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[Small Spender] Tip for Dark Prague Oct 3-5 2025

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15 hours ago
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Hi dear Kusama community,

This my late tip request from the Dark Prague event:
https://darkprague.com/

Context:
Kusama was a General Sponsor, presence paid by the W3F.
Capture d’écran 2025-11-02 à 11.55.28.png

Bill was supposed to come for the ecosystem talk, but had to be replaced in last minute by Mideg Dugarova
(technical educator at Web3 Foundation).
I was asked to come a week before the event starts, to fill in the Kusama Space (that you can see in my tweets) with community members, it was a late minute request.

Community members present at Dark Prague (sorry i probably forgot a couple):

  • Florentina (ValidAndina)
  • Jeeper
  • Daniel from Polkadot Czechia
  • Daniel Olana (Kusama DV light)
  • Polkadotter

Let's be 100% honest, the event couldn't be told as a success for Kusama, we had a bit of brand exposition for sure, but we were lacking "material to sell" to people.
We didn't have any news about the announced bounties at Web3summit, so hard to push builders to come & build on Kusama. The narrative to push was a bit light without real announcements from W3F.

Privacy is making a comeback recently in the web3 narrative and in the mainstream discussions (Chat Control, UK digital ids), so I think the ecosystem should definitely be present at these cypherpunk events, with better guidelines.
The thing is we need products to showcase.
Ex: Zashi wallet was here showcasing ZEC privacy product right in the middle of ZEC revival and price pump.

List of event tweets:

  • From Day1:
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974381850341884366

  • From Day2:
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974450200887603367
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974753838654746716

  • From Day3:
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974754615083073920
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974777837405290791
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974778748223512597
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974874311589875794
    https://x.com/ThomasR_SupDup/status/1974884317328474450

I'm requesting to cover:

  • Airbnb : 365,90€
(3 nights)
  • Volotea: 112,03€
    Capture d’écran 2025-11-02 à 12.01.55.png
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Total = 477,93€ = 554.30792 US Dollar
(02/11 rate: 1 EUR = 1.15981 USD)
KSM Total = 55 KSM
(EMA 7d = 10$ roughly)

I'm NOT requesting to cover:

  • Food
  • UBER+Bolt taxis
  • Time spent at the event, it's pure volunteering even if i had to take 2 days-off from my "TradFi job" (I'm an IT consultant before being Bifrost Community Lead).

Cheers,
Thomas - Bifrost Community Lead / former Kusama DV / Le Nexus member

NB: i'll recuse from voting with Le Lexus DV.

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