Dear Bifrost community,
We are excited to submit our proposal to be included in the Validator Boost List (VBL) for the Polkadot network, enhancing our ongoing collaboration between our team and Bifrost.
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.
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.
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, and Collectives.
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
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
Přichází odemykání DOT z druhé várky aukcí: Polkadotters přináší společně s Bifrostem bonus pro svoji komunitu
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. Our most staked validator currently is
Node: Polkadotters/🦐 SHRIMP
Chain: Polkadot
Address: 16A4n4UQqgxw5ndeehPjUAobDNmuX2bBoPXVKj4xTe16ktRN
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 4200+ 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 +270 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 a 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
Polkadotters is a group that supports the Polkadot ecosystem and has applied to be on the Validator Boost List for the Polkadot network. They have helped maintain network stability for around 3 years and have co-founded the DOT Validator Alliance DAO. They provide validation services for Polkadot and Kusama relay chains and serve as collators for several parachains. They have also supported Bifrost through various initiatives, including informing about Bifrost news and writing articles about it. Polkadotters have an active presence in the Polkadot community with over 4200 followers on their main account and 800 followers in their Czech & Slovak language mutation account. They have participated in decentralized governance and want to take part in Bifrost governance as well.
Since now VBL is full capacity, this proposal might need to be postponed for couple of weeks.
Edited
thanks for the VBL candidacy @Polkadotters
this is a great addition to VBL given your community contribution and validator performance and commission.