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Referendum#759
Discussion#2296

Open source alternative to centralized polkadot API gateways and node as a service

Kotal
a year ago
infrastructure
ux
decentralization

Hi everyone,

Kotal is an open source Blockchain node as a service and API gateway. Kotal is a powerful alternative to centralized API gateway like Infura in Ethereum ecosystem and OnFinality in Polkadot ecosystem. Kotal can be downloaded and installed on any cloud infrastructure provider like Amazon Web Service (aws), Google Cloud Platform (gcp), Microsoft Azure or Alibaba cloud with few commands.

Using Kotal, you can do all the following tasks with few clicks or API calls:

All these features are implemented and ready to be used. Read the docs for more details.

☑️ Deploy nodes across 10 Blockchain protocols (Polkadot & Kusama included)

☑️ Upgrade and Downgrade node client software

☑️ Load validator keys and start producing blocks

☑️ Manage storage and resources (CPU & Memory) allocated to the node

☑️ Manage Secrets (private keys, passwords, tokens, certificates)

☑️ Monitor real time resources utilization

☑️ Fetch real time logs

☑️ Connect to telemetry service

☑️ Create TLS-secure API endpoints

☑️ Manage Access control

☑️ View daily and weekly API endpoints usage

☑️ Manage application and endpoints domain

☑️ Manage domain TLS certificate provider (LetsEncrypt & Commercial certificates)

☑️ Create workspaces of nodes and resources

☑️ Invite members to workspaces and assign roles

kusama relay chain node

node logs

create new secret

create new workspace

Manage workspace members

Manage domain

If we received the grant, we will extend Kotal capabilities to cover Polkadot parachains:

☑️ Deploy system parachain nodes and collators

☑️ Polkadot asset hub

☑️ Polkadot bridge hub

☑️ Polkadot coretime ⏳

☑️ Kusama asset hub

☑️ Kusama bridge hub

☑️ Kusama coretime

☑️ Westend asset hub

☑️ Westend bridge hub

☑️ Westend coretime ⏳

☑️ Rococo asset hub

☑️ Rococo bridge hub

☑️ Rococo coretime

☑️ Deploy popular Polkadot and Kusama parachain nodes and collators

☑️ Moonbeam

☑️ Moonriver

☑️ Astar

☑️ Shiden

☑️ Manta Atlantic

☑️ Manta Pacific

☑️ Bifrost Polkadot

☑️ Bifrost Kusama

☑️ Acala

☑️ Karura

☑️ Nodle

☑️ Connect parachain to parent relay chain

☑️ Webhooks - Get API calls for Blockchain events

☑️ New block mined

☑️ New transaction

☑️ New XCM call

☑️ New Extrinsic

☑️ Data snapshots

☑️ Create periodic snapshots from fully-synced node

☑️ Start node instantly from snapshot

☑️ Notifications - get notifications of node events

☑️ Node is up and running

☑️ Node is down

☑️ New client version is available

☑️ Manage notification channels: web browser, Discord, Slack, Telegram, Whatsapp.

☑️ Validator session keys

☑️ Retrieve session keys

☑️ Generate session keys

☑️ Set session keys

Full Proposal is available here 👉 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xnE8K34QVu7b5sSoPuyNlMf6wBtMJUqpFgjsqML2IUA/edit

I am happy to hear your feedback and thoughts on this and answer all your questions.

Website https://kotal.co

Source Code https://github.com/kotalco

Documentation https://docs.kotal.co

Book a demo https://calendly.com/kotal/30min

-- Kotal Team ❤️

Comments (2)

a year ago

Hey @kotal team, Do you have someone which we can contact and ask some of our doubts?

a year ago

ChaosDAO would like to provide the following feedback from our community. We offer this feedback voluntarily in the spirit of OpenGov, in order to help teams improve their proposals so we can all build the network together.

  1. Some members discussed that the team is not well known and that this is a large spend for their first proposal.

  2. Some members were not clear on who would use the deliverables of this referendum.

  3. ChaosDAO was previously abstain on this referendum.

ChaosDAO votes as a collective based on the results of our anonymous internal voting procedures. Our members are not required to provide any feedback about why they have voted in a particular direction. Similarly, to respect our members' right to anonymity, we will not be sharing names of individuals who have chosen to voluntarily provide feedback.

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Comments (2)

a year ago

Hey @kotal team, Do you have someone which we can contact and ask some of our doubts?

a year ago

ChaosDAO would like to provide the following feedback from our community. We offer this feedback voluntarily in the spirit of OpenGov, in order to help teams improve their proposals so we can all build the network together.

  1. Some members discussed that the team is not well known and that this is a large spend for their first proposal.

  2. Some members were not clear on who would use the deliverables of this referendum.

  3. ChaosDAO was previously abstain on this referendum.

ChaosDAO votes as a collective based on the results of our anonymous internal voting procedures. Our members are not required to provide any feedback about why they have voted in a particular direction. Similarly, to respect our members' right to anonymity, we will not be sharing names of individuals who have chosen to voluntarily provide feedback.

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