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.
Key participants, like Decentralized Nodes, relay on Polkawatch for their part: "knowing the distribution of validators across the whole network definitely informs these decisions, and Polkawatch has been our go-to tool for this purpose."
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
@saxemberg thanks for the feedback.
Typically, we book fiat project income to short term working capital and DOT income to long term reserves, as a result we are DOT holders. We have always felt pride and thought this was positive for our community.
While we have reached out to the Foundation with this feedback, we also take note for future proposals.
Anyway, we agree with the plans of deploying an over-collateralized stable backed by DOT, it will have a positive impact on the community.