Proposal date: December 2020 Requested DOT: 1500 Short description: Polkadot DeFi Alliance is where industry-leading projects and cutting edge teams come together to propel forward the larger Polkadot ecosystem and the overall cryptocurrency industry. Team Members and Advisors: The 3-person dedicated team comes from a background of technical, community, and ecosystem development talent coming out of top blockchain projects, schools, and employers including Dartmouth University, Draper University, Tron Foundation, New York University Shanghai, Bitasset, Morgan Stanley, ConsenSys, Lukso Blockchain, and Parity Technologies. Long description: Polkadot DeFi Alliance is where industry-leading projects and cutting edge teams come together to propel forward the larger Polkadot ecosystem and the overall cryptocurrency industry. We encourage collaboration, supporting the development of new financial primitives, and integration of existing ones - building towards wider adoption of decentralized finance. Join our monthly panel discussions on the latest developments in DeFi and Polkadot Network with dynamic speakers, rotating hosts, and special guests including Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies. Please checked here to see more budget details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHEvoLQsd6Xx9syidy5I8wglngi5xBNIp902GMO24Zs/edit# Please feel free to ask me anything. Thanks! Valeria Kholostenko, Min Kim, and Kinsa Durst, Founders of Polkadot DeFi Alliance