Polkadot India is proposing a 3-month plan to continue their monthly webinar series called DotFriday and bi-monthly Substrate workshops. They are requesting $105,960 from the Polkadot Treasury to fund 9 total events from April to June 2022, including 3 DotFriday webinars on blockchain gaming, NFTs, and games/P2E, as well as 6 Substrate workshops. Over the past 7 months, Polkadot India has hosted successful educational events and grown their community to over 2,700 members. They aim to reach 7,500 Twitter followers and train 1,000 developers by June 2022.

1. Empowering the Indian Blockchain & Web 3.0 Ecosystem

2. 04
05
WHAT
Introducing The Polkadot India Community
WHY
06
07
HOW
IMPACT
09 TEAM
12
15
ROADMAP
PROPOSAL
About the community
Problem Statement
An Immediate
Solution
Event Details & Stats
Connect with Us
An 3 Month Plan
The Financials
08 JOURNEY Learnings & Challenges

3. Proposal: Polkadot India Community
Proponent: 15Jz6EDMkUfVuDSRRiDYX9VKqBfBfEoqnRJkZ51zCYZbxqez (On chain identity - Polkadot India)
Date: 12.04.2022
Requested Grant: 105,960 USD
Agenda: Proposal toward the ongoing monthly guest webinar series - DotFriday, for the 3
upcoming chapters in April, May, June 2022 and a 2nd bootcamp series of 6 fortnightly
Substrate Workshops over 3 months.

4. Polkadot India is a community founded in
September 2021, for aspiring & established
entrepreneurs working on blockchain or Polkadot
projects, developers building on Substrate & Rust
as well as blockchain enthusiasts, to connect,
collaborate and build.
Activities of the community are currently aimed at
having world class deep tech events, bootcamps,
guest webinars, hackathons, mentoring sessions,
and a lot more as we grow.
The key mission to launch at least 2 parachains on
Polkadot/Kusama from our community over the next
2 years.
WHAT is Polkadot India

5. The Problem Statement
➢ India has the 2nd largest concentration of developers globally, yet very few of them are
exposed to Blockchain or the promising opportunities that exist for developers and builders.
Nor are they all trained in the thriving languages - Substrate, Solidity or Rust
➢ Polkadot is the leading interoperability blockchain. Yet, a majority of India’s crypto
community is unaware of the Polkadot Ecosystem or how to build on it
➢ Many thriving web3 projects have been launched globally yet they are still unknown to
many out here
➢ Aspiring developers out here are constantly on the lookout for solid training programmes
while continuing their ongoing courses, additionally helping them in their web3 journey
➢ The new age of web3 still intimidates many aspiring entrepreneurs & and the journey of
building blockchain projects attracts much curiosity

6. The Solution - To Keep Going
A monthly webinar series with renowned guest
speakers comprising of global Crypto & Blockchain
founders, chief executives as well as investors.
DotFriday takes all blockchain & crypto lovers into
fantastic conversations with leaders who have been
there done that. It inspires the attendees -
“If they can do it, so can I”.
Since September 2021, 7 webinars have been hosted
with the numbers and impact growing with each
passing chapter.
On 18th December 2021, Substrate Saturday was
launched as a monthly boot camp for developers
interested in building on Substrate. These
developers were tutored by in-house team of
Substrate Mentors, with a custom curriculum
suiting Indian developer sensibilities.
Substrate Saturday is for Developers only or
Students + Developers working on Polkadot
projects or building on Substrate/Solidity
CLICK HERE TO VIEW REPORT & IMPACT OF 9 EVENTS OVER 6 MONTHS OF LAUNCH

7. The Impact So Far
In 7 months Polkadot India has been able to reach a promising number and the confidence to build this
further is only higher. The Polkadot Treasury Grant sure helped us live our vision and deliver to a point of
only moving forward at full throttle.
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With industry validations and a promising response to our initiatives to educate & connect the community,
the road we’ve envisioned ahead looks truly useful to the community we’re building.
Treasury Grant I - Promised 9 Deliverables - Complete Delivery of 9 Free Educational Events - 4X Community
Growth

8. The Experience So Far
LEARNINGS:
➢ Enthusiasts are a plenty but sound knowledge about the web3 world is limited still
➢ First time attendees are also return participants, indicating that the plan has potential of
scalability
➢ Current traction includes young developers, students and enthusiasts
CHALLENGES:
➢ People are gravitating towards Solidity over Rust/Substrate due to their familiarity with JS
and unfamiliarity with Rust
➢ We lose 75% of the developers due to unfamiliarity with Rust. And 90% of the ones that
survive, find Substrate quite complex
➢ Impactful marketing by thought leaders and media coverages for a brand boost requires
bigger funds
➢ Audiences find value at DotFridays, yet do not network within the community to build
together - Lack of Confidence due to Lack of Expertise

9. Amit Singh, Founder of Polkadot India
Founder of Wow Labz & Social.li Protocol
Co-Founder of Headstart Network - India's largest startup community
Prashant
Rana
Shri
Harsha
Ananya
Mohapatra
Shreya
Badonia
Varun
Gyanchandani
TEAM POLKADOT INDIA
Braja
Nandan
Samkit
Sharma
Kavya
Shankar
Asit
Datar
The Team

10. Projects by Founding Team
NEW PROJECTS AT PLAY
A Decentralised Social
dApps Protocol
LAUNCHING SOON
A Decentralised
Services Marketplace
NOW LIVE
POWERED BY

11. Our Partners
Brainchild of the founder of Polkadot India and India's largest
grassroots level organization that supports entrepreneurship and
startups
Access to their network of influential leaders and mentors
to aid us in any instructional engagement and
communication reach of 100K+ Entrepreneur Community
Hack2Skill Tech Camps seek to nurture and inspire future leaders by
providing a platform for idea sharing and creating an environment
for creativity
Partnership in Institutional Selections and communication
reach to 1M+ Developers plus on
Facebook (Reach 250k+) • Instagram (Reach 150k+) • LinkedIn
(Reach 280k+) • Twitter (Reach 150k+)
The Blockchain School provides education to people, awareness of
blockchain technology, and employability through various partners.
Communication outreach to a Student base of 5000+,
participation in bootcamp series and hackathons and
collaborated curriculum planning
A community of blockchain enthusiasts dedicated to tackling the
problems of today’s world through the power of distributed ledger
technology, Blockchained India originated out of shared curiosity of
a group of individuals who wanted to learn about Blockchain and the
problems it can solve for India.
Communication outreach to a Student base of 5000+,
participation in bootcamp series and hackathons with
further collaborated activities in planning

12. The Road Ahead - A 3 Month Plan
In past 7 months Polkadot India has been able to reach a promising number and the confidence to build this
further is only higher. Our first win of a Polkadot Treasury Grant sure helped us live our vision and deliver to
a point of only moving forward at full throttle.
In the upcoming phase, we aim to have reached a much higher audience base and an experienced one at that,
to be a part of the community actively. This phase will see higher levels of engagement with technical skill
embracement and knowledge transfer at a deeper level.
➢ Event & Outreach Partnerships
➢ Brand & Project Collaborations
➢ Influencer Marketing
➢ Multi-format content generation
➢ PR & Media Initiations

13. The Deliverables
3 Monthly Thematic Webinars
➢ 2 Hour Webinar with 3-4 speakers from the ecosystem
➢ Target Audience: Existing & Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Developers, Investors, Students, Blockchain Enthusiasts
Success Metrics:
➢ Spike in event participation
➢ Engagement around the event
➢ Participation level in event contests
➢ Quality of Speakers & Audience
➢ Increase in community numbers
APRIL 22ND, 2022
BLOCKCHAIN GAMING GUILDS
MAY 27TH, 2022
ADVANCED NFTs
JUNE 24TH, 2022
ADVANCED GAMES & P2E
DELIVERABLE GOAL
TO REACH 7.5K TWITTER FOLLOWERS
BY JUNE 2022

14. The Deliverables
Fortnightly Bootcamp Series - 6 Substrate Workshops
➢ 2 Hour Live Workshops; Twice a Month
➢ Target Audience: Students + Developers working on Polkadot projects or building on Substrate/Solidity
Curriculum:
➢ APRIL 2022 - Workshop 1 & 2 - Rust Overview & Substrate Fundamentals
➢ MAY 2022 - Workshop 3 & 4 - Palette creations, Live Recipes & Hands On Coding Experiments
➢ JUNE 2022 - Workshop 5 & 6 - More Hands On Coding & Building your Project
Success Metrics:
➢ Spike in bootcamp participation
➢ Quality of engagement with trainers during workshops
➢ Quality of Assignment Attempts
➢ Return & consistent participation statistics
DELIVERABLE GOAL
TO HAVE 1000 FOCUSED & TRAINED
DEVELOPERS IN COMMUNITY BY JUNE 2022

15. Activations, contests & challenges
to keep community interacting,
motivated and ambitious about
levelling up consistently
Getting leaders from the biggest
of current projects to talk about
the latest web3 ongoings
Community
Engagement
Top Leaders on
Hot Topics
Support
Activations
Smaller activations to
compliment the month’s DotFriday
theme with AMAs, Twitter Space
Interactions and more
More
Partnerships
Collaborations with thriving
communities with experienced
audiences and with Projects for
boosts and event partnerships
Influencer
Marketing
Onboarding influential thought
leaders to speak about our
mission & ongoings
PR & Media
Initiations
Boost visibility via known
validators from well known media
houses and PR professionals
Few Finer Inclusions of The 3 Month Plan

16. Support Financials
DELIVERABLES AHEAD QUANTITY
CUMULATIVE
PARTICIPATION
TOTAL
DotFriday - Monthly Webinars with Global Leaders in Conversation - 3 Themes
across April, May, June 2022
3 1250 $30,780
Substrate Saturday Bootcamp 2 - Bi-Monthly Workshops by professional trainers for 3
months
6 700 $75,180
TOTAL ASK 9 EVENTS $105,960
Our plan for the year ahead is purely to secure this growing community with strong fundamentals and high
quality & ambitions.
We seek your aid in achieving this doable dream and hoping we have some inspiring and breakthrough Indian
projects on Polkadot chain in the coming times

17. Apr 2022 May 2022 Jun 2022
DOTFRIDAY
CHAPTER 7
SUBSTRATE SATURDAY
Workshop 1 & 2
DOTFRIDAY
CHAPTER 8
SUBSTRATE SATURDAY
Workshop 1 & 2
DOTFRIDAY
CHAPTER 9
SUBSTRATE SATURDAY
Workshop 1 & 2
MONTHLY EXPENSES
Management Costs $5,160.00 $11,060.00 $5,160.00 $11,060.00 $5,160.00 $11,060.00
Trainers & Mentors $2,000 $2,000 $2,000
Partnerships - Retainers
- Partner 1 $300.00 $600.00 $300.00 $600.00 $300.00 $600.00
- Partner 2 $500.00 $1,000.00 $500.00 $1,000.00 $500.00 $1,000.00
- Partner 3 $300.00 $600.00 $300.00 $600.00 $300.00 $600.00
- Partner 4 $300.00 $600.00 $300.00 $600.00 $300.00 $600.00
Tools & Software $200.00 $200.00 $200.00 $200.00 $200.00 $200.00
PER EVENT EXPENSES
Marketing $3,000.00 $2,000.00 $3,000.00 $2,000.00 $3,000.00 $2,000.00
Institutional collaborations $2,500 $2,500 $2,500
Guest Honorariums($500 X 3
per event X 2 workshops) $3,000.00 $3,000.00 $3,000.00
Rewards($250 X 2 per event
X 2 workshops) $1,000.00 $1,000.00 $1,000.00
Goodies, Prizes &
Giveaways($1000 per month
for 3 events) $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00
TOTAL $10,260.00 $25,060.00 $10,260.00 $25,060.00 $10,260.00 $25,060.00
GRAND TOTAL $105,960.00
Link To A Detailed Break-up

18. The Proposal
With an ambition to significantly contribute to the global blockchain ecosystem, Polkadot India aims
to be a pan India community of developers, founders, investors and enthusiasts who seek connections,
support or simply knowledge.
Considering the challenges at hand include growing our community further with a more skilled &
experienced audience base, a financial grant from Polkadot would be highly helpful for Team Polkadot
India to significantly accelerate our impact and extend our reach to a more advanced audience
What lies ahead of the aid is a promising network, taking forward the Polkadot legacy with a
geocentric focus, and helping thousands of curious minds to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills
to build, invest or participate in the Polkadot ecosystem.
We look forward to your thoughts on our plans ahead.
- Team Polkadot India

19. Polkadotindia.org