Hello Community,

Polkadot, and generally speaking Substrate built block-chains have tremendous potential to deliver decentralized computing, however depending on how they are deployed and operated by the community the resulting system can be more or less centralized/decentralized.

When analyzing the degree of decentralization of the Polkadot Rely chain by the following variables: Region, Computing Network and Node Operator, it turns out that the network is very centralized with most of the public validation activity concentrated and a few Operators, Regions and Computing Networks.

Polkawatch is an analytic tool designed to measure effective decentralization of Polkadot’s Validation process. [Polkawatch](https://polkawatch.app/) entered in production in 2022 Q2.

This proposal aims to fund the 2022 Q3 Continued Operation and implement Software Development and infrastructure improvements.

Our detailed [proposal can be found here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hh1Vjn2tPwx2fAPFoY5WfOeltEJy-B-1HlukPSHLTI0/edit?usp=sharing).

Community feedabck to our proposal can be found in the [Discussion Post](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/1212).


Approve a proposal. At a later time, the proposal will be allocated to the beneficiary
and the original deposit will be returned.

May only be called from `T::ApproveOrigin`.

# <weight>
- Complexity: O(1).
- DbReads: `Proposals`, `Approvals`
- DbWrite: `Approvals`
# </weight>



- Substrate built block-chains have much potential to deliver decentralized computing
- Polkadot's Rely chain was analyzed and is very centralized with most of the public validation activity concentrated with a few Operators, Regions and Computing Networks
- Polkawatch is an analytic tool to measure the decentralization of the Validation process and entered into production in 2022 Q2
- 2022 Q3 Continued Operation and implementing Software Development and infrastructure improvements is proposed and detailed in a proposal 
- Input from the community on the proposal can be found in a Discussion Post.

#249 Polkadot decentralization analytics, Continued Operation and Improvements.