Polkadot, a protocol that connects blockchains, has announced its newest initiative to assist its ecosystem combat scams.
In accordance with the corporate, counting on security-minded people inside its group to combat scams has confirmed to be an efficient technique of safeguarding its ecosystem. To incentivize the members of its group to proceed to do the work, Polkadot persistently rewards them with bounties paid in USD Coin (USDC).
Polkadot shared that its bounty is presently managed by the overall curators, which for now, consists of three group members and two individuals from the W3F Anti-Rip-off division. Nonetheless, in the long run, Polkadot hopes that the bounty shall be ultimately managed solely by the group.
As a part of the community-led anti-scam initiative, group members are tasked with discovering and taking down rip-off websites, faux social media profiles and phishing apps, in addition to defending its Discord servers from raids. Moreover, the group will create academic supplies for customers in addition to an Anti-Rip-off Dashboard to behave because the central hub for all anti-scam actions in its ecosystem.
General, the initiative encourages taking part members to give you concepts for increasing anti-scam actions to different areas. By decentralizing its anti-scam efforts, the Web3 Basis and Parity have shifted their decision-making course of to the group.
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Polkadot seems to be making the required strides to develop and strengthen its ecosystem. On Oct 17, Cointelegraph reported that Polkadot hit an all-time excessive in improvement exercise. Venture builders reported that 66 blockchains are actually reside on Polkadot and its parachain startup community Kusama.
Since its inception, over 140,000 messages have been exchanged between chains by way of 135 messaging channels. Collectively, the Polkadot and Kusama treasuries have cumulatively paid out 9.6 million Polkadot (DOT) and 346,700 Kusama (KSM) ($72.8 million complete) to fund spending proposals within the ecosystem.
