I'm switching to abstain. I would normally aye it, but the discussion has enough details for my preference of stable coin requests for services values in fiat. This is not a major amount. I hope the proposer would consider stable coin requests in the future. [MY ORIGINAL COMMENT FOLLOWS] Beneficial for the ecosystem to track validator decentralization. I'd normally aye, but the proposer should ask for stable coins in line with the rest of the ecosystem. It's not about "sharing risk/reward with our community", but about setting examples and following good practices. Nay for this reason only.

Polkawatch looks good to the ecosystem, especially about staking. I'm not quite sure about some tech details about the proposal and whether stable request makes more sense. Abstain now.

I have the same concern that Yongfeng expressed about the technical uncertainties surrounding the project; I am not entirely sure about everything that needs to be addressed.

I think Polkawatch is doing great work, I have already given my thoughts on the DOT vs stablecoin ask issue, I'm not bothered by it in this case even though they seem to have fiat expenses since they're predictable costs. With that being said, this is such a easily avoidable argument for their next proposal by just asking for stablecoins for their fiat expenses and DOT for the hours they put in themselves, which imo is the better way to go about this.

I believe the ask is reasonable and this contributes to decentralization, both in the analytics and independent data pipeline

I do value The services to the ecosystem. Please if dot doesn't performs you will not be able to ask for a topup.

Polkawatch provides vital analytics on Polkadot’s decentralization that benefit numerous apps and users. The cost is also reasonable, thus we vote aye.