This is a referendum by Gov Advisory Group, which is a group of individuals working in the public interest on the long-term health of OpenGov, and evaluating proposals as they reach the treasury. We hold no funds, cast no vote, and control no outcome. We are not a company, we take no profit, and we serve no single team's interest. Anyone can bring a proposal to OpenGov, this one included, and only the on-chain vote decides it.

If approved, this referendum closes Bounty 22 (Polkadot Assurance Legion / DotPAL) and Bounty 36 (DeFi Infrastructure & Tooling Bounty) and returns their remaining funds to the Polkadot Treasury. We invite the Polkadot community to review and vote on this closeout.

Bounty 22 was originally established to provide security assurance, audit coordination, and ecosystem QA services for projects building on Polkadot. Bounty 36 was originally established to streamline the development and integration of key DeFi infrastructure components through curator-led RFPs and retroactive funding.

As of May 29, 2026, the remaining balances held by each bounty are:

• Bounty 36 (DeFi Infrastructure & Tooling): ≈ 676.38K DOT
• Bounty 22 (Polkadot Assurance Legion / DotPAL): ≈ 386.99K DOT
• Combined: ≈ 1.06M DOT returning to the Treasury

On enactment, the calls in this referendum execute automatically: each bounty is closed, its curators are unassigned, and its remaining balance returns to the Treasury. Provided each bounty has no open child bounties at the time of execution, no further action by the curators for the closure to take effect. Final amounts returned will reflect the on-chain balances at the moment of execution.

We invite the curators of each bounty to publish a final report of their activities and contributions as a comment on this referendum. The closure does not depend on it.

We want to thank the curators of both bounties for their service to the Polkadot ecosystem over the past years. This referendum should not be read as a judgment on their work. It simply recognizes that the mandates these bounties were created to fulfill have largely run their course, and that the remaining funds should return to the Treasury so the community can decide how best to allocate them through OpenGov.