If you’re not familiar with PolkaWorld
PolkaWorld is the earliest and largest Chinese community for Polkadot! It was established in May 2019 and hosted two Polkadot China Tours and a hackathon, where projects like Acala and Bifrost were born, during July and September of the same year (during Gavin Wood’s visit to China). Subsequently, PolkaWorld became the only recipient of a Web3 Foundation Community Grant, followed by establishing a two-year collaboration with the Web3 Foundation to help build a thriving Polkadot Chinese community! In pursuit of further decentralization, after two years of collaboration with the Web3 Foundation, PolkaWorld opted to apply for funding from the Polkadot Treasury to continue its contributions. Since June 2021, PolkaWorld has received funding from the Polkadot Treasury 12 times, with 9 of those instances through Governance V1 Motions and 3 through OpenGov referendums!
Why PolkaWorld is Applying to Become a Validator Candidate
Throughout the past, PolkaWorld has consistently received questions from community members about staking. We’ve often provided one-on-one assistance to help users resolve their staking issues, making this a fantastic opportunity to become a validator and support even more people in nominating!
Aligned with the principles of decentralization, we aim to add a validator node from the Chinese community within the Polkadot validator set. As the earliest and largest Polkadot community in the Chinese-speaking world, PolkaWorld has significant influence in the market, which can help attract more nominators!
In addition, we are currently running validator nodes on the Vara and Tanssi testnets and were one of the early validators on Kusama!
Plans for Independent Operation After Term
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Share staking tutorials through articles, videos, and threads to attract community nominations for PolkaWorld’s validator node.
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Host regular staking AMAs to share current staking date and address common staking issues faced by the community.
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Establish a dedicated Telegram group to provide real-time support and solutions for users’ staking questions!