Community
Validator Tools Ongoing Support
Description
This grant funds Silk Nodes to continue support for their validator tools discord bot and web tooling suite. Validator Tools is a comprehensive suite of products and services including validator alerts, chain snapshots, node setup and upgrade guides, governance proposal alerts, and more. Validators can join the dYdX discord (or add the bot to their own server) to receive custom alerts on their own uptime status, ensuring that they are immediately alerted in the event that their node goes down. The tool also informs validators of impending upgrades, minimizing chain downtime during an upgrade.
Since the previous grant to Silk Nodes, Over 50% of dYdX Validators and a large number of users now make use of at least one of the services they provide via the bot, leading to better node uptime generally. Additionally, they have continued to iterate and improve on the tooling suite, adding support for a web UI to allow a broader userbase to access them.
