Hello everyone in the Polkadot community! We are the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute, the largest research institute in Asia focusing on the Polkadot ecosystem, and also a research organization with significant global influence within the Polkadot ecosystem. We have successfully completed all plans for the last treasury application, so we are applying here for our annual operational expenses from April 2025 to March 2026.

 

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About Us

The members of the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute are all among the earliest builders of the Chinese Polkadot community. We have been contributing to the Polkadot ecosystem since 2019, and it has been more than six years now. We are also one of the earliest institutions globally to support the construction of Polkadot. Due to our outstanding contributions, high-quality research content, and significant influence, we have received support from the Polkadot Treasury eight times in a row.

• We have cumulatively written nearly 300 original pieces of content and in-depth reports on the development of Polkadot and its ecosystem, achieving a total of over 63 million page views (you can check each article and relevant data in the details of the proposal). We are also the only institution in the Chinese market that publishes research content on the official Medium of Polkadot.
• We have supported more than 90 Polkadot-related activities in total. In 2022 and 2023, we participated as guests in the global sharing activities of the Polkadot Decoded community conference for two consecutive years. The total number of people we have promoted Polkadot to through all these activities exceeds 50,000.
• We have also been actively empowering the development of the Polkadot ecosystem. We have provided content, activity, and community support for more than 130 projects in the ecosystem. Additionally, we have provided investment and financing consultation and docking for some projects.
• In the past year, we have increased our overseas operation efforts to serve the global Polkadot market. Especially in terms of Twitter operation, we currently have more than 4,700 followers, which is six times the number of followers we had in the same period last year. The page views have increased tenfold, and we have cumulatively published more than 6,000 tweets.
• We have accumulated more than 800 core Polkadot fans in the Asian market. Their DOT holdings exceed 2.5 million tokens, and most of these users have held DOT for more than three years. This makes us the largest DOT-holding community in the Asian market.

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Why does the Polkadot ecosystem need us?

1. As one of the few research institutions globally that focus on the development of the Polkadot ecosystem, we can provide high-quality Polkadot-related content for global crypto users, including original articles, original reports, interesting videos, ecological data, interpretations of major events, etc. Through a series of activities and community building, we can expand the influence of Polkadot in the crypto ecosystem.
2. As one of the earliest institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to support the development of Polkadot, we have a significant influence in the Asian market. We have contributed nearly half of the original content to the Chinese market and have received the attention of more than 20,000 Polkadot users. The DOT holdings of our core users exceed 2.5 million DOTs.
3. Chinese-speaking users have a huge influence in the global crypto market, which is a market that all crypto projects are investing heavily in to expand. The Polkadot Ecology Research Institute, based in the Asia-Pacific region, has good inherent advantages and can serve as a bridge connecting overseas Polkadot users and ecological projects.
4. With the successive launches of Polkadot 2.0, Polkadot Hub, and JAM, more users and developers need to pay attention to and enter the Polkadot ecosystem. In the past few years, the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute has brought tens of thousands of new users to Polkadot and provided operational assistance to more than 10 ecological projects mainly composed of developers. We are an indispensable builder of the ecosystem.

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What are our plans for the next year?

Our core goal for the next year is centered around "Make Polkadot Great Again!" and enhancing the influence of Polkadot in the Asia-Pacific region.

Many old public blockchains, including Polkadot, had their glorious moments a few years ago. However, their development in recent years has not been satisfactory, and some have even fallen into a slump. For example, BNBChain, FTM, and even Solana have all experienced such situations or are currently in such a state. Polkadot and these public blockchains need to take some measures to show everyone the new opportunities in the present and the future.

Therefore, as those who have participated in and witnessed the glory of Polkadot in the past, we hope to serve this goal through the content we are good at. On the one hand, we aim to activate the former users, fans, and developers, allowing them to see the current development of Polkadot and regain its influence from the bottom up. On the other hand, through research, we want to provide some solutions for more builders in the industry, stimulate more people's activity, and make Polkadot develop better.

To this end, after extensive discussions and communications with the community, DAO, key leaders, etc., the following five core OKRs have been formulated, which serve as the specific manifestation of achieving our core goals in the coming year.

1. Continue to Ensure the Quality and Reach of Original Content: Over the past six years, we have centered on creating and researching original in-depth content, which has been highly recognized by the community. In the future, we will continue to produce original content and conduct research while ensuring quality, and disseminate the content through well-known Chinese media and core overseas channels.
2. Continue to Assist and Expand Polkadot Ecosystem Construction: We will continue to provide support to over 130 projects in the Polkadot ecosystem, including but not limited to content, events, community building, etc., to enhance the influence and visibility of ecosystem projects within the community and help the public better understand these projects.
3. Strive to Improve Key Metrics of Core Channels: Through our efforts in content and events over the next year, we will drive traffic from the Crypto public domain to improve the key metrics of our core channels. Specifically, we aim to reach 8,000 Twitter followers within 12 months, grow the user base of Polkadot ecosystem vertical communities and Telegram groups to 3,000, and maintain an average reading volume of 600 for in-depth original reports on our WeChat official account. Although these goals may be affected by market conditions, we will do our utmost to achieve them.
4. Enhance the influence of the latest technical upgrades of Polkadot in the Chinese-speaking region: In the coming year, we will write relevant content, carry out related activities, and build special communities (to gather users and developers) around the major technical upgrades of Polkadot (mainly including Polkadot Hub and JAM), so as to attract more users to pay attention to the development potential brought by the cutting-edge technologies of Polkadot.
5. Continue to Enhance the Institute's Overseas Influence: Over the past year, we have shifted part of our focus from the Asia-Pacific region to global Polkadot ecosystem construction. In the future, we will continue to enhance our overseas influence and organize more events to serve the global market.

Based on the above five core OKRs, we will formulate the following specific work plans from four aspects: content creation, activity implementation, market construction, and community building. We will elaborate on them in as much detail as possible to facilitate everyone's better understanding of our plans.

OKR1: Continue to Ensure the Quality and Reach of Original Content

Key Results 1: Produce no less than 36 "Original Analysis Reports" on Polkadot or its ecosystem, and maintain an average reading volume of 600 for the in-depth original reports on the WeChat official account.

• Produce at least 3 original analysis reports on Polkadot or its ecosystem every month, with each report having more than 5,000 words. In total, produce no less than 36 reports in 12 months.
• The content report direction will be determined by holding a topic selection meeting every week. We will collect relevant core issues from four aspects: Polkadot's technical progress, ecosystem project dynamics, governance proposals, and major events in the Polkadot ecosystem, decide on the research objectives, and produce content to meet the current needs of users and the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Among them, track and report on at least 1 high-quality project or ecological institution within the Polkadot ecosystem every month, and showcase it through articles so that community users can understand the specific situation and progress of these high-quality projects. In 12 months, the number of high-quality projects tracked and reported will be no less than 12.
• The content will be distributed to well-known Chinese social media platforms such as WeChat Official Account, Weibo, and relevant blockchain industry media platforms such as Foresight News, Marsbit, and Tuoluo Tech.

Key Results 2: Produce no less than 48 pieces of "Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Observations".

• Produce 4 in-depth analysis pieces on the development of the Polkadot ecosystem monthly, under the column "Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Observations", each exceeding 5,000 words, totaling at least 48 long-form pieces over 12 months.
• Every Monday, major events that occurred in the Polkadot ecosystem over the past week will be collated and interpreted.
• Content will be distributed on well-known Chinese social media platforms such as WeChat Official Account, Weibo, and blockchain industry media platforms like Foresight News, MarsBit, and Tuoluo Tech.

Key Results 3: Create no less than 48 pieces of educational content or official forum selected content about Polkadot or its ecosystem.

• Output 4 "Polkadot Knowledge Graph" every month, mainly about Polkadot and Polkadot ecosystem's educational content or official forum selected content, and organize simplified knowledge posters. A total of no less than 48 pieces of educational content related to Polkadot and no less than 48 posters in 12 months.
• Content will be distributed on well-known Chinese social media platforms such as WeChat Official Account, Weibo, and blockchain industry media platforms like Foresight News, MarsBit, and Tuoluo Tech.

OKR2: Continue to Assist and Expand Polkadot Ecosystem Construction

Key Results 1: Produce no less than 240 daily reports of Polkadot, make them into pictures and post tweets.

• Monitor the progress of over 130 projects on each working day, filter important news, and compile them into daily reports on the Polkadot ecosystem. Produce at least 20 daily report posters monthly, totaling at least 240 posters over 12 months.

Key Results 2: Produce no less than 12 pieces of "Monthly Polkadot's major events".

• Produce one "Monthly Polkadot's major events" poster monthly, presenting key events iconically, totaling 12 posters over 12 months.
• The long graphic posters will be distributed to the official Twitter and core communities.

Key Results 3: Release 48 pieces of video content about Polkadot and its ecosystem and 48 pieces of ecological data pictures.

• Publish at least 1 video weekly about Polkadot and its ecosystem progress, event interpretations, founding teams, etc., totaling at least 48 videos over 12 months.
• Videos will be simultaneously published on Twitter, with suitable content posted on the WeChat Official Account considering practical factors.
• Analyze key performance indicators of Polkadot and its ecosystem projects weekly, and produce 1 visual graphic about critical data or metrics, totaling at least 48 data visuals over 12 months.
• The graphics will be published on official Twitter, official communities, and other core channels to help Polkadot users intuitively understand ecosystem changes.

OKR3: Strive to Improve Key Metrics of Core Channels

Key Results 1: Achieve a 60% growth in core users within one year, and finally make the number of users in the core communities of the research institute (WeChat community + Telegram community) no less than 4,000.

• Drive user traffic through original reports/content and expand the user base of Polkadot ecosystem vertical communities and Telegram groups via Twitter operations to increase core user scale.
• In 12 months, we will synchronize the Polkadot ecosystem daily report and major events to at least 10 Polkadot ecosystem communities on working days. We will answer questions about Polkadot and its ecological events according to users' questions.
• In addition, we will also release the English versions of the daily reports and major events of the Polkadot ecosystem in the official Discord and Telegram groups of Polkadot, and provide corresponding answers to users' questions about Polkadot and its ecosystem events in Discord.



Key Results 2: Through the effective operation of Twitter, make the number of followers reach or even exceed 8,000 in the coming year, achieving a 70% growth.

• Update the daily reports of the Polkadot ecosystem on Twitter every working day, no less than 20 times a month. In total, produce no less than 240 daily reports of the Polkadot ecosystem on Twitter in 12 months. Establish a linkage with the project parties, mention their official accounts @ to get retweet exposure.
• Every working day, post tweets on Twitter to spread the major events, celebrity opinions, technological innovations, and important ecological progress related to the Polkadot ecosystem. There will be at least 4 pieces of content in these directions every day.
• In total, post at least 5 Polkadot-related tweets every working day, at least 100 tweets a month, and the cumulative number of tweets in the next 12 months will be no less than 1,200.

OKR4: Enhance the influence of the latest technical upgrades of Polkadot in the Chinese-speaking region

Key Results 1: Produce special content for important technologies such as Polkadot Hub and JAM.

• Focus on the important progress of Polkadot Hub and JAM every day, summarize the relevant information into the daily reports of Polkadot and the "Monthly Polkadot's major events", and select appropriate content to be made into videos and released.
• Write "Original Analysis Reports" for Polkadot Hub and JAM according to the collected latest progress.
• Add a new section of "Polkadot Hub and JAM" to the column of "Weekly Observations of the Polkadot Ecosystem" to continuously display the update of the new technologies of Polkadot.
• Write relevant tweets around the important progress and related discussions of Polkadot Hub and JAM.

Key Results 2: Establish a special technical community to expand the technical influence

• Establish a special community for important technologies such as Polkadot Hub and JAM to attract developers and users who are willing to get involved in new technologies at an early stage and provide them with materials and community Q&A.
• We have currently established a basic research community for JAM, and we will expand the number of community members through content and activities on this basis.

Key Results 3: Provide developer support around key technical upgrades

• Create popular educational content about Polkadot Hub and JAM and translate the necessary technical documents for more developers to learn.
• Invite core technical developers to participate in online or offline activities and share the core points and future potential of major technical upgrades.
• Assist the developer community in the Asia-Pacific region (such as OneBlock+) to build relevant development courses and promote these courses to attract developers to pay attention and become Polkadot technical developers.

OKR5: Continue to Enhance the Institute's Overseas Influence

Key Results 1: Translate high-quality Chinese content into English and release it on overseas platforms.

• Translate the Chinese content of the Polkadot ecosystem into English according to market demand and release it on overseas media platforms. Translate no less than one piece every month, and translate no less than 12 pieces of English Polkadot content to overseas platforms in 12 months.
• The translated content will be simultaneously released on the official Twitter and official Medium of the research institute for overseas users to read.

Key Results 2: Hold at least 12 events about the development of Polkadot and its ecosystem in the coming year.

• Hold at least one online or offline discussion or event about the development of Polkadot or its ecosystem every month. Hold at least 12 events within 12 months.
• The forms will be online live broadcasts such as one-on-one interviews, thematic dialogues, and roundtable forums, and the topics will be shared according to the relevant hotspots of Polkadot or the major progress of ecosystem projects. 

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We have recently released a strategic development report on Polkadot with a word count of more than 12,000 words. This report is a comprehensive report on the current situation, challenges, competitive strategies, and various solutions of Polkadot that we have provided after conducting detailed community research (including developers) and collecting materials, taking nearly one month. It has sparked extensive discussions within the Polkadot community, been reposted and read by many institutions, and has been recognized by the Web3 Foundation. If you are interested, you can refer to this in-depth report.  

In addition, here is our work completion report for the past year, and you can check the detailed content:

The development report of Polkadot Ecology Research Institute for 2024/4 - 2024/9

The development report of Polkadot Ecology Research Institute for 2024/10 - 2025/3

In this proposal, we have applied for 12 months of operating funds, mainly for labor costs. This is also the ninth time we have applied to the Polkadot Treasury. Our application amount is not particularly large because it is mainly for the labor costs of the daily operation of the research institute. For example, the business costs and travel expenses for our participation in various Polkadot activities have always been paid by ourselves in the past few years, and it will be the same for this application.

You can check our detailed proposal, more information about us, and the evaluations of our work by Polkadot builders here.

Please cast your precious vote for us. If you have any questions or opinions, you can leave a message in the proposal, and we will actively reply.

P.S. The reason we're applying for treasury funding instead of going through Market Bounty is primarily due to processing timelines. From our understanding, some teams have waited several months without receiving feedback through the Market Bounty channel. Since we're currently using our own payroll funds to support the team, we require a more expedited funding process to ensure timely salary payments and team continuity. Therefore, applying directly to the treasury represents our most viable option at this time.