# Polkadot Ambassador Mission Survey Results Summary

- Survey organized in September 2024 by [William](https://x.com/replghost/status/1840685024565502106) (@replghost).
- Survey results are here: [Google Sheet Raw Data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UjF-pjYoNDtduYzQAkFGTdaCnMKeBisHdJ92Vf2hYvM/edit?gid=440418769#gid=440418769).
- The raw data in the Google doc is automatically summarized by a series of language models, results are below.

## Question 1: What do you think the mission of Polkadot should be?

### **Adoption and Growth**

- **Onboard the next billion developers** (not users). We are moving to a world where AI can make anyone a developer. These economies should be secured by Polkadot.
- **Get outside of our bubble, be more widely known and turn the bad sentiment around Polkadot into good sentiment.** Big collaborations and integrations with enterprise and government.
- **Maximize adoption** by onboarding large user bases via popular consumer platforms (gaming, shopping, etc.) as well as corporate customers.
- **Increase Market share.** Go up in market capitalization instead of out of the Top 50.
- **Business Development:** Help to onboard companies, users, developers, and new projects.

### **Ecosystem and Developer Focus**

- **Be the go-to infrastructure to build in Web3** and connect users, apps, and services from every ecosystem.
- **The best place to build Web3.**
- **Create the best platform to onboard and foster decentralized applications.**
- **Provide infrastructure to run dapps** that foster blockchain technology to improve people's lives.
- Focus more on bringing new teams developing L2s on Ethereum to Polkadot. Building on Polkadot is easier due to better tooling and frameworks.
- **Provide the backbone of the future vision of an internet built for all - web3.** Polkadot will enable individual rights, responsibilities, and decentralized, trustless, and secure transactions across all verticals.

### **Interoperability and Integration**

- **Polkadot's key advantage is interoperability**, hence we should focus on the technical advantages of building on Polkadot and the benefits it brings to bridge to major other chains.
- **Enable Web3 dapps and blockchains to run and work together.**
- Polkadot's mission is to independently and decentralizedly build and operate the necessary data infrastructure for the 21st century and beyond, redesigning the very fabric of the Internet.

### **Security and Decentralization**

- **Build the most performant and accessible decentralized public blockchain ecosystem.**
- **To provide secure, interoperable, high-quality blockspace for services.**
- **Provide technology and infrastructure for the digital economy and digital governance.**
- **Polkadot's mission is to be the secure and scalable backbone of Web3**, allowing different blockchains and apps to work together easily.

### **Education and Accessibility**

- **To enable individuals from diverse professions to transition into distributed and decentralized technologies.**
- Polkadot should reach a larger audience, requiring a much friendlier interface and simple presentation of the system's potential.
- **Foster the development of blockchain and web3 to improve social relationships.**

## Question 2: What do you think the vision of Polkadot should be?

### **Building the Web3 Infrastructure**

- To become the **infrastructure of the new decentralized internet**.
- To become the **infrastructure of web3**.
- To become the **foundation of a new internet**.
- To become the **bedrock for Web3 solutions** to be built upon.
- Polkadot should be the **prime hub for decentralized businesses to coordinate on**.
- To become the **backbone of a fully decentralized and interoperable Web3 ecosystem**.
- To become the **decentralized version of AWS**, owned by the community.
- As the **essential or core infrastructure for the large-scale adoption of blockchain technology** in the future.

### **Enabling Interoperability and Connecting Chains**

- The vision should be to have **all major chains linked/bridged via Polkadot** so that Polkadot becomes the center of Web3.
- To **connect Web3**.
- Polkadot's vision should be to **provide all the necessary tools to create and deploy decentralized applications within the network** that can represent a wide variety of industries.
- Polkadot's vision is to **break down silos between individual blockchains**, allowing for a more interoperable and scalable Web3.0 ecosystem.
- Polkadot's vision could focus on becoming the **key infrastructure driving a decentralized future, where multiple blockchains coexist and connect seamlessly**.

### **Fostering Decentralization, Freedom, and User Control**

- **Foster decentralization, freedom** and ensure technology is used for good.
- A **Network State that puts people in control of their digital lifes**.
- **Bringing personal data to the owners**.
- a ubiquitous computer network that **protects user interests by design, delivering freedom and self-sovereignty for individuals**.
- **Giving back control, ownership and profit to users** of and from their data.

### **Driving Adoption and Accessibility**

- To make Polkadot the **go-to platform for hosting decentralized projects**.
- To make it **super-easy to onboard users to web3**, through Polkadot.
- **Integration with everyday life, brand awareness and strategic partnerships, community and ecosystem development**, educational initiatives.
- **Stop thinking superior tech will attract users and builders. Invest in making the space attractive for users and builders**.
- Make developers feel good in the Polkadot environment, **endorse devs to work here and do the same for end users - no complications**.

### **Enabling Innovation and Real-World Use Cases**

- Polkadot is the best place for business to **BUILD (develop) real-world "unstoppable" applications**.
- Be the **backbone for truly decentralized, resilient and perhaps most importantly: *useful* applications**.
- **Develop new fields**. Blockchains could replace many areas of public life in the future.
- .. a **secure, transparent, immutable and efficient way to share data across multiple parties**, whether known or unknown to each other.

### **Security, Scalability, and Performance**

- **Secure Fast and Cutting edge**.
- To be the **fastest, most secure, scalable blockchain technology** in the world.
- Build a **seamless open source architecture of efficient decentralized post-quantum secure virtual machine state verification**.

### **Governance and Decentralization**

- **Endlessly extensible. Governance flexible enough** to continue to be accessible and not captured by interests.
- Polkadot is a **censorship-resistant, supra-national settlement layer** that provides access to basic digital facilities for everyone.
- **Show power of governance and more serve to the community**.

### **General Visions**

- Become a **"useful" chain or ecosystem**.
- To **revolutionise the internet** with the most innovative, decentralized, secure and scalable tech stack.
- **Focusing on digital solutions for digital challenges** that exist in the whole world.
- **Build a decentralized community** around true web3 ideals.
- **Utter domination of permissionless core computing**.
- **Be the n1 Blockchain's around the world**.
- **Less trust, more truth**.

## Question 3: For what reasons could/would/should someone choose Polkadot over another destination to deploy their dapp/chain/sc/etc?

Here are the highlights and insights sorted by most actionable to least actionable, with important parts bolded and grouped by topics:

### **Technological Advantages**

1. **Scalability**:
- True **scalability** and resilience
- **Infinite scalability** with JAM
- **Elastic Scaling** and **Agile Coretime** in Polkadot 2.0
- **Asynchronous Backing** for increased throughput

2. **Interoperability**:
- **Interoperability** between networks
- **Seamless communication** between chains and dApps
- **Interoperability** with the use of one of the best programming languages (Rust)

3. **Security**:
- **Security**, reliability, and scalabiity
- **Pooled security** from Polkadot's main chain
- Polkadot has **never been hacked** and has over $5 billion securing the network

4. **Flexibility and Customization**:
- **Wide spectrum of flexibility** provided by Substrate
- Ability to **customize blockchains** for specific use cases
- **Rollup sovereignty**

5. **Performance and Cost-Effectiveness**:
- **Affordable prices** and **low fees**
- **Cost-effectiveness** due to scalability and resource optimization
- **Faster execution** with 2-second para blocks

6. **Robust Technology**:
- **Robust Platform for Development**
- **Substrate's performance, security, and stability**
- **Light-client centric design**

### **Developer Experience**

1. **Developer Tools and Support**:
- **Comprehensive developer tools**
- **Pre-built modules** for features like interoperability, identity, and governance
- **Significantly reducing development time and effort**

2. **Ease of Deployment**:
- **Ease of deploying** on Polkadot through SDKs
- **Easy to onboard** with same UI and documentation across the ecosystem

3. **Ecosystem and Resources**:
- **Complete ecosystem** of upstream and downstream applications
- **Access to resources and support**, fostering innovation and collaboration
- **Valuable ever-growing developer community**

### **Governance and Decentralization**

1. **Decentralized Governance**:
- **Regulatory compliant** since the beginning
- **Truly decentralized** with community governance through OpenGov mechanisms
- **Advanced decentralized governance system**

2. **Forkless Upgrades**:
- **Upgradeability** with on-chain upgrade mechanism for forkless upgrades

3. **Sustainability**:
- **Green tech** with low energy consumption
- **Sustainable technology stack** with incentivized technical fellowship

### **User Experience and Adoption**

1. **User Base and Liquidity**:
- **Sufficient liquidity and user base**
- Access to a network with **500+ interconnected apps and chains**

2. **Usability and Ecosystem**:
- **Usability** and a rich ecosystem
- **Broad Customer Reach**

3. **Funding and Support**:
- Possibility of **funding from the treasury**
- **Economic flexibility for builders**

### **Vision and Community**

1. **Web3 Values and Vision**:
- **Uncompromising Web3 values**
- Gavin Wood's vision for Polkadot

2. **Community and Innovation**:
- **Open to innovation** with a vibrant community
- **Constant innovation**

3. **Future Potential**:
- Optimistic bet on Polkadot's future roadmap and potential

### **Miscellaneous**

- Currently lacking in some areas like user experience, documentation, and onboarding experience
- Needs better messaging and benchmarking to prove its value proposition
- Governance challenges and talent retention issues

## Question 4: What do you think the mission of the ambassador program should be?

### **Community Building and Engagement**

- **Foster and grow a global community** of passionate and knowledgeable supporters who can help promote, educate, and advocate for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Create a welcoming community** where encourage active participation, support, and collaboration among Polkadot enthusiasts and developers.
- **Galvanize the community, promote the best vibes**, represent Polkadot wherever it makes sense to do so, organize & motivate people, set the highest example of admirable character and behavior, grow Polkadot.
- **Build community, change the sentiment** around Polkadot, should be widely spread. Reach new people to understand and get to know Polkadot.
- **Coordinate the global community** so that there is a middle layer for marketing and BD efforts.

### **Education and Awareness**

- **Educate the community** about Polkadot ecosystem's unique features, benefits, and applications.
- **Spread the values and virtues of Polkadot** to crypto people outside of Polkadot.
- **Spread the values and virtues of crypto** to non-crypto people - especially in enterprise and finance industries where Polkadot is a natural fit.
- **Promote the technology, use cases, and markets** that can be built, in order to attract entrepreneurs, investors, and developers.
- **Provide value, education, and resources** to the Polkadot network and Polkadot community.

### **Business Development and Partnerships**

- **Attract more enterprises and projects** to the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Enhance Polkadot's visibility and influence** within the industry and other sectors.
- **Help applications and products** within the Polkadot system connect with external networks, achieving broader adoption beyond the ecosystem.
- **Introduce Polkadot to firms, projects, VC** to increase reach.
- **Bring more businesses into Polkadot** and have them build profitable business models instead of leveraging solely on treasury.

### **Developer Outreach and Support**

- **Get more developers building on Polkadot**.
- **Provide support for new-entry people**.
- Encourage the adoption of Polkadot by projects and developers, showcasing successful use cases and helping new projects understand how Polkadot can improve their solutions.

### **Representation and Advocacy**

- **Be the recognized voices of Polkadot**, within the ecosystem and outside. Enabling users, projects easy path to use Polkadot.
- **Represent Polkadot professionally on a global scale**. Make the vision and mission clear for average Marys and Joes.
- **Be the face of Polkadot in public and social media**. Be the go-to person to talk to and learn about Polkadot technology and the updates within the Polkadot ecosystem.
- **Represent Polkadot and act as a point of contact** for governments, listed companies, mid-corps and builders.

### **Governance and Decision-Making**

- Ambassadors will collaboratively discuss the future direction of the Polkadot ecosystem and collectively formulate a long-term strategic blueprint at key moments, ensuring development goals align with community and project needs.
- Ambassadors will have the responsibility to review proposals and exercise veto power over those that are unreasonable or misaligned with Polkadot's strategic development, ensuring the rational use of resources and the sustainability of projects.
- Implement a rank-based system with clear governance tracks to ensure effective decision-making and representation of different ranks within the program.

### **Ecosystem Growth and Innovation**

- **Promote regional development and strengthen international connections**.
- Support and promote the development of **new ideas and projects** within the Polkadot ecosystem, facilitating the integration of emerging technologies, and showcasing the platform's potential to drive the future of Web3.
- Expand Polkadot's network on all major chains, bridges and technologies to have Polkadot working in every chain possible.

### **Coordination and Oversight**

- Ambassadors will coordinate the operations of various departments, ensuring that each department plays its part in the development of Polkadot, promoting the comprehensive construction of the ecosystem, and enhancing Polkadot's global influence and technological ecosystem.
- To streamline execution and provide structure and oversight. AP should bee the facilitator and provide tools for anyone to support and discover Polkadot.

## Question 5: What do you think the vision of the ambassador program should be?

Here are the highlights and insights sorted by most actionable to least actionable, structured into bullet points with important parts bolded, and grouped by topics:

### Community Building and Outreach:
- **Foster a vibrant, global network of advocates** who actively contribute to the growth and adoption of Polkadot.
- **Bring Polkadot to millions of people** and drive adoption.
- **Attract new entrants to the ecosystem** by representing Polkadot outside its existing sphere.
- **Create a thriving and engaged international community** that champions Polkadot.
- **Embrace Web3**, not be a cultist, be collaborative, build bridges with other blockchain ecosystems.
- **Make meaningful connections and create more awareness** by educating people about Polkadot.

### Ecosystem Growth and Support:
- **Help make Polkadot a thriving protocol** with lots of network activity through real-world applications being deployed.
- **Onboard both web2 and web3 users to Polkadot**.
- **Bring more projects to Polkadot**. The more development is happening, the better.
- **Support a network of proven Polkadot influencers**.
- **Promote the technology, use cases, and markets** that can be built, to attract entrepreneurs, investors, and developers.
- **Provide support for new-entry people**.

### Education and Evangelism:
- **Establish Polkadot as the go-to platform for seamless cross-chain communication and collaboration**.
- **Shape the future of decentralized technology** by fostering an environment where Polkadot is at the forefront of innovation.
- **Promote Polkadot's governance model** as a gold standard for transparent, decentralized decision-making.
- **Be the bridge between projects and Polkadot**, ensuring they see its potential as a transformative platform.
- **Use simple language to convey the message**.
- **Explain Polkadot to users** and bring more users.

### Organizational Structure and Governance:
- **Implement a clear, rank-based system** with defined roles and responsibilities.
- **Ensure transparent and democratic appointment of Head Ambassadors** via token-holder referendums.
- **Provide fair compensation for Head Ambassadors** and allow funding proposals for expenses.
- **Utilize internal tracks for decision-making and governance** to ensure voices are heard.
- **Encourage active participation from the community** in discussions and voting on proposals.
- **Maintain transparency in operations**, including appointment process, compensation, and decision-making.
- **Implement mechanisms for accountability** to ensure ambassadors fulfill their roles effectively.

### Miscellaneous
- Ensure Polkadot is highlighted as a strong competitor in the blockchain space.
- Anyone who wants to can reach anyone, do or find out anything in the Polkadot ecosystem by going through the network of ambassadors.
- To be the hub of creativity where all projects mix. It should be the storefront for how web3 technology can enable the individual and communities.
- For ambassadors to be taken seriously by entrepreneurs, they need to be entrepreneurs themselves.
- Become the most influential people for Polkadot.
- Bring external venture capital and investment to the Polkadot ecosystem through technological implementations operations.
- Incentivize the very best, most committed people to champion decentralization and truth.

## Question 6: What do you think the key activities of the ambassador program should be?

Here are the highlights and insights from the responses, sorted by most actionable to least actionable, with important parts bolded and grouped by topics:

**Education and Community Building**
- **Host local meetups, workshops, and events to educate and onboard new users and developers**
- **Create educational content** (articles, videos, tutorials) explaining Polkadot's technology and ecosystem
- **Participate in webinars, conferences, and discussions to spread awareness**
- Foster a positive and inclusive community atmosphere
- Gather feedback from the community and relay it to the Polkadot team

**Developer and Project Onboarding**
- **Support developers in building on Polkadot** (mentorship, code reviews, guidance)
- **Help projects integrate into the Polkadot ecosystem** and access necessary resources
- **Showcase successful use cases and innovative projects** to attract more builders
- Identify and foster partnerships with other projects and organizations

**Representation and Advocacy**
- **Represent Polkadot at conferences, events, and media outlets**
- **Advocate for policies supporting decentralized technologies**
- **Protect the community and reputation** through skillful communication
- Be a point-of-contact and **help people understand the ecosystem**

**Business Development and Partnerships**
- **Establish connections and collaborate with enterprises, applications, and projects**
- **Organize or participate in hackathons and competitions to encourage innovation**
- **Engage with key decision-makers** (investors, governments, corporates)
- **Promote Polkadot's brand and values** through various channels

**Community Management and Support**
- **Actively participate in and contribute to Polkadot communities and social media**
- **Moderate discussions and resolve disputes** within the community
- **Provide support and resources to new users and local community organizers**
- Gather feedback and suggestions from the community

**Marketing and Awareness**
- **Increase Polkadot's visibility and presence** through marketing and outreach efforts
- **Attend and organize events to showcase Polkadot**
- Utilize platforms like YouTube, X, and media channels to share content
- Communicate Polkadot's benefits and services externally

**Governance and Decision-Making**
- Participate in internal tracks for decision-making and governance
- Implement changes through remarks on the Head Ambassador voting track

**Transparency and Accountability**
- Ensure transparency in the selection process and program activities
- Maintain accountability through continuous evaluation and proof of work

**Localization and Regional Efforts**
- Localize marketing and business development efforts for different regions
- Organize roadshows, meetups, and presentations within specific regions
- Create networks with existing and nascent projects in different areas

**Research and Feedback**
- Reach out to businesses building inside and outside Polkadot to understand their needs
- Identify pain points and opportunities for collaboration or improvement
- Relay feedback and suggestions to the Polkadot team and ecosystem

**Content Creation and Thought Leadership**
- Develop and share informative content (articles, tutorials, videos)
- Engage in thought leadership and enable others to do so
- Push Polkadot updates on social media and create narratives

**Ecosystem Growth and Support**
- Promote Polkadot-based projects and initiatives within the community
- Foster a collaborative environment for teams working on similar subjects
- Contribute to research and development efforts related to Polkadot technology

**Talent Acquisition and Retention**
- Attract new developers and crypto enthusiasts to Polkadot
- Promote a merit-based selection process and clear expectations for ambassadors
- Oversee people and culture initiatives within the Polkadot ecosystem

**Funding and Investment**
- Organize investment rounds competition with external capital
- Communicate new business ideas to the ecosystem
- Bring in fresh investors and DOT holders

**Staking and Governance Participation**
- Stake DOT as ambassadors
- Participate in decentralized governance and OpenGov initiatives

## Question 7: Any other thoughts?

- Ambassadors should focus on uplifting the entire Polkadot ecosystem, not just popular projects. They should avoid putting down projects within the ecosystem.
- The ambassador program should remain simple, straightforward, and inclusive to allow for diversity of perspectives and contributions. Participants should have room to express their views and ideas.
- Avoiding bureaucracy and remaining focused on outputs and results is important for the program's success.
- There is a need for better marketing, business development, and community building efforts to attract more users and businesses to the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Clear documentation, showcasing the benefits of Polkadot, and making the ecosystem more user-friendly are areas that require improvement.
- Collaboration, both within the Polkadot ecosystem and with other blockchain networks, is crucial for growth and adoption.
- Ambassadors should be knowledgeable about Polkadot's technology, governance processes, and future plans, and should be active in engaging with the community.
- Accountability and transparency are essential for ambassadors, who should prioritize the interests of the Polkadot ecosystem over personal interests.
- Incentivizing and empowering ambassadors through appropriate incentive structures and tools is important for the program's effectiveness.
- Regional representation and outreach efforts should be strengthened, particularly in areas with limited Polkadot presence.