Tip to NRL for creating vDOT Minting guide
Beneficiary:The Polkadot ecosystem has had many newcomers in 2025 thanks in part to Kaito, GigaDOT, $WUD, DOT Bulls etc.
On Twitter, Telegram and Discord I often see newcomers ask how to do certain actions unique to Polkadot, such as mint vDOT, and cross-chain transfer DOT to Hydration to buy WUD.
I publicly asked for someone to create a guide on topics like these in return for a 200 DOT tip
NRL took me up on it and created this detailed guide on how to mint vDOT:
https://x.com/nrlartt/status/1916443887775764695
This tip is for his content creation.
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Hi, Thomas, community Lead of Bifrost
People should vote NAY to this tip proposal.
1/ It doesn’t worth 200 DOT.
The whole documentation is available on our docs here
https://docs.bifrost.io/dapp-tutorials-and-use-cases/liquid-staking-on-bifrost
and in our support website here
https://notion.bifrost.io/Stake-DOT-and-get-vDOT-84b4cd300c67427ab3da69f15b30738b
2/ The post is inaccurate. Step 4 is wrong and misleading for users.
YOU DON’T NEED BNC ON BIFROST FOR FEES.
-> we have flexible fees, just bring DOT that’s all you need.
3/ The post has very little engagement.
4/ The cost for the tweet is overestimated.
I mean even Wagmedia wouldn’t have compensated this tweet for such an amount. On average, it would have been maybe 30 DOT maximum based on Wagmedia.
5/ Bifrost is running a Yapper campaign with 50 000 BNC (season 2), so this tweet falls under the eligibility. The content creator may receive around 700 BNC maximum for such a tweet (basic one), around 100$ not more.
Not even sure it would be selected because it’s super basic.
So I’d like to thank Ethan for pushing content creators to produce some contents for Bifrost, but not at all cost.
The Treasury shouldn’t be involved here, please let’s not start another KOL battle to spend such a crazy amount of DOT for a basic tweet, that’s not a good signal for Polkadot and also for us at Bifrost.
if the initiative is good, and we are thankful for that, we’d like the community not to support it for all the reasons described above.
Thx in advance.
Many thanks for your proposal, ET!
The tweet from NRL (@nrlartt) contains roughly 23 sentences. That works out to about 8.7 DOT, or $34.63 per sentence. If we very generously assume that NRL spent 5 minutes writing each sentence, that implies an hourly rate of around $415. While we welcome every contribution to Polkadot, the cost‑benefit ratio for this proposal is unfortunately so poor that we’ll refrain from a deeper analysis. In any case, anyone can review the documentation (see SuperDupont’s comment). Alternatively, you could simply ask an AI the following question:
Can you give me a detailed, beginner-friendly step-by-step guide on converting DOT to vDOT on the Bifrost platform, obtaining BNC for gas fees, and minting vDOT?
🔹🔷🔹 vonFlandern 🔹🔷🔹 has therefore voted with: \*\* NAY \*\*
Our methodology aims to analyze and evaluate OpenGov proposals objectively, effectively, and transparently, establishing clear decision-making foundations for our votes while making our process visible to the community.
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Hi, Thomas, community Lead of Bifrost
People should vote NAY to this tip proposal.
1/ It doesn’t worth 200 DOT.
The whole documentation is available on our docs here
https://docs.bifrost.io/dapp-tutorials-and-use-cases/liquid-staking-on-bifrost
and in our support website here
https://notion.bifrost.io/Stake-DOT-and-get-vDOT-84b4cd300c67427ab3da69f15b30738b
2/ The post is inaccurate. Step 4 is wrong and misleading for users.
YOU DON’T NEED BNC ON BIFROST FOR FEES.
-> we have flexible fees, just bring DOT that’s all you need.
3/ The post has very little engagement.
4/ The cost for the tweet is overestimated.
I mean even Wagmedia wouldn’t have compensated this tweet for such an amount. On average, it would have been maybe 30 DOT maximum based on Wagmedia.
5/ Bifrost is running a Yapper campaign with 50 000 BNC (season 2), so this tweet falls under the eligibility. The content creator may receive around 700 BNC maximum for such a tweet (basic one), around 100$ not more.
Not even sure it would be selected because it’s super basic.
So I’d like to thank Ethan for pushing content creators to produce some contents for Bifrost, but not at all cost.
The Treasury shouldn’t be involved here, please let’s not start another KOL battle to spend such a crazy amount of DOT for a basic tweet, that’s not a good signal for Polkadot and also for us at Bifrost.
if the initiative is good, and we are thankful for that, we’d like the community not to support it for all the reasons described above.
Thx in advance.
Many thanks for your proposal, ET!
The tweet from NRL (@nrlartt) contains roughly 23 sentences. That works out to about 8.7 DOT, or $34.63 per sentence. If we very generously assume that NRL spent 5 minutes writing each sentence, that implies an hourly rate of around $415. While we welcome every contribution to Polkadot, the cost‑benefit ratio for this proposal is unfortunately so poor that we’ll refrain from a deeper analysis. In any case, anyone can review the documentation (see SuperDupont’s comment). Alternatively, you could simply ask an AI the following question:
Can you give me a detailed, beginner-friendly step-by-step guide on converting DOT to vDOT on the Bifrost platform, obtaining BNC for gas fees, and minting vDOT?
🔹🔷🔹 vonFlandern 🔹🔷🔹 has therefore voted with: \*\* NAY \*\*
Our methodology aims to analyze and evaluate OpenGov proposals objectively, effectively, and transparently, establishing clear decision-making foundations for our votes while making our process visible to the community.
For a deeper dive into our evaluation, please see the detailed report here.