TL:DR
This proposal is to propose MarketAcross-BB to be added into the VBL for DOT.
Information:
Name of node provider: MarketAcross-BB
Brief Description on node provider: MarketAcross-BB (BlockBuilders) is the infra arm of MarketAcross, A leading PR agency that is widely known in the Web3 space. MarketAcross has been supporting Polkadot since the launch of the mainnet, previously helping Parity and W3F, and nowadays we’re working with the entire Polkadot ecosystem, and we’ve helped many projects, Bifrost included. Our goal is to become needle-movers and drive real value, and deepen our involvement in the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem.
In the Polkadot ecosystem, MarketAcross-BB currently runs:
We plan to at least double our validators/collators in 2025, and see Bifrost network as a great partner who can help us to achieve this goal, and we’ll obviously do our utmost efforts to support the bifrost ecosystem accordingly.
For the sake of decentralization, we have our own infrastructure based in the Netherlands. We’re NOT dependent on any 3rd party server provider since we run our own bare-metal infra. Having said that, for maintaining our 99.9% uptime performance, we do run backup servers on multiple DC in different regions (Europe/US/Asia)
Number of nodes that want to join the Validator Boost List: 1
Network: Polkadot
Address: 14jHouxT1VbhBDw93VW8Z89p139Qgu7ECHz3zxM2CpQEDJDB
Commission: 2.5%
We plan to provide ~15K DOT as liquidity to mint vDOT in a course of 6 months, linearly (2.5K DOT each month)
MarketAcross has been supporting Bifrost, for example here are some of the things that we’ve done for Bifrost community over in the past:
https://marketacross.coveragebook.com/b/743a3ecffb1d083e
We wish to continue and support Bifrost by utilising our capabilities in the PR & Crypto Conferences.
We can provide organic coverage to Bifrost and to Bifrost leadership through Expert commentary/Podcasts/Speaking & Sponsoring deals at events/General mentions to Bifrost
Unlike paid services, we can’t commit to a certain amount of coverage, but we can commit to harness our network and find those organic opportunities to support Bifrost.
We truly appreciate your support!
Kim