Hi all,

I would like to open the discussion for a possible new recurring spending proposal: PolkaStats aims submit periodic spending proposals to the Kusama Treasury to fund hardware operational costs.

PolkaStats is a Substrate block explorer aiming to provide the best staking and economic data for both validators and nominators. It helps both types of users by providing comprehensive metrics, charts and utilities to improve their knowledge and performance.

PolkaStats is one of the projects that was born in La Colmena, a crypto community based in Sevilla, southern Spain. The community aims to incentivize content-creation in Spanish for Polkadot, Kusama and other blockchain projects and, as supporters of open source culture, develop software to contribute to the ecosystem. The organization also acts like an incubator that helped create blockchain business models like DragonStake or Delega Networks validators.

Although there are currently already some very good Substrate explorers in the ecosystem, PolkaStats has a different perspective to offer in order to increase diversity among the existing solutions. PolkaStats differentiates from other explorers in:

Focusing on Proof of Stake chains only.
Being a Javascript based block explorer (both frontend and backend)
Utilising Vue.js / Nuxt.js frameworks used in frontend, with a low learning curve.
Allowing Incipient wallet functionalities
You can find all details of the proposal (including a detailed monthly budget and roadmap for the next 7 months) here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJIyyyl2Asr8tX05zpO-sUOa2aSoeIlCGag030t0vrA/edit?usp=sharing

- PolkaStats wants to submit a proposal to the Kusama Treasury for funding.
- PolkaStats is a block explorer that provides data for validators and nominators.
- PolkaStats is part of a crypto community in Spain called La Colmena.
- PolkaStats focuses on Proof of Stake chains and uses JavaScript and Vue.js/Nuxt.js frameworks.
- The proposal includes a budget and roadmap for the next 7 months.

#47 PolkaStats hardware operational costs treasury expense proposal