Polkadot Treasury Reporting Standards
Income Statement
- Revenue
- Expenses
Revenue
- Inflation
- Slashes
- Fees
- Transfers
Expenses
The categories described in this chapter have been developed over the last year through the creation of several budget reports. Via a discussion post on the Polkadot forum, the categories got refined. This page holds the latest version that will be used for future reports from us.
- Research: Protocol research, reports, and analytics, UX & DX, scam prevention, audits (security, QA)
- Development:
- Software (and in the future possibly hardware) development that directly affects relay and system chains or can be used to use them: wallets, bridge, Substrate clients, light clients, multi-sig support, privacy, indexing, tools, protocol subsidies (common good chains), protocol & software incubation, SDKs (e.g. Web3-to-Web2 wrappers), smart contract tech, ZK,
- Polkadot protocol (Fellowship payroll)
- Operations: software, hardware, and service costs incurred to operate…
- the network: RPCs, archive nodes
- auxiliary services: explorers, indexers
- legal costs (foundations)
- Outreach (Marketing, BD, Community Development):
- Marketing: media production, PR, advertising
- Business development: consulting, solution architecture
- Community development: conference hosting, conference attendance, local outreach, events, community building, ambassador program
- Talent & Education: education, hackathons, recruiting, talent incubation (e.g. PBA)
- Economy: Loans, Liquidity Incentives, Active Asset Swaps
Balance Sheet
Loans and Bounties
- List of loans given out to protocols. Repayment plan. Risk statement. Link to referenda.
- List of bounties. Current balance. Monthly outflow. Link to referenda.
Assets
- Holdings of assets over different chains
- Holdings of different assets (DOT, USDT, USDC, etc)
Segment Reporting
Spending for
- Core protocol
- OpenGov
- UX
- DevEx
Latest Update: 2024-06-06