Polkassembly serves as Polkadot and Kusama's primary governance hub, enabling participation in on-chain governance, delegation, proposal discussions, and community voting.
This proposal seeks funding from the Polkadot Treasury to support Polkassembly's 2025 maintenance and key improvements in stability, user experience, and core features. It focuses on essential upgrades such as better UX/navigation, enhanced identity management, technical stability, and spam prevention &ndash; that will strengthen the platform&rsquo;s reliability and usability for the community
What&rsquo;s our focus with this proposal?
The primary focus for improvement is summarized as below:
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<li>Identity -
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<li>Increase stability in core flow.</li>
<li>Simplify things for multisig account identity setup and fix issues.</li>
<li>Add support for proxy-identity setup.</li>
<li>RPC connectivity issues to be resolved on priority.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Comments AI summary &amp; load speed improvement.</li>
<li>Comments for Proxy and Multisig accounts revamp.</li>
<li>Proposal creation
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<li>Improve support for multi-asset proposals.</li>
<li>Improve the proposal creation process for different tracks and scenarios.</li>
<li>Add support for proposal creation through proxy and add support for multisig proposal creation.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Add support for more wallets including Nova, Mimir, Polkagate Snap, Signet.</li>
<li>Improve hardware wallet connectivity and functionality across all features.</li>
<li>Redo the landing page to improve discovery and site navigation.</li>
<li>Improve the proposal&rsquo;s detailed view layout to make information more accessible</li>
<li>Site-idle connectivity issues and data loading.</li>
<li>Reduce steps in proposal creation &amp; bundle decision deposit.</li>
<li>Create a proxy management dashboard and explorer Improve UX and platform navigation.</li>
<li>Add product walkthroughs for new user onboarding.</li>
<li>Add support for OpenGov Nomination Pool wallet voting for all wallet types.</li>
<li>Add comment filtering (DV, Proposer, Verified Accounts, Wallet linked).</li>
<li>Improved Preimage management and add option to convert pre-image into proposal directly through all wallet types.</li>
</ol>
Technical Improvements
<ol>
<li>Upgraded to Next.js 15 with Turbopack support for improved development experience</li>
<li>Node 20 support (compared to Node 18 in v1)</li>
<li>Revamped Editor</li>
<li>Better organized component architecture. Overhauled state management with Jotai Atoms.</li>
<li>New design system Integration along with shadcn/ui component system.</li>
<li>Overhauled project configuration with focus on security for easier open-source contribution.</li>
<li>The API architecture has been overhauled to improve data organization and facilitate easier integration for community members.</li>
<li>The API now offers expanded content delivery capabilities, enabling the return of data in markdown, block and HTML formats.</li>
<li>The authentication mechanism has been updated to utilize HTTP cookies for session management, replacing the previous implementation that relied on local storage and JWT.</li>
</ol>
Other technical improvements and details can be found within the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ueaWqQcWpYmskJhrg3s3PPsFGEyzc4qea4XI4aBerw/edit?usp=sharing">proposal document</a>.&nbsp;
Proposal 2024
Here&rsquo;s the <a href="https://app.ogtracker.io/bigSpender/483">OG tracker ref link</a> for our 2024 proposal and a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iKgCOzIAMwFvIiYHl3PrBIQkxv5_pCdhdmRMIhFSvaA/edit?usp=sharing">detailed self report</a> with features and product updates from last year&rsquo;s proposal. We worked with some amazing video designers to create a Polkassembly 2024 roundup. Users can watch the video <a href="https://x.com/polk_gov/status/1874341508716933141/video/1">here</a>.
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Implementation Gallery&nbsp;
Several UI/UX enhancements are actively being developed to refine navigation, improve usability, and ensure a better governance experience.
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/Zz98ssJH/1.png" alt="Revamped Proposal Listing View" width="640" height="588" />
Revamped Proposal Listing View
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/whBV3c05/2.png" alt="Revamped Proposal Detail view" width="640" height="881" />
Revamped Proposal Detail view
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/G4dNzHpk/3.png" alt="Revamped Profile Page" width="640" height="1169" />
Revamped Profile Page
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/Pz3y70hb/4.png" alt="Spam Proposal Detailed View" width="639" height="542" />
Spam Proposal Detailed View
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/hJ5ZH6JR/5.png" alt="Spam comments" width="640" height="385" />
Spam Comments
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/wZdw3wYF/6.png" alt="Delegation Dashboard &amp; Chat with delegates" width="639" height="405" />
Delegation Dashboard &amp; Chat with delegates
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/dsMbsKH0/7.png" alt="Bounty Dashboard" width="640" height="391" />
Bounty Dashboard
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/kgzCVJyb/8.png" alt="Batch Voting" width="640" height="403" />
Batch Voting
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/tTbt7pMS/9.png" alt="Proxy Dashboard" width="640" height="519" />
Proxy Dashboard
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/V0MspcgC/10.png" alt="Analytics Dashboard" width="640" height="716" />
Analytics Dashboard
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Our stats reflect our continued dominance in the ecosystem
Theme Product Metric Engagement on Polkassembly
Number of users
<ul>
<li>Last 30 days visits - 145K&nbsp;</li>
<li>Total API Requests - 92M/month (Source: Cloudflare)</li>
<li>MAU - 97k (Source: Google analytics)</li>
</ul>
Number of comments
<ul>
<li>Total Number of Comments on Polkassembly - 13695</li>
<li>Total Percentage of comments in governance on Polkadot - 82.66% (6288/7607)</li>
<li>Total Percentage of comments in governance on Kusama - 68.2% (502/736)</li>
</ul>
Number of disucussions
<ul>
<li>Total Number of Discussions on Polkassembly &mdash; 2206</li>
<li>Total Percentage of discussions in governance on Polkadot - 93.69% (698/745)</li>
<li>Total Percentage of discussions in governance on Kusama - 76.19% (32/42)</li>
</ul>
Number of Proposals
<ul>
<li>Total Percentage of proposals in governance on Polkadot - 39%+</li>
<li>Total Percentage of proposals in governance on Kusama - 20%</li>
</ul>
Source: Polkassembly Firebase
Views
Total Views last 4 months: 750K+ (Polkadot + Kusama)
Source: Polkassembly Firebase
Identity Verification
Number of Judgements provided
Total Percentage of judgements Polkadot - 52.22% (1216/2327)
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Category&nbsp;
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Amount (US$)&nbsp;
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Infrastructure &amp; Maintenance (12 months)
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$203,659
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Development Budget
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$327,012
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Total
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$530,671
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The budget calculations can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gQeTVOccQofkIcxJDqafQ657P_cSMmTiFK6Gck3xfeA/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.&nbsp;
Refer to the full proposal document <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ueaWqQcWpYmskJhrg3s3PPsFGEyzc4qea4XI4aBerw/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.&nbsp;

Polkassembly Social Contract 2025

Treasury

Propose and approve a spend of treasury funds.

## Dispatch Origin

Must be [`Config::SpendOrigin`] with the `Success` value being at least
`amount` of `asset_kind` in the native asset. The amount of `asset_kind` is converted
for assertion using the [`Config::BalanceConverter`].

## Details

Create an approved spend for transferring a specific `amount` of `asset_kind` to a
designated beneficiary. The spend must be claimed using the `payout` dispatchable within
the [`Config::PayoutPeriod`].

### Parameters
- `asset_kind`: An indicator of the specific asset class to be spent.
- `amount`: The amount to be transferred from the treasury to the `beneficiary`.
- `beneficiary`: The beneficiary of the spend.
- `valid_from`: The block number from which the spend can be claimed. It can refer to
  the past if the resulting spend has not yet expired according to the
  [`Config::PayoutPeriod`]. If `None`, the spend can be claimed immediately after
  approval.

## Events

Emits [`Event::AssetSpendApproved`] if successful.

- **Problem Statement:** Seeking funding from the Polkadot Treasury to enhance Polkassembly's maintenance and key features for better stability and user experience.
- **Significance:** Improvements include identity management, proposal creation, technical upgrades, and UI enhancements to strengthen the platform's reliability and usability.
- **Proposed Solution:** Implement upgrades like better UX/navigation, enhanced identity management, technical stability, and spam prevention to improve the platform.
- **Expected Outcomes:** Enhanced platform reliability, improved user experience, and increased community engagement through better governance tools and features.

#1463 Polkassembly Social Contract 2025

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