Polkawatch, Decentralization Analytics, Infrastructure and Maintenance 2025
Hi Community!
We recently released Sidecar Integration, and improved our IPFS dataset publishing. Which increased the quality of our dataset and its delivery.
We also looked back at the 3 years of Polkawatch, and whether Polkadot decentralization was improving or not. The results are undeniable:
This is obviously a community effort and we thank you for doing your part.
We often get thanked by our community for doing ours:
As a result, Polkadot is often referred as the most decentralized public blockchain out there .
In line with previous proposals, our dataset is now most accessed from ecosystem apps (75%) such as the staking dashboard, and our API is getting in average 100K requests per month, for a population of 22.5K nominators that may review their nomination monthly or weekly.
Polkawatch was initially backed by Web3 foundation, and developed with support of both Kusama and Polkadot treasuries.
We have a track record of milestone delivery and efficient use of funds. It costs around USD 3K per month to maintain Polkawatch which for 22.5K nominator roughly translates to 1.5 USD per nominator & year.
We are now looking to fund 2025 continued operation and maintenance. We have also included some development to ensure we can migrate our current capability to Polkadot 2.0 / Polkadot Hub to be released later this year.
You can Download or detailed proposal for all the details.
Our project has always been funded in DOT. We never asked or will ask for top-ups. DOT is a long term reserve currency for us, we are proud holders.
Do not hesitate to reach out with feedback.
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Saxemberg has voted AYE on the Polkadot referendum 1741. Polkawatch, Decentralization Analytics [...] 2025. A cornerstone for decentralization verification for validators and pools. If a negative vote from others is given, we recommend resubmitting in stables.
Vote overrule process:
https://voting.opensquare.io/space/the-sax-guild/proposal/QmdRnP9ePNxmsPXGFxAsjeHkaJRw8GHsnCgJACULUWFNzS
Dear Proposer,
Thank you for your proposal. Our second vote on this proposal is AYE.
The Small Spender track requires 50% participation and simple majority of non-abstain votes according to our voting policy v0.2, and any referendum in which the majority of members vote abstain receives an abstain vote. This proposal has received two aye and zero nay votes from eight available members, with three members abstaining. Below is a summary of our members' comments:
The full discussion can be found in our internal voting.
Please feel free to contact us through the links below for further discussion.
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