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#234 Title: Polkadot @CoindeskConsensus 2023, April 26-28, 2023 in Austin, Texas
This proposal aims to cover the costs of Polkadot's participation (spearheaded by the Web3 Technologies Foundation) as a Block 3 sponsor at the Coindesk Consensus conference, which was held from April 26-28, 2023, in Austin, Texas. It includes a 20 x 40 booth, 15 participating ecosystem teams, branding on conference materials and main sponsorship of the Coindesk anniversary event. The proposal also covers Polkadot’s participation in the Coindesk Consensus hackathon, called the “HackerEarth Web3athon”, which occurs between April 17th (start of hacking) and June 30th (winners announcement). Seven ecosystem teams participated under the Polkadot brand to promote their own prizes and challenges.The event was attended by over 20,000 participants from around the world, including entrepreneurs, executives, Web3 creators, NFT collectors, brand and marketing professionals, government officials, and blockchain developers. By participating as a sponsor, Polkadot showcased its ecosystem, healthy growth of its community, and the quality of its technology. As the flagship event in the industry, Consensus offered an excellent opportunity to form connections with new builder teams, convert those considering Polkadot, and support the growth of ecosystem projects while amplifying their adoption efforts.Further information on the proposal, including milestones, budget, agenda, participants and more can be found on **THIS LINK!**Note : This proposal was meant to be re-directed to go through Events Bounty, however the event bounty process is currently paused, hence the proposal is posted here without further delay.
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Overall 11 % of users are feeling optimistic. This individual expresses their approval and endorsement of the proposed plan or idea. They are confident that it will bring about positive outcomes, demonstrating a forward-thinking mindset. Their backing signifies trust in its potential success and effectiveness.
Overall 77 % of users are feeling neutral. Polkadot Philosophy voted Aye on this proposal due to significant costs already incurred, but expressed concerns about overall costs and transparency. They encouraged future proposals to be submitted through the Events Bounty, which is being relaunched soon. Ivy voted Nay with a preference for funding initiatives through the events bounty, questioning the urgency of this proposal when the bounty will soon become operational again.
Overall 11 % of users are feeling against it. In a bear market, reducing promotional expenses may seem necessary but it's unwise as it could lead to negative consequences such as making the network resemble Argentina in terms of performance or reputation. It is better to maintain these costs and wait for improved conditions.
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This proposal aims to cover the costs of Polkadot's participation (spearheaded by the Web3 Technologies Foundation) as a Block 3 sponsor at the Coindesk Consensus conference, which was held from April 26-28, 2023, in Austin, Texas. It includes a 20 x 40 booth, 15 participating ecosystem teams, branding on conference materials and main sponsorship of the Coindesk anniversary event. The proposal also covers Polkadot’s participation in the Coindesk Consensus hackathon, called the “HackerEarth Web3athon”, which occurs between April 17th (start of hacking) and June 30th (winners announcement). Seven ecosystem teams participated under the Polkadot brand to promote their own prizes and challenges.
The event was attended by over 20,000 participants from around the world, including entrepreneurs, executives, Web3 creators, NFT collectors, brand and marketing professionals, government officials, and blockchain developers. By participating as a sponsor, Polkadot showcased its ecosystem, healthy growth of its community, and the quality of its technology. As the flagship event in the industry, Consensus offered an excellent opportunity to form connections with new builder teams, convert those considering Polkadot, and support the growth of ecosystem projects while amplifying their adoption efforts.
Further information on the proposal, including milestones, budget, agenda, participants and more can be found on THIS LINK!
Note : This proposal was meant to be re-directed to go through Events Bounty, however the event bounty process is currently paused, hence the proposal is posted here without further delay.
2022 was a great event, and repeating that is certainly worthwhile. One question - since Parity marketing teams are effected by decentralization, who will actually work on this?
@amitrovich we are currently working on a plan for 2024. We will share updates in the Polkadot Forum on a regular basis.
Promotional expenses must be reduced in a bear market. There will be better times for this. It is wiser to burn those DOTs and make our favorite network not look like Argentina.
I think Polkadot needs to reduce promotion expenses in order to support development activities.
Hi,
Thank you for submitting this proposal.
We have a few questions to help us in our assessment:
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How many of the 103 leads converted in a project building on Polkadot?
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What is a landing page sign up? We note that based on the funding ask, the implied cost of the 71 landing page signups represented nearly $10k per sign up.
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Did any of the ecosystem teams help cover the cost of this event?
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We notice the similarities in the SWSX google form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cLS71MaCL8ttr-2l7TpR2rRbHWo-JPRKjqka1mzJ4_I/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1 - in that form, it said that there were 1000 booth foot traffic. In this proposal, there was also 1000 booth foot traffic. Is this figure not updated or was it a coincidence in numbers?
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We note that $135k was spent on a demand generation campaign. How many of the 15 million impressions were organic versus paid?
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We also note that this 15 million figure is less than the 40 million from the SXSW event. It would be helpful to understand the difference as our understanding is that both were 4 day events.
Best, Ivy
Thank you Ivy for your questions. We are working on the details and will get back to you asap.
@Ivy thank you for your patience. Here below the details.
- How many of the 103 leads converted in a project building on Polkadot? 0 converted to Commited Deal so far, although there are 3 opps with Consensus as Entry Point is in the pipeline and may still convert.
Three leads are currently in the pipeline and have the potential to convert.
- What is a landing page sign up? We note that based on the funding ask, the implied cost of the 71 landing page signups represented nearly $10k per sign up.
A landing page sign-up means a subscription to the Polkadot Events newsletter. Not all paid media budget was directed towards landing page traffic. In fact this came to only $38k. We also spent a significant amount on display advertising at Austin airport and in the conference hall
- Did any of the ecosystem teams help cover the cost of this event?
Sponsorship, exhibition stand and promotion was covered entirely by W3F. Travel costs for the entire project team and for speakers were paid for by Parity. Project Management Team salaries (3 individuals) were covered also by Parity and not added to the reimbursement request.
- We notice the similarities in the SWSX google form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cLS71MaCL8ttr-2l7TpR2rRbHWo-JPRKjqka1mzJ4_I/edit#heading=h.v6is2ta0txr1 - in that form, it said that there were 1000 booth foot traffic. In this proposal, there was also 1000 booth foot traffic. Is this figure not updated or was it a coincidence in numbers?
The figure of 1000 booth foot traffic in our proposal is indeed accurate. However, it represents the number of conversations that attendees of the conference had with marketing, BD, Delivery Services and ambassadors representatives at the booth. We calculated this figure by counting the amount of swag distributed, as we provide swag only to those who engage in a conversation with our representatives at the booth.
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We note that $135k was spent on a demand generation campaign. How many of the 15 million impressions were organic versus paid?
Paid vs organic traffic on the LP traffic: Organic: 66%, Paid: 34%. The 135k is the budgeted amount, only 124k has been finally spent (pls see table in section 6h) - out of this budget 74k has been invested in Out-of-home advertising at the airport, so the real Social Media ads portion is in fact only 50k instead of 135k
- We also note that this 15 million figure is less than the 40 million from the SXSW event. It would be helpful to understand the difference as our understanding is that both were 4 day events.
The investment for the SXSW event was double the one for Consensus, and we used different channels, in addition, SXSW has a higher overall attendance of approximately 345k vs 17k at Consensus, so the targetable audience is almost 20x
Hi,
Thank you for the detailed responses.
Based on the above, it doesn't strike us that a meaningful amount of tangible/quantifiable value has resulted from these deliverables. We understand that deals take time to execute, but we would have hoped to have seen a much more meaningful pipeline arise from this amount of spend.
However, we do believe there is 'intangible value' from attending certain, high-quality events, and believe the events bounty is the best place for this in the ecosystem to consider funding these types of initiatives.
For reference, we have voted to unblock the operational challenges experienced by the events bounty here; Our view is that it seems extreme to ask for $700k in funding with essentially zero quantitative output from an event that took place 7 months ago.
However, we understand there may be "brand value" associated with this event, and would prefer that they go to the events bounty as there doesn't appear to be any urgency around this.
For context, Ivy supported an operational change to unblock the event bounty here: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/236
That said, it is not clear to us why the proposer needs the funds for this event now when the events bounty will be again operational in the near future.
As a result, Ivy votes nay on this proposal with a hope that the proposer goes to the events bounty.
Thank you Ivy for the feedback.
As mentioned above in the original post, W3F was initially planning to have this proposal going to the event bounty. Due to the amount of this request and the limited remaining budget of the bounty there was no option to route it there. In addition to that the event bounty paused first, and might be ongoing in some days only, hence it was decided and recommended to post the proposal directly on chain.
On a separate note, Coindesk Consensus has been categorised (because of its attendee statistics) as a brand awareness and media outreach event and not as a sales and lead generation platform
ChaosDAO would like to provide the following feedback from our community. We offer this feedback voluntarily in the spirit of OpenGov, in order to help teams improve their proposals so we can all build the network together.
- Some members confirmed a large Polkadot presence at consensus
- Other members questioned the large costs associated with the various elements to this proposal
- While there was agreement that this was a good event there was a split decision due to the perceived lack of transparency around the overall costs involved
ChaosDAO votes as a collective based on the results of our anonymous internal voting procedures. Our members are not required provide any feedback about why they have voted in a particular direction. Similarly, to respect our members' right to anonymity, we will not be sharing names of individuals who have chosen to voluntarily provide feedback.
Voted Aye
I support this proposal
Voted Aye
As this is the retroactive coverage for the event that already happened, and significant costs have been incurred, Polkadot Philosophy will vote Aye. But as we have concerns regarding the overall costs and transparency, we encourage you to keep up with the Events Bounty next time, as it's being relaunched.
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Host 6–12 robotics meetups in San Francisco and Shenzhen
Attract 5,000+ visitors to our physical locations
Present humanoid robot use cases at 5+ Polkadot conferences
Reach 1M+ views across social media platforms
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Develop the Humanoid Robot SDK : We will create an open-source Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling humanoid robots to connect to the Polkadot Cloud. The SDK will include libraries and APIs for robot control commands, telemetry data exchange, on-chain identity management, and secure transaction signing from within a robot’s software. Designed to be Polkadot-native—compatible with parachains and runtime modules—and robot-agnostic, the SDK will support a range of humanoid platforms including open-source and commercial systems. The SDK is a foundational step toward making robots autonomous economic agents. For example, you pay a robot to bring you a drink by sending it a single transaction. This marks a breakthrough moment for Web3: real-world robotics driven by decentralized infrastructure. It positions Polkadot at the forefront of blockchain’s convergence with AI and robotics, generating media coverage, global attention, and industry engagement.
AI Model Testing : The lab will support experimentation with the latest AI methods on real humanoid robots, like deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning, the two most common approaches now. There is a miriad of approaches researchers try now to quickly teach humanoid robots new skills (continual learning, multi-modal learning, large behavior models, vision-language-action pipelines, diffusion-based planning, internal world models, and sim2real transfer techniques) and our goal is to offer a set of hardware where researchers can test and benchmark their models on. Polkadot’s infrastructure will be used to enable remote access, transparent storage of training data, and auditable performance benchmarking, opening a new frontier for reproducible robotics research.
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4. Budget
We request funding to cover the 1-year project duration of building a Polkadot Humanoid Robot SDK , including personnel, equipment, and lab necessary expenses.
The total budget the Cyberpunk Lab requests from the treasury is $618,000 , with $250,000 allocated for hardware procurement and $368,000 for operating expenses.
This lab is developed in partnership with BitRobot Network that will match the funding with an additional $250,000 for hardware and will be covering their own expenses.
Hardware Procurement ($500k total, including $250k from Polkadot Treasury and $250k from BitRobot):
Exact hardware is subject to change as robotics market is evolving quickly and new players enter the market rapidly. We already own 1 Unitree G1 humanoid and Boston Dynamics Spot robodog that we start Cyberpunk Lab with. We plan to focus on promising brands that have the best GTM strategy, cost-value parameters and technical readiness. These robots are in the short list to be added to the Cyberpunk Lab:
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Humanoid Robot 1x Technologies NEO
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Additional Hardware and Components: $30,000, including:
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- Tools & Miscellaneous Hardware: ~$10,000 – Tools for assembly and testing (electronics tools, 3D printer or printed parts, replacement components), as well as any other accessories needed during development (cables, mounts, etc.). This also acts as a small contingency for hardware repairs or upgrades over the project life.
Operating Expenses ($368,000):
- Salaries: $348,000
Personnel (Salaries) – We have a team of 6 ready to deliver on the project for 12 months. This category is the largest cost, reflecting the intensive R&D effort proposed.
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- SF Lab Executive - 6.500/month
- Software Architect - 4.500/month
- Scientific Administrator - 4.500/month
- Robotics Researcher - 4.500/month
- Robotics Operations - 5.000/month
- Rust developer (6 months) - 8,000/month
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Software & Cloud Services – $20,000: While the software developed will be mostly custom and open-source, we account for any external services needed. This includes possible cloud server costs for hosting test networks or simulations, paid licenses or APIs (if needed for robot simulation environments or special libraries), and continuous integration infrastructure for the project. For example, using a cloud robotics simulation service or extra storage for on-chain data logging during tests might incur costs.
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Marketing & Events – we will host regular meetups and events around Cyberpunk Lab as a part of our normal activity, but we will also be working with Events and Marketing bounties to promote the Cyberpunk Lab activities for a broader audience
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The Cyberpunk Lab will be launched in 2025 and will operate for at least 12 months. Polkadot Humanoid Robot SDK will be built and tested in this time. Our goal is to establish a business model around hardware renting and a large enough community around it that will allow us to maintain the Cyberpunk Lab in operation in perpetuity.
The Polkadot Humanoid Robot SDK will provide robotics developers with a set of tools and libraries for:
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We are have identified these projects now to engage with, but will pick the final partners as we proceed with the SDK development:
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Problem we're solving.
We turned in the wrong direction.
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The web3 acceleration is totally broken.
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- VCs and funds will benefit from the help of the community - potential leads are already sorted out, so less time is required to find a potential gem. Also, if a lead is secured, they will benefit long run from the help of community and connected services and advisors
- retail investors will be able to 'be early' but this time for real, not because they're told so.
No solution on the market solves all these issues together. There are tools out there, like launchpads but they don't care about success long run. Echo.xyz is kinda similar, but investors have to trust promises of 'leads', and the platform has no transparency whatsoever. Despite that, they helped to raise $105M from 8k unique investors, so the demand is there.
Growth & Monetization:
The investment and startup acceleration market is huge but heavily depends on the market condition, so we expect ups and downs when designing the treasury burn rate.
The revenue model consists of the fees on money raised, services sold, and DAO investments, the forecast can be found here: Revenue Model
We see Suprime platform as an addition to the existing web3 accelerators and VC funds, that would serve as a tech partner, so we could build up the distribution quickly.
Funding:
We've built an MVP and spent around 13 months, using 100% of own funds. During that time, we had two FTEs, and multiple part-time contributors, from marketing, market research, and design. Total expenses at the moment are $85k.
We're looking for an extra round of funds to move it to the next level, and:
- establish a strategic partnership with funds and accelerators, who share same vision of transparency and trustless business models
- make the solution feature-complete, and rollover it to Polkadot
- accelerate Suprime on Suprime platform
Read more:
Website : https://suprime.io
MVP (Sepolia testnet): https://test.suprime.io
Walkthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMXsBFwnR1w
Whitepaper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16kSgZdb_0hvPp_ZAwdaET8fhWnzgHu9peoVFJ3mrpxg/edit?tab=t.0
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