One of the last Kusama Council Members, Senior Polkadot Ambassador, Validator Operator and overall tech enthusiast.
United Kingdom - Scotland
Joined May 2021
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If any publicity is good publicity, then the reported Hyperbridge exploit (a third-party bridge) has done more for Polkadot awareness than the marketing bounty ever managed at a better price point.
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1) Yesterday, the @Web3foundation kicked off the Kusama Vision program, breathing life into the Second Age of #Kusama.
We brought together an amazing set of 15 curators and 6 advisors who are stepping in to carry the vision forward.
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Please note, W3F is currently increasing Polkadot DV voting power from 2 million to 3 million DOT. You may see some weirdness in voting totals until this is complete in a few hours (since we have to undelegate first, then redelegate with the larger amount). medium.com/web3foundation/de…
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⚠️With 1 day to go, Polkadot Staking Dashboard is failing its funding round on OpenGov. Should it fail, this would highlight a huge failing of the OpenGov system, and further highlight its problems of low voter turnout and certain large token holders voting on their own agendas.
Polkadot Staking Dashboard is a critical piece of application-side infrastructure. It is not simply another one-click staking solution, but a fully featured interface that exposes the entire Polkadot staking system, nomination pools and validators. It is an app thousands of users rely on and continue to use over inferior mobile interfaces; users have always chosen to use laptops / desktops to carry out important tasks, with mobile apps as fallbacks.
Staking Dashboard is still one of the most widely used interfaces in the Polkadot ecosystem. We make our visitor stats public. Without knowing how many staking interactions wallets receive, no one can claim that wallets make the Dashboard redundant. On the contrary, most wallets expose a one-click nomination pool join form as their staking solution for the gain of their own pools, not mentioning anything of validators, nominators, decentralisation, or reward optimisation.
Staking Dashboard takes user experience seriously and is the only app in the Polkadot ecosystem taking simple and advanced modes seriously, differentiating the offering for both new and experienced users without abstracting away the focus on decentralisation - this is something wallet solutions will not do.
Staking Dashboard handles tens of millions of records behind the scenes with a multitude of services, and exposes this data via the Staking API, delivering historical records for any account in a few milliseconds. This is completely free and works for everyone.
Staking Dashboard is completely open source, allowing any developer to browse the codebase and use it as a reference. It is a flagship use case of the Dedot API, the next generation API for DApps that replaces Polkadot JS API. No other app in production is currently demonstrating Dedot's capabilities.
On top of this, Staking Dashboard is making efforts to be as accessible as possible, with the entire app and README documents localised in Chinese and Spanish (with more to come). In addition, users use our Discord and email channels not only for staking related queries, but for general Polkadot queries, that we answer.
Nay voters will be held to account; their voting records on chain and their commentary recorded. They are responsible for OpenGov's failure to attract legit stakeholders - and now, to support long-standing, successful projects like the Staking Dashboard.
$DOT #Polkadot
The DV cohort has shifted hands and things have gone from maybe.. to definitely not.
It would be interesting to see how things playout with this cohort given ChaosDao's 13.8 mDOT vote vs DV DAOs 14m DOT ( 7 DVs x 2 mDOT delegations).
polkadot.subsquare.io/refere…
With only five days left, the moderation team needs your support to close a < 1 million DOT vote gap. The team is responsible for moderating activities on Polkadot's official Discord, Element, Reddit and Telegram channels/servers.
Unfortunately it is a Nay for innovation. The referendum was knocked out of confirmation by a 47,500 KSM whale. Interestingly enough this whale account usually delegates to ChaosDAO.
This is one of those "fly on the wall moments"; I would love to know what "really happened".
There's only 20 hours left to lend your support to a novel approach with curtailing Kusama's inflation without reducing issuance.
kusama.subsquare.io/referend…
It suggests that we introduce a variable to allow us (by way of future referendum) to lock some staking rewards.
CC: @shawntabrizi
Resubmission in mind, it is unlikely that we'll see balanced voting on the topic. For this referendum they've used 2x conviction but they may likely use 4 or 6x with resubmissions which is near the total votes of all participants.
There's only 20 hours left to lend your support to a novel approach with curtailing Kusama's inflation without reducing issuance.
kusama.subsquare.io/referend…
It suggests that we introduce a variable to allow us (by way of future referendum) to lock some staking rewards.
CC: @shawntabrizi
I've opened a referendum on the Kusama's Wish for Change track which offers a different pathway surrounding discussions on Kusama's inflation.
Instead of focusing on reducing inflation, I would like to focus on reducing transferable supply.
kusama.subsquare.io/referend…
If this is passed, I plan to open other Wish for Change referenda to further define the use and conditions of these locked tokens as well as other options to lock tokens with shared benefit.
As most would know, my ideas are many but my free time is few. We'll get there.