decentraDOT - Validator Boost Applicant

Name of node provider:
decentraDOT

Brief Description on node provider:
decentraDOT is a provider of high-quality Polkadot validators, located in The Netherlands. Our edge lies in hosting exclusively on our own in-house hardware, ensuring top-notch security and performance.

We launched in late 2021 as a family-run business by father and son. Since then, we've joined the Polkadot Thousand Validator Program, host our own in-house hardware, and have become one of the largest pools in the Polkadot network.

Number of nodes that want to join the Validator Boost List:
1

The address of the node that wants to join the Validator Boost List and which network:
KSM: GRSWBC1kCuNVp8KTgGyK7Bo3bP7CdLDPwfnx2L5JJLQ41Qj

Liquidity Contribution by VBL Applicant :

Token amount provided to minting vToken: Vault 8,350 vDOT ($66,800)
Future commission of our validator network will be moved into vKSM

Marketing

We host our own Polkadot Guides over at guides.decentradot.com. All guides are written by ourselves and SEO-optimized so they appear higher up in search engines such as Google and Yandex. According to Google Search Console our articles and tools get 275 - 325 impressions daily (9,000+ monthly). We will write articles on Bifrost for vKSM and vDOT, provide effective backlinks on already existing articles.
In 2023 we received a grant from W3F to develop a validator dashboard Cyclops. We provide hosting and track over 100 validators for different operators and have a solid outreach to other high-value Polkadot community members.
We provide tools for Polkadot such as our validator selector tool. These tools can provide additional resources to stakers regarding other options from delegating such as vDOT. Our validator list tool sits between #1 - #3 position on Google.

Website: decentraDOT.com
Guides: guides.decentraDOT.com
Validator Dashboard
Validator Selector Tool
Validator List

Other
Our validator commission fee will stay at 10% (as is also currently the case) once accepted. All our validators are actively monitored using Grafana and run on 14 cores 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H.