Hi Community,
We recently released a better Multi-Wallet user Interface and pushed for Polkawatch analytics integration in community projects and resources.
We created a MVP integration with Polkadot Staking Dashboard that allowed us to verify that bringing decentralization analytics closer to were the staking decissions are made is working well, as more nominations are getting analyzed now than ever before by simply linking both services.
On top of continued operation for 2023H2 (50% retroactive), we are also looking to:
Fully integrate Polkawatch Analytics in the Polkadot Staking Dashboard. Furthermore, after reaching for community feedback at sub0 conference, we decided to improve the Staking Dashboard Plugin system (already in development) as part of this cooperation so that other community projects can also be present at the Staking Dashboard too.
We also need to implement a different GeoLocation strategy, the network addressing in the heartbeats events is being phased out in Substrate, which forces us to look into this information at a lower protocol level: p2plib Distributed Hash Table (DHT) instead. Something that is also required for decentralization analytics of AURA parachains. Parachain support will provide further funding options, reducing dependency on the Treasury.
This milestone includes strategic developments but also singles out, and minimizes, continued operation costs, currently at 2.9K USD per month (including archive nodes and promotion), which is the sustainable cost for the community to keep decentralization analytics running in absence of service improvements/developments.
You can download our detailed proposal for further detail.
And please, do not hesitate to reach out with feedback.
See proposal pitch VIDEO on AAG, Oct 19,
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First I would like to give our criteria by which we vote.
Our votes are based on the logic of "do I think that the amount given out is worth the benefit that this proposal will ultimately bring to polkadot ecosystem."
And according to your proposal, our answer is no.
I don’t see that Polkadot has decentralization problem that we need to solve here and now. In my opinion, everything is relatively good with our staking mechanism, and everything is much worse on the part of the applications that will attract users.
This may sound quite unpleasant, but in my opinion the ecosystem should focus on attracting real users to the applications, and discard everything else in this bear market and the low price of dot.
I also think that most nominators just want one "nominate" button and forget about it, just receiving rewards. And as I understand, some mobile wallets are working on such solutions.
Sorry for the fact that you probably would like to hear a different answer.