Polkadot/Kusama staking tools proposal
Originally posted here.
Hello Kusama community,
This proposal is for a retroactive grant of my two open source, free tools. One for selecting the best validators and another for gathering staking income in a spreadsheet. You can try the validator selector here and the staking income spreadsheet generator here.
I originally set out to create these tools because I was struggling with staking. Selecting the best validators and tracking your staking income were unsolved issues at the time and they are still causing confusion for many. Therefore, I decided to solve my own problems and the problems of others by creating simple, easy to use tools that would get the job done.
You can read the full proposal here.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this proposal!
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Hi,
Both of these tools received tips earlier, a total of 6 KSM for them (both mentioned in the proposal, thank you for being transparent!)
https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/tips/11259807_0xcf867e6b14a8511e7b42bd095a085e8d4533932009e9e8c74f8860ed6b019fa1
https://www.dotreasury.com/ksm/tips/0xf0394919f58a62df369583f23f8b3da6553df93628732fb4d8f8ea22e0582a2e
I find these tools somehow useful. While it is nice to have automated reward export to xls, it is something that I do often manually in 3 mouse clicks. I also cant support the claim of the daily rate of 1000$ for this project. As mentioned before, these tools were tipped before with 6 KSM. Asking for 125x of that amount (760KSM) seems a bit excessive so I will have to vote Nay on this proposal.
Hi, while these tools may have been helpful at one time when people were new to staking, I believe staking has become much easier than in the past with all the different wallets offering the feature in a simple way and with all the data available on them so to me, I just don't see any value in this kind of tool right now and much less the asking amount. A tip would be more appropriate for this kind of tool and you've already received it so if you'd like another tip, maybe try a Big Tipper referendum (you can request up to 33 KSM) and I'd be happy to support you there with an Aye vote. Thus as it stands, I decided to vote Nay for this.