Validator introduction - Stakewithus

Hi all, adding on more details according to the Validator Introduction Framework:

  • Entity name and location:
    Our headquarter is in Singapore, but we have employees from Japan and Vietnam too.

  • Infrastructure location
    Physical servers are in 2x Tier 3 datacenters in Singapore.

  • What kind of hardware do you run? Baremetal, cloud-based…? In what geographic regions?
    We do a mix of physical (baremetal) and cloud based nodes → typically split between US, EU and SG (different availability zones if available too).

  • Technical make-up of team (elaborate on no. of dev ops engineers, experience, etc.)
    Our infra lead has >20+ years in cloud infrastructure/devops - we have 1 other full time dev ops engineer and the remaining of our dev team (4 other devs) can also hop on for node infrastructure work if required.

  • Years of experience
    We have been live since early 2019.

  • What other networks are you running validators for?
    For a full list of public facing networks we support, visit https://app.unagii.com/explore. We also run bridge software, indexers and subgraphs. We also run whitelabel staking for institutions/funds.

  • Based on your participation in any previous testnets, mainnets, are there any best practices to be aware of? What are some things that made previous testnets, mainnet launches successful and/or things to avoid that have gone poorly?
    Proper communication channels are key - validator specific discord announcements, emails, telegram announcement channels all works well.

  • Do you have a validator voting framework and process?
    Even though we have no formal voting framework, we go through all proposals internally and vote it in the best interest of the ecosystem.

  • Are you planning to play any additional roles in the dYdX ecosystem (e.g. market maker, trader, indexer, front-end, other)?
    Likely as an indexer, and also provide staking + governance voting frontend on unagii.

  • Are there other products or services you want to highlight that could be relevant for dYdX?
    Staking + governance frontend on unagii, our non-custodial yield generation platform.

  • Any notable contributions in other ecosystems that you would like to highlight for the community?
    We run a community meetup group called Cosmos Singapore. You can see our past event here: Cosmos Singapore (Singapore, Singapore) | Meetup

We provide public goods for the tendermint ecosystem: public-goods/cosmos.md at main · stakewithus/public-goods · GitHub