Hello Polkadot Community,
The Tie is proposing to partner with Polkadot to elevate Polkadot’s institutional visibility, foster strong connections with leading traditional and crypto-native institutions, and ensure ongoing communication for sustained growth across the ecosystem.
Below are key highlights, please reference the full proposal here.
Thank you for your consideration!
The Tie Team
What is the Situation?
Despite its market-leading technology, Polkadot is often overlooked by institutions due to a limited presence in institutional circles and insufficiently accessible or well-presented blockchain data and metrics for DOT.
The Tie has a proven track record working with token issuers to increase institutional exposure and access to leading traditional and crypto-native hedge funds asset managers, banks, VCs, liquidity providers, trading venues, and other institutional market participants.
What is the Solution?
The Tie will partner with the Polkadot ecosystem to drive increased exposure to institutions by providing a series of curated institutional access services and building meaningful analytics on Polkadot for wide-spread distribution.
As part of our partnership, The Tie will provide the following:
- Speaking opportunities for Polkadot at all of The Tie’s institutional conferences (~4 annually) attended by senior decision makers at hundreds of leading institutions
- Polkadot will be made an annual keynote speaker at our flagship Bridge conference, hosted last year in partnership with the New York Stock Exchange and attended by 220 TradFi and crypto native institutions
- Polkadot will be a featured sponsor at The Tie conferences and listed in all promotional materials
- The Tie will facilitate meaningful institutional private meetings with Polkadot at every event. The Tie made 500 institutional introductions to tokens in the past 3 months including to tier 1 banks, asset managers, hedge funds, VCs, and other market participants for investment, tokenization, liquidity provision, and relationship building purposes
- The Tie will host an institutional invitation-only event in NYC exclusively focused on the Polkadot ecosystem
- The Tie will host quarterly webinars and publish recap reports highlighting Polkadot’s technology, projects, and use cases and featuring builders from within the Polkadot ecosystem
- Polkadot will receive ongoing connectivity to institutions via The Tie Terminal messenger & exclusive announcement feature
- The Tie will build Standardized Polkadot metrics on The Tie Terminal and in The Tie APIs - used by hundreds of unique institutions
- The Tie will build a Polkadot-centric dashboard on The Tie Terminal, which will be made a default dashboard for all clients
- The Tie will redistribute Polkadot analytics via API to more than a dozen exchanges and platforms that whitelabel The Tie’s data. Platforms that currently license data from The Tie include Interactive Brokers, Broadridge, Cointelegraph, BitMex, Nexo, Real Vision, and FalconX. This integration will enhance Polkadot's visibility among millions of institutional and retail clients of these platforms and provide actionable insights that drive interest in the ecosystem.
These are highlights, please reference the full proposal here.
The Bridge hosted by the NYSE
Example of a Dashboard built by The Tie x Ava Labs on The Tie Terminal. We would build a comparable dashboard for Polkadot highlighting key metrics that are most important to institutions.
The Tie will deliver Polkadot actionable metrics and alerts to major exchanges and platforms enhancing visibility to a broad retail audience.
These are highlights, please reference the full proposal here.
Proposal Details
Full data integration plus twenty-four months of service on events and institutional access.
The full proposal including key deliverables and implementation timeline can be viewed here.
Requested Amount: 150,000 DOT
About The Tie
The Tie is the leading provider of information services for digital assets. We have three core verticals: Institutional Services, Data Redistribution, and Token Services.
Institutional Services includes our flagship product The Tie Terminal, relied upon by over hundreds of top institutions to make better-informed decisions, and APIs which help quantitative firms build stronger models.
Redistribution Services licenses our institutional-grade datasets, to trading venues and retail platforms, providing users with information and insights they need to approach the market with confidence.
Token Services offers a range of services to leading token issuers including corporate access conferences, investor relations dashboards, and data-driven business intelligence.
In Conclusion
The Tie is excited to work with the Web3 Foundation, Parity Technologies, and core contributors on behalf of the entire Polkadot ecosystem to increase institutional exposure and access.
Thank you for your consideration,
The Tie Team
Thank you! The dedication to advancing the Polkadot ecosystem through institutional investor awareness is evident and acknowledged. The proposal’s title suggests a broader institutional investor focus, which seems lacking in detailed planning and execution strategy. The significant funding requested brings concerns about financial stewardship and accountability. This scrutiny is not about mistrust but ensuring that every DOT contributed is maximized towards tangible ecosystem growth.
We must express reservations that align with several concerns raised in ref #539, necessitating a more critical examination. I would suggest researching the bounty approach, looking from a broader institutional investor perspective. Creating a regional data bounty could be exciting and this could be a child bounty of that. We believe that the activity in this region should be covered by an American institutional investor bounty with trusted curators from both American and European communities.
The Polkadot way is to figure out what you can deliver with $10,000, and only then show that you delivered $20,000 worth of value. Then the treasury and people will look to invest more. This is how you establish yourself as a good player in the ecosystem. There is just no reason to make such a large starting proposal.
We find it bad in intention to request so much funds up front. You can either request money back for work done, or you can request a smaller amount of money in speculation. This is what is required in this ecosystem.