Polkadot Digest 29 July 2021

Polkadot News

The Treasury-funded Encode Club event "Introduction to Substrate" starts today at 16.30 UTC. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/polkadot-club-introduction-to-substrate-tickets-158966943407

Motion 95, to fund the Polkadotters community's Treasury Proposal, has been passed by the Polkadot Council. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/95

Motion 94 (Treasury Proposal to write a Polkadot book) did not reach majority; there is a plan to re-submit it in the future. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/94

The Web3 Grants Program has numerous RFPs out. If you would like to receive a grant and contribute to the Web3 ecosystem but aren't sure what needs to be done, see this page: https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/tree/master/rfps

Kusama News

With only a few hours to go, the referendum to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9080 is passing unanimously. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referendum/126

There is a new post on Polkassembly seeking feedback for a Treasury Proposal to back a /r/Kusama moderator on Reddit. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/804

In order for this to be viable, the Sub-Bounties extension must first be completed. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/463

Motion 335 is now up for vote. This is for milestone 2 of the joint SubQuery/OnFinality proposal for an open-source dapp API. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/335