Metis L2 Governance

Infrastructure - Sequencer Proposal: Blockdaemon

Voting ended over 1 year agoSucceeded

Executive Summary

Blockdaemon is the largest independent blockchain infrastructure provider.
Since 2017, our 200+ team members have launched and managed over 150,000 nodes across 40+ leading blockchain protocols.
Our APIs support billions of read & write calls per month.
As an ISO27001 certified, institutional-grade, security provider we also currently secure well over $100Bn of digital assets for the leading institutions via our staking platform and our MPC-based self-custodial solutions.
Our 400+ institutional and enterprise customers include Circle, Goldman Sachs, Plaid, MetaMask, Microsoft, OpenSea, Bitcoin Suisse, Zodia Custody, etc., demonstrating our products’ robustness, security, and compliance.
We are the sole blockchain provider with 3 of the largest US banks as our investors: JP Morgan and Chase, Citi Bank, and Goldman Sachs.
We have been a genesis partner for over 25 blockchain networks.
Finally, in regards to sequencer support, Blockdaemon has developed critical experience by being the first and only infrastructure partner of Espresso Systems (which currently supports 4 rollup stacks (Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon zkEVM, Cartesi) to develop a shared sequencing technology supporting high transactional volume.

Blockdaemon runs nodes in over 70 different locations, via cloud or bare-metal servers, to minimize latency and optimize for high-performance. Our Data Centers are all SOC-2 compliant and run with sustainable energy.
Our SLAs are best described in our Master Service Agreement (eg 99.9% uptime, 24/7 on-call and direct access to customer support, QA and Testing all systems and subsystems (monitoring, logging, balancing), emergency response and resolution SLAs, 100% slashing insurance if applicable, etc.)
Via proprietary technology we have extended logging and insights to (pro)actively help with providing debug information for any issues or performance metrics.

Blockdaemon is one of the largest staking providers and can offer validator services at an institutional level, including ability to:
- Pass the strictest compliance and security requirements for institutions
- Support staking and reporting APIs via a secure web-app to meet strict reporting requirements
- Seamless integration with leading qualified custodians, oracle
Blockdaemon gives Metis the ability to grow its ecosystem by tapping into broader institutional adoption.
Blockdaemon participates in governance.; supports your network and community growth by dedicating business development and marketing resources to increase institutional reach.

Blockdaemon is growing the number of networks supported across its various products: nodes, RPC & RESTFul APIs, indexer, oracle, relayers, sequencers, validators, staking APIs, MPC-based Wallet and other self-custody solutions.
Blockdaemon is also growing the number of protocols supported in its partner integrations, particularly qualified custodians.

Off-Chain Vote

YES28.47K METIS99.9%

NO9.68 METIS0%

ABSTAIN9.47 METIS0%

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