Which projects should be cut or spending reduced?

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Below I have only listed the ones that left the most impression and big cost; please feel free to add to the list.

Funding Summary of Listed Projects (USD)

Project Amount (USD) Notes
OpenZeppelin 1,750,000 Annual
Nova Wallet 1,960,740 ~980.37K × 2
SubWallet 1,591,000 ~795.5K × 2
Snowbridge ≈ 3,017,500 937.5K + 750K + 750K USDC + 116.53K DOT
Polkassembly 530,670 Ref #1463
PBA Campus 3,700,000 Wave-based
OG Tracker 604,400 Ref #1362
Polkadot Community Foundation (PCF) 632,000 Annual
Polkadot App 1,030,000
Sub0 2025 Conference 738,000 One-time
Gossamer 1,630,720 815.36K × 2
WagMedia 451,400 Content & marketing
Talisman 598,100 Wallet development

total around $18,234,530 USD

2026 treasury income(USD)(ref #1781)

caps DOT supply at 2.1B DOT & reduces treasury income.

8.32M DOT/year (Mar 2026)

8.32M*2.3 USD (now dot price)= 19.136 M USD

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19.136M(treasury income)-18.234M(rough part spend)=0.902M

This doesn’t even include other mid,small spend and bounty.

Which projects should be cut or have their spending reduced?

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I would propose a different exercise - instead of evaluating the project by cost - identify the projects ( infrastructure, governance, technical, user experience, …) that are mission critical “to keep the Polkadot lights on” - from also a strategical point of view, not to fall into a descending spiral (less services, less users).

The first question to answer is: what do we need, and then how much does it cost?