[MS] DOT #1527 - 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 that studies the Polkadot ecosystem.
They have been working on Polkadot since 2019 and have received support from the Polkadot Treasury for 8 times.
The institute has created about 300 original articles on Polkadot, gaining 63 million views in total.
They have helped over 90 Polkadot-related events and reached more than 50,000 people.
They support 130 projects in the ecosystem and provide guidance to help others understand investment opportunities.
Their social media presence has grown a lot, with over 4,700 Twitter followers and 6,000 tweets.
They recently published a big report on Polkadot's development, which has been well received by the community.
They are applying for funds to keep operating and cover employee expenses, while they pay for other costs themselves.

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Vote #1: FORCE-NAY
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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 https://medium.com/@polkadot_eri/2025-polkadot-strategic-development-report-how-to-balance-decentralization-and-growth-to-boost-f15d3e7e841e While it's 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.

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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.