Messari is proposing Polkadot to join the Messari Hub, a community-driven marketplace for independent research written by qualified contributing analysts and funded by crypto organizations. This enables quality research to be freely available to various stakeholders including users, developers, and investors looking to stay adequately informed about Polkadot and its broader ecosystem. Reports will live as free resources on Messari and distributed through our newsletter (~200k subscribers) and various social channels.

We are requesting $125k payable in DOT with a 10% premium to account for market volatility. This will go towards funding an initial "ecosystem report" and then 4 quarterly reports to provide more ongoing coverage.

You can find further details in the full [proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mkurr4HK0UEiI4aDs6bDWYM7CwycKW8tTHA95dotwcU/edit#)

- **Problem Statement:** The need to onboard more developers into the Polkadot ecosystem through education about Polkadot's fundamentals. The intended audience is developers interested in Polkadot.
- **Significance:** The successful onboarding of developers is crucial for the growth and development of the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Proposed Solution:** The Learn-and-Earn campaign by StackUp, which breaks the learning journey into smaller tasks (quests) and offers monetary rewards for completion. This encourages more learning and completion of tasks.
- **Expected Outcomes:** The successful execution of the Learn-and-Earn campaign has resulted in the onboarding of 150 developers. The remaining $30,000 USD of the original $80,000 USD allocation is now sought to conclude the project. The StackUp team will continue to find new opportunities to educate more developers about Polkadot.

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