[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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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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Apr 16 2025 19:13
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Apr 16 2025 00:00
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