Infrastructure - Sequencer Proposal: Luganodes

Executive Summary

• Luganodes is a Swiss-operated, institutional-grade, non-custodial staking provider born out of Lugano Plan B Program, an initiative driven by Tether & City of Lugano. Our team is dedicated to providing secure & reliable blockchain infrastructure.
• With over $1.5 billion worth of staked assets & presence in 35+ leading PoS networks, Luganodes is recognized as the world's fastest-growing AAA rated staking provider.
• Total staked or locked assets- 1.5+ Billion USD
• Clients- Bitfinex, Bitgo, Web 3 Foundation, Parity, Anchorage, Bitpanda, Spartan Labs, Polygon and several leading institutions in Web 3 space.
• Reference and Testimonials- https://www.luganodes.com/

Service Level Agreement

• We guarantee a 99.99% uptime
• We have 6+ on-call SRE Team distributed across 5 different zones ensuring 24*7 availability
• Dedicated Account manager and Business POC
• We are leading validator on several chains such Aptos, Polkadot, Kusama, Solana, Polygon, Tron and few others.
• We run out infra on bare metal servers with dedicated backup node for high performance and uptime. These servers are located in DC on different countries for security and high availability
• We are SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and ISO 27001 compliant and successfully passed audit by Chainproof one of the leading auditor in the space. This adds additional security layer to boost confidence

Integration Roadmap

• Like pointed above, we work with almost 40+ Protocols running their validator node, RPCs, Indexers, Explorers, Relayers and several others which shows the strength of our infrastructure and backend.
• In the past we have helped taking testnet and mainnet live, as per request for various partners, in just 2 days. So we can complete Metis Decentralised Sequencer integration very fast as per agreed timeline.
• We will work very closely with the Metis team, upon selection, to create a strong and performant Sequencer Infra setup and also contributing on other services which will help us grow mutually
• As our business is Institutional focused, we would also like to do business development activities to bring more Institutions onboard

Benefits for Community

• We actively participate in all governance proposals to ensure the ecosystem growth
• Our marketing team is actively participating in community contribution through social channels educating community of technical and non technical aspects, empowering users with the skills and knowledge needed for active participation in the ecosystem
• We assist other Validators in the ecosystem with any technical blockers encountered and believe in growing together