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### The Dots Magazine

- **Founders**: John Mental and Mantra, Polkadot enthusiasts since 2020.
- **Purpose**: To create entertaining and educational content about Polkadot for new users.
- **Content**: Highlights ecosystem updates, explains complex topics in simple language, and uses humor and memes.
- **Team**: John Mental is a Polkadot Senior Ambassador and Web3 content creator. Mantra is a Web3 addict and professional content creator.
- **Achievements**: Gained 1.1k Twitter followers organically, produced Blitz videos during Sub0 Polkadot Asia, and completed interviews with Jay Chrawna and Alice_und_Bob.
- **Funding Request**: Seeking 235.4209 KSM ($10,000 equivalent) for 6 months of operation.
- **Work Hours**: 14 hours per week, totaling 336 hours, excluding additional tasks.
- **Note**: Currently operating without external funding, relying solely on community support.

Awarded

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WHO: John Mental and Mantra, Polkadot enthusiasts and content creators.

WHAT: The Dots Magazine, a non-nerdy entertainment news media that educates people about Polkadot and its ecosystem updates in an easy language using memes and humor.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Requesting 235.4209 KSM ($10,000) for 6 months of operational work, with a working hour rate of $30 for 14 hours per week (including expenses on part-time production team), totaling 336 hours.

TheDots – The First Polkadot Non-Nerdy Media Outlet & Memes

### Proposal Summary

- **Objective:** Create a "DAO factory" on the Kreivo parachain to help users conduct real-world businesses.
- **Duration:** 3 months (Q2).
- **Scope:** Focused on onboarding 5 to 10 new DAOs by the end of Q2.
- **Budget:** 175,500 USD for 9 full-time employees over 3 months.
- **Requested Funds:** 3,333 KSM (approximately 168,449.82 USD).
- **Additional Work:** Contribute to the Polkadot protocol through governance improvements.
- **Long-term Goal:** Address social inequality through ongoing experiments and developments.

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Virto proposes a 3-month budget of 175,500 USD to onboard 5-10 new DAOs and build the most powerful DAO factory in the ecosystem. The funds will also be used to contribute to the core Polkadot protocol via the technical Fellowship. They are asking for 3,333 KSM, equivalent to 168,449.82 USD.

Virto team Q2

- A user tried to teleport 50 KSM from Bridgehub-Kusama to Kusama but lost the tokens due to an incorrect call-data.
- The error was "unroutable," causing the tokens to be lost in the system.
- The correct call-data was not used, leading to the failure.
- The tokens were not deposited anywhere, as seen in the events.
- The user requests recovering the 50 KSM.
- The mistake was due to not double-checking the call-data.
- Core developers are working on making such errors claimable in the future.
- The 50 KSM was intended for bidding on a system-collator slot for Bridgehub.

WHO: OpenGov
WHAT: Recover 50 KSM lost in a blockhole during a teleport call due to user error.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Recover KSM from a erroneous teleport/XCM call 

### Polkadot OpenGov Observer Proposal Summary

- **Funding Reduction**: The initial funding request of 200 KSM for Referendum 346 has been reduced to 75 KSM based on community feedback.
- **Project Overview**: The "Polkadot OpenGov Observer" aims to showcase real-time OpenGov activities on Twitter, providing monthly overviews of Polkadot OpenGov Treasury and voter participation.
- **Beneficiary**: The funds will go to the Polkadot OpenGov Observer Multisig with the address DZL1jjADYBhsRY9oJp8ETYtHV64Z4iz97Rvtj8pv2VP1nEN.
- **Purpose**: The project seeks to enhance community engagement, increase voter participation from 13.1% to 40%, and make OpenGov more accessible.
- **Tools Used**: The project utilizes APIs from Subscan, Polkassembly, Twitter, and others, along with Node.js and Express.
- **Current Stats**: As of now, 1,868,686.843 active voters participate in OpenGov, with a 13.10% referendum participation rate.
- **Future Plans**: The project aims to refine and expand its features, making Polkadot OpenGov a central hub for decentralized decision-making and community involvement.

Polkadot OpenGov Voting Observer Twitter Bot

### ParaSpell

**ParaSpell** is a set of tools designed to simplify cross-chain interoperability (XCM) on the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. It includes:

- **XCM SDK**: A core component that unifies XCM experiences across 50 parachains, allowing seamless integration into dApps.
- **XCM API (LightSpell⚡️)**: An API that simplifies XCM integration, reducing server load and costs.
- **XCM Router (SpellRouter☄️)**: A tool that enables cross-chain asset transfers and exchanges within a single call.

**Key Features**:
- Supports transfers between 50 XCM-compatible parachains.
- Handles various XCM transfer scenarios (UMP, DMP, HRMP).
- Offers asset queries, XCM pallet queries, and minimal deposit checks.
- Provides a keep-alive feature for secure transfers.

**Advantages**:
- Simplified API endpoints for faster integration.
- Built-in error prevention and DDoS protection.
- Package-less integration to save space.
- Automatic exchange chain selection with 579 asset pools.

**Team**:
- Committed to Web 3 Foundation grants and Kusama community trust.
- Award-winning for XCM API at Polkadot Global Series APAC 2023 Hackathon.

**Proposal**:
- Seeks $30,000 for 5 months of maintenance and support to keep tools free and reliable for the community.

ParaSpell, a team of two, is proposing to maintain and assist other teams in implementing their set of common good XCM tools for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. They are seeking $30,000 worth of funding for 5 months of maintenance tasks and assistance, divided into $6,000 per month and $25 per work hour. The proposal aims to keep their tools free for the community and includes their XCM SDK, XCM API, and XCM Router. Voting will take place from February 9th to February 22nd.

XCM ROUTER, XCM API & XCM SDK 5 months of maintenance and server cost coverage proposal

- Encointer team requests **CHF 89,000** (about **USD 103,240** or **2706 KSM**) from the Kusama Treasury for Sep-Dec 2023.
- Despite scaling down after Polkadot proposal rejections, the team continues to work on:
  - Conceptualizing a self-sustainable economy.
  - Integrating Encointer runtime into the fellowship repository.
  - Stabilizing and refactoring the Encointer mobile app using PolkaDart.
  - Growing communities in Tanzania and Argentina.
  - Establishing an acceptance point network in Zurich.
- Future plans include maintaining the Encointer parachain and focusing on growing communities in the Global South.
- Full proposal details are available in a [document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ep0MCQDMr--1y5CSYkIKS09oRwnnuyusDfH2S0j6oCw/edit?usp=sharing).
- The team appeared on [AAG 102](https://twitter.com/TheKusamarian/status/1752037309413793928).

Encointer team requests **CHF 89,000** for Sep-Dec 2023 to maintain and grow their self-sustainable economy project on Kusama. They aim to support global south communities and have achieved significant progress in integrating their runtime into the fellowship repository and stabilizing their mobile app.

Encointer Retroactive Funding for Sep-Dec 2023

### System Parachain Collator Bounty on Kusama

- **Purpose**: Fund System Parachain Collators on Kusama, similar to Bounty 20.
- **Coverage**: Asset-Hub and Bridge-Hub System Parachains.
- **Goal**: Incentivize efficient performance, minimize censorship, and ensure ongoing activity.
- **Funding**: Covers infrastructure costs and staking rewards.
- **Duration**: 6 months, starting from 1 January 2024.
- **Amount**: 1954.46 KSM for the two System Parachains.
- **Details**: Available in a [Google Document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14pRUj8WZPO75DuwDl4HoZU97v_Rmfx0bZ2KFqFW-qkE/edit).
- **Discussion**: Open on [Polkassembly](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/2613).

System Parachain Collators propose funding for Kusama's Asset-Hub and Bridge-Hub System Parachains. They request 1954.46 KSM for infrastructure costs and staking rewards for a 6-month period starting on January 1, 2024.

Funding of Kusama System Parachain Collators

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KusamaFly

- **Stakeworld Services**: Stakeworld provides various services connected to its RPC nodes, including a database size overview.
- **Funding Issue**: Recent treasury requests for RPC services were not approved, leading to plans to scale down or stop these services.
- **Database Size Overview**: This service, which is referenced in the Polkadot Wiki, may be discontinued without funding.
- **Snapshot Service Revival**: Stakeworld revived its snapshot service, which had not been updated but was being used more frequently.
- **Beefy Introduction**: The recent introduction of Beefy led to increased use of the snapshot service, prompting updates.
- **RocksDB Consideration**: Stakeworld is considering including RocksDB in the snapshot service temporarily until warp sync is re-enabled.
- **Proposal**: A proposal for funding these services is available [here](https://github.com/stakeworld/stakeworld-treasury/blob/master/2023-Q4.kusama.md).
- **Images**: The post includes images related to the database size overview service.

Stakeworld plans to scale down/stop some services due to lack of funding, including the database size overview service. They are seeking funding to continue this service and revive their snapshot service, which will include rocksdb for a few months until warp sync gets re-enabled with beefy. See their proposal for more details.

Database size service and temporary snapshot service revival

- Collators on Kusama System Parachains receive minimal rewards and transaction fees, which may discourage them from acting favorably or adequately resourcing their hosts.
- The proposal suggests long-term funding for collators, ideally provided by the chain itself, but in the medium term, funding can come from the respective Treasuries as bounties.
- This proposal is for the final monthly operating costs payment for Q4 2023, with future payments starting in January 2024 under a new bounty system.
- The proposal seeks 844.654 KSM for collators' services from October to December 2023.
- The Kusama community is encouraged to review and provide feedback on the proposal.
- The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UQi_DFP99i-VE8tOEQQHR10xqbIPHLqGHNW0f1imuEE/edit?usp=sharing).

WHO: Collators on System Parachains.

WHAT: Proposal to secure 844.654 KSM for Collators on the Kusama System Parachains network for services delivered for 3 months - 10-12/2023.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 844.654 KSM for 3 months - 10-12/2023. Future cost compensation will be done under the Kusama System Parachain Collators Bounty 20 starting from January 2024.

Kusama System Parachain Collators - Tips Q4/2023

- Kusama's Governance 1.0 was decommissioned, causing Treasury spend proposal deposits to remain locked.
- Referendum 301 was enacted to address this issue.
- This referendum aims to slash and refund Treasury deposits to proposers.
- The process is similar to Referendum 73 on Polkadot.
- Spam proposals (291, 292, 293, 294, 296) and older rejected proposals are excluded from the refund.
- The `forceBatch` call will handle the refunds.

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WHO: Kusama community 
WHAT: Slash Kusama Gov 1.0 treasury deposits and refund corresponding amounts to proposers in a batch call 
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified

Treasury Proposals