- Hydration is a DeFi project that has grown over four years, facing both challenges and successes.
- The project's token, HDX, has seen price fluctuations, and community engagement has declined.
- A survey was conducted to gather feedback from users and identify areas for improvement.
- Users are generally satisfied with Hydration but want better marketing, new features, and improved usability.
- The survey results suggest focusing on marketing, simplifying user experience, and adding multi-language support.
- Community members also want more regular updates and better communication from the team.
- The survey remains open for more feedback to help guide Hydration's future development.

Hydration User Survey Analysis Report（20250125）

- Hydration plans to mint remaining "Growth" tokens.
- Minting now would simplify future governance for distribution.
- Full minting creates a perception of stability and transparency.
- Circulating supply would increase from 4.5B to 6.5B tokens.
- This move avoids future surprises for the community and investors.
- It supports the protocol's image and long-term health.
- The goal is to set a standard for transparency and stability.

Minting outstanding Growth allocation to fully dillute token supply on paper. 

Hydration is a platform that wants to diversify its Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL) by investing in different assets. They want to invest $400K in SOL, $400K in AAVE, $200K in SUI, and $258K in HDX. They plan to use Moonbeam Routed Liquidity to onboard all assets. Adding these assets will increase market and POL diversity, bring in more users, TVL, and volume. The assets will also be available as collateral for the Money Market and for sUSDS & sUSDe Yield DCA feature.

Diversification of POL

- Toni from LAOS Network wants to add their LAOS token to Hydration.
- LAOS connects Polkadot with Ethereum and other blockchains without bridges.
- LAOS token is used for governance, gas fees, and staking.
- It’s listed on exchanges like MEXC and Bit2Me with a price of $0.05–$0.07.
- LAOS wants to open a channel with Hydration and add their token to Hydration’s registry.
- They plan to start with a DOT/LAOS trading pair and later join the Omnipool.
- LAOS has been live on Polkadot since July 2024 and is fully decentralized.

LAOS Network on Hydration

- The protocol has about 51 BTC worth $5,000,000 in different pools and the treasury.
- A proposal suggests diversifying the BTC into:
  - $1,000,000 tBTC in Omnipool
  - $1,000,000 WBTC in Omnipool
  - $1,000,000 iBTC in Omnipool
  - $500,000 WBTC in Supply & Borrow
  - $500,000 tBTC in Supply & Borrow
- $1,000,000 of BTC will be left to invest in other assets like BNB, LDO, LINK, and SKY.
- The changes will happen after improvements to OpenGov are made.

Opening more Omnipool markets & diversifying BTC

**Summary:**

- Hydration DAO stopped farming rewards for WBTC/iBTC 2-Pool after Referendum #197.
- Hydration holds 17 WBTC in the Money Market and 34 BTC 2-Pool shares in the Omnipool.
- The proposal suggests diversifying into tBTC or cbBTC, with a preference for tBTC due to its decentralized design.
- Steps include withdrawing WBTC and BTC 2-Pool shares, adding WBTC and iBTC to the Omnipool, and diversifying into tBTC.
- tBTC is part of the Threshold Network with a $479M total supply.
- cbBTC is a Coinbase product with a $2.1B total supply.

Diversify WBTC/ iBTC holdings to alternative BTC products

**Hydration Content Creator and Community Manager Report**

- **Role:** Hydration content creator and community manager in Russian-speaking Telegram chats.
- **Period:** March 5, 2024 - September 3, 2024 (4 months).
- **Duties:**
  - Translated Hydration blog articles and newsletters.
  - Published memes and answered questions on X and Telegram.
  - Solved UX issues and translated official announcements.
  - Encouraged community participation in governance.
  - Managed FUD and false allegations.
  - Created educational content and promoted it on X and Telegram.
- **Video Production:**
  - Produced an introduction video and prepared designs for future videos.
  - Upcoming videos include guides on HDX token utility, DCA, liquidity mining, and buying HDX.
- **Time Commitment:**
  - 10 hours per week on community moderation and content creation.
  - Total hours: 96 hours over 4 months.
- **Compensation:**
  - Requested 370,441 HDX for community management, content creation, and translation.

[Tip request] JOHNM Community Manager + Content creation May-August

- More funding is suggested for stable coin borrowing.
- The current funding period has been successful.
- 95% of supplied stable coins are being borrowed.
- Demand will rise with vDOT as collateral.
- Current borrow APY is 40%, which discourages participation.
- The USDC/T stable pool has over $3 million.
- Additional funds could be used to support borrowing.
- Discussion on this proposal is welcomed.

Adding more USDC and USDT to the Borrow Supply

### Integritee Network and TEER Token

- **Integritee** is a blockchain project on Kusama and Polkadot with the native TEER token.
- **TEER Token** is used to pay for services like private sidechain operation and confidential computing.
- **TEER is listed** on Kraken, Gate.io, and Basilisk.
- **Omnipool Requirements**:
  - Market makers provide liquidity with a 2% spread.
  - Circulating supply is 40-47% of total supply.
  - Market cap is $2.74 million.
  - Sudo pallet removed from Integritee Kusama.
  - Data transparency on Subscan.
  - On-chain governance with alerts.
- **Initial Liquidity**: 200k$ worth of TEER (5.5% of total supply).

Add Integritee TEER Token to Omnipool

### Summary of Tip Request

- **Community Engagement**: Actively participated in HydraDX and Basilisk Telegram chats for the Russian-speaking community.
- **Content Creation**: Created and shared Hydration-related content on Twitter and Telegram.
- **Contribution Period**: From January 9, 2024, to November 27, 2024 (3 months).
- **Token Price**: Used the average price of HDX over the last 7 days from Grafana, which was 0.01489 USDT.
- **Total Tokens**: Calculated a total of 160,352 HDX for 120 hours of work.
- **Wallet Address**: Provided the address `7NaMA63jMwq73dZXQtShsU67GhfaPJDhrWjkj2oFxn13rg9j` for receiving the tokens.

Tip treasury - Vlady - (Sept- Nov) Community Manager

Tip treasury - Jose Crypto- (August- October)

- The person will manage or create a Chinese community for Hydration/Basilisk on different platforms like Discord, Telegram, WeChat, and QQ.
- They will translate official announcements and answer community member's questions in a timely manner.
- They will organize a team of volunteers to complete translation tasks.
- They will create Hydration-themed GIFs to liven up the community atmosphere.
- They will be paid a total of 293200 HDX for their work, which includes a basic salary of 257200 HDX, translation work for 8000 HDX, and creating Hydration GIFs for 28000 HDX.

[Tip Request] Chinese Community Manager – 202409/10

Hydration DAO is staking 438,700 DOT for Polkadot governance. The lockup on these staked DOT is 28 days. It is important that as many DOT participate in these decisions as possible. Therefore, Hydration DAO is proposing to delegate their votes at 3X conviction to ChaosDAO. ChaosDAO is a community in the Polkadot ecosystem and is formed of enthusiasts and builders. They vote using a decentralized process within the ChaosDAO private discord server. ChaosDAO has supported all previous proposals from Hydration and has shown alignment with their needs. The proposal adds no additional time lock or opportunity costs versus their existing staking locks.

Delegate Hydration POL DOT to ChaosDAO at 3X conviction

- The Hydration app is getting a new design.
- They are working on improving the stats page.
- They want people to share their ideas for features they would like to see on the stats page.
- They want to make the data better and improve the page.
- People can share their ideas in a discussion.

Stats page overhaul

1. The person manages or creates a Chinese community for Hydration/Basilisk on different platforms like Discord, Telegram, WeChat, and QQ.
2. They translate official announcements and videos into Chinese and publish them in the community.
3. They organize a team of volunteers to complete translation tasks on time.
4. They gave a speech at an offline event called Polkadot Meetup Hangzhou and promoted Hydration by providing T-shirts as rewards.
5. They faced an unfortunate incident where the X account of the Hydration Chinese community was banned, and they requested the establishment of X accounts in various language communities.

[Tip Request] Chinese Community Manager – 202407/08

- Someone found a problem with a website called Hydration.
- They told the people who run the website about the problem in a good way.
- The people who run the website looked at the problem and decided it was not very bad.
- Even though the problem was not very bad, they still want to give the person who found it some money to say thank you.
- They also hope that this will encourage other people to help make the website better in the future.

[Tip Request] Web API Vulnerability

Tip treasury - Jose Crypto- (June- August)

1. There will be a new round of incentives for people who use Polkadot Hydration starting on 11.09.2024.
2. The incentives will come from the Growth portion of the HDX supply and the Polkadot Hydration: Liquidity Incentives.
3. The focus will be on using liquidity effectively for trading, with ASTR, PHA, GLMR, and DOT being prioritized.
4. They will also focus on the Money Market, which is a new feature that lets people borrow and lend money using DOT, BTC, and stablecoins.
5. The MYTH/DOT pool will also be considered for incentives because it is important and has multiple listings on different exchanges.

Planning the 2nd Batch of Polkadot Hydration Campaign Incentives

- A person will manage or create the HydraDX/Basilisk Chinese community on different platforms like Telegram, WeChat, Discord, and QQ.
- They will translate official announcements and publish them in the community. They will also answer questions from community members.
- The person will work for 45 days and 10 hours per week, which is a total of 64.3 hours.
- They will translate a speech video of Jakub Panik about the development of ICE, which took more than 5 hours to complete.
- There are currently 3 Hydration WeChat groups with a total of 400+ people, and the communication is mainly carried out in the WeChat group.

[Tip Request] Chinese Community Manager – 202406

Tip treasury - Vlady - (June - Aug) Community Manager

- A person is interested in a project called Hydration, which has a reward system for contributors.
- They tried to create content about Hydration, but did not receive a response after submitting it to the governance platform.
- The person has experience in promoting Web3 projects and wonders if Hydration has considered recruiting ambassadors from around the world to promote the project.
- They would like to apply to become Hydration's Chinese ambassador and promote the project in Chinese-speaking regions through social media and content creation.
- The person recommends that Hydration actively recruit ambassadors from around the world to help promote the project and establish a complete incentive system to attract more contributors.

Application and Suggestions for Hydration Project Ambassador

Can we please add AVAIL to the Omnipool?

SubSquare is a platform that has added new features to support HydraDX EVM. Here are the changes they made:

1. They learned how EVM works on HydraDX by studying its code.
2. They created instances for testing and parsing EVM related extrinsics.
3. They made changes to support both substrate and EVM addresses on a single network, which required a lot of code refactoring.
4. They allowed web2 users to bind an EVM address.
5. They converted EVM addresses to substrate addresses to show them on the user interface and submit extrinsics.
6. They updated referendum status in time when related calls were detected.

These features cost 2 full-time employees 10 days of work, which is roughly 160 hours. They requested 500k HDX as payment for their work.

[Tip Request] Hydradx EVM support on subsquare

1. In 2008, a person named Satoshi Nakamoto introduced a new digital currency called Bitcoin.
2. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have solved many problems in traditional finance, such as trust issues and control issues.
3. Cross-chain technology allows different blockchain networks to communicate and transfer value.
4. HydraDX is a decentralized exchange that operates as a parachain on the Polkadot network, aiming to provide frictionless liquidity for all cryptocurrencies.
5. To gain more recognition and use for HydraDX's cryptocurrency HDX, strategies such as market education, partnerships, technical stability, community building, and introducing deflationary mechanisms can be implemented.

Some Thoughts on the HDX Project on Polkadot Chain 

- The person created content on a website called x.com and a platform called mirror.xyz.
- They spent a total of 11 hours creating this content in June and July of 2024.
- They are requesting a tip of 37,238 HDX, which is a type of currency.
- They are following the "Rewarding Contributions to Hydration" requirements.
- There is an image included in the post.

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