You can submit your meetup and request up to 1000 USD (You will receive the amount in DOT). The goal is not to use all this budget, but to show how cost-effective you can be. People who can organize a good meetup with fewer funds can easily get funds for future meetups.

Every person applying for funding must fulfill all the conditions!

Organiser

• Your DOT address must have an on-chain identity (you can do it via Polkaidentity, Nova wallet, or Polkassembly - keep in mind that you need to have around 2-3 DOTs in your wallet)
  • Tutorial: How to verify your identity
• Organizers must have a broad knowledge of Polkadot and its projects, an understanding of OpenGov, etc.
• Active verifiable history of activity in the Polkadot ecosystem (working for specific Polkadot projects, contributions to various initiatives in the ecosystem, activity on social media, connections with various people in the ecosystem, members of various Polkadot communities or DAOs, etc.)

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TIP: Always put effort into leaving a trace of your activities on your socials, keep them clean, and focus on growing your influence. Active, well-established, and connected members of the Polkadot community have a better chance of receiving funding.

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Submission

• Apply as an individual, even if you represent a group. Submission must be done by an organizer attending their event.
• You must submit the proper and complete documentation we are asking for. Nothing should be missing.
• Please submit your event a maximum of 30 days after it happens; everything submitted later might lead to rejection.
• Transparency about applying for funding somewhere else - if you are receiving funding somewhere else or you applied for it, you have to let us know.
• Your proposal must be clear, structured, and nicely formatted, with all necessary details linked. You must use our proposal template. Other templates will be automatically rejected.
• If you have never organized an event via our bounty, you should connect with us before you organize something.

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TIP: Communication with curators is ALWAYS a good idea. Use our public Telegram group to connect with them.

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Pre-approved meetups

Getting pre-approval (not funding) can help you be sure that your budget, topics and idea of meetup will be supported. Pre-approving is also for meetups that somehow deviate from standard meetups or submissions. To be pre-approved, simply contact one of the curators, send them a draft of your proposal, and receive confirmation that we agree to the selected conditions. Which meetups MUST be pre-approved:

• Events that exceed 1k USD in costs need to be pre-approved. Our bounty will cover a maximum of 1k USD, but we still need to be aware of the total cost. We recommend connecting directly with curators via our public channels.
• Events funded from multiple sources or organized as a collaboration between projects from different ecosystems must also be pre-approved!
• Submissions of multiple meetups need to be pre-approved.