In this document we (Charles, Rudy, Rhmral) present our proposal to become delegate for the ArkEcosystem, under the name of DutchDelegate. All three of us live in the Netherlands and are graduate students at the Radboud University. Rudy and Rhmral both have a background in Information Sciences and Cyber Security. Charles specializes in Data Science and Bioinformatics.

Our Proposal

As relativly early investors of Ark and as big fans of the Ecosystem, we want to contribute more to the community as delegate by developing different programms and tools to improve the voter’s expierence. Our proposal is therefore as follows:

From the 11th untill the 24th of september the profit share is set at 100%.

Adresses that voted during this period obtain an early adopter status and will receive 96% profit share from there on. Voters after the 2 weeks receive a 95% profit share.

The profit share will never decrease, but might increase when the Ark to euro price increases. We will always try to be competitive and at the top of the profit share list.

We will convert our profit share periodically in to euro’s and store it in an emergency fund - in case the Ark price crashes - so that we can keep on forging for the next couple of years. These funds are also used so that we can support the Ark development.

In case we receive a very large amount of votes - causing our profit share not to be competitive with other delegates - we will look in to creating a wait list and setting up a second delegate under these same rules. People will be able to obtain an early adopter status on the second node as well.

Development

To help Ark holders see statistics about forging, fund allocation, but also statistics about their own Ark funds - for example: to aid in filing taxes - we are developing a web application.

The basic functionalities of the web application include:

Create an account and see all statistics about your private wallet.

Set pay out frequency (daily, weekly, monthly). In the first weeks of forging we will pay out rewards weekly. After we finish the pay out frequency functionality our voters can customize this.

Obtain vote reports and see your share percentage and vote weight.

Generate tax reports (see bought Ark versus staked Ark, calculate how much U.S. dollars you receive each week, etc.)

Schedule

24th of september: Voters receive early adopters status.

End of september: Web application is deployed

End of october * : All functionalities are incorporated in the web application (tax reports and other statistics).

: All functionalities are incorporated in the web application (tax reports and other statistics). Voters can always ask for new functionalities. We will attempt to provide estimates on how long it will take to develop these.

*Disclaimer: In case the development of the pay out script and web application is delayed, the voters will still receive the above stated profit share while our share decreases. This is a very good incentive for us to get the promised development done.

Technical aspects

Main node:

CPU: 2vCore

RAM: 4096 MB

Storage: 60 GB SSD

Bandwith: 3.000 GB p.m.

DDoS-protected

Back-up node:

CPU: 2vCore

RAM: 4096 MB

Storage: 60 GB SSD

Bandwith: 3.000 GB p.m.

DDoS-protected

Kind regards,

The DutchDelegate team

Contact:

#Slack: @Charles, @Rudy, @Rhmral

#Twitter: @Dutch_Delegate

#Medium: @Dutch Delegate

#Mail: Dutchdelegate@gmail.com