Polkadot

DOT

Polkadot is a layer-0 protocol and multichain network founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum. Polkadot provides security, scalability, and interoperability to a diverse ecosystem of use-case specific layer-1 blockchains and their dapps. Polkadot offers open governance, seamless upgradeability, energy efficiency, secure cross-chain interoperability, and more.

You can find the link to the block explorer below:

Polkascan · Explorer

• Staking Guide

• Validator Address

• Staking Mechanics

Staking Guide

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Validator Address

Mainnet

Type	Address
Stash Address	1vTaLKEyj2Wn9xEkUGixBkVXJAd4pzDgXzz9CuVjhVqhHRQ
Controller Address	145wCKDUDhtZEFJPDc9izV7VMLjCCkvVKdChj71Vv8MwsfZ5
Reward Address	1vTaLKEyj2Wn9xEkUGixBkVXJAd4pzDgXzz9CuVjhVqhHRQ

Staking Mechanics

Metrics	Details
Reward Frequency	End of era (24 hours)
Auto-compounding	Manual
Penalty	Upto 7% (if nodes are offline)
Slashing	Upto 100% (equivocation)
Stake Lockup	28 eras (28 days)
Unbonding Period	28 eras (28 days)