PolkaStats hardware operational costs treasury expense proposal
Hi all,
I would like to open the discussion for a possible new recurring spending proposal: PolkaStats aims submit periodic spending proposals to the Kusama Treasury to fund hardware operational costs.
PolkaStats is a Substrate block explorer aiming to provide the best staking and economic data for both validators and nominators. It helps both types of users by providing comprehensive metrics, charts and utilities to improve their knowledge and performance.
PolkaStats is one of the projects that was born in La Colmena, a crypto community based in Sevilla, southern Spain. The community aims to incentivize content-creation in Spanish for Polkadot, Kusama and other blockchain projects and, as supporters of open source culture, develop software to contribute to the ecosystem. The organization also acts like an incubator that helped create blockchain business models like DragonStake or Delega Networks validators.
Although there are currently already some very good Substrate explorers in the ecosystem, PolkaStats has a different perspective to offer in order to increase diversity among the existing solutions. PolkaStats differentiates from other explorers in:
- Focusing on Proof of Stake chains only.
- Being a Javascript based block explorer (both frontend and backend)
- Utilising Vue.js / Nuxt.js frameworks used in frontend, with a low learning curve.
- Allowing Incipient wallet functionalities
You can find all details of the proposal (including a detailed monthly budget and roadmap for the next 7 months) here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJIyyyl2Asr8tX05zpO-sUOa2aSoeIlCGag030t0vrA/edit?usp=sharing
Comments (10)
Thank you for this proposal, I think PolkaStats is a valuable tool and it being open source is an extra star in my book. The amount requested is low, and while I think that Polkadot's treasury should fund the Polkadot and Westend servers, I recognize the complexity such a broken down request would add unnecessarily, so I'm perfectly fine to support this from within the Kusama treasury. One thing I'd like to see if better README docs in your repos, and more emphasis on helping people run their own copies of this. Both to encourage community development, and to possibly reduce your server costs long-term.
100% agree Bruno, our READMES are a bit outdated and can be improved. I will add this to the roadmap as I think it should be prioritized over other features.