Dear community,

This referendum seeks to adjust the invulnerable collator set of Polkadot People.

The main objective is to make the invulnerable set better aligned with the risk profile and importance of the respective System Chain, while also keeping the assignment process efficient and consistent across the programme.

The curators also considered the historical assignment of slots across the System Chains. Where possible, the revised assignments favour operators with longer tenure and a demonstrated record of providing reliable service. At the same time, the changes are intended to help even the field for operators who have shown capability and interest in supporting additional System Chains.

Finally, this referendum adjusts the number of permissionless collator slots to ensure that permissionless collators do not outweigh the intended invulnerable set.

To support this, the curators applied a tiering model where each System Chain is categorised from Tier 1 to Tier 3, based on its perceived importance and risk profile. Under this model, Polkadot People is categorised as a Tier-1 chain, with 8 funded community invulnerable collators.

For Polkadot People, the proposed configuration is:

• Tier: Tier 1
• Community-funded invulnerable collators: 8
• Permissionless collator slots: 4

This referendum performs the following changes.

Collators being added

• BESTVALIDATOR / Zurich — 14T3MFxNa4d7pyjRAdKU6tLC8sfde1HBLGNMHKCMFqjWRrrM
• YellowFin / Bluefin Tuna — 13TUNfEBCi6xw5ZQgxYAwbCsALSuDfqDWMfbHigZNgncuV6v
• Mile — 13xAUHVDvG1v9LLHYtMm7X7FvKNVxoj47oWV431XQ9kjXN38
• openbitlab — 12iho9gjSMvF9smJjnihmn9j9Qqr3S1LFD97e8Lkcw4R6Yeb
• Staker Space — 13gWC4Ni4BE3NGEfHVYuvF568K9hnGnD9PswiVdvrqjXNipf
• LuckyFriday — 15MV2nX6BEoiBz8Ua2xNta19sVBKT7kiw2MEHdu2Jd9a4VaC

Collators being removed

• Previous invulnerable — 1bLdd7zvNvjGpseQ8BGbGJekCppb1X5Gb228c9MQfHfmmBr
• Previous invulnerable — 14sD2iYm1HsFPoHaT2GJNUMD2KJzvJNfVe9PBrG1KGyDBeHn
• Previous invulnerable — 16FyxKfMF3LnX4CmDsv1PUDPNwqDYiR7rKurwuJxSGgnTsH2

Collators retained

The following community invulnerables are already in place and remain part of the final People set:

• MathCrypto — 112FKz5UNxjXqe3Wowe73a8FHnR5B4R9qi2pbMaXJczGNJsx
• CoinStudio — 14EQvBv9h8xGbh2R3ustnkfkF514E7wpmHtg27gDaTLM2str

Final community invulnerable set

• BESTVALIDATOR / Zurich — 14T3MFxNa4d7pyjRAdKU6tLC8sfde1HBLGNMHKCMFqjWRrrM
• CoinStudio — 14EQvBv9h8xGbh2R3ustnkfkF514E7wpmHtg27gDaTLM2str
• YellowFin / Bluefin Tuna — 13TUNfEBCi6xw5ZQgxYAwbCsALSuDfqDWMfbHigZNgncuV6v
• MathCrypto — 112FKz5UNxjXqe3Wowe73a8FHnR5B4R9qi2pbMaXJczGNJsx
• Mile — 13xAUHVDvG1v9LLHYtMm7X7FvKNVxoj47oWV431XQ9kjXN38
• openbitlab — 12iho9gjSMvF9smJjnihmn9j9Qqr3S1LFD97e8Lkcw4R6Yeb
• Staker Space — 13gWC4Ni4BE3NGEfHVYuvF568K9hnGnD9PswiVdvrqjXNipf
• LuckyFriday — 15MV2nX6BEoiBz8Ua2xNta19sVBKT7kiw2MEHdu2Jd9a4VaC

Best Regards,
Will | Paradox | ParaNodes.io