Hi all,

I would like to submit another proposal to cover PolkaStats operation costs for Kusama for the period 17.12.2020 - 17.03.2021.

### MOTIVATION

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.

One year after starting the project in La Colmena it is certain to say that PolkaStats development also helped us learn and understand more about the Substrate framework and substrate-based chains. 

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:

1. Focusing on Proof of Stake chains only.
2. Being a Javascript based block explorer (both frontend and backend)
3. Utilising Vue.js / Nuxt.js frameworks used in frontend, with a low learning curve.
4. Allowing Incipient wallet functionalities

### SOME KUSAMA METRICS

Google Analytics metrics of the Kusama version of PolkaStats in the last month:

- 2.800 unique users
- 4.500 sessions
- Visitors from 89 different countries

### PREVIOUS APPROVED PROPOSAL

The details of the last proposal can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJIyyyl2Asr8tX05zpO-sUOa2aSoeIlCGag030t0vrA/edit?usp=sharing).

Previous proposal discussion can be found [here](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/290). 

Last treasury motion, executed at block #4,086,175 (Sep 17, 2020) :

- [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/47 ](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/47)
- [https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/214 ](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/214)

### SPENDING PROPOSAL FOR PERIOD 17.12.2020 - 17.03.2021

PolkaStats aims to submit this spending proposal in the following terms:

- New **3 month period**, covering operational expenses **from 17.12.2020 to 17.03.2021**, which totals to **6,27 KSM**.
- KSM conversion rate of 1 KSM = 111.11 $ (92,75 €) using MA(99) AVG from https://www.binance.com/en/trade/KSM_USDT
- The funds will be used to pay the servers we rent to Hetzer and Digital Ocean in order to operate PolkaStats for Kusama and Westend network (shared with Polkadot).

### FULL PROPOSAL DETAILS

You can find the full proposal details, including monthly budget [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_45S8bLzgsJ16yCABoUFxINxlJq1tSmasbSXJYxSNg).


- PolkaStats is a block explorer for Substrate-based chains like Kusama.
- It helps validators and nominators by providing data and tools to improve their performance.
- PolkaStats is part of a crypto community called La Colmena in Spain.
- The proposal is to cover the operation costs of PolkaStats for a 3-month period.
- The funds will be used to pay for servers to operate PolkaStats.

#480 PolkaStats treasury expense proposal - operation costs for Kusama, 17.12.2020 - 17.03.2021