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- A new help program, called the Legal Bounty, is being started for teams working on Polkadot.
- The program offers easy and helpful legal support from an experienced law firm.
- Eligible teams include those building on Polkadot, creating products for the ecosystem, or supporting Polkadot directly.
- The legal help focuses on things like contracts, data protection, and setting up businesses.
- Costs for the legal help will be paid back afterwards and there will be clear billing.
- Teams can request a certain number of hours for help, usually up to 96 hours.
- The program is now live, and teams can join via a special Discord link for legal requests.

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Polkadot Legal Bounty

NaviDOT is a Christmas-themed campaign by Polkadot Peru that aims to promote creativity, increase Polkadot's visibility on social media, and bring the community together. The contest invites participants to create original content related to Christmas using Polkadot products and post it on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok with the hashtag #NaviDOT. Participants must also comment on the NaviDOT proposal on OpenGov with a Christmas message and a link to their post. There will be 9 winners in total, with 3 winners for each social network, each receiving 3 DOT as a prize. Verified accounts on OpenGov and those who have voted on proposals in OpenGov during the year will receive extra points. The campaign is subject to the approval of the proposal.

NaviDOT - Christmas Campain

The Conor Daly 2025 Polkadot Motorsports Program is a proposal to partner with Polkadot in the NTT INDYCAR Series. The program has several key performance indicators (KPIs), including onboarding five new venues, achieving 150,000 Polkadot app downloads, launching a merch store and sweepstakes initiative, partnering with UNIQUE Network for NFT activations, generating over 1 billion media impressions, increasing website traffic, and hosting VIP hospitality events. The program also includes primary sponsorship for six marque events, premium hospitality and B2B assets, elevated activation for consumer engagement, and a global ambassador role for Conor Daly. The 2025 Polkadot Motorsports Indycar lineup includes races in St. Petersburg, Thermal, Indy 500, Road America, and Iowa.

Rejected

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Conor Daly - 2025 Polkadot Motorsports Program

- A new proposal has been created to request funding in USDT.
- The money will be used to maintain a tool called substrate-api-client from January to June 2025.
- The substrate-api-client is a library that helps people connect to special nodes and works well with small devices.
- It is similar to another tool called Polkadot-js and allows developers to work with Polkadot and Kusama chains easily.
- This proposal is part of ongoing efforts to get funding for maintenance.
- The group is asking for $33,200 for the project.
- More information can be found in the full proposal linked in the content.

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Maintenance for the substrate-api-client Jan-25 to Jun-25

A problem occurred with a proposal called Ref. 1303, where a Relay Chain Proxy was set to receive AssetHub assets, making them inaccessible. To fix this, a new proposal is needed. The original proposal can be found [here](1303). The preimage was pulled before the confirmation period ended, and you can verify it [here](https://polkadot.subscan.io/extrinsic/0xec8ca6dbcfee1b25201b9e95b61e6eb890f7eee9d4f21aee060da7005d79c42c). Waiting for Pure Proxy Replication to solve this issue is not ideal, as it will take many months. Submitting a Root Ref to replicate the proxy was also considered, but it would take too long and tie up resources. Voting on this new proposal will help fix the payout issue approved in Ref. 1303.

Ratify Payout APPROVED by Ref. 1303 - The Kus

This proposal is asking for money to pay for work done to help the Polkadot ecosystem from July 1 to November 1, 2024. The person did many things like talking to new teams, helping with events, and making a handbook for Polkadot. They want to be paid $45,000 for working about 25 hours each week during that time. They have done a lot of work to help Polkadot grow and hope that the people in charge see how important their work is. Some of the main things they did include making the Polkadot Handbook, talking to teams that left Polkadot, and helping with business development and community activities.

Retroactive Funding for Ecosystem Activities

- Three accounts lost funds due to a bug in the runtime.
- The bug caused assets to be lost instead of being trapped.
- The bug has since been fixed.
- Funds lost due to this bug should be reimbursed.
- Assets that were trapped can be reclaimed, so they are not part of this proposal.
- A similar proposal was made for Kusama.
- The lost funds were from three specific extrinsics.

[Small Spender] Reimburse accounts affected by an XCM bug

### Summary
This proposal aims to increase Polkadot's visibility by requiring teams funded by the Polkadot Treasury to display the Polkadot logo on their websites, products, and social media. 

- Teams must show the logo as long as their project is active.
- They should specify where and how they will display the logo in their funding proposals.
- Teams can choose from phrases like "Funded by Polkadot" or "Powered by Polkadot."
- The Polkadot Brand Hub provides design guidelines.
- This rule applies to future funding requests but encourages past recipients to follow it.
- Exceptions can be made for cases where displaying the logo is not possible.

The goal is to boost Polkadot's brand awareness and show its support for funded projects.

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Wish For Change | Polkadot Branding Guideline

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Wrong Track - Please vote NAY

- The Polkadot/Código Brazuca Academy started in July to train developers in Brazil.  
- The project got less money than planned because of currency changes.  
- Over 750 students joined, and big partners like São Paulo City Hall and Petrobras support it.  
- Many classes (like JavaScript, Web3, and Linux) are already done and online.  
- Some classes (like Rust and Polkadot tools) are still being worked on.  
- The team needs more money to finish all the promised lessons.  
- So far, $47,657 has been spent, and $20,057 is left for the next steps.  
- The project will take 11 months instead of 8 because more students joined.

Código Brazuca  Academy

This proposal aims to create a collaborative strategy for Africa to increase awareness, adoption, and growth of Polkadot, a blockchain platform. The plan involves building a supportive community of agents representing Polkadot in Africa, with a focus on developers and content creators. The strategy includes educational sessions, community engagement, ecosystem representation, developer outreach, and encouraging the building of Polkadot native apps and integrations. The plan is divided into four phases: icebreaker events, Rust community activations, developer workshops, and community meetups. The team behind the proposal includes Bekka, Kratista0s, Sanchez, and Victor, who are also responsible for the Polkadot Africa X account. The requested amount for the project is $92,880, with the duration set from January to June 2025. The initiative will primarily focus on Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Uganda, with a goal to eventually reach out to North and South African regions as well.

Treasury Proposal: Polkadot Africa Community Growth (West and East Africa regions) 

Token Terminal has introduced a new initiative to create comprehensive and standardized datasets and metrics for the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal aims to improve the standardization and depth of public Polkadot datasets, which are currently insufficient. The initiative includes two major improvements: transitioning from basic to standardized metrics and increasing distribution. The standardized metrics will require significant transformation work by the research team, involving in-depth parachain-specific research and ongoing maintenance. The initiative also includes expanded distribution through the Google Web3 Marketplace, providing public access to all Polkadot data within Token Terminal's data warehouse. The total grant size for the project is $1,005,000, paid in USDT.

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Accelerate growth and adoption across the entire Polkadot ecosystem

Polkadot Hub is planning to integrate a custom Etherscan for PolkaVM/revive Smart Contracts. This $1 million Etherscan-as-a-Service integration aims to provide Web3/Solidity developers with seamless tools for deploying and interacting with PolkaVM contracts on Westend Hub and Polkadot Hub. The goal is to increase developer and user growth on Polkadot Hub in 2025-2026. Polkadot Hub is now the primary home for smart contract activities and other functions in Polkadot 2.0. The integration will allow Solidity contracts to be compiled to PolkaVM instead of EVM and interpreted by the revive-pallet on Polkadot Hub. The proposal includes a budget of $1,000,000 USDC for the Etherscan team to address and support the PolkaVM and revive custom integration fully. The integration is expected to be completed by Q2 2026.

Etherscan-as-a-Service x Polkadot Hub - PolkaVM Block Explorer (1 Mainnet, 1 Testnet)  

dAppForge is an AI-powered plugin designed to help Polkadot developers build decentralized applications, appchains, and parachains more efficiently. The project has completed two of its four milestones, with the aim of reducing development time and making it easier for new developers to join the Polkadot ecosystem.

**Summary of Important Points:**
- A previous treasury proposal was submitted and completed.
- Milestone 2 of dAppForge V1 is now completed, with videos demonstrating the plugin's capabilities.
- The plugin is available on GitHub and can be used for code generation and autocompletion for substrate and ink!.
- The plugin provides insights into the code generated, helping developers understand substrate/ink! better and build faster.
- Two of the four milestones have been completed, with the remaining two focusing on fine-tuning the AI model, integrating Solidity, developing a monetization strategy, and creating a knowledge graph for Rust programming language.

**Overview:**
- Tagline: AI-powered plugin for Polkadot developers that reduces development time.
- Brief description: dAppForge aims to enable Polkadot developers to build better dApps, appchains, and parachains faster, lowering the entry barriers for new developers. The AI model is trained on Substrate and ink! and can be used for code generation and autocompletion.
- Motivation: Substrate and ink! can build great parachains, appchains, and dApps, attracting millions of users, which is crucial for the blockchain industry. dAppForge aims to empower existing developers and make it easier for new developers to join and build on Polkadot, including those familiar with Solidity.

dAppForge Milestone 3 

- The Assets Unlocked proposal wants to make Polkadot the best choice for turning real-world things into digital tokens.
- In the last 6 months, Polkadot worked with Unergy on solar energy, the Asian Development Bank on farming, NEITEC on helping small businesses, and Agora Labs on health data.
- They made many articles, videos, and podcasts that shared ideas and got people interested in Polkadot.
- In the next 6 months, they plan to create more content, build stronger partnerships, improve support for partners, and keep everyone informed about their progress.
- Big companies like BlackRock and JP Morgan are interested in using blockchain, which makes Polkadot important for digital tokens.
- They have a budget of USDT 127,050 to support their efforts over the next six months.

Scaling Polkadot: Driving Blockchain Innovation for Real-World Assets - Business Development Proposal

This proposal is about growing the BD team in Spain and Andorra, called IBERLABS, and expanding its work to LATAM. LATAM is a big area where many people can use Web3 technology. The team has already made 40 important connections that are becoming partners in the project.

The team has done some great things, like working with schools, companies, and governments. They have also been to important events to make Polkadot more popular. They are helping to teach more people about Web3 and have found many new projects in LATAM and Spain.

The team will have two people who work on business development and others who help with administration and following rules. They will keep finding new partners and going to events to make the project bigger.

This plan is important to make Polkadot a big and important technology around the world. You can read more about the proposal and the team's work in the links provided.

Continuation of Activities of the BD Team Spain & Andorra

The Polkadot Virtual Machine (PVM) Debugger is a new tool designed to help developers work with PVM implementations. It has features like breakpoints, memory inspection, and can run programs on multiple PVM clients at the same time. This tool was made because there were no good tools for debugging PVM programs before. It can help find mistakes and make sure PVM programs work the same way on different clients.

The team who made the PVM Debugger, FluffyLabs.dev, is asking for money to help them keep working on the tool. They want to make it better and add more features. The PVM Debugger is already done and can be used by anyone for free. It is on a website called GitHub, where people can see the code and help improve it.

The team has a plan to make sure people use the PVM Debugger and give them feedback. They will talk to people on the internet and make changes to the tool based on what people say. They want to make sure the PVM Debugger stays helpful as Polkadot changes and grows.

Treasury Proposal: Retroactive Funding for PVM Debugger

- An attacker stole over 312,185 DOT and 126,837 USDT from a parachain.
- The attacker gained control by upgrading the runtime with malicious code.
- They moved most of the stolen funds to exchanges and sold them for XMR.
- The attacker still has control over the parachain, putting more DOT at risk.
- A runtime upgrade is needed to stop further losses and secure user funds.
- The upgrade will restore control and remove the attacker's privileges.
- Efforts are being made to recover stolen funds and improve security.
- The community is being kept informed and encouraged to provide feedback.

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Critical Runtime Upgrade to Prevent Further Exploitation

- The proposal is for organizing 5 investor events by Prestel and Partners, not a large budget like a previous failed proposal.
- They wanted to apply for an Events Bounty, but it was rejected because of a past failure.
- The events will focus on educating people about Polkadot's technology, not selling investments.
- Anyone can speak on behalf of Polkadot at the events if they reach out via email.
- The five summits will be held in Riyadh, Dubai, Singapore, Istanbul, and London between February and July 2025.
- Prestel and Partners were chosen because they are experts in organizing investor conferences.
- HIC is leading this effort to help traditional investors understand Polkadot, and they are not making any money from it.
- The treasury should fund this to attract new money for Polkadot projects and help raise the value of DOT.

Prestel & Partners: Family Office & Investor Conference Series for Polkadot

- The referendum proposes to re-assign a curator for the Moderation Team bounty.
- The bounty was not extended before it expired, and someone unassigned the curator.
- The curator account is a pure proxy controlled by a 2/3 multisig account.
- The curator account remains the same: `12GkpkHocU4y1vFV2CpnA2AhkjzGGRtwucHFY77A5yyiQKp5`.
- The multisig account is: `12PztChx7WS5dSzJ6KcT1TdXTrUwEkMGYiakX6QXGa7myTpM`.
- The signatories are Abdulbee, Grizz, and Michalis.
- The bounty's details can be found on the [bounty's page](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/24).

Re-propose curator for the Moderation team bounty

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Origin able to dispatch a whitelisted call.

Origin for signaling that the network wishes for some change

Origin able to cancel slashes and manage minimum commission.

Origin for spending up to 10,000,000 DOT from the treasury as well as generally administering it.

Origin for managing the composition of the fellowship.

Origin able to spend around 250 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend around 1,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend around 10,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend around 100,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

Origin able to spend up to 1,000,000 DOT from the treasury at once.

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