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:

https://explorer.polkascan.ioexplorer.polkascan.io

• 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	once every era (24 hours)
Auto-compounding	No (But can be done manually by validator or by a script)
Penalty	Yes if validator stops earning rewards for every block or era If offline for a prolonged period the network will automatically "chill" the validator. Chilling removes the validator from the active validator set and disqualifies them from the next election
Slashing	Yes with upto 100% penalty (equivocation or downtime)
Stake Lockup	Yes
Unbonding Period	28 eras (28 days)