Open source alternative to centralized polkadot API gateways and node as a service
Hi everyone,
Kotal is an open source Blockchain node as a service and API gateway. Kotal is a powerful alternative to centralized API gateway like Infura in Ethereum ecosystem and OnFinality in Polkadot ecosystem. Kotal can be downloaded and installed on any cloud infrastructure provider like Amazon Web Service (aws), Google Cloud Platform (gcp), Microsoft Azure or Alibaba cloud with few commands.
Using Kotal, you can do all the following tasks with few clicks or API calls:
All these features are implemented and ready to be used. Read the docs for more details.
☑️ Deploy nodes across 10 Blockchain protocols (Polkadot & Kusama included)
☑️ Upgrade and Downgrade node client software
☑️ Load validator keys and start producing blocks
☑️ Manage storage and resources (CPU & Memory) allocated to the node
☑️ Manage Secrets (private keys, passwords, tokens, certificates)
☑️ Monitor real time resources utilization
☑️ Fetch real time logs
☑️ Connect to telemetry service
☑️ Create TLS-secure API endpoints
☑️ Manage Access control
☑️ View daily and weekly API endpoints usage
☑️ Manage application and endpoints domain
☑️ Manage domain TLS certificate provider (LetsEncrypt & Commercial certificates)
☑️ Create workspaces of nodes and resources
☑️ Invite members to workspaces and assign roles
If we received the grant, we will extend Kotal capabilities to cover Polkadot parachains:
☑️ Deploy system parachain nodes and collators
☑️ Polkadot asset hub
☑️ Polkadot bridge hub
☑️ Polkadot coretime ⏳
☑️ Kusama asset hub
☑️ Kusama bridge hub
☑️ Kusama coretime
☑️ Westend asset hub
☑️ Westend bridge hub
☑️ Westend coretime ⏳
☑️ Rococo asset hub
☑️ Rococo bridge hub
☑️ Rococo coretime
☑️ Deploy popular Polkadot and Kusama parachain nodes and collators
☑️ Moonbeam
☑️ Moonriver
☑️ Astar
☑️ Shiden
☑️ Manta Atlantic
☑️ Manta Pacific
☑️ Bifrost Polkadot
☑️ Bifrost Kusama
☑️ Acala
☑️ Karura
☑️ Nodle
☑️ Connect parachain to parent relay chain
☑️ Webhooks - Get API calls for Blockchain events
☑️ New block mined
☑️ New transaction
☑️ New XCM call
☑️ New Extrinsic
☑️ Data snapshots
☑️ Create periodic snapshots from fully-synced node
☑️ Start node instantly from snapshot
☑️ Notifications - get notifications of node events
☑️ Node is up and running
☑️ Node is down
☑️ New client version is available
☑️ Manage notification channels: web browser, Discord, Slack, Telegram, Whatsapp.
☑️ Validator session keys
☑️ Retrieve session keys
☑️ Generate session keys
☑️ Set session keys
Full Proposal is available here 👉 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xnE8K34QVu7b5sSoPuyNlMf6wBtMJUqpFgjsqML2IUA/edit
I am happy to hear your feedback and thoughts on this and answer all your questions.
Website https://kotal.co
Source Code https://github.com/kotalco
Documentation https://docs.kotal.co
Book a demo https://calendly.com/kotal/30min
-- Kotal Team ❤️
Comments (2)
Hey @kotal team, Do you have someone which we can contact and ask some of our doubts?
Hi @fardeen_haque
I am Mostafa Farghaly founder & CEO at Kotal, you can ask anything and I am happy to help. Feel free to comment here, or send an email to mostafa@kotal.co or support@kotal.co
Thank you ❤️
ChaosDAO would like to provide the following feedback from our community. We offer this feedback voluntarily in the spirit of OpenGov, in order to help teams improve their proposals so we can all build the network together.
Some members discussed that the team is not well known and that this is a large spend for their first proposal.
Some members were not clear on who would use the deliverables of this referendum.
ChaosDAO was previously abstain on this referendum.
ChaosDAO votes as a collective based on the results of our anonymous internal voting procedures. Our members are not required to provide any feedback about why they have voted in a particular direction. Similarly, to respect our members' right to anonymity, we will not be sharing names of individuals who have chosen to voluntarily provide feedback.
Hi @ChaosDAO Thank you for your feedback. Here's our reply to the mentioned points:
Team members are mentioned in the full proposal. Kotal founder for example was the lead developer in ConsenSys Dubai and MENA region. Consensys is the biggest and most influential company in Ethereum ecosystem. Consensys is behind flagship products like Metamask wallet trusted by +100 million web3 users and Infura web3 API trusted by ~500k developers and more. Kotal is VC-backed startup trusted by VC like Consensys Ventures and Protocol labs (behind IPFS and Filecoin). Kotal source code is public and published in Github. We also believe that $140k is not a large spend for 4 time full-time employees for at least 5 months of protocol and engineering for the scope of work mentioned in the full proposal.
The deliverables of this referendum can be used by any web3 developer or company in the Polkadot ecosystem, for example: a validator node operator who wants to run her own node, and manage validator keys on her cloud infrastructure without relying on a centralized 3rd party. A wallet provider who wants to integrate multiple parachains without relying on centralized 3rd party API provider like OnFinality. Web3 foundation can use Kotal stack to test and implement the roadmap to JAM. Exchanges and explorers can use Kotal stack to manage their own nodes and expose API keys without relying on a centralized single point of failure API provider.
We hope that you change your vote to AYE 🔥
Thank you.
-- Kotal Team ❤️