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- A person is asking for money to pay for their work checking other people's ideas for Kusama.  
- They have checked 9 ideas so far and did a good job.  
- They want to be paid $50 for every hour they worked, and they worked 2 hours on each idea.  
- They are only asking for money for 7 of the 9 ideas they checked.  
- They followed rules from a past vote to do their work.  
- You can see their work in a special document and a table they made.  
- They are saying thank you to the Kusama community.

Awarded

big_tipper

The proposal requests funding for audit reports on Kusama treasury proposals at a rate of $50/hour for 2 hours in each proposal. The proposal has conducted 9 high-quality audits so far and requests tips for 7 of them. More information can be found in the proposal document.

For 7 Kusama treasury proposal Audits

### OpenSquare Bounty Proposal Summary

- **Date:** 08.06.2023
- **Proponent:** OpenSquare
- **Bounty Address:** F3opxRbN5ZbjJNU513biNd7gHacZD1K3wU4M6Yiq3MZxZgf
- **KSM Requested:** 3,100 KSM

**Goals:**
- Create UI for Kusama/Polkadot business visualization.
- Engage more developers through child bounties.
- Facilitate collaboration within the Dotsama ecosystem.

**Achievements:**
- Developed a bounty site for collaboration.
- Released Statescan-v2, supporting multiple chains.
- Created child bounties for identity and vesting pallet scans.

**Budget:**
- Spent: 461.7 KSM (≈$15,000)
- Remaining: 262.77 KSM (≈$6,500)
- Final request: $80,000

**Questions:**
- Bounty site can be used by other bounties.
- Maintenance and development costs are separate.
- Bounties allow open participation and price discovery.

medium_spender

WHO: OpenSquare

WHAT: Implement UI, engage developers, facilitate collaborations in Polkadot ecosystem

PRICE: 3,100 KSM (requested), $80,000 (final request)

TIMEFRAME: N/A

RESOURCES: [Bounty #11](https://kusama.subsquare.io/treasury/bounty/11), [full proposal](https://hackmd.io/@WIq3uV0rRwS6W3GGj2pmyA/Sy9-nCF9t)

Visualize polkadot program phase1 bounty top up

small_tipper

SmallTipper

WHO: The ChaosDAO community.
WHAT: To offer a tip to Leemo, an active member of the community, for his contributions in educating and promoting the OpenGov mechanism for on-chain decisions.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

- Encointer is asking for money from the Kusama Treasury to cover costs for July and August 2023.  
- They also plan to ask the Polkadot Treasury for money starting in September.  
- The amount they need is about $234,000.  
- Encointer helps both Kusama and the whole Dotsama ecosystem.  
- Some people want teams to get paid after they finish their work, but Encointer says this is hard for small teams.  
- The founder of Encointer, Alain Brenzikofer, has worked without pay for a long time.  
- They hope people will approve their request because of Alain’s unpaid work.  
- More details are in their proposal document.

big_spender

Encointer proposes to cover their expenses for July and August 2023 from the KSM treasury, amounting to CHF 213,000. They also plan to submit a proposal to the DOT treasury to cover their expenses from September onwards. They oppose retroactive funding but highlight the founder's unpaid work as pre-investment.

Encointer Lease2 Treasury Proposal 2/2

EasyA requests reimbursement of $220,000 for hosting two in-person Polkadot hackathons at Harvard and in London, as part of their third milestone. The hackathons attracted top developers from within and beyond the Polkadot ecosystem, with over 40,000 developers brought into the ecosystem through their #60DaysOfPolkadot campaign. EasyA is committed to the long-term sustainability of the Polkadot ecosystem and has engaged with ecosystem projects to cover costs and expertise.

- Polkassembly helps with Polkadot and Kusama governance.
- They need money every three months for maintenance and costs.
- This time, they are asking the Kusama treasury for funds for April, May, and June 2023.
- They want to add new features like better notifications, spam control, and partnerships.
- They plan to make it easier to share and find information on the site.
- They will also add tools for users to report problems and see changes.
- The goal is to keep Polkassembly running smoothly and help the community.

WHO: Polkassembly

WHAT: Proposes a recurring quarterly payment to cover maintenance, operations, and human resource costs for Polkassembly, including general maintenance, runtime upgrades, and infrastructure costs. The proposal covers costs for April, May, and June of 2023. 

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: The Kusama treasury is requested to provide the necessary funding for this period. The proposal also includes various site-wide improvements, customization, anti-spam features, partnerships, and content & education initiatives. 

150 SYMBOLS LIMIT REACHED.

Polkassembly Maintenance proposal Q2’23

- A proposal called Referenda #177 was approved but didn't work as planned.
- It was supposed to happen at a specific block number, but something went wrong.
- The problem was that important information (preimage) was removed too early.
- This made the system unable to follow the instructions for the proposal.
- A new proposal is being submitted to fix this issue.
- Everything in the new proposal is the same, except for one small update.
- The person in charge apologized for the mistake and asked for support.
- The community is helping to make sure the new proposal works.

small_spender

WHO: OpenGov

WHAT: Resubmitting a previously approved proposal (Referenda #177) that failed to execute due to an oversight. All parts of the proposal stayed the same except the update of KSM EMA7 to $25.52.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

OpenCommunity Governance

- A follow-up proposal to Referendum 170 is being made due to a market downturn.
- The original proposal was for retroactive Parasnaps maintenance.
- The market price of KSM dropped below the expected price, causing a large difference in costs.
- The new proposal asks for $5748.15 or 223.02 KSM to cover the remaining costs.
- A screenshot shows KSM was sold at $24.75, lower than the expected price.
- The team provided daily snapshots for both Polkadot and Kusama relay chains.
- They ask users who used the service to confirm their statement about the snapshots.

WHO: The proposer (unspecified)

WHAT: Proposing to cover the remaining $5748.15, or 223.02 KSM at an EMA7 of $25.774 for KSMUSD for the retroactive Parasnaps maintenance proposal.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

[Small Spender] Parasnaps Maintenance Follow-up for Market Correction

- 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.

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)

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 proposal requests $65,724 to continue the Public RPC Provider service for Kusama for one year. It covers a previous tender period and the upcoming one. A GeoDNS system would connect users to the nearest available provider. Users can still connect directly to any provider.

Funding for Public RPC Providers (Kusama)

- 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

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.

Treasury Proposals