Notional's delegations program

There are now several chains, where notional isn’t quite a whale yet, but we ain’t doing bad. We want this opportunity to exist for others, which is actually been the source of the historical tension between notional and the ICF, for example. We believe in leadership by example, so we’re only going to delegate 1,000 atoms to ourself total. With the remaining atoms in our validator wallet, and the atoms that we received from proposal 104, we are making delegations to validators who are ranked lower than notional, and make significant contributions to the ecosystem . We are openly biased. Because we are openly biased, it should be easy for validators to self-evaluate if they can receive a delegation from notional’s approximately 127,000 atoms that we will not delegate to ourselves. • Code • Relaying • Participation here on the forum • Participation in governance • Media production • Use of bare metal servers • Alignment with Notional’s values of transparency and accountability Furthermore, we have decided to adopt this policy on every chain where we feel that we hold a significant bag, and have significant community support in the form of delegations from the…

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what a cosmos mindset !

Hello, Jacob On behalf of Lucky Friday, I would like to convey our interest in receiving delegations from Notional. Though we are newer members of the Bare Metal Alliance, we are running our top tier infrastructure in SOC2 compliant data centers across 6 locations in four countries (and hoping to expand in the near future). We are also in the process of earning our own SOC2 credentials, and we hope to then acquire the more stringent CCSS audits that are done specifically for blockchain infrastructure companies. While we have only begun to get a foothold in the Cosmos ecosystem, we have gone from 1 to 4 chains in the few months since I have joined the team (we are active on Persistence One, Canto, Stride, and Quicksilver). That said, we try to avoid delta risk by having to buy tokens on the open market, instead trying to partner with chains/teams who want to run their nodes on bare metal servers and are willing to provide the allocation. Therefore, most of the chains we are operate are at the bottom of their respective lists, and it has been difficult to get our name out there without operating on larger chains in the ecosystem. Beyond these 4 mainnets, we have also been…

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Thank you very much, we accept. What chains would be best for us to delegate you on?

Please excuse the delay in my reply, Jacob. I wanted to check with our engineers to get some additional information. Before I get there, however, let me first convey our gratitude for Notional’s willingness to help. Out of the chains listed above, we would love to be running on any of them if I’m being candid. But we’re also mindful of the fact that you will likely need to split delegations among other validators, and considering we have no presence on larger, more established chains such as Juno or Evmos it would require a hefty delegation to even get us into the bottom of the active sets (much like our current dilemma). Migaloo is newer/smaller, so hopefully at least this one won’t require a large delegation to get us going. More importantly, though, we would hope you can help us with building relationships in the ecosystem. Whether that is meeting more members of the BMA or getting to know contacts on various chains/protocols, anything you can provide will help us a great deal. And of course, we would love to reciprocate by adding value to Notional however we can. If you would like us to share contacts in the Polkadot ecosystem, we can certainly do so. We also have plans…

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Greetings Jacob/Notional, Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself again. I am Luis Lopes (also known as Josh_Lopes), co-founder of Tedcrypto.io and representing it here for a potential delegation from Notional. We’r a cosmos validator since February 2022. A little bit more about Tedcrypto: Ted Crypto.io - Validator Profile My passion for blockchain validation led me to become involved with the Cosmos ecosystem. Since late 2021, I have been contributing to OOS projects such as the Helium and ScPrime projects, where I have open-sourced tools and scripts like CryptoTools and ScPrimeSettingsTool. I have also contributed to Cosmos ecosystem short after we started validating it! • GitHub - TedcryptoOrg/validator-commission-script: Do more with your validator commissions • GitHub - TedcryptoOrg/CryptoTools: Different type of scripts for cryto • GitHub - TedcryptoOrg/ScPrimeSettingsTool: Tool to grab XA Miner settings for the project SCPrime (https://scpri.me) We created Tedcrypto on the premise of giving back to crypto what crypto gave us during the bull market. We started validating on Bitsong and Cerberus, and very selectively we expanded. We got to…

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Hey, Josh!

Thanks for posting this. We (Lucky Friday) are relatively new to the Cosmos ecosystem, but I’m always happy to meet fellow validators. I’ll be sure to check out some of the links you posted to learn more about you / your team.

Best,

Ryan / Phunky

P.S. - Love how you’re giving back to the community. We’re trying to do the same by building out some websites to help all validators in the Cosmos ecosystem

Hey everyone, sorry about the delay on taking action here – we’re going to begin making delegations as soon as the ICF has completed their delegations.

Appreciate the effort, sharing the bread is not a common thing.

Since you’ve offered to apply this policy on Osmosis as well, I come to request your support to Zenith Station. We are a group of 3 crypto enthusiasts with validating on Osmosis, Evmos, Stride, Mars and Bitsong, soon Gravity Bridge. We started validating 1 year ago and have been focusing on learning and working with chains we have deep value alignment and that have a vision for the future. After this year of learning we will start expanding our services to relaying and public endpoints on all our chains. We firmly believe in the power of blockchain to revolutionize governance and a liberate us from traditional financial institutions that block many people around the world from accesing financial opportunities. We work very hard to ensure quality and security of our validator nodes and believe that having bare metal servers under your direct control ensures that we are truly working towards decentralizing the networks we work with. As you know, we are extremely active in governance on the chains we work with, especially Osmosis, Evmos, Gravity Bridge and Stride. We try to have direct contact with our delegators, (most of them being Osmosis and Evmos community members) to ensure…

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Louis, thank you so much for your submission. I apologize, because we are doing our next round of delegations only when the foundation has completed theirs. I know you’re asking about osmosis, but we’re actually going to synchronize all of our delegations. Your support on tooling has been really great for our organization and I think many others, so as soon as that is complete I will contact you and we will get rolling.

Unfortunately I have to say the same thing to everybody. Delegations will kick off as soon as the ICF has completed theirs. This is necessary because we need to figure out where we stand. Also if theirs are not completed within one week, please fear not: we will delegate anyway.

Thank you sir. There is no rush, happy to chase this after ICF.

Just in time to showcase another big win for osmosis done by us and IcyCro team – we work together on Cosmos Guardians

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to let people know that for at least the next week, we will be making no changes to delegations on the cosmos hub.

Applications for delegations should be put on this forum, and not sent by DM. Myself and Ruslan from our team just did a full review and for the time being we see no need to make delegation changes on the hub.

I also realized that it would make sense to do a call with (all at once) applicants. @LitBit will post scheduling information.

Greetings to the Notional team. LOA Labs would appreciate your consideration for delegation. Here is more about LOA Labs Validator: • We are a small, indy validator team focused on good governance, impact use cases of web3 tools, have been in the Cosmos community for several years. • We have developed an open source tool targeted toward other small, indy validators called the LOA Node Toolkit designed to support active governance monitoring/voting, node uptime monitoring, rewads and distribution service - and we continue to iterate on this tool. • We have strong connections in the community as a validator for Juno, Regen, Gravity, Kyve, Quicksliver, Gravity Bridge, Althea, and ixo. • We are strong advocates for good governance with historical experience in good community process/dialogue as well as web2 political processes. We have started some community dialogue around good decentralized governance principles. • We are a relayer node operator for multiple chains • We have outlined our aims on how we hope to serve each chain that we validate for pending resource availability and needs of each chain. I’m happy to answer any questions you have or you can dip into our…

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thank you! It will allow some links after you make additional posts

Firstly, we at Cosmos Spaces would like to express our appreciation for your transparent approach and commitment to supporting smaller, yet dedicated validators in the Cosmos ecosystem. Your efforts to uplift and empower these validators align with our own values, and we believe that a strong and diverse validator community is essential for the continued growth and success of the Cosmos hub and the larger ecosystem. We would like to make the case for Cosmos Spaces as a potential recipient of a delegations from Notional. We can honestly say we wouldn’t be here without the support you’ve given us as we’ve entered our journey as validators. We are a testimony to how when a good team has the right support, they can beat the odds and even inspire others to do the same. Our team at Cosmos Spaces is a community-focused operation that actively participates as a validator, relayer, and RPC provider. Over the last year, we have held countless calls on Twitter Spaces to bring together projects in the Cosmos ecosystem with community members and talk about pressing topics in the ecosystem. We’ve provided onboarding support, education, and fostered community engagement, all while maintaining…

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Tricky | Cosmos Spaces: We sincerely hope that you will consider Cosmos Spaces as a worthy recipient of your delegation. Together, we can strengthen the Cosmos ecosystem and create a brighter future for all involved. we’ll be delegating to cosmos spaces asap, hopefully in the next 24h. Thanks for making the post here! David_Fortson: Greetings to the Notional team. LOA Labs would appreciate your consideration for delegation. Here is more about LOA Labs Validator: We’ll reach out to see which chains we can be most impactful and synergistic on with you. Jose_Lopes: Just in time to showcase another big win for osmosis done by us and IcyCro team – we work together on Cosmos Guardians cosmos guardians is a wonderful contribution to the whole community. thank you. Luis_Quezada: Appreciate you considering delegating to us and are open to any questions you might have either here or directly through my twitter ( @luisqagt ). We’ll be reaching out right after this message, to all four of you! Phunky: Beyond these 4 mainnets, we have also been running testnet versions of chains like Juno, Stargaze and a few others…

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Thank you so much for this. In an effort to help around the ecosystem more, we’ve decided to merge with Interbloc team. Interbloc is currently composed of coldy and Felix, this will strengthen our developer focused services and our infrastructure. Furthermore, we will also be able to work on more chains that Zenith is not currently a part off like Juno.

With the above in mind, I would then like to request that the delegation be made to coldy validator on Osmosis (osmovaloper15004ysvmqnqzkvt7x6s4cd53flmmvgfv6t4y9y) and Juno (junovaloper15004ysvmqnqzkvt7x6s4cd53flmmvgfvpgmrc5) if possible, which will be renamed to Interbloc in the coming days.

Sounds good to me

I think that you have chosen well in terms of partners

Hello Jacob/Notional team, This is Architect from Architect Nodes and formally applying for delegation. I applaud your efforts to encourage independent validators, helping decentralization and securing the network. I am listing details of our setup and services we offer below: • Validating on 9 chains - EVMOS, Juno, Persistence, Stride, Fetch.AI, Bitsong, Gravity Bridge, Comdex, Band • BM validator in self custody, also use BM servers in datacenter backed by remote signer with Yubi HSM in my custody • Relaying across the interchain • Public API/RPC endpoints registered in Cosmos directory • Supporting testnet for multiple chains • Self funded with skin in the game • We support other validators with delegation who are contributing in Cosmos. Not as big as Notional delegation but doing what we can where we have means. • Available on Twitter, Discord and Reddit I would like to seek delegation for Cosmos Hub and Juno. We applied for Juno FDP, if that comes through then i will withdraw my ask for Juno. Hardest one is Cosmos Hub, we want to be part of Cosmos validator set but entry barrier is just way out of our reach. Plus, we can’t even ask for community delegation…

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Hey Archtect, we’ve got a call scheduled for eh, maybe 10 minutes from now maybe tuesday. Adding you to the twitter dm group for the delegation program, and we’re really happy to assist you with anything.

Our goal with our delegation program is to find the best, least appreciated validators, arm them with delegations (we have called these training wheels in the past) and also actively support the growth and maturity of their teams over time.

Since you’re a coder-validator, you’re a very natural fit.

I have to provide just one warning, and I’d prefer to do it publicly and directly:

We’re not currently delegating to anyone who’d support no/veto on prop 791. We feel that we need to make sure that cosmos does not become a festival of pointless lawsuits. If you’re strongly opposed to it, we may not be a fit. I’m also putting this here to model better ways of working for other orgs that make delegations, and want to ensure that their views on key issues are represented.

Hi Jacob,

We would like to be independent on our governance decisions. I have a personal opinion about Prop 791 and also the duty to protect interest of our delegators on all chains. I have supported gyunit publicly and also donated to her legal defense fund. Those are my decisions and align with my values. I also support freedom of our developers to be able to contribute freely without the fear of unnecessary lawsuits. But as a validator when i am speaking for community, i am leaning towards No on prop 791. This doesn’t mean I will not support gyunit in future, or work towards freedom of our developers, I don’t see community pool spend is the right approach.

I knew this day will come when we will agree in principle, but disagree on method. This is ok and actually healthy for network to have differing opinions. I am sure we will find common ground on a lot of other topics and work together for overall success of Cosmos network.

I appreciate all the guidance and support you have provided so far. Always a blast to work together with you.

Thank You,
Architect

Good morning architect,

Yeah, so you know the thing is that I’m aware that there are other delegation programs or shall we say founding teams that place requirements on voting in order to receive a delegation and there are some matters on which I think it’s best that our team be really consistent, and so I wanted to do that in public and transparently, so that everybody knew and there’s no debate about it.

Thanks so much sir.

Thanks Jacob. I understand and support consistency and transparency. Kudos to Notional for promoting it.

Hey architect, I need to admit to you that I made a mistake here.

Here’s the thing, I have in general stopped the practice of saying hey, you don’t agree on this thing, you should redelegate…

I just remind participants in the community that they can override their validators vote.

I’m going to change policy because upon further reflection, I was simply wrong here.

Please let me know if the updated policy suits you, and if it does, we would be delighted to have you in our first cohort of validators, whether that is on the cosmo’s hub or on other chains.

Hi Jacob…Yes I am good with updated terms.

Houston we have a GO. Excited to be part of this exclusive group of talented teams.

Cheers

jacobgadikian:

In addition to this, any random community member is more than welcome to come here and let us know who they think that we should delegate to, and why.

Upon reading it again, this line caught my attention. I will make a case for 1 validator here.

Will you please add us to the Twitter DM?

Hey Jacob,

Gonna pitch Citizen Cosmos in a nutshell:

• We contribute to the whole ecosystem, not just the hub
• We contribute outside the ecosystem, which is important for the growth of all of the space
• Our motivation is educational and communication. Our primary value: decentralization
• Over the last 3/4 years we have created numerous working places in the Cosmos ecosystem and helped to motivate / influence several projects to kick off / start, including some of the larger names in the ecosystem today
• We think outside the box and are not motivated by greed
• We are striving towards 100% (owned) bare metal (main issue now - budget) and use a mix already
• We dont give a ^&*% about tribalism and have balls
• We have cookies

Well, cookies should have been probably top of the list don’t you think?

Cookies are awesome. We like cookies. The dark side has way better and tastier cookies

Hey Jacob, According to our conversation i come to you for GATADAO validator operations. We are a bare metal validator who run multiple relayers : $ATOM / $JUNO / $OSMO / $TORI (as much as we can afford) We run multiple validators : $ATOM / $OSMO / $JUNO / $FLIX / $EVMOS / $TORI / $NOMIC / $REBUS Link to our Mintscan profil : https://hub.mintscan.io/validators/stats/gatadaovalidation More than being a validator, our validator is owned by our community because we do give 50% of the commission to our NFT holders each month since inception (we started at stargaze Genesis launch more than a Year ago) We’re struggling with delegation mostly on Osmosis and we would love a little help from you to climb up to the rank to secure our position. I myself participate in the cosmos forum whenever I can or even when I find it useful. We participate in governance as much as we can and we talk about governance issues with our community members. Of course we produce social content, myself, as Cryptopital but also as a team. We’re clearly in alignment with your values, because we strive for transparency and accountability for everyone (especially the hub) and we work to enhance…

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Hello Jacob/Notional team!

I wanted to introduce you to Ping Dashboard, an open-source explorer and web wallet that has been utilized by numerous blockchain projects. Additionally, we have developed Ping Faucet, an open-source UI for faucet on the Cosmos blockchain.

We are currently seeking delegations on Cosmoshub and Osmosis. We would greatly appreciate your support and participation in our projects. Please let us know if you have any questions or if there’s anything else we can assist you with.

Best regards,

Ping | Ping.pub

Thank you so much ping, I’ll get you added to the group very soon.

Brief update concerning @DonCryptonium

Jacob Gadikian

Hi, Thanks for the idea. Adding our application here also. Most people know us about our relayer activity and delegator rescues, but we do quite a few different things in Cronos. All that we promised in our roadmap was already complete last summer. About IcyCRO IcyCRO is an unique community validator project started on Crypto.org / Cronos in August 2021. Our aim is to help the network, delegators and other validators. Our own validators are always high level bare metal servers aiming for high uptime and security using Horcrux. We will only validate few chains so can concentrate to them fully. CRO, ATOM, JUNO and soon we will add Stride also. Delegator rescues It started accidentally when one of our delegators had accidentally given his seed phrase to a fake site and the scammer got access to his wallet. Luckily 100k CRO was delegated so it takes 28 days to undelegate them. Delegator asked our help and we made a script that could be used on sentries to immediately transfer the funds to a safe wallet when undelegation was done. This operation ended happily and all funds were saved. Since then we and our partners have rescued funds of huge amount of delegators…

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Super happy to have your application @icycro!

Your rescue services are the definition of legitimate. Let’s follow up in our twitter group <3

Jacob & Notional, I want to start by saying it has been a pleasure working with Notional Labs on Migaloo. Our team is reaching out for a potential delegation to our Cosmos-Hub validator. We have been validating within the Cosmos ecosystem for over a year now. We have used our validator rewards to actively take part in governance, seed our liquidity pools and fund our development. We are experienced builders from Terra v1. We are currently working to solve the cosmos ecosystems’ current and future liquidity problems. We are creating the liquidity layer for the cosmos which will allow for decentralized interchain liquidity. Liquidity will not be siloed on one chain but dispersed where it is needed most. Ultimately, the location of liquidity will be abstracted away from users, however, our protocol will make sure that the liquidity is still where the user wants it when they want it. Our blockchain Migaloo will be the command center for the White Whale interchain liquidity protocol. We like to believe we have learned a lot from Terra v1 and believe we are doing everything the right way. • We are enormous proponents of open-source software. Everything our team develops that…

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Jacob & Notional, I want to start by saying it has been a pleasure working with Notional Labs on Migaloo. Our team is reaching out for a potential delegation to our Cosmos-Hub validator. We have been validating within the Cosmos ecosystem for over a year now. We have used our validator rewards to actively take part in governance, seed our liquidity pools and fund our development. We are experienced builders from Terra v1. We are currently working to solve the cosmos ecosystems’ current and future liquidity problems. We are creating the liquidity layer for the cosmos which will allow for decentralized interchain liquidity. Liquidity will not be siloed on one chain but dispersed where it is needed most. Ultimately, the location of liquidity will be abstracted away from users, however, our protocol will make sure that the liquidity is still where the user wants it when they want it. Our blockchain Migaloo will be the command center for the White Whale interchain liquidity protocol. We like to believe we have learned a lot from Terra v1 and believe we are doing everything the right way. • We are enormous proponents of open-source software. Everything our team develops that…

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Thank you so much good sir!

I will get you added to the delegations Twitter group shortly.

Would really love to take part in this program. We have been knocked out of the active set several times by centralized exchanges that some of which have multiple nodes. Just want to build awesome stuff on cosmos!

Crypto Dungeon

We are located in a data center in Iowa and have all our own hardware. Triple redundant internet connections and power supply backup. Have been at this since last July when we launched on stargaze and Juno and are now validating 8 chains including a new one which is launching very soon.

We are trying to be a positive force for cosmos and are building a live action role playing game that launches next month in November.

Fantastic team. Mr Berman my private team members will like to work with you. Since the matter it’s all about business with Nation.