Swisscom Blockchain, a distributed ledger expertise startup owned by telco big Swisscom, has been awarded a grant from the Web3 Foundation to construct a cloud-based safety layer for stakers on the Ethereum-based Polkadot community.

Announced Thursday, the grant will assist construct Swisscom Blockchains Kubernetes Operator for Polkadot, a approach of defending individuals concerned in proof-of-stake processes on Polkadot and the Kusama testnet in opposition to dropping their staked tokens if the community is attacked or compromised.

Something like a distributed denial of service assault (DDoS), for example, results in downtime and may imply a validator blockchain node can have its stake slashed. Preventing that is difficult therefore the necessity for a system of cloud-based containers and sentry nodes, which may isolate validators whereas sustaining node connections.

The measurement of the grant was not disclosed. A spokesman for Web3 stated that grant groups are allowed to use in non-public by way of a General Grants Program.

The Web3 grant was awarded to contribute to the Polkadot ecosystem by submitting an open-source repository that different startups and enterprises can use to setup/handle their very own infrastructure in an automatic approach whereas offering safety greatest practices for assets hosted within the enterprise, stated Jorge Alvarado, head of expertise, Swisscom Blockchain, by way of electronic mail.

This source code is supposed to be run on the infrastructure of choice of the user, not necessarily Swisscom or any other cloud provider, Alvarado added.

Providing Kusama and Polkadot with a Kubernetes Operator contributes to a more robust network, stated Dieter Fishbein, head of ecosystem improvement on the Web3 Foundation, in a press release. It will assist validators ensure high availability in their operations, and reduce the chances of validators getting slashed for unresponsiveness.

The Ethereum-based Polkadot blockchain is the flagship mission of the Web3 Foundation, established in Zug, Switzerland by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood.

The project Swisscom Blockchain developed is a set of tools to deploy validators and ensure their high availability, stated Fishbein. This work ultimately makes it easier for enterprises to engage with the Polkadot ecosystem.

The mission has been examined and deployed on the Azure Cloud platform, he added, however it aims to be platform agnostic.