28010.00 DOT

102901.62$

Unreachable – untraceable

Proposal: The operating cost for the research organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute for 2023/10-2024/3

Polkadot Ecology Research Institute was founded in October 2020, it has been in operation for exactly three years. In the past 36 months, we've produced 185 in-depth articles on Polkadot ecology, with an average of over 5,000 words per article and some even exceeding 10,000 words. In total, we have generated over 1 million words of original content and have become the most productive research institution for Polkadot original content production in the Chinese community. Our original content has been recommended by many well-known global media outlets, including Tencent News, Jinse Finance, MarsBit News, Odaily, Tuoluo Tech, CC Value, Huoxun Finance, Cointelegraph, Metaverse Hub, 8btc, PANews, Web3Caff, Foresight News and Blocklike.

An unavailable proposal from the beginning. Even compared to other Chinese proposals where the participants are more or less visible as well as their content, the Polkadot Ecology Research institute has remained almost invisible to the world outside China. With only 3 publications on medium (https://medium.com/@polkadot_eri) and no links to the original Chinese publications on the proposals (they can be found mentions of them on the Polkadot forum) which could have been of further support of this proposal. 16DG aka Giotto voted in favor of this proposal without explicit explanations as well as Ivy Network which initially voted NAY only to overturn his vote (an unlikely event for this voter entity) quoting that the Polkadot Ecology Institute has “meaningful relationships with Asia-based asset managers and corporates that are considering gaining and/or increasing their exposure to the Polkadot ecosystem.” Other participants are also wondering about the role of this proponent on the media and on business relationships. None of that information is available to the public either. Other than the publications happened on https://foresightnews.pro/column/detail/43 https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-growth-strategy-report-building-a-continuously-growing-future-for-polkadot/4317/2 None of this information is public and all the information about this proposal occurs behind close doors and it’s impossible to track it so as of November 25th 2023 we consider this proposal as untraceable and unreachable. Moreover, it still remains to be seen any meaningful type of adoption within mainland China from these types of proposals.