**Context** - Ongoing costs for the development, operation and maintenance of governance platform for Polkadex

Polkassembly is the governance partner for Polkadex. This submission proposes a recurring payment (quarterly) to cover maintenance costs for Polkassembly, including general maintenance, runtime upgrades changes and could/infrastructure cost.

In this particular proposal, the costs for the newly developed features like Notifications and Search in Polkadex's Polkassembly portal have been included as well. Please refer to this [link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qc879C_f8Gf_3v-EzsERV1i-Is2gVD0AWlO-yqasMpM/edit?usp=sharing) for full details.

Total Cost: USD 3,050

**Cost Breakdown**:
Maintenance Cost (April’23-Jun’23) - $1,050
Search, Notifications and new feature deployment - $2,000


**Important Notes** - 
- The maintenance cost for using Polkassembly will be increased from $350/month to $450/month starting July ‘23. 
- Going ahead, any new maintenance proposal will aim to fund costs for 2 quarters together instead of 1, helping reduce governance burden and optimizing the process further. 


For any queries feel free to contact: hello@polkassembly.io

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1. Quarterly payments to cover maintenance costs of Polkassembly, for general maintenance, runtime upgrades changes and could/infrastructure costs. 
2. Includes costs for newly developed features like Search and Notifications in Polkadex’s Polkassembly portal.
3. Total cost = $3,050 
4. Maintenance cost will be increased from $350/month to $450/month starting July ‘23. 
5. Going ahead, any new maintenance proposal will fund costs for 2 quarters together instead of 1. 
6. For queries, contact hello@polkassembly.io

Polkassembly Social Contract(Maintenance Cost Q2'23)

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