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- Stakeworld is asking for funding to support their services for Kusama and Westend networks.
- They want to maintain RPC services, which help users connect to the blockchain.
- They will set up and maintain bootnodes, which help new nodes join the network.
- They will keep database snapshot services running, which help users sync with the blockchain faster.
- They will contribute to the wiki with guides on setting up bootnodes and RPC services.
- They will maintain a script to help install nodes and a page showing database size history.
- This funding request is being made through OpenGov Treasury since the previous program ended.

Awarded

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Stakeworld is requesting funding for maintaining RPC, snapshot, and bootnode services for Kusama and Westend, along with contributions to the wiki and maintaining a node installer script and a database size history page. The proposal is an OpenGov Treasury request. No specific price/timeframe/resources are mentioned.

Request for funding of Stakeworld's RPC nodes, bootnodes and snapshot service 

- A request to fund maintenance for the **substrate-api-client** from May to July 2023.
- The **substrate-api-client** is a Rust library for connecting to blockchain nodes in environments without the Rust standard library.
- It helps developers interact with Polkadot or Kusama chains in special environments like IoT devices or trusted execution environments.
- This is a follow-up to a previous funding proposal for February to April 2023.
- The team is asking for ongoing funding but is requesting a smaller amount due to limited treasury funds.
- The focus will be on updates needed for the substrate framework.
- More details are available in the full proposal and discussion links.

WHO: Substrate-api-client developers
WHAT: Fund maintenance of substrate-api-client library from May 2023 to July 2023
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified, but a smaller proposal focusing on changes needed due to substrate updates due to limited funds in Kusama treasury.

Maintenance for the substrate-api-client May-23 to Jul-23

- OnFinality asked for 1,835.806 KSM (about $51,971.31) on May 8, 2023, to keep running their public infrastructure for Kusama and Statemine.
- They provide free public API services to help people access Kusama and Statemine nodes easily.
- Their service helps grow the ecosystem, supports existing projects, and provides data to improve network testing.
- In Q1 2023, they made many improvements, like adding new parachains and supporting multiple chains outside Polkadot.
- Their Kusama API served over 2 billion responses and had 99.96% uptime for Kusama and 99.99% for Statemine.
- They added new features like auto-expand storage, geolocation insights, and partnerships with other networks.
- OnFinality supports many new networks and ensures high reliability with 99.9% SLA.
- You can check live data on their status and network analytics pages.

**WHO:** OnFinality

**WHAT:** Running high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Kusama and Statemine, providing free public API service, adding new features, and making stability improvements.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** Requested 1,835.806 KSM (USD: $51,971.31) for ongoing costs in Q1 2023.

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2023)

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OneBlock+ proposes to continue the Polkadot Hackathon program from November 2023 to January 2024, with a final demo day in mid-January 2024 in Hong Kong. They request $368,499 USD | 90,540 DOT from the Treasury, with 5/6 of the fee to reward the hackathon winners and 1/6 to reimburse them for operating expenses. The goal is to promote Substrate and encourage developers to create projects and join the Polkadot ecosystem.

- A new proposal is made to fund RPC services for Kusama, Statemine, and Westmint.
- The community decided not to extend the previous program, so this is a treasury proposal instead.
- The proposal includes one milestone: running RPC services on dedicated hardware in Sweden and Tunisia.
- Kusama RPC node served 3,476,205 requests per day on average last quarter.
- Statemine RPC node served 584,707 requests per day on average last quarter.
- Westmint RPC node served 127,295 requests per day on average last quarter.
- The full proposal can be read in a linked document.

WHO: Team Dwellir
WHAT: Fund development and maintenance of RPC services for Kusama, Statemine and Westmint
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: One milestone to run RPC services on dedicated hardware in Sweden and Tunisia. Full proposal available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cNak64BEFB0nv9dZx05eN9VhQXDx_k5XkmsGL9bGriY/edit?usp=sharing).

Kusama RPC services Dwellir Q2 2023

- A proposal to cover costs for Parasnaps, a tool for fast snapshots, used from August 2022 to March 2023.
- Parasnaps was created to quickly restore validators, reducing time from ~40 minutes to a few minutes.
- Discussions led to moving forward with the proposal.
- Parasnaps was decommissioned in March 2023 as it is no longer needed with warp sync available.
- The proposal aims to retroactively cover costs for the last 8 months of Parasnaps' operation.

WHO: The proposal is made by Parity Technologies on behalf of Parasnaps.

WHAT: The proposal aims to retroactively cover the costs and work generated by Parasnaps from August 2022 until its decommissioning in March 2023.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The cost and resources required are not specified in the summary.

[Medium Spender] Retroactive parasnaps.io maintenance

6mths funding for Polkachu's Payout Bot

### OpenSquare Treasury Proposal Summary

- **Proponent**: OpenSquare (ESgz7GLVW7BL5DhRgpVnxSXVwaKt4ytWcrf52TY1GQD1cEb)
- **Date**: 03/22/2023
- **Requested Allocation**: $71,718.37 (1987.8 KSM)
- **Purpose**: Maintenance of governance tools, explorers, and dashboards in the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem.
- **Infrastructure Costs**: Includes server hosting, email services, and domain registrations.
- **Maintenance Work**: Involves server deployment, codebase updates, bug fixes, and collaboration with other teams.
- **Products Maintained**: Subsquare, Dotreasury, and Statescan.
- **Total Cost**: $71,718.37, to be paid in KSM based on the EMA7 price as of 04/18/2023.

WHO: OpenSquare team
WHAT: Proposing a treasury proposal to cover the cost for the maintenance of dotreasury, statescan, and subsquare for 2022 Q4 and 2023 Q1.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: $71,718.37, including servers, email service, domains, and maintenance work. Payment conditions: $69,000 for 138 FTE maintenance cost and 1987.8KSM with EMA7 price in 04.18.2023.

Subsquare, dotreasury and statescan retroactive maintenance for 2022 Q4 and 2023 Q1

- RadiumBlock wants reimbursement for RPC services for Kusama networks in late 2022 and early 2023.  
- They had no failures for over a year on their Kusama endpoint.  
- They are investing money to provide reliable and secure services at a fair cost.  
- They improved their infrastructure by using a mix of on-premise and cloud computing.  
- They added more edge locations and upgraded security.  
- Costs were reduced each quarter.  
- They are switching to a fixed pricing model, cutting costs by about 40%.  
- A detailed report is available online.

RadiumBlock seeks reimbursement for RPC services for Kusama networks in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023. They offer high-quality infrastructure services with significant investment and innovation, including a fixed SaaS pricing model from Q2 2022, resulting in a 40% cost reduction.

Reimbursement for RadiumBlock's High performance multi-geography RPC services for Kusama - Q4 2022 and Q1 2023

- A person wants to become an auditor for a community project.
- They have done 10 audits to show they are good at it.
- They are asking the community to let them join the team.
- They also want a small reward for the audits they already did.
- The reward is 1 KSM for each audit, totaling 10 KSM.
- More details about their work and the proposal are in a document.
- The community can discuss and decide if they should join.

WHO: The candidate seeking to join the auditor team.

WHAT: Getting onboarded as an auditor and receiving KSM value as a token of gratitude for the audit work done so far.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 1 KSM/audit for a total of 10 audits. No specific timeframe or additional resources mentioned.

Proposal auditor onboarding for Referenda #67 extension

- A team from Robonomics Network wants to teach people about web3 and blockchain.
- They noticed most courses focus only on money or are too hard for beginners.
- They plan to make easy-to-understand videos and materials about Polkadot and Kusama.
- The course will show how web3 can make everyday tasks safer and easier.
- They will use real projects like Statemine, Robonomics, and Moonriver as examples.
- The course will have two versions: one for Kusama and one for Rococo testnet.
- They will create videos, text materials, and a simple app for learning.
- They are asking for $27,572.5 (843 KSM) to complete the project in 5 months.

Robonomics Network proposes to create an educational course for beginners on Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. The course will showcase several parachains that solve common web2 tasks and demonstrate real projects and everyday examples. The project is designed for 5 months and requests a total of $27,572.5 (843 KSM) for YouTube video lectures, GitHub texts and source code, and a dapp with learning management system elements.

[Medium Spender] Kusama — From Theory to Practice Course

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Testing Referenda 

AIRDROP.COM proposes to promote Polkadot through media buying, creation of content, and distribution of DOT through airdrop. They aim to reach 61,000 new DOT adopters. The proposal requires a budget of $300,000 and will be implemented within a timeframe of 3 months.

WHO: Polkadot community and Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network. 

WHAT: Proposal to secure 6,075.79 DOT for Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network for services delivered for the period of 2 months - 08-09/2023. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The proposal aims to post-pay monthly operating costs of service providers until a more suitable solution (Bounty) is established.

Tip for Goku

- OpenBrush is a tool for making smart contracts in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The proposal asks for funding to develop new features for OpenBrush.
- OpenBrush helps developers create smart contracts more easily.
- The team wants to make educational materials and new standards for smart contracts.
- They plan to work with other projects like Astar, AlephZero, and Phala.
- The goal is to make Polkadot smarter and easier for developers to use.
- The full proposal has more details about their plans.

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Brushfam proposes to develop the 8-9 and 11-12 milestones of OpenBrush, a core infrastructure product for ink! smart contracts in the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal aims to create educational materials, establish new standards for smart contracts, contribute to the development of ink! smart contract language, and introduce new features to make OpenBrush more flexible. The price for the proposal is 3404.65 KSM.

OpenBrush 8-9, 11-12 milestones development (WASM smart contracts)

- SubQuery helps make Web3 apps by organizing and finding data from blockchains.
- In 2022, they made special tools called Dictionaries to help developers work faster.
- These Dictionaries helped over 1 billion times in 2022.
- SubQuery wants to make more Dictionaries for more blockchains in 2023.
- They aim for 99.99% uptime and to help 10 billion times in 2023.
- SubQuery's Dictionaries are open for anyone to use and improve.
- They are working to make it easier for new blockchains to join and use their tools.

**WHO:** SubQuery

**WHAT:** Requesting 1012.9419 KSM for ongoing costs in 2022 to run public-good SubQuery Dictionary Projects that serve pre-computed indexes of each block for most Polkadot and Kusama parachains, which enable teams to increase data indexing speed of their SubQuery projects by up to 10 times.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** 1012.9419 KSM for the whole of 2022 (01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022). Future targets include adding 20 more dictionaries to their suite of tools in 2023 and hitting a target of 10 billion requests to their dictionaries.

High Performance Data Indexing Tool (2022)

- A proposal called "Substrate in Bits" aims to help developers working with Substrate by creating detailed technical content.
- The content will focus on solving common problems faced by developers and will be easy to understand.
- It will be hosted on GitHub, allowing others to contribute and keep the content updated.
- The goal is to create 40 pieces of content, with priority given to the most common issues.
- Success will be measured by how many developers use the content and find it helpful.
- The project also includes monthly updates and a channel for developers to discuss the content.
- The full proposal and discussion can be found in the provided links.

**WHO:** The proposer aims to support ecosystem developers by creating technical content for Substrate developers.

**WHAT:** The proposal aims to create 40 pieces of technical content, called "Substrate in Bits", to address common issues faced by Substrate developers.

**PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES:** The proposal does not mention a specific price or timeframe, but the technical content will be housed on GitHub and will be collaborative, allowing engineers from the community to make contributions. The proposer also plans to run a "Substrate in Bits" channel and monthly analytics of the content's impact.

Treasury Proposal - Substrate in Bits

- **BigTipper #7 Resubmission**: A proposal to resubmit a previously approved tip for MathCrypto's work on a batch delegate webpage.
- **Original Proposal**: Submitted through OpenGov with a high submission deposit of 100 KSM.
- **Issue**: The enactment period was set incorrectly, leading to cancellation by Referendum #122.
- **New Proposal**: Includes the original tip amount plus reimbursement for the submission deposit.
- **Components**:
  1. 5 KSM for the original tip to MathCrypto.
  2. 100 KSM for the submission deposit reimbursement to TurboFlakes.
- **Purpose**: To correct the previous error and ensure the community's approved tip is honored.
- **Request**: Asking for votes and feedback from the community.

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WHO: MathCrypto and TurboFlakes
WHAT: Resubmit BigTipper #7 proposal with reimbursement of 100 KSM submission deposit
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 5 KSM for original tip, 100 KSM for reimbursement, through a batch call with two treasury spend calls.

Resubmission of previous proposal [BigTipper #7]

- Web3alert.io is asking for 545 KSM to maintain and develop their service for Kusama and Polkadot in 2023.
- Web3alert sends notifications for on-chain events on Kusama and Polkadot.
- They support Telegram, Slack, and Discord for notifications.
- In the past 6 months, they updated their service, added new features, and maintained high uptime.
- Plans for 2023 include keeping the service updated and adding new features.
- The proposal is for maintenance costs from January 2023 to January 2024.

Web3alert.io proposes to cover the maintenance costs and further development of Kusama and Polkadot integrations for the entirety of 2023 at a rate of 600 EUR/month per network, alternating between treasuries. They request 545 KSM, which is equivalent to 17,712 EUR, for this proposal.

Maintenance of web3alert.io Kusama and Polkadot integrations for 12 months

### Polkagate Extension

- **Purpose**: A user-friendly browser extension for interacting with Polkadot/Substrate blockchains.
- **Features**:
  - Manage accounts, transfer funds, and view balances.
  - Support for Crowdloans, staking, and Ledger devices.
  - Detect phishing websites and manage proxies.
- **Availability**: Available on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
- **Milestone 1**: Completed with various functionalities.
- **Milestone 2**: Planned features include identity management, OpenGov integration, light client support, social recovery, and miscellaneous updates.
- **Budget**: Requested allocation of 6,533.71 KSM (approximately 210,000 USD).
- **Full Proposal**: Detailed information can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOe8dNXycpu4RTmktVBeH9RAV-QW3jeUTHPxMw2rp6M/edit?usp=sharing).

Polkagate extension/wallet allows users to interact with Polkadot/Substrate based blockchains through a browser. The budget of **210 kUSD** is requested for the development of milestone 2, which includes adding identity management, OpenGov features, light client integration, social recovery, and other updates.

PolkaGate 2nd milestone

**Kusama Papercraft Marketing Initiative**

- **Objective:** Raise awareness about the Kusama network and its community.
- **Product:** 100 papercraft models of the Kusama logo (black canary).
- **Features:** Includes educational files, step-by-step instructions, and an NFT.
- **NFT:** Unique 3D design of the Kusama logo for users to claim.
- **Budget:** Covers design, production, packaging, and distribution.
- **Scalability:** Can be scaled up with non-industrial equipment and fine materials.
- **Distribution:** Packages will be sent to Parity offices for events.
- **Goal:** Expand the Kusama community and network growth.

The proposal seeks funding for a marketing initiative to promote the Kusama network by creating 100 papercraft models of the Kusama logo. The initiative aims to raise awareness, promote the brand, provide an educational experience, and encourage more people to participate. The budget includes papercraft design and production, packaging, educational files, NFT design and minting, distribution, and instructions. The initiative is scalable and can be expanded in the future. The proposal is committed to producing a high-quality product and will deliver packages to Parity offices. The fixed and variable costs of unit production will be calculated after the initial run.

Kusama Papercraft

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### Subsquid Archive Infrastructure Summary

- **Purpose**: Provides high-performance data indexing for Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- **Data Access**: Offers on-chain data in GraphQL format for major parachains.
- **Usage**: Used by Squids and for efficient data exploration.
- **Upgrades in Q4**: Improved TypeScript code, support for polkadotJS types, and expanded network support to 48.
- **Query Statistics**: Served over 128.5 million queries in Q4, with a peak of 1.8 million daily responses.
- **Trend**: Shows a growing trend in daily queries, partly due to new Archive deployments.
- **Future Plans**: Researching and implementing further improvements in Q1 2023.
- **Funding Request**: Seeking 3,594.64 KSM for ongoing costs.

Subsquid is requesting 3,594.64 KSM for ongoing costs to run high performance, scalable, and reliable data indexing infrastructure for most of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. The infrastructure provides access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot. The team has released incremental upgrades to the SDK and deployed new Archives, expanding the list of available networks to 48. Over Q4 2023, the infrastructure served a total of 128.5 million queries, with a growing trend towards the end of the year.

Treasury Proposals