2025-Q3 Polkadot Treasury Report - How much did the Treasury spend? - Where did money go to? 114m USD on the balance sheet, 17m USD spent in Q3 Let's dive into it! 👇🧵🏊
Balance Sheet: The Polkadot Treasury had 114m USD at the end of Q3 - 80m USD cash - 26m USD in bounties & Fellowship - 8.5m USD in market operations
The Treasury is 93% DOT and 7% USD. Of the DOT, about 13m USD are in aDOT, , which will be DCAed into USD, but is in the meantime working as liquidity in the @hydration_net money market.
19% of Treasury DOT sits on parachains to work productively in the economy while it is not being spent.
Let's look into spending: The Polkadot Treasury continued to moderate its spending with 17m USD going out
Spending distribution: - 7.6m USD went into software development - 3.5m USD to outreach (marketing, events, community) - 2.1m USD for operations (servers, support teams, data) - 1.4m USD for talent & education - 1.2m BD - 900k USD incentives - 190k USD research
Compared against inflation, burn, and fee revenue, the Treasury was almost net neutral last quarter.
Stablecoin flows
Measured in DOT, the quarter was neutral, measured in USD, the balance sheet is down (since it is mostly DOT and DOT price went down against the USD)
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