Retroactive Funding for JAM Search
Dear Polkadot Community,
We’re excited to submit our proposal for retroactive funding of the JAM Knowledge Base Search Engine—an open-source platform designed to unify and simplify access to JAM-related knowledge scattered across different data sources. With multiple search options, it significantly reduces the time JAM developers spend hunting for information, captures historical context from discussions, and lowers onboarding barriers for the 20+ teams building in the JAM ecosystem.
Try it out! JAM Search: https://search.fluffylabs.dev/
Related discussion: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/3296
Presentation at AAG #260: https://x.com/TheKusamarian/status/1959526088293634537
Full proposal text:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-noNYatvQqAw3w0o2yl0cGLxFlVYQamBLCPUjMsV33c/edit?usp=sharing
General Project Information
Project Category / Type: Software development
Proponent: FluffyLabs.dev
USDC address: 15fGrDWmFoaApnZXEw1Zg45zuCqpkbMS9YPzczeU9dHseUUu
Requested allocation: 25.000 USDC - Income taxable: 19% tax on "virtual currencies" tax in Poland: https://www.podatki.gov.pl/en/your-e-pit/pit-38-for-2022/
Discussion date: 13th July 2025
Onchain publish date: 24 Aug 2025
Previous treasury proposals:
- Gray Paper Reader: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1413
- PVM Debugger: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/1340
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Hi,
There is a huge 10M $DOT JAM bounty, why should this work be funded by the Polkadot Treasury?
Thx in advance.
@SuperDupont-Nexus JAM Prize (see https://jam.web3.foundation/rules ) is solely focused on funding implementations of JAM client/node. While we (Fluffy Labs) are building a JAM implementation, this kind of tooling is complementary.
Search and other tools we've built and maintain (Reader, Debugger) were created to speed up the process of evolving Polkadot into JAM, by helping ourselves and other teams collaborate and build JAM clients.
While, as you pointed out, there are is a big JAM prize for the node implementations, turning Polkadot into JAM will require much more than just functional clients, and hence my belief is that tooling, ui and dev libraries, documentation, educational materials, etc are initiatives that are worth supporting.
Saxemberg has voted NAY on the Polkadot referendum 1724 Retroactive Funding for JAM Search. Observation: usually only highly requested and/or highly adopted tooling was scored high.
This referendum is eligible for vote overrule:
https://voting.opensquare.io/space/the-sax-guild/proposal/QmcMbd9Cnwtph9W3bSxqLmER2Ub7kcw9pDaK798UsSfmir