJS an NFT interface for developers and artists

**SUBSCAN Proposal Summary**

- SUBSCAN is a tool for the Kusama network.
- They need funds to cover operating costs from December 2020 to February 2021.
- Costs include Google Cloud services like Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, and more.
- SUBSCAN has been paying these costs for over a year but lacks income.
- They are asking for financial support to keep operating.
- They plan to apply for funds quarterly or monthly based on bills.
- Their goal is to find a sustainable business model and eventually become self-sufficient.

The operating expenses of SUBSCAN (Kusama network)  from December 2020 to February 2021

- **Proponent**: 12WarfbFeUm5L9Fs5zkTaQQH7L5hqaGPEgM9vQ1UFK8kiUSK
- **Date**: June 16, 2021
- **Requested DOT**: 829 DOT (~ $25,000)
- **Objective**: Address the lack of a non-technical book on Polkadot.
- **Proposal**: Create a book explaining Polkadot from a non-technical perspective.
- **First Draft**: 90% completed, available for feedback.
- **License**: Creative Commons License (CC BY).
- **Edited**: October 6, 2021.

Proposal to expand the Polkadot ecosystem with a book for blockchain beginners

**Milestone 2 Proposal Summary**

- **Custom Derivation Paths**: Create multiple accounts from one master seed.
- **Export Accounts as JSON**: Allow importing accounts to different wallets.
- **Restore Account from JSON**: Use JSON files to restore accounts.
- **Import Wallet via QR Code**: Add QR code reader for importing mnemonic seeds.
- **Partial Seed Backup on NFC Tags**: Use multiple NFC tags for full seed recovery.
- **Finalize PWA Website**: Complete the Progressive Web App website.
- **Budget Adjustment**: Reduced from 1000 KSM to 433 KSM due to Kusama price increase and milestone 1 progress.
- **Community Support**: Thanks to the Kusama community and council members for their support.

Treasury Proposals