## Polkadot Staking Dashboard: Maintenance and Growth: Feb - Jul 2024

**OpenGov funding for 6 month period: February 2024 - July 2024**

**Referendum Planned Start Date: 11th December 2023**

**Proposal Submitted By: Ross Bulat / [X](https://twitter.com/rossbulat) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbulat/)**

**Recipient Address: 1hYiMW8KSfUYChzCQSPGXvMSyKVqmyvMXqohjKr3oU5PCXF**

**For full agenda, milestones, and budget, please refer to the [full proposal document on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fn8HYi16_q-ScuRsKU-YPRaMV3IaPOHdaiPEyuIl9qM/edit?usp=sharing)**

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<h4>Brief</h4>

Hello community, Polkadot Staking Dashboard (deployed to https://staking.polkadot.network), is a project that has been managed by Ross Bulat at Parity Technologies for the last 18 months. It has received over 1.2 million page visits over the past 12 months, and users spend over 1 minute on average in the app. It is the premier staking app for Polkadot, offering a feature-rich interface covering both solo staking and nomination pools, with Polkadot, Kusama and Westend support.

**Intending to supercharge Polkadot consumer apps, this proposal aims to transition the Polkadot Staking Dashboard development and surrounding efforts into a separate entity, external from Parity Technologies, and continue the maintenance and growth of the staking dashboard and surrounding UX products.**

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<h4>Focuses for the 6-Month Period</h4>
<ol>
<li>Maintenance and new features: General maintenance to the product codebase and new features to be added in the time period.</li>
<li>Onboard dashboard components to Polkadot Cloud: Increasing the number of re-usable high impact components for Polkadot dApps.</li>
<li>Explore next-generation API support with Polkadot API, an upcoming alternative to Polkadot JS API.</li>
<li>Improved testing: Onboarding of unit and integration tests for critical app logic.</li>
<li>Project Management and Mentorship: General management tasks and mentorship for team and skill growth.</li>
</ol>

<h4>Full Proposal</h4>

Please refer to the [full proposal document on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fn8HYi16_q-ScuRsKU-YPRaMV3IaPOHdaiPEyuIl9qM/edit?usp=sharing).

## Polkadot Staking Dashboard: Maintenance and Growth: Feb - Jul 2024

**OpenGov funding for 6 month period: February 2024 - July 2024**

**Referendum Planned Start Date: 11th December 2023**

**Proposal Submitted By: Ross Bulat / [X](https://twitter.com/rossbulat) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbulat/)**

**Recipient Address: 1hYiMW8KSfUYChzCQSPGXvMSyKVqmyvMXqohjKr3oU5PCXF**

**For full agenda, milestones, and budget, please refer to the [full proposal document on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fn8HYi16_q-ScuRsKU-YPRaMV3IaPOHdaiPEyuIl9qM/edit?usp=sharing)**

<h4>Brief</h4>

Hello community, Polkadot Staking Dashboard (deployed to https://staking.polkadot.network), is a project that has been managed by Ross Bulat at Parity Technologies for the last 18 months. It has received over 1.2 million page visits over the past 12 months, and users spend over 1 minute on average in the app. It is the premier staking app for Polkadot, offering a feature-rich interface covering both solo staking and nomination pools, with Polkadot, Kusama and Westend support.

**Intending to supercharge Polkadot consumer apps, this proposal aims to transition the Polkadot Staking Dashboard development and surrounding efforts into a separate entity, external from Parity Technologies, and continue the maintenance and growth of the staking dashboard and surrounding UX products.**

<h4>Focuses for the 6-Month Period</h4>
<ol>
<li>Maintenance and new features: General maintenance to the product codebase and new features to be added in the time period.</li>
<li>Onboard dashboard components to Polkadot Cloud: Increasing the number of re-usable high impact components for Polkadot dApps.</li>
<li>Explore next-generation API support with Polkadot API, an upcoming alternative to Polkadot JS API.</li>
<li>Improved testing: Onboarding of unit and integration tests for critical app logic.</li>
<li>Project Management and Mentorship: General management tasks and mentorship for team and skill growth.</li>
</ol>

<h4>Full Proposal</h4>

Please refer to the [full proposal document on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fn8HYi16_q-ScuRsKU-YPRaMV3IaPOHdaiPEyuIl9qM/edit?usp=sharing).

Polkadot Staking Dashboard: Maintenance and Growth of Polkadot UX Proposal

## Polkadot Staking Dashboard: Maintenance and Growth: Feb - Jul 2024

**OpenGov funding for 6 month period: February 2024 - July 2024**

**Referendum Planned Start Date: 11th December 2023**

**Proposal Submitted By: Ross Bulat / [X](https://twitter.com/rossbulat) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbulat/)**

**Recipient Address: 1hYiMW8KSfUYChzCQSPGXvMSyKVqmyvMXqohjKr3oU5PCXF**

**For full agenda, milestones, and budget, please refer to the [full proposal document on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fn8HYi16_q-ScuRsKU-YPRaMV3IaPOHdaiPEyuIl9qM/edit?usp=sharing)**

<center><img src="https://i.ibb.co/Xb9nfGw/6643-rossbulat-1702294660606.png" /></center>

<h4>Brief</h4>

Hello community, Polkadot Staking Dashboard (deployed to https://staking.polkadot.network), is a project that has been managed by Ross Bulat at Parity Technologies for the last 18 months. 

The success of Polkadot Staking Dashboard has come about by **listening to the community’s calls of improving Polkadot UX**, **making Polkadot more accessible for non-technical users**, and making Polkadot more intuitive and fun to use. By doing this with the attractive use case of staking (and by extension, nomination pools), Polkadot users have a reliable, 24/7 operational dApp in https://staking.polkadot.network, in which continued UX enhancements are applied on every update.

Staking dashboard has received over 1.2 million page visits over the past 12 months, and users spend over 1 minute on average in the app. It is the premier staking app for Polkadot, offering a feature-rich interface covering both solo staking and nomination pools, with Polkadot, Kusama and Westend support.

**Intending to supercharge Polkadot consumer apps, this proposal aims to transition the Polkadot Staking Dashboard development and surrounding efforts into a separate entity, external from Parity Technologies, and continue the maintenance and growth of the staking dashboard and surrounding UX products.**

<br />
<h4>Focuses for the 6-Month Period</h4>
<ol>
<li>Maintenance and new features: General maintenance to the product codebase and new features to be added in the time period, making staking dashboard more useful, more streamlined, and even easier to use.</li>
<li>Onboard dashboard components to Polkadot Cloud: Increasing the number of re-usable high impact components for Polkadot dApps. We are aiming to dramatically speed up dApp development for Parachain teams by contributing these re-usable components.</li>
<li>Explore next-generation API support with Polkadot API, an upcoming alternative to Polkadot JS API. This will support the Polkadot API team by applying the API to a core use case in staking, and can act as example code for the wider Polkadot dApp community to learn and apply to their projects.</li>
<li>Improved testing: Onboarding of unit and integration tests for critical app logic. This will iron out more bugs and undesired edge cases, and increase app reliability.</li>
<li>Project management and mentorship: General management tasks and mentorship for team and skill growth, which aims to onboard new developers external from the Polkadot ecosystem.</li>
</ol>

<h4>Full Proposal</h4>

Please refer to the [full proposal document on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fn8HYi16_q-ScuRsKU-YPRaMV3IaPOHdaiPEyuIl9qM/edit?usp=sharing).

<h4>FAQ</h4>

<b>Will the staking dashboard remain at https://staking.polkadot.network?</b>

Yes, absolutely. We are committed to maintain a productive collaboration with the W3F and continue to develop Polkadot UX that is feasible for the main polkadot.network website.

<b>Will the staking dashboard repository stay at paritytech?</b>

Yes, there are no plans to move the staking dashboard repository away from the paritytech org. It will remain at [paritytech/polkadot-staking-dashboard](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-staking-dashboard). 

**Problem Statement and Audience:** 
- The Polkadot Staking Dashboard, a popular staking app for Polkadot, needs maintenance and growth to continue serving the Polkadot community effectively. The proposal is targeted towards the Polkadot community and stakeholders.

**Significance:** 
- The Polkadot Staking Dashboard has received over 1.2 million page visits in the past 12 months, making it a crucial tool for Polkadot stakers. Maintaining and improving the dashboard will enhance the user experience and support the growth of the Polkadot ecosystem.

**Proposed Solution:** 
- Transition the development and maintenance of the Polkadot Staking Dashboard into a separate entity external from Parity Technologies. This will allow for continued development, new feature additions, and integration with Polkadot Cloud and the upcoming Polkadot API.

**Expected Outcomes:** 
- General maintenance and new features added to the Polkadot Staking Dashboard.
- Onboarding of dashboard components to Polkadot Cloud.
- Exploration of next-generation API support with Polkadot API.
- Improved testing with unit and integration tests.
- Project management and mentorship for team and skill growth.

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