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**Claudio (KryptosChain) YouTube Video Summary**

1. **Request for KSM Tip**: Claudio is asking for a tip of 6 KSM for creating two YouTube videos about Parachain news.
2. **Refund for Preimage Error**: He also requests 1.3 KSM as a refund for creating the wrong preimage in a previous proposal, resulting in a loss of KSM.
3. **Video Links**: The videos can be found at the following links:
   - [Video 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_iRg1kovE&feature=youtu.be)
   - [Video 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUBWRAsqS5U&feature=youtu.be)
4. **Transparency**: Claudio has added his public address to the video descriptions to ensure transparency.
5. **Referendum Link**: The proposal and referendum details are available [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/32).
6. **Acknowledgment**: Claudio thanks everyone in advance for their consideration.

Awarded

small_tipper

WHO: Claudio (KryptosChain)
WHAT: Requesting 6 KSM for 2 Youtube videos on Parachain news + 1.3 KSM refund for creating wrong preimage in a proposal
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 6 KSM + 1.3 KSM refund

[Small Tipper] - Request tip for production of 2 videos

- A tip of 0.000000000008 KSM was mistakenly entered, so vote for Referendum 31 instead.
- Derek from Metaspan created a dashboard to help check votes and delegations for 1kv validators.
- The dashboard is useful because it simplifies the process of checking votes.
- Validators can access the dashboard [here](https://metaspan.io/kusama/candidate).
- The dashboard shows information under the Referenda tab.
- A correct tip of 8 KSM (about 200 USD) is proposed for the dashboard.

WHO: The proposer.
WHAT: Proposing a tip of 8 KSM for the current version of the dashboard created by Derek of Metaspan for checking votes and delegations of 1kv validators.
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: 8 KSM (about 200 USD at the time of submission). No specific timeframe or resources mentioned.

[Small Tipper] OpenGov referenda dashboard for 1kv validators - wrong amount

**Summary of Post Content:**

- Derek from Metaspan created a dashboard for checking votes and delegations of 1kv validators after the launch of OpenGov.
- The dashboard simplifies the process, as validators previously had to use cumbersome methods or check individually on Subsquare/Polkassembly.
- The dashboard can be accessed [here](https://metaspan.io/kusama/candidate) by selecting a validator and going to the Referenda tab.
- A tip of 8 KSM (about 200 USD) is proposed for the current version of the dashboard.
- This referendum corrects a previous mistake in Referendum 30 where the tip amount was incorrect.

Metaspan has created a dashboard for checking votes and delegations of 1kv validators after the launch of OpenGov. WHO: Metaspan. WHAT: Create a dashboard. PRICE: 8 KSM (about 200 USD). TIMEFRAME: Not specified. RESOURCES: Not specified.

[Small Tipper] OpenGov referenda dashboard for 1kv validators - correct amount

### KAGOME Proposal Summary

- **KAGOME** is a modern C++ implementation of a Polkadot client, available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.
- It supports Polkadot.JS and can run as a validator, but currently lacks parachain support.
- The proposal aims to integrate parachains, implement warp sync, and support light clients.
- Other proposed features include dynamic pruning, lean BEEFY proofs, storage optimization, and multithreading.
- The first milestone includes parachain support, warp sync, light client protocol, dynamic pruning, lean BEEFY integration, storage optimization, multithreading, and general maintenance.
- The requested amount for the first submission is $565,000, equivalent to 17,953 KSM.

Treasury proposal: KAGOME – the C++ Implementation of Polkadot Host

- Lucky Friday team wants to provide RPC services for Kusama and Statemine networks.
- They plan to use secure, high-quality servers in their own data centers.
- They are worried about centralization risks from using big cloud services like AWS.
- They want to support popular apps like Polkadot.js and Talisman.
- They asked for $11,200 to start and $14,920 each month after that.
- If they get too much money, they will return the extra to the treasury.
- They have already shared their plan and got positive feedback.

Lucky Friday | Cost-Effective Proposal for High-Performance Bare-Metal RPC Nodes

**KusaMint**

KusaMint is a tool for NFT artists and collectors on the Kusama network. It helps people create and manage NFTs without needing to know how to code.

- **NFT Minter**: Easy-to-use interface for creating NFTs with different resources like base, slot, and common.
- **Snapshotter**: Tool to create lists of NFTs and their owners.
- **Notification Bot Factory**: Create bots to track NFT sales and prices on social media.
- **First Milestone**: Includes NFT Minter, Snapshotter, Notification Bot Factory, and full UI design.
- **Requested Amount**: 1493 KSM or $48,800.
- **Total Team Hours**: 1400 hours.

More details can be found in the full proposal.

KusaMint - A toolkit for creating/managing NFTs on Kusama

Rejected

invalid proposal

### Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Improve information accessibility and infrastructure for Kusama and Polkadot communities.
- **Content Indexer**: A tool to categorize and filter educational content, making it easier for users to find relevant articles and resources.
- **Target Audience**: Includes lurkers, content creators, and technical learners interested in Kusama and Polkadot.
- **RPC Nodes**: Expanding infrastructure with more RPC nodes, focusing on Asia and North America, to support increasing XCM usage.
- **Archive Nodes**: Adding archive nodes to strengthen the decentralized ecosystem's data footprint.
- **Community Involvement**: Encouraging community feedback and transparency in the proposal process.
- **Full Proposal**: Available for review and feedback at [this link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19LXxklsulLc87ffkwHPzfgfQwB86efytHl2SoatRXnU).

PolkadotSpace - Search Indexer and RPC end-points

- Summit Pais Digital 10th edition is a major technology event.
- It focuses on digital innovation and emerging technologies.
- Polkadot and Kusama will be highlighted.
- Important people from tech, politics, and universities will attend.
- The event aims to boost blockchain technology in Chile.
- You can find more details on their website and a proposal document.
- The original discussion is on Polkassembly.

Polkadot and Kusama participation in the 10th Pais Digital Chile Summit.

- **Event:** Blockchain Rio 2022
- **Date:** Planned for September 1, 2022
- **Location:** Brazil
- **Funding Request:** $244,043.80 USD (3,998.75 KSMs)
- **Key People:** Eduardo Cardoso (Executive Producer), Francisco Carvalho (Organizer)
- **Objective:** To establish ties with corporate, institutional, and government decision-makers, and to connect with students and professionals in the blockchain ecosystem.
- **Inclusivity:** Open to all projects and ideas, regardless of affiliation.
- **Support:** Received feedback from Parity, WEB3 Foundation, the Council, and various ecosystem members.

BLOCKCHAIN RIO /// PROPOSAL /// DOTSAMA ACTIVATION

Hello friends ,

### Encointer Funding Proposal Summary

- **Encointer** is a common-good parachain on Kusama, active since January 2022.
- They are seeking funding for their activities from October to December 2022.
- The proposed amount is **CHF 257,500** (about **USD 261,491**).
- Their main goals include growing the Zurich community, onboarding new communities globally, and integrating with other parachains.
- Encointer relies on grants and donations as they cannot promise a return on investment.
- This is the second part of a two-part funding proposal, with the first part already approved.
- They are also seeking a renewal of their common-good parachain lease.

Encointer Growth Treasury Proposal 2/2

**Proof of Chaos Project Update**

- The project rewards Kusama voters with NFTs to decentralize governance.
- They aim to improve voter participation by developing new tools.
- Two developers, niftesty and Thomas, will work on expanding the website.
- Gabriel will focus on making rewards more engaging and finding utility use cases.
- The goal is to increase the value of NFT collections and achieve self-sustainability.
- Funds are also needed to cover past project management expenses.
- Gabriel's pay rate has increased to $80/hour, aligning with other developers.
- The proposal for additional funding is available for community feedback.

Further funding for Proof of Chaos

**Polkadot Forms Proposal**

- **Author**: SrSlayer, Polkadot & Kusama Ambassador
- **Objective**: Create "Polkadot Forms," a series of quizzes in English and Spanish to educate the community about Polkadot and Kusama.
- **Format**: Weekly quizzes covering specific topics from November to January.
- **Purpose**: Engage and motivate the community through a fun and competitive learning environment.
- **Goal**: Build a knowledgeable community and attract new users.
- **Proposal**: Full details available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14q40d19SVQCyyLPFGdpS5ARJ6qh668YlgujI9RTgcrw/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Community Feedback**: Discussions and reactions on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SrSlayer_/status/1580544411661791232?s=20&t=IHaPLGeaAxt3eB7RI_H7Vg) and [Polkassembly](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1883).

Teach Polkadot & Kusama knowledge through a Forms Quiz

- Ishita- is the founder of PolkaSafe.
- She has a background in engineering and finance.
- She has been working in the crypto VC space for the last two years.
- Ishita became active in the DAO ecosystem and noticed a lack of user-friendly Multisig UX in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- PolkaSafe aims to build a user-friendly Multisig wallet UI for these ecosystems.
- The goal is to improve the UX for managing and transferring tokens.
- PolkaSafe is being built on top of Polkadot.js's security backbone.
- The full proposal can be read [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJyqo9Py3Tv_N9nw3D1Ggpkxk0ZfHuT9NnnIwMdv1pU/edit?usp=sharing).

Proposal: PolkaSafe proposes to build  a user friendly Multisig for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem

### BrightTreasury Proposal Summary

- **Objective**: Adapt BrightTreasury to support Kusama's Governance 2.0 changes.
- **Features**: Both Governance 1.0 and 2.0 will be supported in one app.
- **User Focus**: Designed for regular users, not just council members.
- **Team**: Bright Inventions, a team of over 70 developers and specialists.
- **Milestones**:
  1. Display Governance 2.0 proposals/bounties/child bounties/tips (3 weeks, $16,000).
  2. Show details of Governance 2.0 proposals/bounties/tips (1 week, $5,000).
  3. Allow creating and converting proposals in Governance 2.0 (2 weeks, $10,000).
- **Budget**: Total cost is $31,000 for all milestones.

BrightTreasury - adapting to governance 2.0 

**DeStore Summary**

- DeStore is an online marketplace for real-world assets with Digital Twins.
- It helps Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and DAOs get into Web 3.0.
- They want to add drop shipping to their system with Kusama's help.
- A trial will be done to test this, and a case study will be made.
- After the trial, DeStore will offer a long-term solution for Kusama merchandise.
- Links to more details are provided in the full proposal, discussion, MVP video, and Twitter.

DeStore | Kusama Merchandise Distributor & Dropshipping Trial 

- The Infrastructure Maintenance Bounty was an open-ended project.
- After a test period, the team published a report and a follow-up proposal.
- The proposal requests additional funds to cover ongoing costs.
- These costs support public infrastructure for the Kusama ecosystem.
- The infrastructure includes block explorers, governance forums, and more.
- The detailed proposal, spending analysis, and budget request are available in a linked document.
- The beneficiary identity is not visible on-chain but can be checked on Subscan.

Infrastructure Maintenance Bounty Top-up

### Summary of OnFinality's Proposal

- **Date:** 6th October 2022
- **Requested KSM:** 1,295.60 KSM (USD: $59,124.98)
- **Purpose:** To cover ongoing costs for high-performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Kusama and Statemine.
- **Service Highlights:**
  - Provided a free public API service for Kusama and Statemine nodes.
  - Reduced prices for larger customers by 30-40%.
  - Onboarded new networks like Avalanche and Juno.
  - Achieved 99.94% uptime for Kusama and 99.99% for Statemine.
- **Enhancements:**
  - Introduced API Insights for better dApp analysis.
  - Optimized costs and introduced new API plans.
  - Added support for Alibaba Cloud and new layer 1s like Avalanche and Juno.
- **Results:**
  - Served 4.932 billion responses and accumulated 56 TB of data egress.
  - Highest daily total was over 102 million responses.
  - All-time total for Kusama is over 35 billion responses since November 2020.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 2022)

- The team received feedback to separate the RPC and indexer into two different proposals.
- They removed the RPC from the current proposal.
- The proposal now focuses on a content indexer for Kusama and Polkadot.
- The indexer will categorize and filter search results for educational content.
- It aims to help users find relevant information from various sources.
- The target audience includes lurkers, content creators, and technical learners.
- The new proposal is available for feedback and improvements.
- The team emphasizes transparency and community involvement in the project.

PolkadotSpace - Search Indexer

- Polkascan Explorer's full stack is now open source.
- Developers and parachain teams can use it to run their own explorers.
- Dora team is already using it.
- Next step: improve the feature set.
- A treasury proposal has been submitted for these improvements.
- More details are available in the proposal.
- Questions are welcome.

Treasury Proposal for Polkascan Explorer Improvements

- The Bounty 12 Model has been developed with community help to create a reliable, multi-lingual information network for token holders.
- A final proposal video is available [here](https://youtu.be/K9XUBP-ticQ).
- A bulleted proposal for reference is available [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bec0T0M3c6RCxwoJWSBScAZWRcgpR9065K6qGp-0EJc/edit?usp=sharing).
- The WagMedia public report dashboard can be found [here](https://report.wagmedia.xyz/).
- A list of content creators supported by Bounty 12 is available [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XP7Fwj-UONqbf9FBUn2ublGozwnEV6roRXCwdWA8PNc/edit?usp=sharing).
- Translation and dubbing progress details are available [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tRgAZjAmdEEZx9m40lFDIAzCtghpY0SAleLQrTnMetQ/edit#gid=1619422460).
- Upcoming code development features are detailed [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12iO8bCCzKWLxH3wo1zhFkuB2NemNOE0NV8_B5KivgeI/edit?usp=sharing).
- Join WagMedia on Discord [here](discord.gg/YUXqjVXWtp).

Bounty #12 Top Up: Video Proposal!

- **Cervera** creates educational videos and interviews about Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
- Started on April 19, 2021, on the **Cryptonitas YouTube channel**.
- Two main playlists: one for **Kusama** and one for **Polkadot**.
- Videos are endorsed by the Council and submitted for Tips.
- Working on a proposal for Kusama's educational video tutorials.
- New proposal seeks funding for 64 videos from Nov 2022 to Apr 2023.
- Goal is to create an informed and valuable community.
- Full proposal and original discussion are available online.

Production of Kusama ecosystem educational videos in Spanish

**Sub.ID Features Proposal Summary**

- **Sub.ID** is a web app that helps you manage Substrate addresses and assets.
- It connects to over 30 Substrate chains and has a dedicated roadmap.
- The proposal seeks Kusama treasury funding for new features.
- **Batch One** includes:
  - Collator and validator staking.
  - Staking dashboard with analytics.
  - Crowdloan claims.
  - Cross-chain transfers.
- **Batch Two** plans:
  - Alternative balance view.
  - Accounts grouping.
  - Transaction history.
  - P&L analytics.
- **Batch Three** plans:
  - Mobile app.
- Only Batch One is part of the initial funding request.

Community-oriented Sub.ID features - Batch one

- **Who?** Sara has been dubbing Polkadot videos into Spanish for 9 months on the YouTube channel "Polkadot & Kusama - Doblaje al español."
- **What?** She plans to dub the "Polkadot Decoded 2022" playlist, which has over 100 videos totaling 34 hours.
- **When?** The project will run from October to January 2023.
- **Why?** To provide accurate information, cater to Spanish speakers with limited English proficiency, and make content accessible to blind Spanish speakers.
- **Amount requested:** 1,158.47 KSM ($51,158.3).
- **Marketing goal:** Aiming for 250,000 views across all episodes.
- **More info:** The full proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NCRXMI_woMHK6hhXKmr6jTss-sbSQOotH1QI55PP1Vw/edit?usp=sharing).
- **Discussion:** Original post discussions are available [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/1780).

Treasury Proposals