Hello people, Saimon here (https://x.com/simonxpe) Senior ambassador in the old program and candidate in the new program.

This is a proposal to tip for retroactive contributions made in various activities involving community development, business development, and developer activities during the last 6 months and Peru and other countries.

Here is a quick summary of what was done:

• 7 in-person activities in 4 cities in 2 countries.
• 2 on-line activities.
• More than 100 developers involved interacting with resources based on Polkadot tools.
• Direct participation of 2 protocols.
• Direct presentation of Polkadot resources to companies and chambers of commerce in several countries.
• 5 projects highlighted in the hackathon with potential to be accelerated.
• 6 months of work for the benefit of the network
• Strategic vision to expand the presence of Polkadot at Key Sectors.

Below are the details of the activities:

13-January: Salchipapa Bitcoin Day

Polkadot Peru was invitated to participate by Blockchain Peru Association to participate in a conmemorative full day activity open to general public where Polkadot Peru was present with a stand and share a talk in the official timeline.

References:
https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1745910193643266427
https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1746946180737544696

19- February: Workshop Lima (Peru)

Description: In this activity I participated as a technical speaker giving a workshop on Blockchain code. In this activity, participants were able to learn the fundamentals of Polkadot and were also able to deploy smart contracts using Moonbeam.

Link reference: https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1759405319023706353

24&25-February: Workshop at Arequipa (Peru)

Description: This two days in-person workshop was made for the members of the student chapter of computer science at San Pablo University at Arequipa city.

Day 1

The workshop started with a basic introduction to cryptography. This covered:

• • Hash functions.
• • Elliptic curves. We then moved on to a basic introduction to blockchains, covering:
• • Blockchain evolution (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot).
• • Decentralized application architecture.
• • Smart contracts explained.
• • Key concepts in Rust.

Workshop: Participants created logic applications using Rust.

Day 2

On the second day, we focused on the Polkadot ecosystem and built fully functional blockchains using the Polkadot SDK:

• • Introduction to Polkadot and its architecture.
• • Solutions available in the Polkadot ecosystem

Workshop: We learned about Substrate, the blockchain development framework provided by the Polkadot SDK.

Link references:

https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1761799081591017946 https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1761433721779954088 https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1761434529854603451 https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1761435045716279714 https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1761445613063881132

08-March: Archisinal Latam Tour:

This activity was part of the launch tour executed by Archicinal team that got the support of Polkadot Peru in the event at Lima. Additonal Archisinal merchandise Polkadot Peru collaborate with sticker, talks and custom snacks.

https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1767978710529945927

12-March: Meetup San Andres (Colombia)

Description: This activity was held for members of the San Andrés Island Chamber of Commerce. It was the first time that a talk explaining details of Polkadot was held on the island. This activity focused on explaining the technology, products, and resources available in the Polkadot ecosystem. Resources were shown for developers and also for entrepreneurs.

Link references: https://x.com/simonxpe/status/1767598419605070058 https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1815451841146351807

16-March: Meetup Medellin (Colombia)

Description: This activity was carried out for the members of Platohedro (https://platohedro.org/), a community focused on social inclusion and education and development of blockchain-based initiatives.

Link reference: https://x.com/simonxpe/status/1768146903793909817 https://x.com/simonxpe/status/1769177443519058194 https://x.com/simonxpe/status/1769180308803399883

28-March: Polkadot Peru & Archisinnal X Space

This X space was made to share polkadot and archisinal features to general public, it was a point to talk about how people can get involved in this technology.

Reference:
https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1773400652930015458

18-June: Polkadot Español & Vara Network X Space

This X space was made to invite the community to participate at hackathon and to share the initiative with other communities.

References:
https://x.com/Space4Build/status/1803259013150175269
https://x.com/Space4Build/status/1803259015922618567

25-June: La Causathon-Hackathon Lima (Peru)

Description: This activity was carried out in collaboration with several local and international communities. The Causathon was a 4-day in-preson activity where participants were mentored so they could tackle challenges implementing smart contracts based on Rust. 5 teams were awarded prizes, 3 with prizes paid in Dots and 2 with non-monetary prizes courtesy of sponsoring companies. One element worth highlighting is that for this activity, 2 teams made up of 6 people who participated in the workshop held in Arequipa in February were awarded scholarships with production staff funds. These teams obtained the first and third prize of the challenge: implementation of smart contracts with Rust.

Link reference: https://x.com/Polkadot_per/status/1805601726952604141 https://x.com/KerenKeys/status/1804718692795621382 https://x.com/Space4Build/status/1803936978267672673 https://x.com/Space4Build/status/1805372516396827023

Featured projects:

-Chaintrust: system for validation and certification of digital documents. Repository

-Qeto: mobile application intended to expose prices from informal markets. Repository

-Lezgo: application for the purchase, sale, resale and exchange of NFT tickets. Repository

Full repository: https://github.com/Space4Build?tab=repositories

This proposal also includes compensation for Angi (https://x.com/angeinweb3) (10%), Audi (https://x.com/casi_audi) (5%) and Juana (https://x.com/soyjuanarusso) (5%) for their extraordinary collaboration in various tasks for the execution of all these activities, which include assistance in answering queries from participants, logistical coordination, management of social networks, generation of digital content, communications and dissemination of accurate information about the Polkadot ecosystem.

Together we have formed a team that from Polkadot Peru (https://x.com/Polkadot_per) has promoted national and international Polkadot activities.

Next steps??..

(August) Polkadot Togheter at Germany, Switzerland and Spain: https://x.com/polkadotogether/status/1822974838786429373

(September) Descentralized Nodes at Perú: https://twitter.com/polkadot_per/status/1823677561328558302?s=48&t=xZwu9y0l8ACyMwWB7pH3Rg