Hello Community,
Polkadot, and generally speaking Substrate built block-chains have tremendous potential to deliver decentralized computing, however depending on how they are deployed and operated by the community the resulting system can be more or less centralized/decentralized.
When analyzing the degree of decentralization of the Polkadot Rely chain by the following variables: Region, Computing Network and Node Operator, it turns out that the network is very centralized with most of the public validation activity concentrated and a few Operators, Regions and Computing Networks.
Polkawatch is an analytic tool designed to measure effective decentralization of Polkadot’s Validation process. Polkawatch entered in production in 2022 Q2.
This proposal aims to fund the 2022 Q3 Continued Operation and implement Software Development and infrastructure improvements.
Our detailed proposal can be found here.