⚠️With 1 day to go, Polkadot Staking Dashboard is failing its funding round on OpenGov. Should it fail, this would highlight a huge failing of the OpenGov system, and further highlight its problems of low voter turnout and certain large token holders voting on their own agendas.
Polkadot Staking Dashboard is a critical piece of application-side infrastructure. It is not simply another one-click staking solution, but a fully featured interface that exposes the entire Polkadot staking system, nomination pools and validators. It is an app thousands of users rely on and continue to use over inferior mobile interfaces; users have always chosen to use laptops / desktops to carry out important tasks, with mobile apps as fallbacks.
Staking Dashboard is still one of the most widely used interfaces in the Polkadot ecosystem. We make our visitor stats public. Without knowing how many staking interactions wallets receive, no one can claim that wallets make the Dashboard redundant. On the contrary, most wallets expose a one-click nomination pool join form as their staking solution for the gain of their own pools, not mentioning anything of validators, nominators, decentralisation, or reward optimisation.
Staking Dashboard takes user experience seriously and is the only app in the Polkadot ecosystem taking simple and advanced modes seriously, differentiating the offering for both new and experienced users without abstracting away the focus on decentralisation - this is something wallet solutions will not do.
Staking Dashboard handles tens of millions of records behind the scenes with a multitude of services, and exposes this data via the Staking API, delivering historical records for any account in a few milliseconds. This is completely free and works for everyone.
Staking Dashboard is completely open source, allowing any developer to browse the codebase and use it as a reference. It is a flagship use case of the Dedot API, the next generation API for DApps that replaces Polkadot JS API. No other app in production is currently demonstrating Dedot's capabilities.
On top of this, Staking Dashboard is making efforts to be as accessible as possible, with the entire app and README documents localised in Chinese and Spanish (with more to come). In addition, users use our Discord and email channels not only for staking related queries, but for general Polkadot queries, that we answer.
Nay voters will be held to account; their voting records on chain and their commentary recorded. They are responsible for OpenGov's failure to attract legit stakeholders - and now, to support long-standing, successful projects like the Staking Dashboard.
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