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Polkadot’s treasury has $245M with 2 years of runway

The blockchain’s revenue declined over the first half of 2024, and its head ambassador has called for its token’s inflation rate to be lowered.

Polkadot’s treasury holds just under $245 million worth of assets, giving it around two years of spending left at its current rate, according to a Friday report from the blockchain.

“Polkadot’s Treasury is becoming more complex and harder to grasp,” its head ambassador Tommi Enenkel wrote in a June 28 treasury report for 2024’s first half. “Polkadot is spending directly as well as allocating value in bounties and collectives to be spent in the future.”

“At the current rate of spending, the Treasury has about 2 years of runway left, although the volatile nature of crypto-denominated treasuries makes it hard to predict with confidence,” Enenkel added. “This has sparked discussions ranging from a stricter budgeting approach to a change in the inflation parameters of the system.”

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Google feels the bear market as crypto ads revenue slips since July

Alphabet’s revenue from Google advertising was down in Q3 2022, with decreased search spending from financial services and cryptocurrency subcategories highlighted.

The latest earnings call from Google’s parent company, Alphabet, highlighted decreased search advertising spending from financial services and cryptocurrency subcategories.

Alphabet released its earnings report for Q3 on Oct. 25, outlining a 6% increase in revenue totaling $69.1 billion in comparison to Q3 last year. Revenues were down slightly from Q2 2022, dropping from $69.7 billion.

However the breakdown of revenues from Google Services, which includes its advertising earnings, showed that this segment increased from $58.8 billion to $61.3 billion over the past year.

Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, noted particular strife in the financial and the cryptocurrency sectors in particular with notable drops in advertising spending quarter-on-quarter during Alphabet’s earnings call on Oct. 25:

"We did see a pullback in spending by some advertisers in certain areas in search ads. For example, in financial services we saw a pullback in insurance, loan, mortgage and crypto subcategories."

Google updated its financial products and services policy in July 2022 to clarify the scope and requirement for adverts relating to cryptocurrency businesses, services and products. This set out rules for advertisers of exchanges and wallet services targeting countries including France, Germany, South Korea, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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Given that they met certain regulatory requirements within these jurisdictions, advertisers could continue to promote their crypto-related products and services through Google’s advertising platform.

The change came several months after Google gave crypto-related advertising the green light in August 2021. The multinational tech giant had previously banned crypto and initial coin offering-related advertisements back in June 2018

Global markets and cryptocurrency markets continue to weather difficult times, with the latter enduring what analytics firms like Glassnode have dubbed as the worst bear market on record.

Nevertheless the decreased advertising spending from the cryptocurrency sector does not reflect Google’s attitude towards the space. Google announced a partnership with American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in October to allow payments for cloud services with Bitcoin and Ether in 2023.

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