# Context
Over the past few months, there have been numerous discussions surrounding treasury spending, particularly concerning the return on investment (ROI) and the value generated from these expenditures. We recognize that these metrics can sometimes be subjective. However, we have identified a specific treasury allocation that was granted, marked as lost, and subsequently re-awarded by the Polkadot Council. 

# Initial Treasury Request
For clarity, this discussion is not related to the content of the proposal or the team receiving DOT but is solely focused on the funds marked as ["lost”](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/152#d5254fb0-f5b5-48c3-a045-2c0e1b88da5a).

In February 2022, the Supercolony team requested 6,011 DOT ($128,000) to host an online event dedicated to Polkadot smart contracts called the "WASM Conference." You can find the Council Motion and treasury proposal [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/152).

It is worth noting that the majority of the Supercolony team are from Ukraine, and in March 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place. Understandably, the Supercolony team had to leave their home country.

This situation led to treasury proposal 96, which can be viewed [here](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/proposal/96). The team stated that they lost access to the funds while leaving Ukraine. They then established a new account identity and were awarded an additional 6,011 DOT to host the WASM Conference.

# Current Situation
An account containing approximately 6,000 DOT, awarded by the treasury and marked as "lost," now exists. You can see the account [here](https://polkadot.subscan.io/account/5HTb4Sr2kLAhhELhqGTsgvMb2xE1ByaSk4xbY8rwLF8XRuau?tab=transfer).

The Polkadot Council, and by extension our ecosystem's treasury, has paid twice for the same project (WASM Conference).

The team was re-awarded the necessary amount due to the political situation in Ukraine. The funds were allocated specifically for completing tasks outlined in their proposal and were granted twice.

ChaosDAO strongly believes that it is inappropriate to allow these DOTs to remain in this account as the team were reissued the original allocation of tokens subsequent to the first payment being lost.

Due to the factors above, we are proposing the following extrinsic be initiated:

* balances.ForceTransfer

This extrinsic will transfer 6,011 DOT from the lost Supercolony account to the Polkadot treasury.

We would like to remind the community that each referendum is unique and discrete in its scope, and every individual referendum should be evaluated on its own merits prior to voting. There should not be any precedent set by approving the aforementioned extrinsic. This should never be used as a basis for approving future uses of the balances.ForceTransfer extrinsic haphazardly. 

Ultimately, we believe that the fate of these lost funds should be decided upon by the DOT token holder DAO, as they belong to the treasury. Whether the outcome of the decision is AYE or NAY, we believe that it is of the utmost importance that this decision be decided by the collective token holders, and not retroactively by the council with no community input.

To reiterate, this discussion is not about the Supercolony team or any specific individual; it is solely focused on addressing accounts claimed to be "lost" that have received treasury rewards.



Returning Supercolony lost funds back to the Treasury

Dear councillors & community members!

Novasama Technologies is excited to announce the completion of Milestone 2 for Nova Spektr (formerly Omni): Polkadot Enterprise desktop application 🎉

We have just published our Milestone 2 Report which includes updates regarding promised deliverables and additional deliverables:

- A public release of Nova Spektr (formerly Omni)

- Easy-to-use multisig accounts which utilizes Spektr Matrix Protocol (SMP) for secure and encrypted communication were designed and implemented
Integration with Polkadot Vault (former Parity Signer)

- Multi-assets management (show balances, send and receive assets for 70+ Polkadot ecosystem networks)

- Light clients integration and Parachain Data Verification Settings: Network management & Address book

- Open source under Apache 2.0 https://github.com/novasamatech/nova-spektr

- [Additional] Multishard wallets support and multishard operations

- [Additional] On-chain Staking (Nominating) for Relay chains and solo-chains

- [Additional] Metadata Portal for Polkadot Vault with over 70 networks supported including EVM chains: Moonbeam, Moonriver

Milestone 2 report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ei0wiX4VYRFaibE9qI6m3u7e-g88QZ_OcVH1s2tZjso/

Please let us know if you have any questions about Spektr! Thanks once again for your continued support!

Milestone 2 Report – Nova Spektr (formerly Omni): Polkadot Enterprise desktop application

![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1drIzfpDOFUrODWXYso28L-VI9xYJ4txz
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## Milestone 4 proposal: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/8

## Report & milestone 4 deliverables: 
* Multistaking dashboard
* Staking Nomination Pools
* WalletConnect v2
* New Assets tab UI
* Community Requested Features
* Additional Features
* Open source under Apache 2.0 [https://github.com/novasamatech](https://github.com/novasamatech)
* Project tracking: [4 public demos](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p_jWqzN8jNST0D_lyG9-0bs4IPEKj3Ya67uQu4ksKbI/edit#heading=h.xlwqi8trtorg)
* Additional content relating to the ecosystem wide #StakeDOT initiative
1. Polkadot in Action video uploaded to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1713947948713640389) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnv4FOZywb0)
2.  In depth [Medium article](https://twitter.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1715035080048152857)
3. Short form #StakeDOT summary video on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1712891810815656146)
4. [YouTube Short](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CN71alaAbq4) about staking DOT with Nova Wallet

# Overview
Novasama Technologies have completed our Nova Wallet milestone 4 proposal! When we released v7.0 on 15th September 2023, we delivered upon all of the features that we promised and more! 🥳

## Staking Updates 🥞

![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1I7H70fw02gAzpD7gYusOmVKVBM1l1woX
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In the past 6 months Nova Wallet has become the best app for staking Polkadot DOT with our super simple 2-in-1 staking. Now Nova Wallet always ensures that you securely get the maximum possible staking rewards through DOT native staking, and ensures that you start your staking journey in the best possible way for you! 
No need to worry about nomination pools, direct staking, selecting validators – Nova Wallet handles all of this for the end user, massively reducing the complexity and removing significant pain points for Polkadot ecosystem participants.

Find out more about Nova Wallets super simple 2-in-1 staking over on [our Medium](https://medium.com/@novawalletapp/nova-wallet-is-now-the-best-app-for-polkadot-staking-and-the-timing-is-perfect-7bbe9ffd4958).

On top of that we have also built the multitasking dashboard! Nova Wallet is a truly multichain application and our multitasking dashboard allows you to see all of your staking positions from a single screen! 

At a glance you can see all the information about each of your staking positions for tons of Polkadot ecosystem networks including:
* The status of your stake — is it active or not?
* The amount of tokens you have staked
* The estimated rewards per year
* The total rewards that you have earned
* Nova Wallet gives you the ultimate multichain experience on Polkadot!

## WalletConnect v2 Integration 📲

![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ksLHPtbm94Jh_JN8FMvjqmjKPlEe1smB)

Nova Wallet was the first wallet in the Polkadot ecosystem to integrate WalletConnect v2! 

WalletConnect is a widely adopted, open source and chain agnostic communications protocol which allows you to securely connect your wallet to dApps on any chain by scanning a QR code!

Nova Wallet’s integration of WalletConnect allows you to use your Nova Wallet to connect to dApps on your desktop effortlessly! The WalletConnect protocol has already been adopted by various teams in the Polkadot ecosystem such as Moonbeam and HydraDX!

Novasama Technologies has been spearheading the adoption of WalletConnect in the Polkadot ecosystem – we have reached out to the majority of parachain / dApp teams offering assistance to them so that they can integrate WalletConnect.

## Updated Assets Tab UI 📊

![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ZZsHpLiBQQCzQNaAZnolvH4nPquorHig
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We have revamped Nova Wallet’s assets tab UI to improve the asset management user experience! We have made it even easier for users to Send/Receive/Buy tokens from the main Balance Card – ensuring that users can quickly identify how to carry out these operations!

Oh, one more thing – we have also added the ability for users to Swap tokens from the Balance Card too – but more you will hear more about that fairly soon 😉

## Community Requested Features 🤗 

![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1kWkwlechLoVAdObDdxEbQ2MOdAgQ7oEp
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As always we have dedicated a portion of our development time towards building community requested features! Nova Wallet is a community orientated application and our main focus is ensuring that we can provide the best possible experience for our users – and that means listening to their requests and implementing them!

Some of the community requested features include:
* Show staking rewards for a selected time period
* Authorization of transactions via pin code / biometric input
* Search function on the governance referendum screen
* Ability to filter referenda to only display those which the user has / has not voted on
* Displaying fiat value of transfers / received staking rewards – with the values being based on the time that they were executed

## Final Words 💖

Once again Novasama Technologies has proven that we can deliver upon our treasury milestones – implementing every feature included in our milestones and more – all within the stated time period with no delays!

We intend to continue to develop Nova Wallet to ensure that it continues to be the best mobile application in the Polkadot ecosystem! Providing a seamless experience for users to interact with all the amazing features that the Polkadot ecosystem has to offer!

You can find out more about everything we have delivered as part of milestone 4 below!

# Deliverables overview
![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ZWF_ca0S3E747cYuhwCAxEJrIwsACHvQ
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Table 1 illustrates the deliverables that were planned to be delivered as part of Milestone 4 and what Novasama Technologies has delivered

Table 1. Nova Wallet Milestone 4 deliverables

✅Indicates a feature that has been delivered as part of the agreed upon milestones of the referendum.

| Theme | Feature | Description |
|-------|---------|-------------|
| ✅ Staking Nomination Pools | ✅ Start staking via a Nomination Pool | Enables users to stake DOT/KSM/AZERO (and any other future tokens that support Nomination Pools) by participating in Nomination Pools. Users can input the token amount, select a specific nomination pool, and verify the transaction information before submitting the transaction to the blockchain. |
|  | ✅ Stop staking in a Nomination Pool | Provides users the ability to cease staking in their current nomination pool, setting their staked balance to be unstaked. |
|  | ✅ Display Nomination Pool status | Displays a user's stake status within a Nomination Pool, such as Active/Inactive, for a quick overview of the overall status. |
|  | ✅ Display Nomination Pool alerts | Presents users with additional details about Nomination Pool operations, such as the time remaining before unstaked tokens can be redeemed or before staking activation. |
|  | ✅ Display Total Staking rewards from Nomination Pool staking | Shows the total staking rewards that a user has earned from staking in a Nomination Pool. This also includes the expansion of our SubQuery open-source API projects for supporting the logic of Nomination Pools Staking Rewards. |
|  | ✅ Stake more tokens in a Nomination Pool | Allows users to allocate additional tokens to their current stake in a Nomination Pool. |
| | ✅ Unstake tokens from a Nomination Pool | Enables users to remove a specified amount of tokens from their current stake in a Nomination Pool. |
|  | ✅ Show Unstaking progress from Nomination Pool | Provides an estimation of the time required for an unstaking request to be completed, based on accurate block production time calculations. |
|  | ✅ Redeem Unstaked tokens from Nomination Pool | Allows users to redeem or withdraw their tokens that have completed the unstaking period. |
|  | ✅ Display available rewards | Indicates the amount of rewards available for claiming or restaking for a user from Nomination Pool staking. |
|  | ✅ Claim available rewards | Allows users to claim available rewards to be added to their transferable balance. |
|  | ✅ Restake available rewards | Allows users the ability to restake available rewards to increase their stake in the Nomination Pool. |
| ✅ Multistaking dashboard | ✅ Show all staking options with APY | The Multistaking dashboard presents users with a variety of available on-chain staking options within Nova Wallet, including their estimated APY/APR. |
| | ✅ Display active staking options on the multistaking dashboard with total stake & total rewards | Showcases active staking options for a user's wallet in the Multistaking dashboard, including their total stake and rewards. Users can tap on it to view details and manage staking. |
| | ✅ Unify flow for Nominator and Nomination Pool participant depending on staking amount | Simplifies the staking process for new users by automatically routing them between the Nomination Pool and Nominator options based on their entered staking amount. Notably, users can manually switch to their desired option if needed (e.g., staking more than 500+ DOT in a Nomination Pool for some reason). |
| | ✅ Display onchain staking conditions/terms in oversimplified view upon clicking on one of the available options for Staking | Provides the user with a summary of conditions/terms like how often rewards will be received, what’s the unstaking period, and other important information that the user needs to know before beginning to stake onchain. The screen will make this very simple to understand – a short list with “Start staking” button on the bottom of it. |
| | ✅ Display “More options” in the end of Multistaking dashboard screen | Shows additional options for staking after tapping on the “More options” button at the bottom of the Multistaking dashboard screen. There are mainly 2 use cases that this feature covers: — Getting access for Nomination Pool/Nominator option if user is already  staking (since on the main screen the staking will now be displayed as active, not as available for starting to stake) — Promote other Staking options that are available to be used by using the Nova Wallet DApp browser, e.g. Astar DApp staking and any other Staking DApp from the ecosystem. |
| ✅ WalletConnect v2 | ✅ Add button(s) for WalletConnect v2 to start the QR code scan | Allows a user to connect to any DApp using WalletConnect QR code scanning. |
| | ✅ Show the initialize connection with DApp screens | Display information regarding the connection to the DApp, such as DApp URL, icon, status, etc. |
| | ✅ Sign message screens | Display the content of the operation to be signed and options to Sign or Reject the operation sent from the DApp to Nova Wallet through WalletConnect. |
| ✅ New Assets tab UI | ✅ Add main wallet features on Assets tab | Display Send/Receive/Buy buttons right on the main Asset tab screen so that users will have quicker access to those features. |
| | ✅ Update design of Balance card | Improvements to the UI of Balance card to be more attractive and fit Send/Receive/Buy buttons on itself. |
| | ✅ Send flow from Assets tab | Add flow of Sending assets right from Assets tab. |
| | ✅ Receive flow from Assets tab | Add flow of Receiving assets right from Assets tab. |
| | ✅ Topup flow from Assets tab | Add flow of Buying assets right from Assets tab. |
| | ✅ Update UI for Operation history | Improve the UI of Operation history to better fit both Substrate & EVM transactions, as well as prepare Operation history for upcoming improvements such as displaying the fiat representation of the operation in the list. |
| ✅ Community Requested Features | ✅ Show Total Staking rewards for selected time period | Allows user to reset the Total Staking rewards and/or select the time period for displaying the rewards from staking. Nova Wallet TG: [Link](https://t.me/novawallet/15525) |
| | ✅ Add Search feature on Referendum (Vote) screen | Allows user to quickly find certain Referendum by its ID or name. Nova Wallet Canny: [Link](https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration/p/add-search-function-on-referendum-voting-screen) |
| | ✅ Add a setting to authorize operation with pin code / bio | Allows user to set an additional step of authorizing the operation before sending it to the blockchain by entering a pin code or passing the bio auth. Nova Wallet Canny: [Link](https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration/p/pin-or-bio-request-upon-finalizing-a-tx) |
| | ✅ Add filter on Vote screen to display only voted/un-voted/all referendums | Allows user to filter the list of referendums by the voted/un-voted/all parameters so that they can view the content of the Vote screen as they would prefer to. Nova Wallet Canny: [Link](https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration/p/add-opengov-non-voted-filter) |
| | ✅ Show fiat value of transfer/staking reward upon the time it was received | Display the fiat value for the transfer & staking rewards at the moment they were received. Fiat values are displayed in both Operation history list and Operation details. Nova Wallet Canny: [Link](https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration/p/show-value-of-staking-rewards) |

## Additional deliverables

Throughout the development of Milestone 4, our team has listened to community feedback about our existing features and implemented some of the requested improvements.
Table 2 illustrates the description of the additional deliverables.

Table 2. Nova Wallet Milestone 4 additional deliverables

| Theme       | Result                                                            | Additional Information |
|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
| Governance  | ✅ Support for HTML formatting in SubSquare and Polkassembly referendum descriptions | At some point SubSquare and Polkassembly migrated from using markdown formatting to using HTML markup. We decided to support this migration to provide nice proposal content formatting in Nova Wallet. |
| Governance  | ✅ Change “Not passing” status to “Deciding”                       | Many Governance participants reported that “Not passing” status introduces a negative sentiment towards newly launched referenda so we decided to change it to more neutral “Deciding” wording. |
| Polkadot Vault | ✅ Use animated QR codes for big transaction signing | Some Nova users faced an issue when trying to sign large transactions with Polkadot Vault, for example delegation translation in Nova’s Governance UI. |
| Send | ✅ Added detection and warning mechanism to inform users when transaction fees are volatile. ✅ Added a warning popup when users attempt to send tokens to a system account. | Sometimes fees may be volatile and change significantly even during a short time period whilst the user is reviewing their transaction on the confirmation screen. We added a re-evaluation of the fee upon submission and warning in case fee has been changed significantly. We noticed that some users accidentally send funds to parachain’s system account when actually trying to perform a cross-chain transfer. To prevent that, Nova now checks if an account is system-related and notifies users that they probably don’t want to send tokens to system accounts. |
| Balances | ✅ Improved price accuracy. Nova now displays at least 3 non-zero digits for token prices | Users reported that for some tokens that have price less than 1 USD, it is hard to track price changes due to only a single significant digit being displayed. We changed it to 3 significant digits to allow for better price tracking. |
| Maintenance | ✅ Support deprecation of Controller accounts on Relay Chains. ✅ Support multiple updates of System Parachains. ✅ Support for new Polkadot & Kusama AssetHub cross-chain transfers. | Support breaking changes introduced in runtime upgrades. |

![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ae0PGKrx74-cJH12qptqruGN-qQW8QuS
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# Funding from Polkadot & Kusama Treasuries

Nova Wallet development has been always funded by the Ecosystem Network Treasuries, with most funding coming from Kusama ([[1]](https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/proposals/122), [[2]](https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/proposals/158)) & Polkadot ([[3]](https://www.dotreasury.com/dot/proposals/199), [[4]](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/8)).

We have always delivered upon the features presented in each milestone, and done so within the stated timeframe within the proposal. Our goal is to provide the best possible user experience and by getting funding from the Polkadot & Kusama treasuries we make sure that our incentives align with the community.

# Public demos

## Nova Wallet 4th Treasury proposal demos:

[Nova Wallet Demo #37 Super Simple Staking & Release Update](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOOptSMGHI)

[Nova Wallet Demo #36 Multistaking Dashboard & New Asset Tab UI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6E8yvGqDqQ)

[Nova Wallet Demo #35 Multistaking Dashboard & Community Requested Features](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CbKSJFlEiI)

[Nova Wallet Demo #34 WalletConnect v2, XCM Transfers Fix, New Polkadot Treasury Proposal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqbbBQhBEs)

## Nova Wallet social media links:

Website: https://novawallet.io 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NovaWalletApp 

Telegram group: https://t.me/novawallet 

Telegram announcements channel: https://t.me/novawallet_announcements 

GitHub: https://github.com/nova-wallet 

Canny (feature requests): https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NovaWallet/ 

Wiki: https://docs.novawallet.io/

Element: https://matrix.to/#/#nova-wallet:matrix.org 

Medium: https://medium.com/@novawalletapp 

PolkaVerse: https://polkaverse.com/10128


Nova Wallet 4th Proposal Report

<img src="https://i.ibb.co/ng0DcqB/Hero-1.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="281" />
<h1>Milestone 5 proposal: <a href="https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/302">https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/302</a>&nbsp;</h1>
<h2>Report &amp; milestone 5 deliverables:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Cloud backups and Updated onboarding</li>
<li>Push Notifications Proxy (Delegated to you) wallets</li>
<li>OpenGov improvements</li>
<li>Network management and optimization</li>
<li>Deeplinks &amp; Applinks integration</li>
<li>Reimbursement for additional delivered features</li>
<li>Open-source under Apache 2.0 <a style="background-color: #0d0d0d;" href="https://github.com/novasamatech">https://github.com/novasamatech</a></li>
</ul>
<h1>Overview</h1>
Novasama Technologies has completed our 5th Nova Wallet milestone proposal! We are excited to share this report with all of you, which details how we have completed all of our promised deliverables and more! 🥳
To see the report complete with deliverables table please read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xw5tDvq1cUGfAIpKrbBNnW4y1jGf5it4xJpnDcSmRj0/edit?usp=sharing">this document</a>.
<h1>Cloud backups and updated onboarding</h1>
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/9tY0c84/report-1.png" alt="" width="640" height="360" />
Cloud Backups and updated onboarding have significantly improved the wallet management experience for the entire Polkadot ecosystem by removing the often confusing hurdle of passphrase management. Thanks to Cloud Backups and our updated onboarding, users can securely store their passphrases in their personal cloud storage (Google Drive or iCloud), which are encrypted by their customizable Nova Wallet password. This creates a smoother, and familiar web2-like onboarding experience for new users, eliminating the need to immediately deal with complex passphrases.
For existing users, cloud backups simplify migrating your wallets between multiple devices. Instead of having to manually enter passphrases, users can restore their wallets in just a few clicks, ensuring a quick and effortless migration.
It&rsquo;s important to note that Cloud Backup is an opt-in feature, meaning users have complete control and can choose whether or not to store their passphrases in the cloud.
Released under version 8.0.0 on June 25th 2024: 
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1805632071877935261">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1805632071877935261</a>
<h1>Push Notifications</h1>
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/6myKfgr/report-2.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" />
Users can now opt-in to receive real-time notifications about their account activities, including Balance changes, Staking rewards, Sent and Received tokens, ensuring that they are always up to date with all of the key activities of their account. Additionally, we&rsquo;ve made sure that notifications cover important Governance events, such as new referendums being posted and their outcomes, so users can remain actively engaged with the Polkadot ecosystem. 
Users have full control over their notification preferences, allowing them to customize what types of alerts they wish to receive. Currently, we are limiting notifications to three wallets per device to manage infrastructure costs as we continue testing with our large active user base.
By introducing Push Notifications, Nova Wallet continues to enhance our user experience, ensuring Polkadot participants are always informed and ready to engage with the ecosystem.
Find out more about Push Notifications over at the <a href="https://docs.novawallet.io/nova-wallet-wiki/settings/push-notifications">Nova Wallet wiki</a>!
Released under version 7.10.0 on March 30th 2024: 
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1774056128629948479">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1774056128629948479</a>
<h1>Proxy (delegated to you) wallets</h1>
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/VxzsGNQ/report-3.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" />
Nova Wallet needs to meet everyone's demands, including users who are more experienced in the Polkadot ecosystem. Proxy accounts are one of the most powerful features in the Polkadot ecosystem and are widely adopted by power users and enterprise entities. Proxy accounts allow users to delegate control of specific wallet features, such as Staking or Governance actions, to another account.
Nova Wallet now automatically adds any Proxied wallet (delegated to the user) to their wallet list, based on the wallets they&rsquo;ve imported into the app. This provides seamless access to delegated accounts, allowing users to carry out specific operations from accounts with minimal balances, whilst not requiring them to access their cold storage wallet.
By adding Proxy Wallets, Nova Wallet continues to cater to the needs of advanced users and enterprises, unlocking the full potential of the Polkadot ecosystem and setting a new standard for wallet functionality. Check out our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9opEg0zFEuU">Polkadot in Action video about Proxies</a>, or visit <a href="https://docs.novawallet.io/nova-wallet-wiki/wallet-management/delegated-authorities-proxies">Nova Wallet Wiki</a> for more information.
Released under version 7.7.0 on January 19th 2024: 
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1748372213995119027">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1748372213995119027</a>
<h1>OpenGov Improvements</h1>
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/xfkZ5t0/09-Swipe-GOv.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" />
Nova Wallet was the first application that supported the complete feature set of Polkadot OpenGov from day 1 of its launch. Our OpenGov functionality has proven to be very popular amongst our users and we have improved the experience for our users even further!
The Abstain voting function was added to OpenGov after the initial rollout, and we have added the ability for users to Abstain on each referendum. 
We also had a lot of feedback from the Polkadot community about the visual state of the referendum card as well as the details about each referendum's status. We took this feedback onboard and have made the interface not only more visually appealing but also easier for users to understand the current state of a referendum at a glance, including predictions as to what the outcome of a referendum will be based on its current state.
<h1>SwipeGov</h1>
With the Nova Wallet v8.7.0 update we brought SwipeGov to everyone!
SwipeGov is Nova Wallet&rsquo;s innovative and AI-powered governance solution that makes it easier than ever before to participate in Polkadot OpenGov!
SwipeGov at its core utilizes AI to provide you with a concise and clear summary of the details of each referendum, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for those looking to get involved in OpenGov, but maybe lack the time to review every minor detail of each referendum.
Swipe right to AYE, left to NAY, or up to abstain &ndash; SwipeGov is the most simple and fun way to participate in Polkadot&rsquo;s decentralized governance!
SwipeGov is available in 13+ languages, allowing everyone in the Polkadot community to review referendums in their own language. This along with an upcoming runtime upgrade that will allow those staking via nomination pools to participate in governance should significantly increase voter turnout in Polkadot OpenGov!
OpenGov updates were released under version 8.4.0 on August 6th:
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1820804430750536097">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1820804430750536097</a>
SwipeGov was released under version 8.7.0 on October 8th 2024:
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1843637478336422261">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1843637478336422261</a>
<h1>Network management and optimization</h1>
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/v4hMzLb/report-4.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" />
The Network Management update allows users to switch RPC nodes between auto, selected, or custom options for each network, offering greater control over connections and solutions for those facing local internet restrictions. Users can also disable unused networks or add new ones by providing an RPC URL, making Nova highly adaptable to current and future needs. 
We've also optimized Nova to address performance issues on older devices with limited RAM. Instead of loading the full runtime of each network on the Assets screen, Nova Wallet now only uses balances, storages, and subscriptions, significantly reducing memory usage and ensuring a smoother experience on less powerful devices. 
These improvements streamline network management and lay the groundwork for future integrations, including the addition of light clients, further extending Nova Wallet's capabilities as the go-to solution for a diverse, multi-chain Polkadot experience.
Find out more about Nova&rsquo;s Network Management feature over at the <a href="https://docs.novawallet.io/nova-wallet-wiki/settings/network-management">Nova Wallet wiki</a>!
Released under version 8.2.0 on July 19th 2024: 
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1814284324146991580">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1814284324146991580</a>
<h1>Applinks Integration</h1>
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/92RrXKW/report-5.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" />
Nova Wallet now supports Applinks which allow anyone to create a hyperlink that when clicked, or scanned in the form of a QR code, will carry out a specific action in Nova Wallet! If the user does not have Nova Wallet installed, then the app link will direct them to the Google Play / Apple App Stores to download Nova Wallet!
Nova Wallet currently supports Applinks for these actions:
<ul>
<li>Open a specific DApp in the DApp browser</li>
<li>Open the details of a specific referendum</li>
<li>Open the multitasking dashboard</li>
<li>Add a wallet</li>
</ul>
You can find out more about how to use Applinks over at the <a href="https://docs.novawallet.io/nova-wallet-wiki/misc/developer-documentation/app-links">Nova Wallet Wiki</a>!
Released under version 7.5.0 on December 6th 2024:
<a href="https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1732474994385416650">https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1732474994385416650</a>
<h1>Additional Delivered Features</h1>
As the Polkadot ecosystem continues to grow, we have to continue to meet the demands of the community and quickly implement features that are heavily requested.
As the Polkadot ecosystem continues to grow, we have to update Nova Wallet to meet the requirements of new runtime upgrades, as well as implement heavily requested features. Some of these additionally delivered features include:
<ol>
<li>Native Swaps</li>
<li>Support for multiple liquidity sources for swaps</li>
<li>Support for new delivery fees for XCMs</li>
<li>Generic Ledger App + v15 Metadata support</li>
<li>Support for new ecosystem cross-chain transfers</li>
<li>Lots of Runtime updates for XCM and staking changes</li>
</ol>
The necessity to support these features emerges as the Polkadot ecosystem continues to evolve, and we will soon publish a Retroactive Treasury Proposal that will describe these tasks in detail, so stay tuned!
<h1>Deliverables Overview</h1>
Please refer to the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xw5tDvq1cUGfAIpKrbBNnW4y1jGf5it4xJpnDcSmRj0/edit?usp=sharing">this document</a> to see the Deliverables Overview table.
<h1>Funding from Polkadot &amp; Kusama Treasuries</h1>
Nova Wallet development has always been funded by the Ecosystem Network Treasuries, with most funding coming from Kusama (<a href="https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/proposals/122">[1]</a>, <a href="https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/proposals/158">[2]</a>) &amp; Polkadot (<a href="https://www.dotreasury.com/dot/proposals/199">[3]</a>, <a href="../referenda/8">[4]</a>, <a href="https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/302">[5]</a>).
We have always delivered upon the features presented in each milestone, and done so within the stated timeframe within the proposal. Our goal is to provide the best possible user experience and by getting funding from the Polkadot &amp; Kusama treasuries we make sure that our incentives align with the community.
<h1>Nova Wallet social media links:</h1>
Website: <a href="https://novawallet.io">https://novawallet.io</a>
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/NovaWalletApp">https://twitter.com/NovaWalletApp</a>
Telegram group: <a href="https://t.me/novawallet">https://t.me/novawallet</a>
Telegram announcements channel: <a href="https://t.me/novawallet_announcements">https://t.me/novawallet_announcements</a>
GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/nova-wallet">https://github.com/nova-wallet</a>
Canny (feature requests): <a href="https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration">https://novawallet.canny.io/feature-exploration</a>
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/NovaWallet/">https://www.youtube.com/c/NovaWallet/</a>
Wiki: <a href="https://docs.novawallet.io/">https://docs.novawallet.io/</a>
Element: <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#nova-wallet:matrix.org">https://matrix.to/#/#nova-wallet:matrix.org</a>
Medium: <a href="https://medium.com/@novawalletapp">https://medium.com/@novawalletapp</a>

Nova Wallet 5th Proposal Report

This is a tip whose proposer address (1HGnvAkk9nbfZ58CzUJhjcrLdEDMkr5qNkqqYkyD5BF5v6Y) is shown in on-chain info below. Only this user can edit this description and the title. If you own this account, login and tell us more about your proposal.

GM,
myself and other members of ChaosDAO have investigated Michiko Watanabe and believe that they are using a fake persona.

Michiko was promoted to HA under this ref: https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/871

I have tried to contact Michiko for the past few days, with no response.

You can see more info here:
1. Calling them out on X: https://x.com/LeemoXD/status/1818617878905520628
2. Deleting their X account and leaving chat groups: https://x.com/LeemoXD/status/1818646565122187466

While I'm on my soapbox – you all should actually vote in governance. You all hold DOT yet hardly any of you vote, just check ref 871 above.

If you do not vote NAY and then are unhappy with stuff that passes, you are also part of the problem.
Start paying attention or delegate to a group like ChaosDAO which does pay attention and isn't prone to being corrupted by quid-pro-quo. 

Please do better.

How to verify:
Collectives call data:
0x460300f08cce486eece7d4a7a3d614b7cd85586d657893f2be9df6e8e3c4f7b181bd520300

Relay call data:
0x630004000100a50f04082f000006030300286bee42420f0094460300f08cce486eece7d4a7a3d614b7cd85586d657893f2be9df6e8e3c4f7b181bd520300

Remove Michiko Watanabe from the Polkadot Ambassador Program

Thanks to Basti for helping us with the Whitelisting part of this <3

See discussion: https://polkadot.subsquare.io/posts/408

# Summary

This referendum proposes the following changes:
## Snowbridge-wrapped USDC:

- Set as [sufficient asset](https://wiki.polkadot.network/general/web3-and-polkadot/#sufficient-assets)

- Set [existential deposit](https://support.polkadot.network/support/solutions/articles/65000168651-what-is-the-existential-deposit-) to $0.01 (MinBalance: 10 000)
- Set metadata:
 - Name: USDC (Snowbridge)
 - Symbol: USDC
 - Decimals: 6 (it is currently 6, this just adds that to the metadata)

## Snowbridge-wrapped USDT:
- Set as [sufficient asset](https://wiki.polkadot.network/general/web3-and-polkadot/#sufficient-assets)
- Set [existential deposit](https://support.polkadot.network/support/solutions/articles/65000168651-what-is-the-existential-deposit-) to $0.01 (MinBalance: 10 000)
- Set metadata:
 - Name: Tether USD (Snowbridge)
 - Symbol: USDT
 - Decimals: 6 (it is currently 6, this just adds that to the metadata)

It is worth mentioning that we believe a lot of the Polkadot DAO think the only sufficient assets on Polkadot Asset Hub are DOT, USDC (Native), and USDT (Native), but there are some additional ones, including:
- [ETH](https://ibb.co/zVgQGbV3) (Snowbridge)
- [WETH](https://ibb.co/WpWCYGRz) (Snowbridge)
- [KSM](https://ibb.co/ZZkmD26) (P<>K Bridge)

This referendum basically adds to that list, we believe that it is beneficial to make obviously valuable (ETH/WETH for example) or stable assets (stables from Ethereum) sufficient. It is also entirely possible to remove sufficiency from an asset in the future.

View the full context:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbLwGg2PW-uxyO4PLNrm350HDteBMTc7X3_vy_hYkJdLu2BJSnohh83nJiQvU3rRTGpD0xNqRX9EWG/pub

Cheers,

[Leemo](https://x.com/LeemoXD), [N4DRO](https://x.com/N4DRO), [lolmcshizz](https://x.com/lolmcshizz) and [Crane](https://x.com/0xCrane)

Set Snowbridge-wrapped USDC & USDT as sufficient assets, set their ED to $0.01, and set their metadata on Asset Hub

# Summary
We're back again with another classic banger.

This referendum forms part of a series of proposals that attempts to improve the UX for users bridging assets to the Polkadot ecosystem from Ethereum via Snowbridge.

Currently, the user experience for users wishing to bridge assets into the ecosystem is less than ideal. Users are not able to deploy capital into the ecosystem, leading to users feeling frustrated as they are not experiencing their desired UX, including but not limited to the following reasons:
There is not sufficiently deep liquidity for Snowbridge assets for users wishing to deploy any meaningful amounts of assets in the ecosystem (outside of the scope of this referendum)
There is not sufficient liquidity for Snowbridge assets on Polkadot Asset Hub to facilitate fee payment swaps
	
This referendum requests ~$2,000 of DOT tokens. If/when this referendum is approved, half of this DOT will be converted into MRL WETH via Hydration, bridged to Ethereum via Wormhole, and then bridged back to Polkadot via Snowbridge. This ETH will be paired against the equivalent amount of DOT on Polkadot Asset Hub to facilitate fee payment swaps.

It should be noted that this is Snowbridge ETH, and not WETH.

Note: there is already a liquidity pool of Snowbridge ETH/DOT that exists, however the liquidity is very shallow, and we have seen from the shallow liquidity of the DOT/KSM pool that this can lead to users paying an arm and a leg for their txn fees. Increasing the liquidity of these pools can help delay these issues and hopefully by raising these referendums, people will learn about these liquidity pools, and hopefully arbitrage them, keeping the price normalized.

There is an additional 50 DOT added which is intended to cover transaction fees across various blockchains, and act as a small tip / beer money.

# Problem Statement
Polkadot OpenGov has funded the development of Snowbridge quite extensively, however, there are some underlying UX issues inhibiting user adoption that are primarily caused by a lack of liquidity.

Currently, when a user bridges assets to the Polkadot ecosystem via Snowbridge, they are not able to utilize them. This is due to the two primary issues listed above. 

As stated, one issue is that there is very shallow liquidity on Polkadot Asset Hub to facilitate fee payment swaps. The ELI5 of this is that you can utilize other assets to pay for fees on Asset Hub, and in the background, it is swapped for DOT to pay the fee. This, however, requires that a pool actually exists with some level of liquidity (such as what we are proposing).

If users are able to have their Snowbridge assets swapped for DOT to pay for fees, then they are able to deploy their tokens to other parts of the ecosystem, where deeper liquidity may exist in the future.

Currently, these issues are making the onboarding experience rather bad for those coming from other ecosystems to Polkadot, we need to improve this. The lack of Snowbridge assets being held in the ecosystems showcases potential issues with adoption, and these pain points may be a root cause of why people are not bridging assets from Ethereum to Polkadot.

# Proposition
We propose to deploy and add liquidity to the ETH/DOT pool, which should further alleviate this fee payment swap issue.

Since we will receive DOT, we need to convert it to MRL WETH on Hydration, and then use Wormhole to bridge the WETH to Ethereum and convert it to ETH, and then bridge the ETH back to the Polkadot ecosystem using Snowbridge.

We will then utilize this Snowbridge ETH and the DOT to top up the liquidity pool.

The funds will be sent to a 2/2 multisig consisting of Leemo (Novasama Technologies) and lolmcshizz (Hydration).

# Closing Thoughts
It is important that people in the ecosystem are able to use the products that people have spent a lot of time building and that we have spent a lot of funds on. These pain points are immediately clear to anyone using the ecosystem's tools.

As we stated at the top of the proposal, we are aware that there is a lack of sufficiently deep liquidity for Snowbridge assets, for Snowbridge ETH in particular, the Hydration DAO will soon vote on OTCing some of their WETH into Snowbridge ETH, which should increase adoption, which is part of the reason why we want to top up this liquidity pool for fee payments.

Cheers,

Leemo, lolmcshizz, and Crane

Delegate to ChaosDAO: https://chaosdao.org/ 


Provision of Snowbridge ETH Liquidity to Facilitate Fee Swaps

# Summary
This referendum forms part of a series of proposals which attempts to improve the UX for users bridging USDT & USDC (hereinafter “stables”) to the Polkadot ecosystem from Ethereum via Snowbridge.

Currently, the user experience for users wishing to bridge stables into the ecosystem is less than ideal. Users are not able to deploy capital into the ecosystem, leading to users feeling frustrated as they are not experiencing their desired UX, including but not limited to the following reasons:
There is not sufficiently deep liquidity for Snowbridge wrapped stables for users wishing to deploy any meaningful amounts of stables in the ecosystem (outside of the scope of this referendum)
There is not sufficient liquidity for Snowbridge-wrapped stables on Polkadot Asset Hub to facilitate fee payment swaps
	
This referendum requests 1,000 USDT, 1,000 USDC, and $2000 worth of DOT tokens. The native stables will be converted via various means (detailed below) into Snowbridge wrapped stables. The stables will then be paired against the equivalent amount of DOT on Polkadot Asset Hub to facilitate fee payment swaps.

There is an additional 50 DOT added which is intended to cover transaction fees across various blockchains, and act as a small tip / beer money.
Problem Statement
Polkadot OpenGov has funded the development of Snowbridge quite extensively, however, there are some underlying UX issues inhibiting user adoption that are primarily caused by a lack of liquidity.

Currently, when a user bridges stables to the Polkadot ecosystem via Snowbridge, they are not able to utilize them. This is due to the two primary issues listed above. 

As stated, one issue is that there is currently no liquidity on Polkadot Asset Hub to facilitate fee payment swaps. The ELI5 of this is that you can utilize other assets to pay for fees on Asset Hub, and in the background, it is swapped for DOT to pay the fee. This, however, requires that a pool actually exists with some level of liquidity (such as what we are proposing).

If users are able to have their Snowbridge stables swapped for DOT to pay for fees, then they are able to deploy their tokens to other parts of the ecosystem, where deeper liquidity may exist in the future.

Currently, these issues are making the onboarding experience rather bad for those coming from other ecosystems to Polkadot, we need to improve this. The lack of Snowbridge [USDT](https://assethub-polkadot.subscan.io/foreign_assets/a713586200214506f7a0582655aec9fec6acc721) & [USDC](https://assethub-polkadot.subscan.io/foreign_assets/7d0abd4e76e86720198b8a796ba17ae82a685d33) holders in the ecosystems showcases potential issues with adoption, and these pain points may be a root cause of why people are not bridging stables from Ethereum to Polkadot (bridging stables is one of the primary use cases for bridges).

# Proposition
We propose to deploy two liquidity pools, which should alleviate this fee payment swap issue:
USDT (Snowbridge) / DOT
USDC (Snowbridge) / DOT

Since we will receive native stables, we need to bridge them over to Ethereum and then bridge them back to the ecosystem using Snowbridge. The likely route we will take is:
Swap native stables for [MRL](https://moonbeam.network/news/mrl-vs-bridge-liquidity-explainer) stables via Hydration
Bridge [MRL](https://moonbeam.network/news/mrl-vs-bridge-liquidity-explainer) stables to Ethereum via Wormhole
Bridge stables from Ethereum to Polkadot via Snowbridge
We will then utilize these Snowbridge-wrapped stables and the DOT to create liquidity pools.

There is a chance that the exact amount of liquidity deployed may be marginally lower than the numbers presented above, but not by any meaningful amount.

The funds will be sent to a 2/2 multisig consisting of Leemo (Novasama Technologies) and lolmcshizz (Hydration).

# Closing Thoughts
It is important that people in the ecosystem are able to use the products that people have spent a lot of time building and that we have spent a lot of funds on. These pain points are immediately clear to anyone using the ecosystem's tools.

As we stated at the top of the proposal, we are aware that there is a lack of sufficiently deep liquidity for Snowbridge-wrapped stables, and we are in discussions with Polkadot Ecosystem Agents to attempt to resolve this issue without the use of the Treasury. In the event that those discussions are not fruitful, we will be requesting funds from the treasury to hopefully alleviate this issue.

Cheers,

[Leemo](https://x.com/LeemoXD), [lolmcshizz](https://x.com/lolmcshizz), and [Crane](https://x.com/0xCrane)

Delegate to ChaosDAO: https://chaosdao.org/ 


Provision of Snowbridge-Wrapped USDT & USDC Liquidity to Facilitate Fee Swaps

GM,
a few people have reached out to me stating that I should put in a tip for this, so here we go.

Reference: https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1041

This tip covers:

1. Initially identifying the problem.

2. Time spent speaking to various people in the ecosystem to ensure that they have never dealt with Michiko.

3. Potential reputational damage if I was wrong (spoiler: I wasn't)

If I did not carry out these tasks then the Polkadot Treasury would be paying a scammer $10,000 per month.

Cheers,

Leemo

Tip for exposing Michiko Watanabe

<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">GM &ndash; This referendum proposes the Curators for <a href="../bounty/31">Bounty #31</a> &ndash; Bounty Proposal for Public RPCs for Relay and Systems Chains. Please review the bounty and <a href="346">previous referendum</a> which funded this bounty for more info.
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;"> The proposed curators are:
<ul style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">
<li>Alex Dimitrijevic (Infrastructure &amp; Tooling Lead [Ecosystem Success] at Parity Technologies)</li>
<li>Ivy Network (Collective)</li>
<li>Eric Poh (CEO of Pinknode)</li>
<li>Leemo (Nova Wallet / Robonomics / ChaosDAO / GM Parachain / HydraDX &amp; Basilisk Council)</li>
<li>lolmcshizz (HydraDX)</li>
</ul>
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;">The 5 curators are part of a 3/5 multisig which is set as an Any Proxy for the Pure Proxy account which is being proposed as the curator account.&nbsp;
<p style="font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial;"><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://i.ibb.co/y8G8ZNp/rpc-proxy.png" alt="" width="640" height="607" />
Polkadot Pure Proxy: 1t4LzYdL5LyKqPUP4iMWNyHy9DthRKJLdx2dUfr25tV22Wi
Polkadot Multisig: 14xpJ93SiwWHY4zpZbqrWuWvuQK1giMFWAc12i7NcPFKBErK

Proposing Curators for Bounty #31

**Requested Amount:** 45,000 USDT

**Beneficiary:** 1eGtATyy4ayn77dsrhdW8N3Vs1yjqjzJcintksNmScqy31j (Amforc)

# Summary

[The Spammening](https://polkadot.com/spammening/) was a collaborative effort between Amforc and Parity Technologies. It happened in various phases, culminating in the public spammening stress test which resulted in the Polkadot ecosystem obtaining very [solid TPS benchmarks](https://x.com/TheKusamarian/status/1864361662049931492) on a live network.

You can see a recap of the main event of the spammening [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEoy-HWWsv0).

Prior to the main event of the spammening, other stress tests were carried out on the [Polkadot](https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1861013459955229147) and [Kusama](https://x.com/NovaWalletApp/status/1859590493774241947) relay chains. You can see evidence of the spammening over on Subscan:

1. [Polkadot](https://polkadot.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=extrinsic)

![](https://i.imgur.com/BVDtFdH.png)

1. [Kusama](https://kusama.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=extrinsic)

![](https://i.imgur.com/00wR7os.png)

Funds for carrying out the spammening were approved under [Polkadot referendum #1169](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1169) and [Kusama referendum #456](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/456). It should be noted that Amforc received no compensation for their time involvement in this project. This referendum fixes that and rewards Amforc for their time, efforts, initiative, planning, coordination, and execution. Amforcs' scope was primarily focused on the relay chain spammening.

The amount proposed in this referendum is the same size as a previous ecosystem agent tip proposed under [referendum 135](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1352), which was approved via OpenGov.

# Details

The Amforc team carried out the following tasks as part of their efforts:

* Structure and concept for relay chain Spammening
* Proposal preparation
* Fee mechanism research and testing
* Script for distribution, transactions, and collection of funds (their own implementation because the Python library was too slow)
* Coordination with other stakeholders (a lot of back and forth because at the beginning, some people from parity and eco were against it)
* Multiple test runs, on Westend and coordination with Parity. Each run on Westend, Kusamas and Polkadot required the setup of their own dedicated 18 RPC nodes.
* Identified various problems: RPC nodes are not capable of handling the publication of many txs at once; while the relay chain didn't halt completely, Amforc was basically able to disrupt all parachains since they were unusable (meaning block time went up really fast); fee increase mechanism doesn't trigger as defined in spec
* Back and forth with parity due to the found issues and multiple runs, so that they can troubleshoot

# Closing Thoughts

The Polkadot DAO should reward ecosystem agents whose initiatives bring value to the Polkadot ecosystem. It is clear that Amforc’s involvement in kickstarting and participating in the spammening was extremely valuable for the ecosystem.

I personally am looking forward to the next iteration of the spammening on Polkadot. P.S. wen Elastic Scaling?

The Spammening Reward for Amforc

GM,
the following bounties have various issues associated with them and should be closed.

[Bounty #30](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/30) - “NacionCrypto” Establishment of Study Group and Development of Technical and Non-Technical Content.

- This bounty was never funded and is effectively inactive.

[Bounty #41](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/41) - Marketing Bounty Flex - VOTE NAY

- This bounty was never funded and was rejected via [referendum #515](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/515)

[Bounty #45](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/45) - one

- This bounty was never funded and is effectively inactive.
- This bounty never had any scope associated with it and is an error.

[Bounty #47](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/47) - DED Bounty

- This bounty was never funded and was rejected via [referendum #556](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/556)

[Bounty #48](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/48) - Lawsuit against Giotto De Filippi

- This bounty was never funded and is effectively inactive.

[Bounty #51](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/51) - Ecosystem Test Environment Bounty

- This bounty was funded via [referendum #832](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/832) but it was recently stated by Anaelle LTD | Ecosystem that this bounty should be closed as the scope of this bounty is now directly funded by the Polkadot Technical Fellowship.

[Bounty #53](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/53) - Test Bounty

- This bounty was never funded and is effectively inactive.
- This bounty never had any scope associated with it and was posted as a test.

[Bounty #54](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/54) - Dot Play Bounty

- This bounty was never funded and the scope and curators of the [Games Bounty](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/38) were changed and effectively became what bounty 54 was attempting to be,

Bounties [55](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/55), [56](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/56) - Test Bounties

- These bounties were never funded and are effectively inactive.
- These bounties never had any scope associated with them and were posted as a test.

[Bounty 57](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/57) - Polkadot cafe/coworking proposal

- This bounty was never funded and was rejected via [referendum #1009](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1009)

[Bounty 58](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/treasury/bounties/58) - DotSama marathon for education

- This bounty is effectively a marketing proposal for an individual and it is not an appropriate use of bounties.

Cheers,

Leemo 🍻

Bounty Cleanup

Was made during Polkadot X account live stream