Dear Bifrost community,
We are excited to submit our updated proposal to be included in the Validator Boost List (VBL) for the Polkadot network, enhancing the ongoing collaboration between our team and Bifrost. We already posted the 1st discussion proposal a few months ago followed by an executed referenda. But at that time, VBL was at full capacity.
Introduction
Our journey began in 2020 when we discovered the immense potential of the Polkadot ecosystem. Recognizing the lack of a local community, we established the first Czechia & Slovak Polkadot community. With Petr's extensive technical background as a backend developer, we swiftly integrated into the Polkadot infrastructure.
Accomplishments and contributions
1000 Validators Programme: As proud members, we have contributed significantly to maintaining network stability of both Polkadot and Kusama for around 3 years.
Decentralized Nodes Programme: Due to our previous experience and expertise, we were included in the Decentralized Nodes Programme, in its 1st cohort, for both Polkadot and Kusama. This initiative aims to support and empower validators within the Polkadot ecosystem and also enhance decentralization, security, and operational efficiency of Polkadot & Kusama.
DOT Validator Alliance DAO: We co-founded this initiative to foster a robust validator community.
Collator Programs: We have assisted various projects in establishing their collator programs.
IBP Program: We currently operate 34 RPC nodes on our own HW in the datacentre in Christchurch, New Zealand. All these RPCs are load-balanced across different machines part of the most performant geo-distributed RPC provided in the Polkadot ecosystem - the IBP.
Permanence DAO. We are one of the initial members of the newly formed DAO with a focus on governance.
Validation and Collation Services
We provide validation services for the Polkadot and Kusama relay chains and serve as collators for several parachains, including:
Parachains like Bifrost, Hydration, Moonbeam, Moonriver, Centrifuge, Litentry, Zeitgeist, Turing network, Basilisk or Kintsugi.
Common Good Parachains such as Asset Hub, Bridge Hub, Collectives or Encointer.
Some of our past initiatives in support of Bifrost
Informing about Bifrost actual news such as the RainDOT campaign in our regular Weekly News from Polkadot & Kusama as well as in the regular Polkadot Roundup.
Various articles in English and Czech languages, including:
Bifrost: liquidity solution for the Dotsama ecosystem
Bifrost RainDOT: mint your own vDOT and earn Raindrop points
Bifrost KSM Slot Bidding Preview, vsKSM Mint Drop přichází
Bifrost — Liquidity staking on Polkadot
Bifrost spouští svůj první “Mint Drop”, neboli liquid staking ETH 2.0 společně s BNC airdropem
Bifrost — staking a poskytování likvidity v Polkadot
Validator Boost List Application
We propose the inclusion of our node in the VBL for Polkadot to support Bifrost's liquid staking solutions. Proposed validator node is
Node: Polkadotters/🐙 OCTOPUS
Chain: Polkadot
Address: 12L5m9htNsUP58mBHFXcsABDSCohhX2J4nMuY9TrJHNLCssQ
Commission Fee: 1%
Marketing and community influence
Despite our focus on technical infrastructure and partnerships, we maintain an active presence in the Polkadot community:
X: We have 4700+ followers across our main Polkadotters account and 800+ followers in our Czech & Slovak language mutation Polkadotters CZ/SK account
Telegram: Polkadot CZ/SK TG community with +250 members
Facebook: We have a community with over 5300+ followers counted together in our Polkadot CZ/SK group and Polkadot unofficial communities.
Medium: https://polkadotters.medium.com (1,800 followers)
Website: https://polkadotters.com
Governance participation
As participants in the first cohort of Decentralized Voices, we have shown our deep commitment to decentralized governance and we want to take our part in Bifrost governance as one of the VBLs as well.
Conclusion
Our technical expertise, combined with our active community engagement and content creation, positions us well to make a meaningful contribution to the Bifrost ecosystem. We look forward to the opportunity to strengthen our partnership and enhance the security and reliability of the Polkadot network.
Best regards,
Polkadotters