2024 Retro
I’d like to share the results of our 1-year efforts here. You can review the six-month update here. Thank you for your endless support and contribution to the network.
TL;DR: This year, we experienced a significant increase in validator growth. In 2025, we will try to bring all payment-focused projects developed by Gnosis closer to validators.
You can see the detailed analysis below.
1. Main Goal and Focus
- Grow the Gnosis Chain validator community
- Improve the tools we have for increasing accessibility
- Continue to support the Gnosis Validator Community for network health.
2. What Went Well
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Grow
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+140K new validators 166K → 306K (Right now 320K)
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+1.4K new node operators
- Dappnode Campaign, GIP-98 HOPR node operator campaign
- We increased the staked GNO from 13% in 2023 to 25% in 2024.
- Increased +85% total staked GNO
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Events Campaigns
- Dappcon Special Raffe
- Devcon Raffle
- ETHAccra Dappnode Campaign
- Stakers panel at Dappcon
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Improve
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Network Health
- Dencun Upgrade 97% participation
- Preparing Pectra
- Collaborative Bounty Framework - WIP
3. What Didn’t Go Well
- Need better balance between staking growth and on-chain activity
- Alignment with Gnosis 3.0 vision and Gnosis’s payment strategy
- Payment focuses on-chain activity and adding validators into the payment pipeline
- Better documentation
- We should primarily focus on improving documentation quality and addressing technical challenges and potential offers such as payment flywheels.
2025
Overall Strategic Goals
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Gnosis 3.0 and economical zone focus
- Increasing on-chain activities by leveraging the power of the validator
- Develop project collaborations within Gnosis ecosystem that allow users to create on-chain flywheels
- Build projects with external and internal teams to accelerate payment options on chain.
- Build a view of ‘Gnosis’ economic areas’
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Validator ecosystem focus
- Build projects with external and internal teams to accelerate toolkit that we have.
- Bounty hub
- Network tracker
- Continue campaigns and occasional events for onboard new operators
- Build projects with external and internal teams to accelerate toolkit that we have.
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Network decentralization focus
- Keep the network healthy and secure through high participation
- Pectra
- Fusaka
- Keep the network healthy and secure through high participation
First 100 Days:
- Build a view of ‘Gnosis’ economic areas’
- Once these different zones are identified, the next step is to figure out which of them we can grow most effectively, and how?
- Ship Pectra successfully
- GOAL: +98% Participation Rate
- Establish Gnosis Bounty Hub with the DevRel team.
- Onboard projects that they can open payment-specific bounties
- GOAL: Find 5 concrete bounty projects that can be integrated into our strategy (EOY)
- Coordinate with internal and external teams for this project.
- GOAL: Find 5 concrete bounty projects that can be integrated into our strategy (EOY)
- Onboard projects that they can open payment-specific bounties
- Launch Gnosis Validator Reward Claim Widget
- GOAL: Generate a $1M volume on Gnosis Validator Reward Claim tool in EOY.
- Onboard Defi projets, Balancer, Aura, Spark, Stakewise
- Launch d14n.info with new tech stack
- Nebula and Xatu
First 6 Months:
- Increase minority client usage on Gnosis Chain
- Erigon, Geth, Lodestar
- Organize pop-up campaigns/events with Gnosis Pay and Circles team for onboarding more crypto native people into the Gnosis Chain utilizing validator/node operator offers.
- Dappcon, Devconnect
Rest of the year
- Onboard +3K node operators
- Prepare FUSAKA upgrade
- Gnosis Economic Area project executions
- Payment
- Align with Metri, Pay and Circles growth