Dear Polkadot Community,

I'm submitting a retroactive reward request for my involvement as HA over the last 3 months. Details of what I've done over the last 3 months can be found here.

Although I spent my full time on these efforts, this request will be for 20hrs/week of work at a rate of 62.5$/hr.

Getting elected as HA was a motivation to set up a team aimed at incubating talent and putting the spotlight on Polkadot, in a project named `The Core`. I've funded some initiatives of the team with my own funds, and hope to continue doing that until it's able to secure funding from the treasury.

I'll continue working with interested parties to reform the ambassadorship program, and I'll continue working with/leading `The Core` team to carry out its activities, one of which is a quarterly Blockspace event aimed at "showing" people what Polkadot is and how to use it and its tools. You can check out information about the first Blockspace event here.

Some parts of this fund will go to The Core's multi-sig account for funding the team in the meantime (that's if the proposal passes of course).

Please have a look at the document highlighting my involvement over the last 3 months, and feel free to drop your feedback and queries on this post.

Thank you.