DECISION
Thanks to each of the teams submitting to this first Open Priority. It’s great to see how the community activates to support network health and we appreciate you all for creating the unenviable task of PNF having to select one team/submission, when in reality each submission is highly qualified and worthy of acceptance to this work.
Our primary consideration when selecting from submissions was to:
- Maximise impact/value to the network (i.e. Value created - Cost)
- Propagate network health (via reputation/performance, engagement in the network and demonstration of Pocket DNA by submitters)
The team selected when weighing these variables is @Andy-Liquify.
Some specifics behind our decision include Liquify being the most experienced validator and their submission providing regional snapshots which should result in faster downloads and being more inclusive for globalised node operations. They’ve also been quite active in Discord which indicates responsiveness to needs/emergencies and their submission (while in USD) was also the cheapest.
We’ve reached out to some of the submitters around other opportunities to contribute and will be releasing other POPs soon.
As this was the first POP some learnings we will take forward are:
- We believe the mechanism works well and plan to scale up POPs going forward. If anyone has feedback to provide on this process please share with me directly
- Time from submission-close to decision announcement is very tight by design, but we took extra time to make sure the protocol team were aligned with and supportive of our reasoning. Going forward we will keep this time tight but add a little more buffer to be considerate of other stakeholders timelines (i.e. protocol team)
- We showed leniency on submissions priced in USD rather than POKT. Going forward, when asking for submissions denominated in POKT we will make decisions only on submissions denominated in POKT