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- The Dots Magazine is a fun and easy-to-understand news media about Polkadot, a crypto ecosystem.
- It was started by two Polkadot fans in 2020 who wanted to share news and educate people about Polkadot.
- They use memes and humor to explain complex crypto topics in a simple way.
- The team includes John Mental and Mantra, who are both active in the Polkadot community.
- They have already gained 1.1k Twitter followers and created videos and interviews about Polkadot.
- They are asking for funding to make more professional content and help the Polkadot community grow.
- They have not received any money so far and are working as enthusiasts.
- Their goal is to make Polkadot more fun and accessible for everyone.

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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" in 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.
- **Funding:** 3,333 KSM (equivalent to 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

- We lost 50 KSM while trying to move it between accounts.  
- We used the wrong code, so the KSM disappeared.  
- The KSM didn’t go to any account—it’s lost in the system.  
- We made a mistake by not double-checking the code.  
- Developers are working to fix this problem in the future.  
- The 50 KSM was meant to bid for a special job (system-collator).  
- We didn’t win the bid, and now the KSM is gone.  
- We hope to recover the lost KSM.

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 

- The Polkadot OpenGov Observer is a Twitter tool for real-time updates on Polkadot OpenGov activities.  
- It helps people understand and participate in Polkadot voting.  
- The funding request was reduced from 200 KSM to 75 KSM based on community feedback.  
- The project aims to increase voter participation from 13.1% to 40%.  
- It uses tools like Subscan API, Twitter API, and Node.js.  
- The project is open-source on GitHub.  
- Future plans include expanding OpenGov awareness and engagement.  
- Created by Ashutosh Singh to grow the Polkadot community.

Polkadot OpenGov Voting Observer Twitter Bot

- **ParaSpell** is a set of tools for Polkadot and Kusama that help with cross-chain (XCM) transfers.  
- It has three main tools: **XCM SDK** (core tool), **XCM API** (simplifies XCM calls), and **XCM Router** (swaps assets while transferring).  
- **XCM SDK** works with 50+ chains and makes cross-chain transfers easy with one line of code.  
- **XCM API** helps developers by handling complex tasks, reducing server costs, and speeding up call creation.  
- **XCM Router** lets users send one asset and receive another in a single transaction.  
- The team has won awards and completed multiple grants to improve these tools.  
- They are asking for funding to keep these tools free and maintained 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 asked for money to keep working until December 2023.  
- They made a plan to keep their project running without needing more money soon.  
- They fixed their phone app and made it better.  
- They helped communities in Tanzania and Argentina.  
- They made a group in Zurich to help more people use their project.  
- They want to keep their project working well with a small team.  
- They will focus on helping places where their work can do the most good.

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 runs services connected to its RPC nodes, like a database size overview.
- The database size service gets data from archive RPC nodes and is mentioned in the Polkadot wiki.
- Funding for RPC services was not approved, so Stakeworld might stop or reduce these services.
- Stakeworld revived its snapshot service, which helps users sync their nodes faster.
- The snapshot service is useful because Beefy, a new feature, temporarily disables warp sync.
- Stakeworld is considering adding RocksDB support to the snapshot service for a few months.
- They hope to continue these services but need funding to do so.
- More details and a funding proposal can be found in their GitHub repository.

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 get small rewards for their work.
- They need more funding to do their job well and not cut costs too much.
- A long-term solution is needed to pay Collators fairly.
- For now, the Treasury can help by giving them money through a bounty system.
- This proposal asks for 844.654 KSM to pay Collators for their work from October to December 2023.
- Starting January 2024, a new bounty system will handle payments.
- The community is asked to review and share thoughts on the proposal.

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

- **Issue**: Deposits from Treasury spend proposals are locked due to the decommissioning of Governance 1.0 on Kusama.
- **Referendum 301**: Enacted the decommissioning, causing the deposit issue.
- **Referendum 301 Solution**: Proposes to slash and refund deposits to proposers.
- **Similar Action**: Similar to Referendum 73 on Polkadot.
- **Invalid Proposals**: Proposals 291, 292, 293, 294, and 296 are identified as spam and excluded from the refund.
- **Excluded Bonds**: Bonds from rejected proposals are also not included in the refund.
- **Objective**: To resolve the deposit lock issue and refund valid proposers.

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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