Name of node provider: LEGEND (Polkadot)

Brief Description on node provider:

VOULA IT-SERVICES LLC is a stake-as-a-service company. It operates multiple validators under the “LEGEND” brand, focused on the DOTSAMA ecosystem. You can find LEGEND active nodes list here

In any network we validate, we have significant skin in the game to show our full engagement. For example, our self bond in all of our Polkadot validators is approximately 70k DOT combined, and in each one of them we keep accumulating our rewards. The point is that we’re putting ourselves together with our nominators in the same boat, and if our validators for any reason will underperform - we’ll suffer from it first. Therefore we spare no efforts to have the best performance, running our own infra and have a 24/7 nodes monitoring system.

Number of nodes that want to join the Validator Boost List: 1

**The address of the node that wants to join the Validator Boost List and which network: **15B3UVXPRp3yS2gU7GogS41mwoT2fTL1KaNYPF7eMVjjWZJJ

Commission: 3%

Liquidity Contribution by VBL Applicant:

We collaborated with Bifrost for a long period of time, and so far we minted ~135k DOT. Beyond that, we minted ~52k GDOT (significantly more than we promised to mint) since the Hydration borrowing/lending platform went live. We're planning to keep minting our DOT rewards in the given address, and also with 2 more validators we own. We're happy to see the vDOT pool become some big (with over 24m minted tokens at the top) and less sensitive to a specific contribution

General Contribution by VBL Applicant:

As we stated in the past, we are always thinking about how to improve the Bifrost ecosystem and also got elected to become an INFRA fellowship member. When we noticed that some MOVR collators don’t perform properly, we published the following article collator selection improvement suggestion - MOVR as a study case (26/9/24) and suggested some recommendations to have better criteria in order to select collators. We also suggested in the following article Increase the number of Polkadot VBL seats (12/9/24) to boost the Bifrost ecosystem by having more dedicated validators. Beyond that, we monitor all of the nominated validators by biforst - both VBL and non-VBL - and immediately alert the Bifrost team if we find any concerns

In addition, as VBL members we were super thrilled to have the opportunity supporting Bifrost AssetHub migration in both Kusama & Polkadot networks

We’ll always keep thinking how to improve the Bifrost ecosystem and will spare no efforts to do it by ourselves as well.

We really hope for your support, exactly as we received from you in our previous proposals, and wish we can help Bifrost together grow bigger and stronger!

Thanks,
Rafael