[Resubmission] Polkadot Moderation Team Bounty (August 2026 to January 2027)
Requesting 83,760 USDT to fund the Polkadot Moderation Team for six months, using the new multi-asset bounties pallet on Asset Hub.
| Amount | 83,760 USDT |
| Period | August 2026 to January 2027 |
| Track | Medium Spender |
| Curator | 12GkpkHocU4y1vFV2CpnA2AhkjzGGRtwucHFY77A5yyiQKp5 (2-of-3 multisig) |
| Team | 8 moderators |
| Monthly cost | $13,960 |
| Predecessor | Bounty 24 on Polkadot |
This is a resubmission of referendum 1928
Referendum 1928 requested the same amount in USDC. It passed, but failed at enactment because the treasury's USDC balance had fallen below the requested amount during the decision period. You can check the treasury balance here
By the time 1928 enacted on 11 August, there were 26,942 USDC available in the treasury against a request for 83,760, and the call failed with FundingError.
This resubmission is identical except that it is denominated in USDT.
Nothing else has changed.
What the team does
The Moderation Team covers the official Polkadot and Kusama channels: Discord on both networks, Telegram, Reddit (r/Polkadot, r/Kusama, r/dot), the Polkadot Forum, and Element. The team started as unpaid volunteers, was funded by Bounty 14 on Kusama, and moved to Bounty 24 on Polkadot.
The daily work is removing scams and spam, answering questions and pointing people to the right resources, resolving disputes, and handling the administrative side including recruitment and channel maintenance. Coverage is spread across time zones so the channels are watched around the clock rather than during one working day.
Why USDT rather than DOT
Bounty 24 was denominated in DOT against a dollar budget. DOT price movement since the funds were received shortened the runway by about five months, which is why the bounty is depleted in July rather than January as planned.
Denominating in a stablecoin removes that mismatch. The requested amount maps directly to the remaining monthly budget and the runway is what it says it is.
Budget
| Role | Rate | Hours/week | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head Moderator | $20 | 23 | $2,000 |
| Community Operations Moderator | $20 | 23 | $2,000 |
| Community Moderator (x6) | $20 | 19 | $1,650 each |
| Discord server boosts | $60 | ||
| Total | $13,960 |
$13,960 x 6 months = 83,760 USDT
Server boosts maintain Discord Level 3 for the discord.gg/polkadot vanity URL. The full per-member breakdown is in the proposal document linked below.
Curators and payments
The curator is a 2-of-3 multisig pure proxy at 12GkpkHocU4y1vFV2CpnA2AhkjzGGRtwucHFY77A5yyiQKp5, with tramymisa, abdulbee and gr33nhatt3r as signatories.
Monthly payments are made as child bounties from the parent. Every payment is visible on chain and attributable to the multisig.
Accountability
Payment depends on performance, assessed monthly through blind peer review. Each moderator is reviewed by at least three peers on administrative contribution, moderation quality, conduct toward colleagues, and consistency of activity. Each criterion scores from -1 to +1.
- Total of 0 or above: full payment
- Between 0 and -2: 70%
- -2 or below: 50%
Anyone dealing with something serious outside the ecosystem can abstain from both the assessment and the payment for that month.
Reward records live in the team dashboard, monthly spend summaries go on Polkassembly, and moderation logs are posted to the bounty's Subsquare page each month.
Verifying this proposal
Call parameters. Decode the call and check four things:
assetKindshould be V5, withlocationof{parents: 0, interior: Here}andassetIdof{parents: 0, X2(PalletInstance(50), GeneralIndex(1984))}. General index 1984 is USDT on Asset Hub.valueshould read83760000000. USDT has 6 decimals, so that is 83,760.curatorshould read12GkpkHocU4y1vFV2CpnA2AhkjzGGRtwucHFY77A5yyiQKp5.metadatashould read0xb4cb96c5aa43cef51388ab5103510c7b405d5038b8f74879f03bddd9ecffe155.
Metadata. The metadata field points to a JSON document stored on chain. Read it in Polkadot.js Apps on Asset Hub: Developer, Chain state, preimage.preimageFor, with the key (0xb4cb96c5..., 1046). The length is part of the key.
Full proposal. Pinned to IPFS at QmYPes3wSXw4DddphbJG84gf6pahYhLDBSdESzd1P77Kaf. Resolve it through any gateway. A CID is derived from the content, so any gateway returning a document under it is returning the same file.
Curator. Check the multisig has the expected signatories and a 2-of-3 threshold, and that those accounts match the team members named in the proposal.
Links
- Full proposal: IPFS
- Team dashboard: spreadsheet
- Previous attempt: referendum 1928
- Predecessor: Bounty 24 on Polkadot
Questions welcome here or in the Polkadot Direction channel.
Comments (11)
Proposal Passed
NAY,AGAIN!
1.Proposal 1928 passed because W3F and a series of high-value wallet addresses cast "AYE" votes at the exact same moment—down to the very second.
2.Proposal 1928 cannot be executed because the treasury simply lacks a sufficient amount of USDC; this indicates that the team failed to verify the treasury's fund status prior to the proposal and is indifferent to its financial position.
3.Treasury funds are not a personal ATM.
4.It is the will of Heaven that the approved proposal cannot be implemented.
You can call your mommy（W3F） to support you once again！
@Jeremy
These bitches, earning six-figure salaries, haven't produced a single product in six years. All they care about is draining the national treasury dry.
The community clearly doesn’t want this. You only have to look at the comments on the previous proposal to see how strongly people feel about it.
But apparently that doesn’t matter, because now Bill and the W3F will show up and vote in favor of this absolute shitshow anyway.
At this point, what’s even the point of governance?
@13oq...T1ym Yes, if the community has significant disagreements on a proposal, it's reasonable for the W3F to vote based on its own viewpoint. However, if the community is united, it's a violation of its own principles for the W3F to use its numerical advantage to oppose the community's opinion. Therefore, the W3F should clarify what DOT DAO means and what decentralization is.
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