- The proposal asks for money from the Polkadot Treasury to help a Chinese non-profit group.
- The group's goal is to create better Chinese content about Polkadot.
- They want to explain complex ideas in a simple way for Chinese users.
- They plan to keep everyone updated on important Polkadot projects.
- The goal is to help more people learn about Polkadot and get involved.
- They are asking for about 1,883.18 DOT for three months to cover costs.
- The funds will help Polkadot grow and succeed in China.

Awarded

Treasury proposal: The June/July/August operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- Subscan is a website that helps people explore and check information on blockchain networks like Polkadot and Kusama.
- They have seen more users using their service since last August.
- However, the increased number of users makes it hard to keep everything running smoothly and costs a lot of money.
- Subscan wants to become financially independent but needs help right now.
- They are asking for financial support from the Polkadot Treasury to improve their services.
- They spent around $18,000 on costs related to Polkadot in a recent time period.
- They are requesting 780 DOT (a type of currency) to help cover these costs.

The Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot Network from March 2021 to May 2021

- Polkassembly is important for the Polkadot and Kusama networks.
- A proposal is being made for money to cover costs every three months.
- The money will help pay for maintenance, upgrades, and other expenses.
- The proposal will share costs for July, August, and September 2021.
- Funds are requested from the Polkadot treasury.
- The proposal will alternate between Kusama and Polkadot every three months.
- Links are provided to view the full proposal and discussions.

Social Contract between Polkassembly and Polkadot Treasury

- **Proponent:** Figment  
- **Date:** June 8, 2021  
- **Requested DOTs:** 1,300 DOTs  
- **Purpose:** To grow the Polkadot developer ecosystem.  
- **Platforms:** Figment Learn (education) and DataHub (infrastructure).  
- **Goal:** Help developers learn Web 3 and build apps for free.  
- **Incentives:** All DOTs go to developers; Figment keeps 0 DOTs.

Figment Treasury Proposal: Figment Learn & DataHub Milestone 5

- Polkadot Ecology Research Institute is a nonprofit group in China. 
- They have written 16 articles about Polkadot that many people have read.
- They want help from the national treasury for their work.
- With the support, they plan to create more good content about Polkadot.
- They also want to reach more people through different media.
- More information about their proposal is available in a document.
- They welcome any questions or feedback from councillors.

Treasury proposal: The April operating cost for the nonprofit organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

- Patract Labs created the Patract Open Platform to help with Wasm contract technology in Polkadot.
- Many projects, like Europa, are using this platform for development.
- Europa is a testing environment for running special contracts called Pallet-Contracts.
- Europa enables developers to debug their code and offers useful tools for contract development.
- The future plan for Europa includes making it easier to use and adding a new user interface.
- Europa will show more information about how contracts run and their connections with other accounts and actions.
- It will also package everything together to help developers set it up without trouble.
- The team plans to finish updates for Europa by June 17.

Patract's Treasury proposal for Europa v0.3 (contract and runtime sandbox)

- PolkaWorld wants to make a plan called a **Social Contract** with the Polkadot Treasury.
- PolkaWorld is the first Polkadot community in China and has been running for two years.
- They have helped the community by writing articles and organizing events to teach people about Polkadot.
- Now, they want financial support from the Polkadot Treasury to keep helping the community.
- They are asking for about **1885.98 DOT** for the months of June, July, and August.
- This funding will help them build a strong and fair Polkadot community in China.
- Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts or comments on this proposal!

A Social Contract between PolkaWorld and Polkadot Treasury - Ops and Maintenance proposal

Encode Club helps students learn about blockchain technology. Here are some important points:

- They work with 75 universities around the world.
- Encode Club organizes events like educational programs and hackathons.
- They want to start a new program to involve students in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- The program includes learning series, a special hackathon, and an accelerator.
- They are asking for money in five steps to support their projects.
- The first step needs about £30,000 to help 50 universities and 1000-2000 students.

Encode Club - university engagement programme - Phase 1 (out of 5)

- OnFinality is a platform that helps people build on the Polkadot blockchain.
- They have a new service called a shared node API, which was recently launched.
- The service helps developers by providing important tools they need.
- OnFinality has recorded over 1 billion requests for this service.
- They offer a free plan allowing 500,000 requests each day for users.
- You can create a free account to use their public API service.
- Their goal is to support all types of developers, from beginners to big teams.

High Performance Public Infrastructure (Ongoing Costs for Q2 2021)

M1-1: Private Assets

Redspot is a tool that helps people create special contracts using something called Wasm. Here are some important points about it:

- Redspot makes contract development easier by hiding complicated technical details.
- Several teams, like Acala and Plasm, are already using Redspot to build applications.
- Redspot has finished different versions, with the latest one being v0.3 which helps more developers join.
- In the upcoming version (v0.4), Redspot plans to support multiple contracts and create a user-friendly web interface.
- It will also allow users to compile contracts using Docker, making it easier for different computer systems to work together.
- There will be new features like plugins that make coding easier, such as using easy-to-read amounts for transactions.
- The goal is to make Redspot helpful for both new and experienced developers in building contracts smoothly.

Patract’s treasury proposal for Redspot v0.4 (Wasm contract scaffold)

- The project has finished the first part (M1) and it was approved.
- They will now work on the second part (M2).
- M2 has five main tasks to do.
- The first task is to let users manage multiple accounts.
- The second task adds notifications for important events.
- The third task customizes notifications based on user roles.
- The fourth task allows users to customize notification details.
- The fifth task improves the governance dashboard with new views.

Milestone 2 of Governance-focused Mobile App for all Substrate-based networks 

- Dotreasury is a project funded by Kusama that provides accounting information and allows community comments on expenses.
- The team plans to integrate Polkadot into Dotreasury and make improvements, like better code for supporting multiple chains and a price tracker.
- They will show fiat values of tokens instead of just amounts and will deploy a Polkadot archive sync node for better performance.
- The total cost for the project is $11,300, which includes expenses for developers and server fees.
- The team expects to deliver the updates within a month.
- They want to discuss the credit model for future work and have plans to share a draft document for it soon.

OpenSquare's treasury proposal for doTreasury polkadot integration

- PolkaWorld is asking for help to improve their website for the Polkadot Chinese community.
- They are the biggest Chinese community on WeChat but can only share one article each day.
- Many important articles are not shared quickly because of this limit.
- Currently, their information is only available on WeChat, which makes it hard for more people to learn about Polkadot.
- They want to add new features like real-time news and videos to their website to share content better.
- They are requesting 647.07 DOT to support the changes for the first three milestones.
- More details about the project and budget are in a provided link.

PolkaWorld treasury proposal: a website development for Chinese Community

- Figment wants to use 2380 DOTs to help developers grow in the Polkadot community.
- The DOTs will be given to developers as rewards for their work.
- Figment does not keep any DOTs for itself; all are for developers.
- They have two main platforms: Figment Learn and DataHub.
- Figment Learn helps developers learn about Web 3 development with easy-to-follow tutorials.
- DataHub gives developers access to tools to build their applications for free.
- This proposal aims to make it easier for developers to create and improve their projects.

Figment Treasury Proposal: Figment Learn & DataHub Milestone 1-3

- The team is following their original plan but realized they underestimated some parts of it.
- Testing for their project is harder than they thought, especially for the M8.3 part.
- They can't use some tools and have to make extra tests, which makes things complicated.
- The cost to complete M8.3 is higher than expected, now at 48,400 CHF.
- They plan to finish the work within 9 weeks after getting approval.
- The team also mentioned needing to fix a specific issue in their project.
- They provided links to reviews of their earlier work for reference.

SubstraTEE Scalability M8.3

**Stylo Proposal Summary**

- **What is Stylo?** Stylo is an offline wallet that makes it easy to store and manage digital money.
- **How does it work?** Users can scan QR codes to make transactions using their phone's camera, keeping their funds safe offline.
- **Development Need:** The proposal requests funding of 159 DOT (about $3180) to help create the app.
- **Developer Background:** Thibaut Sardan, a former Parity employee, is working on Stylo to make it easier for everyone to use.
- **Key Features:** Available on Android, it's designed to support various digital currencies like DOT and ETH, with a focus on user-friendliness. 
- **Future Ideas:** More features may include message signing and fingerprint unlocking.
- **Why Android First?** The app will initially launch on Android due to the developer’s lack of access to Apple devices.

Stylo - an offline wallet based on Parity Signer

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- PolkaBTC is a type of Bitcoin that works on the Polkadot network.
- It uses a bridge called BTC-Parachain created by a company named Interlay.
- PolkaBTC is currently being tested on a special network called Rococo.
- Interlay is launching a Beta testnet to check how well it works, especially some important parts called Vaults and Relayers.
- They are giving rewards to users who help test the system and provide feedback.
- Interlay wants to use some funds from the Polkadot Treasury to support these testnet rewards.
- More information about PolkaBTC and the bridge can be found on their websites.

Proposal: PolkaBTC Beta Testnet Incentives

- This is a proposal for a project milestone called M8.2.
- The project focuses on creating special sidechains that are safe and trustworthy.
- The team originally planned to spend 20,700 Swiss Francs (CHF) for M8.2.
- They had to work harder on the earlier milestone (M8.1) but will still stick to the original budget.
- They have 1.3 full-time workers ready and can finish the project within 3 weeks after approval.
- They are considering the current value of the currency and possible market changes.
- They suggest spending around 1,405 DOT (a cryptocurrency) from their treasury for the project.

SubstraTEE scalability M8.2

- PolkaStats is a special tool that helps people learn about and track rewards for a type of cryptocurrency called Polkadot.
- It was created by a group called La Colmena, which is based in Sevilla, Spain, and promotes sharing knowledge in Spanish about crypto.
- PolkaStats offers unique features like focusing only on Proof of Stake chains and being built with easy-to-use computer languages.
- In the last month, PolkaStats had 8,100 unique users from 133 countries.
- They are asking for money to cover costs from December 2020 to March 2021 to keep PolkaStats running.
- The money will help pay for the servers they use to operate PolkaStats.
- They want to ask for 37.08 DOT, which is about $700 at the average price they found.

PolkaStats treasury expense proposal - operation costs for Polkadot, 21.12.2020 to 21.03.2021

- **Proposal Overview**: This is a proposal to verify the completion of Milestone 1 (M1) for the Polkawallet Treasury Proposal.
- **Milestone 1 Goals**:
  - **Social Recovery Pallet**: Supports observer mode, account recovery settings, and agent operations.
  - **Offline Signature**: Implements QR code functions, direct transaction sending, and compatibility with Polkadot-js web wallet.
- **Verification Methods**:
  - Download the beta version of the app from the official website.
  - Follow guides to verify Social Recovery and Offline Signature features.
- **Funding Request**: The proposal seeks Kusama treasury funding, with the receiving address identified as `POLKAWALLET`.
- **Project Links**: Includes links to the project's GitHub, official website, Twitter, and contact email.

Polkawallet Treasury Proposal - M1

- Fearless Wallet is a mobile app for iOS and Android.
- It was created by SORAMITSU and supports Kusama Treasury.
- This app is special because it is made for Kusama and Polkadot systems.
- Fearless Wallet allows users to connect directly to the blockchain.
- The next stage of development (Stage 3) will focus on making staking easier and improving the app.
- The costs for this project are shared between Polkadot and Kusama.

Rejected

Fearless Wallet - Stage 3 Proposal - Staking, Libraries expansion, App Improvements 

- OnFinality is a platform that helps people build on the Polkadot/Substrate blockchain.
- They have launched a beta version of a shared node API Service, which allows developers to access Polkadot nodes easily.
- The service aims to support all blockchain developers by providing them with necessary tools to create their applications.
- On Finality has already handled over 3.2 million requests in one day.
- They are looking for funding to cover the costs of running their free public API service for Polkadot.
- Users can create a free account to access the service, and there will be limits on daily requests.
- Future enhancements and paid options may be available based on how many requests users need.

Treasury Proposal - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Ongoing Costs for Q1 2021)

- OneBlock wants to organize a Hackathon for Substrate developers in China.
- They are seeking 5786 DOTs from the Polkadot treasury to fund the event.
- The Hackathon will last 30 days online and include 2 days for offline presentations.
- OneBlock is a big community that helps teach people about blockchain technology and has trained many developers.
- The Hackathon aims to help developers turn their ideas into real projects using Substrate and Polkadot technology.
- Different teams can compete, and there will be sharing events to help developers learn more.
- The winning projects will be evaluated based on their business value, completion, innovation, and technical difficulty.

Treasury Proposals