According to ChainCatcher, Polkadot community members Alice and Bob recently released the Polkadot Treasury Report for the first half of 2024 on the official governance forum. The key points are as follows:
Treasury allocated $87 million ($11 million) in the first half of 2024, with 13% of expenditures coming from execution entities (bounties and collectives);
The Treasury manages $245 million (38 million DOT) in assets, of which $188 million (29 million DOT) is liquid assets;
Stablecoins: $8 million of its cash reserves are stablecoins USDT and USDC, and another 2.5 million DOTs ($16 million) are used to continuously buy stablecoins;
Designated assets: $24.5 million (3.8 million DOTs) are allocated to several executive entities of Polkadot (bounties and collectives) for strategic initiatives such as marketing, DeFi tools, games, BD, etc., and $6.4 million (1 million DOTs) are allocated to game vertical airdrops;
Polkadot has provided 1.6 million DOTs (about $10 million) of its own assets as liquidity to the DeFi market in the ecosystem;
At the current rate of spending, the Treasury has about 2 years of runway left (volatility in cryptocurrency-denominated treasuries may affect this length).
