# Adjusting the current inflation model to sustain Treasury inflow

**URL:** <https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-the-current-inflation-model-to-sustain-treasury-inflow/3301>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Tags:** treasury\
**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-the-current-inflation-model-to-sustain-treasury-inflow/3301 "2023-07-05T07:22:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![alice\_und\_bob](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/alice_und_bob/32/10098_2.png) [@alice\_und\_bob](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/alice_und_bob)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/adjusting-the-current-inflation-model-to-sustain-treasury-inflow/3301/23 "2023-07-06T18:36:28Z")

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To inform the discussion, I aggregated the Polkadot Treasury spend of previous years in USD and DOT

```auto

year USD DOT
2020 565,629 USD 118,466 DOT
2021 1,805,639 USD 70,585 DOT
2022	16,359,027 USD	2,301,333 DOT
2023 9,106,917 USD	1,464,989 DOT

```

> [@Polkadot Treasury annual spending in USD & DOT | 2020 - 2023 June](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-treasury-annual-spending-in-usd-dot-2020-2023-june/3342):
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> I wanted to understand the total USD & DOT amount the Polkadot Treasury has been spending so far per year. I used the data from DoTreasury as base, which seems to use the daily rate of treasury grants around the time they were awarded - so in-time USD values, which should provide an accurate view on the value spent. To solve the task, I… fetched all Polkadot Treasury proposals with the status awarded from [DoTreasury](https://www.dotreasury.com/dot/proposals?status=awarded) manually copied the values over to [this spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k75AVvBHHaPNw9jwBANW_RJW0VjFKpzb0WdlGFpn5o8/edit?usp=sharing) processed the data with [t…](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1T_fBOM3NBbhPnI2-4MFK67P5KhnGSrWo?usp=sharing)

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