[MS] DOT #1531 - The operating cost for the research organization Polkadot Ecology Research Institute for 2025/4-2026/3

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The Polkadot Ecology Research Institute is a big research group in Asia about the Polkadot community.
They have been working on Polkadot for more than 6 years and have helped many projects and events.
The team has written nearly 300 pieces about Polkadot and has reached over 63 million readers.
They support projects in the Polkadot ecosystem, even outside China, often for free.
Their Twitter account has grown a lot, with over 4,700 followers this year.
They recently shared a big report about Polkadot's future that got a lot of attention.
They are asking for money to help pay for their operations and work for another year.

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Abstain

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Hard to gauge the success of all the promotions from past years.

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# 2

My initial vote on this is NAY, as was my previous vote for the cancelled proposal, please see the discussion below for my comments on Polkadot's strategy for growth in China.

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Polkadot ERI team has published this article, with the claims that it was an in-depth evaluation and well received by the community. While it is lengthy I don't really see a lot of depth in there, I certainly wouldn't call it a research article it's more like an opinion piece if anything. It's mostly a summary of a lot different projects and other events in the blockchain industry with a few sentences about each on how they relate to Polkadot but it's the opposite of in-depth in my opinion so this brings me to question their other work.

Since they've been involved in the community for quite a while but the community growth doesn't seem to be there, could this be the time for introspection of their methods to build a community in the region around Polkadot? They do have an impressive number of articles with a lot of words in them but at the end of the day the objective shouldn't be to produce X amount of articles with Y word count, the metrics I would hope for is community growth and engagement which I fail to see here. Hopefully the team can respond to some of these questions, in the meanwhile my first vote would be NAY.