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Incentivised Posting / Shill / Stacktical integrates Chainlink to bring battle-tested Oracles to the DSLA Proto

« on: December 02, 2020, 09:17:48 PM »

DSLA x Chainlink

Dear community, Stacktical, the core #DevelopmentTeam of the DSLA Protocol, is proud to announce that we have integrated Chainlink to bring its widely used decentralized Price Feeds and staking analytics data to the DSLA Protocol mainnet and its flagship Ðapp, DSLA.network.

DSLA Protocol provides a financial hedge against staking infrastructure risks in proof-of-stake blockchain networks (e.g. staking efficiency drops, slashing), by combining staking service level agreements, liquidity pools and programmable bonus-malus insurance payouts.

Anyone can create a DSLA contract. Contract creators can claim rewards for pooling liquidity, if the performance of the monitored validator meets or exceeds pre-defined thresholds. Conversely, delegators can claim compensations for the bad performance of their validator.

Thanks to Chainlink, DSLA contracts can now retrieve reliable validator performance data from decentralized staking analytics indexers to trigger insurance payouts, and source high-quality price data to calculate liquidity and insurance deposits, and current policy valuations.

Chainlink is the industry-leading decentralized oracle network, securing over $4 Billion in value across DeFi by providing reliable, tamper-proof inputs and outputs for smart contracts on any blockchain. Given the importance of provisioning the most robust set of infrastructure for our users, we quickly identified Chainlink as essential oracle infrastructure to support our data-driven, fully automated decentralized service level agreements (DSLAs).

A Commitment to Resilient Infrastructures

While there are increasingly more solutions available on the market, in our testing, our Chainlink integration proved to be a superior fit for building DSLA Protocol without single points of failure in its infrastructure.

Infrastructure Resilience is a major design requirement for the DSLA Protocol mainnet, and one of the key reasons why we are building DSLAs on blockchain networks instead of resorting to centralized infrastructures like our competitors do.

In order to fulfill our mission as a Service Governance vehicle, it is critical to design a risk management protocol that is not prone to the same reliability risks that it mitigates.

Chainlink’s focus on Quality of Service offers strong guarantees that are aligned with such mission-critical design goals. Some of the features of particular importance that Chainlink brings to DSLA Protocol include:

Decentralized infrastructure at both the data source and oracle node level, leading to highly available and manipulation-resistant data and oracle services.

Flexibility to connect with any off-chain API, allowing DSLA smart contracts to retrieve Price Feeds and validator service performance data from premium data providers and any blockchain environment.

Access to security reviewed oracle nodes run by leading security and blockchain DevOps teams, ensuring reliable service with Sybil attack protection.

Proven mainnet solutions that secure billions of dollars in value for top blockchain-based applications, serving as definitive proof of the Chainlink Network’s security and reliability on mainnet.

How we use the Chainlink Oracle Network

DSLA Protocol relies on the Chainlink oracle network to perform 3 types of operations:

1: Display accurate, realtime price information in DSLA contracts so users can monitor their liquidity pools, hedges and policy valuations;

2: Convert users stakes and delegations into their DSLA and stablecoin equivalent to make liquidity and insurance deposits;

3: Connect DSLA contracts with decentralized indexers during a contract verification to trigger insurance payouts.

We are looking forward to further collaborating with the Chainlink team on achieving our 2021 goals using their battle-tested network and technology.

DSLA Protocol gives Proof-of-Stake validators the ability to turn their operational excellence into a competitive advantage and differentiator, while reducing delegators exposure to staking infrastructure risks

Said Wilhem Pujar, CEO at Stacktical.

“By integrating Chainlink, our users have strong guarantees that DSLA contracts are triggered by accurate data in a manner that is highly available and resistant to various forms of data manipulation. This allows DSLA protocol to operate as a fully automated service governance vehicle that can be relied on to insure high-value stakes and delegations, in a rapidly growing staking industry.”

We look forward to further work with the Chainlink team and using their battle-tested network and technology to achieve our 2021 goals.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the most widely used and secure way to power universal smart contracts. With Chainlink, developers can connect any blockchain with high-quality data sources from other blockchains as well as real-world data. Managed by a global, decentralized community of hundreds of thousands of people, Chainlink is introducing a fairer model for contracts. Its network currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across the decentralized finance (DeFi), insurance and gaming ecosystems, among others.

Chainlink is trusted by hundreds of organizations to deliver definitive truth via secure, reliable data feeds. To learn more, visit chain.link, subscribe to the Chainlink newsletter, and follow @chainlink on Twitter.

About DSLA Protocol

DSLA is a risk management protocol for developers, to build applications and operate infrastructures that are natively capable of financially protecting users against failures.

It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, get paid when the service performs as expected, or get compensated when the service does not meet expectations. To learn more, visit stacktical.com, our official blog and follow @stacktical on Twitter.

Original Article Source: Blog Stacktical

News related to Crypto / 2 Billion DSLA Token Burn Event On November 30, 11:11 CET

« on: November 22, 2020, 05:43:53 PM »

Disco Inferno

On November 30, 11:11 CET, Stacktical, the core #DevelopmentTeam of DSLA Protocol, will proceed with a 2,000,000,000.00 (2 Billion) DSLA token burn as part of its Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Mitigation Plan, and to further pave the way to the DSLA Protocol and DSLA.network Ðapp mainnet launches this year.

Here are 5 key information you absolutely need to know about the event:

1. Total Supply will decrease to 7B DSLA

DSLA tokens have been issued in the Billions, for the DSLA Protocol to empower use cases across a wide variety of industries beyond staking, and settle breached / honoured DSLA contracts using integer numbers.

After the event, the maximum number of DSLA tokens in existence will be 7,000,000,000.00 (7 Billion) DSLA, a 28.5% decrease from 9,000,000,000.00 (9 Billion).

2. Circulating Supply will cross 90% of Total Supply

Most of the DSLA tokens burned during the event are not circulating.

Not only the current number of DSLA tokens circulating on the market will not be affected by the DSLA token burn event, but this number will also increase and cross 90% of all DSLA tokens in existence.

More than ever, our tokenomics will send a strong signal that our community is ready to write the next chapter of DSLA Protocol and the DSLA family of products.

3. Current Individual Holdings will increase by 28.5%

By decreasing the DSLA Total Supply by 28.5%, each DSLA Holders will equally hold 28.5% more of the fully diluted Market Cap of DSLA. For example, an individual holding 30M DSLA will see her holding percentage increase from 0.33% to 0.42%.

A provable increase in community power.

4. Current Core Team Holdings will decrease by 70%

The increase in community power is the result of our core #DevelopmentTeam , and selected partners, agreeing to decrease their own DSLA holdings.

Here is a breakdown of our commitment :

(TBB = To Be Burned)

Company Reserve :

300,000,000.00 (300M) DSLA TBB

Core Team Wallet :

1,100,000,000.00 (1.1B) DSLA TBB

Team & Partners :

600,000,000.00 (600M) DSLA TBB

5. DSLA Total Supply will keep decreasing over time

DSLA Protocol has a built-in token burn mechanism. On the mainnet, DSLA contract bonus claims involving liquidity pools in DSLA tokens will trigger a DSLA utility burn, to incentivize DSLA stakeholders.

Where to buy DSLA

We recommend 1inch, as the premier way to buy DSLA tokens at the best possible price. Here is the full list of decentralized exchanges and trading services where you can buy DSLA:

Uniswap, Mooniswap, Balancer, 1nch, IDEX,

About DSLA Protocol

DSLA is a risk management protocol for developers, to build applications and operate infrastructures that are natively capable of financially protecting users against failures.

It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, get paid when the service performs as expected, or get compensated when the service does not meet expectations.

⚡️ https://stacktical.com

Original Article Source: Blog Stacktical

Incentivised Posting / Shill / Stacktical receives web3 foundation grant to predict the scalability of Polkadot

« on: November 21, 2020, 06:18:29 PM »

Will it scale ?

Polkadot is a blockchain network that provides shared security and secure messaging to Parachains, plug-and-play specialized blockchain, with parallelizable computations. Its architecture is a departure from generalized programmable blockchain that empower a wide variety of use cases at the expense of scalability.

Fundamental scalability bottlenecks remain in Polkadot, though.

The fact that there will be a finite number of Parachains on the network upon launch is proof that limitations exist: While the capacity boost in using parallel Parachain computation is substantial, ensuring that they remain up, synced, and secure does cost resources.

As a Polkadot researcher, part of your job is to figure out these resource requirements and drive architectural decisions (e.g. allocating a specific number Parachain slots) through repeated performance benchmarks, in various protocol configuration and transactional scenarios.

But rather than spending weeks running thousands of performance benchmarks, and manually interpret their result, what if you could let your machine could figure out the scalability of your system itself using mathematical models, and very few performance measurements?

That is exactly what we set out to do with willitscale-polkadot.

willitscale-polkadot

Stacktical was originally a scalability prediction platform for DevOps professionals.

Our R&D efforts in the past three years enabled us to apply mathematical and statistical models to application and network benchmarks, and surface what humans can hardly (or simply can’t) guess from analyzing performance benchmarks.

By establishing that a given system was experiencing 24% contention and 8% coherency overheads, we were empowering DevOps teams with tangible scalability numbers they could communicate and improve on.

When we shifted the company’s focus to enabling anyone to roll out peer-to-peer, electronic SLA contracts on the blockchain, we naturally started thinking about how we could leverage predictive analytics with blockchain networks.

Stumbling upon this article has been instrumental in confirming that similar overheads had been observed by Polkadot researchers. As the Parachain count increase, it appears the network throughput should theoretically reach a natural upper bound (diminishing returns from contention overhead) before declining (negative return from incoherency).

The scalability chart of publicly available benchmarks of a private Ethereum network. For illustration purpose only.

What’s next ?

The second milestone on our roadmap is to add predictive capabilities to the polkadot-deployer :

Throughput measurement capability based on balance transfers
Latency measurement capability based on balance transfers
A new benchmark option to run predictive analysis on measurements

These changes will enable willitscale-polkadot users to effortlessly collect Substrate / Polkadot benchmark results to feed the predictive engine.

We would like to thank the web3 foundation for supporting our development efforts of the first blockchain scalability prediction platform for Polkadot network researchers.

We’re hoping that willitscale-polkadot will pave the way to faster, more quality development of decentralized products based on Polkadot, Substrate and more.

Check out the project on Github and join the effort.

Original Article source: Blog Stacktical

Incentivised Posting / Shill / Hardening DSLA against CEX Programmatic Sell-Offs

« on: November 15, 2020, 10:55:41 PM »

Not your Private Keys, Not your DSLA Tokens

The purpose of this Suspicion Activity Report (SAR) is to disclose the existence of transactions that do not make sense to our team, as well as introduce an emergency plan to mitigate their impact on the DSLA Token, and the rest of the DSLA family of products.

November 13, 2020

It was brought to our attention that large amounts of DSLA tokens originating from the ProBit liquidity pool have been sold on Uniswap, in highly automated ways.

November 14, 2020

Per our initial investigation, it is indeed unlikely that a human trader would withdraw DSLA tokens from ProBit, then swap DSLA tokens for USDT on Uniswap, in such a short amount of time (2 minutes), and on repeated, systematic occasions.

Intermediate conclusion

Burried in otherwise valid transactions, the 0xc9cae208c7a00b000bbb4bd0645dd170623e9526 wallet involved in these swaps is either exerting price manipulation, or turning a profit through aggressive arbitrage.

We have reached to the ProBit team for clarification, as we lack the elements to clearly establish responsibilities at this stage.

Mitigation Plan

There is no reliable model for quantifying the impact of programmatic sell-offs on the price of assets and their market capitalization.

But we can still harden DSLA against suppression, manipulation, and trading abuse, by:

A) Recapturing lost value by reducing DSLA’s total supply;
B) Parting ways with our centralized cryptocurrency exchanges;
C) Adding liquidity and creating new LP incentives across all DEX pools.

A) 2B+ DSLA Token Burn

On November 30, 2020, we will proceed with a 2,000,000,000.00 DSLA token burn using our personal, team, company and participating partners wallets. All other DSLA holders will benefit from the increase in scarcity / decreate in total supply of DSLA.

In that same spirit, we will also inaugurate a new section on the DSLA Protocol official website, dedicated to:

The tracking of your DSLA holdings;
The updated DSLA token distribution and the detailed purpose of company wallets;
The monitoring of DSLA transactions.

These information also aim at increasing the overall auditability of the project, in preparation for our mainnet launch.

B) Trusted Trading Platforms

As we are figuring out the ins and outs of the sell-off with the ProBit team, we strongly advise you do not deposit any funds to the exchange, and consider withdrawing your funds as soon as possible.

C) DEX Liquidity

We had already hinted at new iterations to the DSLA Community Faucet in the past. This incident further puts that effort in perspective. We will make it one of our priorities from now on.

What’s next?

Exchange answers
Token burn details

Thanks for the unwavering support, champions.

About DSLA Protocol

DSLA is a risk management protocol for developers, to build applications and operate infrastructures that are natively capable of financially protecting users against failures.

It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, get paid when the service performs as expected, or get compensated when the service does not meet expectations.

⚡️ https://stacktical.com

Original Article Source: Blog Stacktical

Incentivised Posting / Shill / The DSLA incentivized beta Phase 5 is Here

« on: November 14, 2020, 01:47:29 PM »

Codename AMP

Dear DSLA champions, on November 11 12:00am (UTC), we have entered Phase V of the DSLA incentivized beta, Codename AMP.

All DSLA Contracts started a new weekly monitoring cycle.
Phase IV staking compensations / rewards can be proven.
Phase IV staking compensations / rewards will be claimable soon.

Phase Timestamps:

⏰ 1605052800 (start)
⏰ 1605657600 (end)

Access the Ðapp at DSLA.network to get started now!

Phase IV Report

Thank you for your participating in the Phase IV of the DSLA incentivized beta!

DSLA core developers are humbled by the response of the community :

More than 10M bDSLA tokens staked
More than 15 DSLA contracts created

Beta Guide

Please refer to the official DSLA Incentivized Beta Guide to learn more about bDSLA Phase II Staking and Claiming features, and for continuous information about Phase I-V.

Feature Spotlight
#1 New Networks

Validators, Vouchers and Delegators will be able to reduce their exposure to the staking risks of more networks such as Polkadot.

#2 New Validators

Staking Rewards’ Top 25 Validators will be available in the DSLA Contract creation workflow.

About DSLA Protocol

Incentivised Posting / Shill / The DSLA incentivized beta Phase 4 is Here

« on: November 07, 2020, 07:59:43 PM »

Codename SAX

Dear DSLA champions, on November 4 12:00am (UTC), we have entered Phase IV of the DSLA incentivized beta, Codename SAX.

All DSLA Contracts started a new weekly monitoring cycle.
Phase III staking compensations / rewards can be proven.
Phase III staking compensations / rewards will be claimable soon.

Phase Timestamps:
⏰ 1604448000 (start)
⏰ 1605052800 (end)

Access the Ðapp at DSLA.network to get started now

Phase III Report

Thank you for your participating in the Phase III of the DSLA incentivized beta!

DSLA core developers are humbled by the response of the community

More than 15 bDSLA token transfers
More than 15M bDSLA tokens staked
More than 10 DSLA contracts created

Few transfers, high value locked.

Time to unleash the Kraken!

Beta Guide

Please refer to the official DSLA Incentivized Beta Guide to learn more about bDSLA Phase II Staking and Claiming features, and for continuous information about Phase I-V.

Feature Spotlight
#1 DSLA Contract Widgets

Validators and Vouchers need creative and effective ways to onboard Delegators to their DSLA Contracts. DSLA Contract widgets are the first step towards enabling just that.

About DSLA Protocol

Incentivised Posting / Shill / The DSLA incentivized beta phase 3 is Here

« on: November 01, 2020, 04:10:07 PM »

Codename DRUMS

Dear DSLA champions, on October 27 12:00am (UTC), we have entered Phase III of the DSLA incentivized beta, Codename DRUMS.

All DSLA Contracts started a new weekly monitoring cycle.
Phase II staking compensations / rewards can be proven.
Phase II staking compensations / rewards will be claimable soon.

Phase Timestamps:

⏰ 1603843200 (start)
⏰ 1604448000 (end)

Access the Ðapp at DSLA.network to get started now!

Phase II Report

Thank you for your participating in the Phase II of the DSLA incentivized beta!

DSLA core developers are humbled by the response of the community:

More than 40 bDSLA token transfers
More than 10M bDSLA tokens staked
More than 10 DSLA contracts created

With nearly 50% of the bDSLA token supply already locked in DSLA Contracts, the decrease in staking activity was bound to happen.

Great insights, Champions!

Phase III will vastly improve the liquidity and velocity of bDSLA tokens, we’re looking forward to analysis the results.

Beta Guide

Please refer to the official DSLA Incentivized Beta Guide to learn more about bDSLA Phase II Staking and Claiming features, and for continuous information about Phase I-V.

Feature Spotlight
#1 Ability to claim bDSLA compensations / rewards

35+ DSLA Contracts have been created during the Phase I and II of the DSLA incentivized beta. But bDSLA staking rewards are yet to be distributed to Delegators, Validators and their Vouchers.

Based on the measured Harmony (ONE) Staking Efficiency of our partners, the P-OPS and Chainode Tech validators, bDSLA rewards and compensations will become self-claimable by DSLA Contract stakeholders and the end of Phase III:

A Delegator will be able to claim 99.7% of her initial stake if her agreement is breached (0.3% claiming fees);
A Validator will be able to claim 19.94% of their Delegators stake if her agreement is honoured (0.3% claiming fees);
A Voucher will be able to claim 15.95% of Delegators stake if her agreement is honoured (0.3% claiming fees + 20% commission to the Validator she vouches for).

#2 Instant token burn of claiming fees

For every claim at the end of a Phase, the DSLA Protocol will charge and burn 0.3% claiming fee to Delegators, Validators and Vouchers. All tokens burned by the DSLA Protocol during DSLA claims are removed from circulation forever.

About DSLA Protocol

Incentivised Posting / Shill / Harmony (ONE) Validator Spotlight: Chainode Tech

« on: October 28, 2020, 10:16:28 PM »

Welcome to the DSLA Beta, Chainode Tech!

During the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test, Harmony (ONE) Validators will earn rewards for protecting the staking deposits of their Delegators with DSLA contracts.

Read the full announcement here.

Meet Chainode Tech

Dear DSLA Champions, we are proud to announce that Chainode Tech will also participate in the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test, as a Harmony (ONE) Validator !

Chainode Tech will roll out a ONE Staking Efficiency DSLA contract, and stake at least 1M bDSLA tokens to the contract pool.

Active Delegators will be able to cover up to 100% of Chainode Tech Staking Efficiency drops.

DSLA core developers thank Chainode Tech for enabling us to pursue our journey to the mainnet, and are looking forward to working together on improving the delegation experience of their community!

Get Involved, Earn Rewards!

The purpose of the DSLA incentivized beta is to validate the functional, performance, reliability and security assumptions of DSLA Protocol and DSLA.network, its flagship Ðapp.

There are many ways to get involved, and earn rewards during the beta.

As a Delegator

First and foremost, beta participants must fill in the Beta Phase 0 Application Form.

Make sure you share your ETH and ONE wallet addresses, as these will be used to allocate your DSLA rewards, after the DSLA Protocol mainnet launches later this year.

After that, it’s a 3 step process:

Stake your ONE tokens with Chainode Tech;
Be an Active Delegator during the DSLA beta;
Hedge risks by staking bDSLA tokens to a ONE Staking Efficiency DSLA Contract.

As a Delegator, an active DSLA Contract entitles you to a bDSLA token compensation if Chainode Tech doesn’t meet your pre-agreed Staking Efficiency thresholds.

As a Voucher

Create a DSLA contract to protect the deposits of Chainode Tech’s Active Delegators.

As a Voucher, an active DSLA Contract entitles you to a bDSLA token reward if Chainode Tech meets or exceeds the defined Staking Efficiency thresholds.

Official Beta Guide

For more information about the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test, go to the official guide at https://readme.stacktical.com/dsla-incentivized-beta

About Chainode Tech

Founded in early 2019, Chainode Tech is a young, extremely motivated and experienced team based in Zug, Switzerland, that is focused on providing staking and validator services on cutting edge Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) protocols. Driven by the motivation of bringing decentralization in the real world and with the experience of getting to know the blockchain space since 2014, the team decided that it was time to get actively involved in the space as Chainode Tech and to vote with their knowledge and services projects that they believe in and see as technically pertinent of growing the decentralized space.

https://chainode.tech/

About Harmony Protocol (ONE)

Harmony is a fast and open blockchain for decentralized applications. Through secure and random state sharding, the Harmony Mainnet supports thousands of nodes that produce blocks in a few seconds with instant finality. The protocol’s Effective Proof-of-Stake (EPoS) staking mechanism reduces centralization while supporting stake delegation, reward compounding and double-sign slashing.

https://harmony.one

About DSLA Protocol

Incentivised Posting / Shill / The DSLA incentivized beta Phase 2 is Here

« on: October 23, 2020, 10:47:48 PM »

Codename PIANO

Dear DSLA champions, on October 21 12:00am (UTC), we have entered Phase II of the DSLA incentivized beta, Codename PIANO.

All DSLA Contracts started a new weekly monitoring cycle.
Phase I staking compensations / rewards can be proven.
Phase I staking compensations / rewards will be claimable soon.

Phase Timestamps:

⏰ 1603238400 (start)
⏰ 1603843200 (end)

Access the Ðapp at DSLA.network to get started now!

Phase I Report

Thank you for your participating in the Phase I of the DSLA incentivized beta!

DSLA core developers are humbled by the response of the community :

More than 100 bDSLA token transfers
More than 60M bDSLA tokens staked
More than 25 DSLA contracts created

Most excellent, Champions!

Let’s keep the fire burning during Phase II and beyond.

Beta Guide

Please refer to the official DSLA Incentivized Beta Guide to learn more about bDSLA Phase II Staking and Claiming features, and for continuous information about Phase I-V.

Feature Spotlight

There are many changes expected with the DSLA.network Ðapp during Phase II.

#1 Ability to withdraw bDSLA stakes

Delegators, Validators and their Vouchers will be able to withdraw the bDSLA tokens they staked to DSLA Contracts, minus the rewards and compensations they might have paid at the end of Phase I.

#2 Ability to claim bDSLA compensations / rewards

25+ DSLA Contracts have been created during the Phase I of the DSLA incentivized beta, and verified at the start of Phase II. But bDSLA staking rewards are yet to be distributed to Delegators, Validators and their Vouchers.

Based on the measured Harmony (ONE) Staking Efficiency of our partner, the P-OPS Validator, bDSLA rewards and compensations will become self-claimable by DSLA Contract stakeholders during Phase II:

A Delegator will be able to claim 99.7% of her initial stake if her agreement is breached (0.3% claiming fees);
A Validator will be able to claim 19.94% of their Delegators stake if her agreement is honoured (0.3% claiming fees);
A Voucher will be able to claim 15.95% of Delegators stake if her agreement is honoured (0.3% claiming fees + 20% commission to the Validator she vouches for).

#3 Instant token burn of claiming fees

For every claim at the end of a Phase, the DSLA Protocol will charge and burn 0.3% claiming fee to Delegators, Validators and Vouchers. All tokens burned by the DSLA Protocol during DSLA claims are removed from circulation forever.

#4 Better tracking of stakes

During Phase I it was not easy to keep track of the agreements you staked to.

The MY AGREEMENTS section only displays created DSLA Contracts, which somehow helped Validators keep track of the liquidity they added to their own contracts. But as a a Delegator, you had no direct access to your active hedges.

Accordingly, we will:

Open up the HEDGE section to keep track of active hedges against staking risks as a Delegator;
Open up the POOL section to keep track of active compensation pool deposits;
Display both active hedges and active compensation pool deposits in the MY AGREEMENTS section.

About DSLA Protocol

Incentivised Posting / Shill / Harmony (ONE) Validator Spotlight: P-OPS

« on: October 14, 2020, 10:10:02 PM »

Welcome to the DSLA Beta, P-OPS!

During the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test, Harmony (ONE) Validators will earn rewards for protecting the staking deposits of their Delegators with DSLA contracts.

Read the full announcement here.

Meet P-OPS ~ Pangaea Operations

Dear DSLA Champions, we are proud to announce that P-OPS will participate in the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test, as a Harmony (ONE) Validator !

P-OPS will roll out a ONE Staking Efficiency DSLA contract, and stake at least 1M bDSLA tokens to the contract pool.

Active Delegators will be able to cover up to 100% of P-OPS Staking Efficiency drops.

DSLA core developers thank P-OPS for enabling us to pursue our journey to the mainnet, and are looking forward to working together on improving the delegation experience of their community!

Get Involved, Earn Rewards!

The purpose of the DSLA incentivized beta is to validate the functional, performance, reliability and security assumptions of DSLA Protocol and DSLA.network, its flagship Ðapp.

There are many ways to get involved, and earn rewards during the beta.

As a Delegator

First and foremost, beta participants must fill in the Beta Phase 0 Application Form.

Make sure you share your ETH and ONE wallet addresses, as these will be used to allocate your DSLA rewards, after the DSLA Protocol mainnet launches later this year.

After that, it’s a 3 step process:

=> Stake your ONE tokens with P-OPS;
=> Be an Active Delegator during the DSLA beta;
=> Hedge risks by staking bDSLA tokens to a ONE Staking Efficiency DSLA Contract.

As a Delegator, an active DSLA Contract entitles you to a bDSLA token compensation if P-OPS doesn’t meet your pre-agreed Staking Efficiency thresholds.

As a Voucher

Create a DSLA contract to protect the deposits of P-OPS’s Active Delegators.

As a Voucher, an active DSLA Contract entitles you to a bDSLA token reward if P-OPS meets or exceeds the defined Staking Efficiency thresholds.

Official Beta Guide

For more information about the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test, go to the official guide at https://readme.stacktical.com/dsla-incentivized-beta

About P-OPS

We are P-OPS ~ Pangaea Operations. A group of 8 highly qualified IT/Technology enthusiasts, located across the globe, who have tested and debugged Harmony Blockchain for over a year, and mentored numerous participants during Pangaea Phase 1/2/3. Harmony community relies on us to troubleshoot their nodes.

https://pops.one

About Harmony Protocol (ONE)

Harmony is a fast and open blockchain for decentralized applications. Through secure and random state sharding, the Harmony Mainnet supports thousands of nodes that produce blocks in a few seconds with instant finality. The protocol’s Effective Proof-of-Stake (EPoS) staking mechanism reduces centralization while supporting stake delegation, reward compounding and double-sign slashing.

https://harmony.one

About DSLA Protocol

DSLA Protocol is a decentralized alternative to service level agreements, contracts that reduce your exposure to delays and disruptions, when using a service.

It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, earn rewards when the service performs as expected, and claim financial compensation when the service doesn’t meet expectations.

For more information about DSLA Protocol and the DSLA family of products, please go to https://stacktical.com.

Incentivised Posting / Shill / Could this blockchain protocol reduce exposure to PoS slashing risks?

« on: October 13, 2020, 08:28:57 PM »

A new blockchain protocol plans to allow anyone to hedge against the risk of service delays and disruption across multiple industries, including proof-of-stake networks.

A new blockchain protocol helps delegators in proof-of-stake protocols to mitigate slashing risks — their exposure to financial penalties whenever a validator fails to meet a network’s reliability requirements.

The DSLA Protocol is a decentralized marketplace for peer-to-peer service level agreements, otherwise known as SLAs for short. This allows anyone to hedge against the risk of service delays and disruptions, while cutting out legal teams, support teams and insurance companies in the process.

Executives behind the project estimate that 80% of businesses currently use SLA contracts to protect themselves against the failures of third-party service providers. However, they argue that SLAs are often slow to deploy, and given the fact that they may only be updated once or twice a year, they often don’t evolve in line with current circumstances.

Through this approach, decentralized SLAs can be rolled out on the blockchain within five minutes, and customers can adjust the size of the contract based on their attitude to risk. Providers also have more of an incentive to create contracts for their customers, as they are rewarded for operational excellence, the team says. As the protocol’s website explains: “It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, earn rewards when the service performs as expected, and claim financial compensation when the service doesn’t meet expectations.”

The tokenomics

This protocol is powered by ERC-20 compliant DSLA tokens, which are staked and transferred between service providers, the people who vouch for them and service customers. The flow of these digital assets depends on whether service levels have been good or bad, and they also serve as an access key to the DSLA network’s decentralized app.

Development on the science behind this infrastructure began back in February 2018. Now, the team is making the final preparations for a milestone that has been long in the making: the launch of its mainnet in November.

Stacktical, the parent company behind DSLA, says that the use cases for this protocol could extend far beyond staking. It wants to help businesses deliver a better quality of service to customers and has set its sights on the aviation industry where the cost of flight delays runs into many tens of billions of dollars a year.

Co-founder and CEO Wilhem Pujar believes DSLA could end up giving customers a far better deal than what they get now, and in turn, this would result in an improved and stress-free, door-to-door passenger experience in the future. He has also urged businesses to focus more on customer retention than customer acquisition, pointing to research that suggests a 5% increase in retention can boost profits by a staggering 100%.

The DSLA protocol is also set to benefit other sectors, including firms involved in web hosting and cloud computing, climate change and environmental governance, and fintech API providers. Developers are going to be invited to build DApps on this protocol to ensure that bespoke solutions can match a company’s exacting needs.

Partnerships and progress

Back in February, Stacktical announced that it had received a grant from the Web3 Foundation so the company can help predict the scalability of the Polkadot blockchain. It has also secured a plethora of partnerships, including with the Harmony and Band protocols.

Harmony is the first proof-of-stake blockchain network that is going to officially support the DLSA protocol during an incentivized beta that’s taking place on Sept. 30, 2020. The goal of this initiative is to validate the functional, performance, reliability and security assumptions of the DSLA Network decentralized application.

Meanwhile, the Band Protocol’s data oracle is going to empower the enforcement of DSLA smart contracts, connecting its protocol to the staking analytics of its decentralized performance monitoring data indexer. According to the team, BAND delegators will also be able to hedge against bad yields, slashing and late staking rewards payouts.

Original article source: Cointelegraph

Cryptocurrency Trading / DSLA is now aggregated from all DSLA DEX pools on 1inch

« on: October 11, 2020, 09:36:05 PM »

Now available on 1inch

We are pleased to inform the community that, following the opening of the Uniswap, Mooniswap and Balancer decentralized exchange (DEX) pools, the DSLA utility token has been listed on 1inch, the world’s leading DEX aggregator.

The 1inch.exchange platform has routed over $1B in cumulative volume, and captured more than 95% of the DEX aggregation market.

Trade now

Go to 1inch.exchange to acquire DSLA on the best possible term, by combining the power of all the decentralized exchange listing DSLA.

Better Prices

1inch aggregates liquidity from all DSLA DEX pools to help you execute trades at better prices.

Larger Orders

1inch can spread your order across all DSLA DEX pools to help you execute larger orders.

Better Performance

Trading on 1inch reduces performance discrepancies between DSLA DEX pools.

And if you like decentralized exchanges, how about contributing to the DSLA Community Faucet? It is a smart cryptocurrency distribution service, that rewards users in DSLA tokens in exchange for providing liquidity to the official DSLA-ETH pair on Uniswap.

The more DSLA liquidity you provide, and for longer, the greater share of the faucet pool you receive.

Read more

About the DSLA Protocol

DSLA Protocol is a decentralized alternative to SLA contracts.

It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, earn rewards when the service performs as expected, and claim financial compensation when the service doesn’t meet expectations.

DSLA Protocol and the DSLA.network Ðapp, will debut an incentivized beta in Q4 2020, focusing on providing a hedge against staking risks, and unfulfilled reliability promises.

For more information about DSLA Protocol, please go to https://stacktical.com

Incentivised Posting / Shill / DSLA will also back the Polkadot DOT staking experience at launch

« on: October 04, 2020, 09:06:45 PM »

Earn rewards for protecting DOT staking deposits against staking risks

Dear DSLA Champions, our team is proud to announce that we are adding support for the Polkadot network to the DSLA Protocol! Polkadot relies on a Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS) system, where nominators back validators with their own stake as a show of faith in the good behavior of the validator.

During the upcoming DSLA Incentivized Beta, DSLA contracts will provide DOT token nominators with a decentralized hedge against slashing, staking efficiency drops and late reward payouts, while enabling anyone to earn rewards for protecting DOT staking deposits against staking risks.

This will allow DSLA to enable Polkadot validators to become provably trustworthy validators, even if they lack the track record and brand recognition to convince nominators to back them.

Note that, although we share common goals with the Polkadot team, we are not official Polkadot partners. Polkadot hasn’t officially endorsed the DSLA incentivized beta.

That being said, adding DOT staking insurance to the DSLA protocol is in line with the scope of our Polkadot W3F grant, and the work initiated on Parachain scalability and service level management since February 2020.

You can expect more news related to the Polkadot ecosystem in the coming weeks, as we’re finishing up developments and solidify the final scope of the DSLA architecture.

About the DSLA Incentivized Beta Test

On September 30th 2020, DSLA core developers are organizing an incentivized beta to validate the functional, performance, reliability and security assumptions of the DSLA.network decentralized application that integrates DSLA Protocol, before tentatively launching both products on the mainnet on November 30th 2020. Beta participants will be rewarded using beta bDSLA tokens that they will be converted to real, mainnet DSLA tokens upon launch.

To follow the news about the DSLA Incentivized Beta, feel free to subscribe to the project’s dedicated Product Hunt page, and join the ongoing conversation on Telegram.

The DSLA core #DevelopmentTeam will share more information about the beta roadmap very soon.

About our Polkadot W3F Grant

Polkadot is a blockchain network that provides shared security and secure messaging to Parachains, plug-and-play specialized blockchain, with parallelizable computations. Its architecture is a departure from generalized programmable blockchain that empower a wide variety of use cases at the expense of scalability.

Fundamental scalability bottlenecks remain in Polkadot, though.

The fact that there will be a finite number of Parachains on the network upon launch is proof that limitations exist: While the capacity boost in using parallel Parachain computation is substantial, ensuring that they remain up, synced, and secure does cost resources.

As a Polkadot researcher, part of your job is to figure out these resource requirements and drive architectural decisions (e.g. allocating a specific number Parachain slots) through repeated performance benchmarks, in various protocol configuration and transactional scenarios.

But rather than spending weeks running thousands of performance benchmarks, and manually interpret their result, what if you could let your machine could figure out the scalability of your system itself using mathematical models, and very few performance measurements?

That is exactly what we set out to do with willitscale-polkadot.

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Incentivised Posting / Shill / Phase 0 is Here the DSLA incentivized beta test

« on: October 02, 2020, 08:05:22 PM »

Partner Onboarding

Dear DSLA champions, after weeks of preparation and anticipation, the DSLA core team is proud to announce that we are finally getting started with the onboarding of partnering validators and their delegators to the DSLA incentivized beta test!

For the next 7 days, and until October 6 at 00:00 CET, we will closely assist ONE, BAND and DOT users with an active staking or delegation deposit, in acquiring mainnet DSLA tokens, and claim testnet bDSLA tokens to partake in the beta challenges during Phase I and beyond.

Community Onboarding

Along with the onboarding of our partners, we will enable DSLA champions to autonomously claim their testnet bDSLA tokens on October 6, directly from the stacktical.com website.

Wilhem will allocate time to answer your questions about Phase 0 on the project’s official Telegram group, so make sure you join the conversation and feel free to ask, while making a conscious effort to stay on topic.

Universal Onboarding Guide

The official DSLA Incentivized Beta Guide will be updated with universal onboarding instructions, once the bDSLA claiming feature is available to the general public on the stacktical.com website, on October 6.

Feature Spotlight
#1 Ability to claim bDSLA tokens

The key feature of Phase 0 is the ability for a mainnet DSLA tokens holder to claim testnet bDSLA tokens in one click, on a 1:1 basis. Buy DSLA on 1inch.exchange to increase the size of your bDSLA tokens claim on October 6, and maximize your rewards during Phases I, II and III of the DSLA incentivized beta test.

About DSLA Protocol

DSLA Protocol is a decentralized alternative to service level agreements, contracts that reduce your exposure to delays and disruptions, when using a service.

It enables anyone to vouch for the reliability of a service, earn rewards when the service performs as expected, and claim financial compensation when the service doesn’t meet expectations.

For more information about DSLA Protocol and the DSLA family of products, please go to https://stacktical.com.

Cryptocurrency Trading / 0-fee DSLA trading with IDEX 2.0

« on: September 19, 2020, 05:11:39 PM »

DSLA/ETH debuts trading on IDEX

Trade DSLA/ETH now

Dear community and valued customers, we inform you that the DSLA token has debuted trading under the DSLA/ETH pair, on the IDEX decentralized cryptocurrency exchange.

Acquiring DSLA tokens will enable you to provision your Decentralized Service Level Agreements, and use the staking, rewarding, and compensation features of the DSLA Protocol and the DSLA Network Ðapp.

IDEX is arguably one of the most important decentralized exchange created, and has been leading the industry for years. They recently announced a $2.5 million seed investment, to launch IDEX 2.0, their novel high-performance DEX.

0-fee DSLA trading with IDEX 2.0

The DSLA token still largely relies on decentralized exchanges like Uniswap, Mooniswap and Balancer to be adopted. Although Ethereum developers are actively working on ETH 2.0, and solutions to the high fees problem, the recent spike in fees when interacting with DSLA DEX pools did impact our project’s ability to grow.

One of the key reasons why we wanted to parter with IDEX, is the upcoming IDEX 2.0 version of their exchange. IDEX 2.0 is powered by an innovative Layer-2 scaling solution that will enable a performance on par with centralized exchanges, and 0-fee for trading DSLA.

About the DSLA Protocol