Keeping Cardano's decentralization a top priority and never sacrificing it in a feature trade-off.
Avoiding annual treasury spending that exceeds annual treasury earnings to keep the treasury cash flow positive.
Ensuring that Cardano makes no compromises on the superior security that it's known for.
Focusing on treasury spending that bring end-users to products on Cardano, not just to the ADA token.
Promoting scaling protocols to allow Cardano to increase its throughput and avoid severe network congestion.
Supporting CIPs that provide developers the tools they need to build products with smooth end-user experiences.
BROCK Pool runs on efficient bare-metal servers with seamless backup power, a fast and reliable ISP, and ISP redundancy. With no dependency on cloud services, BROCK helps keeps Cardano decentralized and service cannot be denied by any centralized cloud provider. The pool is incredibly power efficient with an average total power consumption of only ~50 watts for all nodes. BROCK Pool's nodes are kept up-to-date with latest releases of Cardano Node.
BROCK Pool is a Mithril Signing block producer, producing individual signatures, which are then combined into a multi-signature by the Mithril aggregator to secure full ledger snapshots of the Cardano blockchain and allow for fast full node bootstrapping with Mithril Client. The more Mithril Signers there are, the more secure the snapshots are.
Brock contributes to Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs) that he believes are valuable to the Cardano ecosystem and add more functionality to it, leading to improved product development and end-user experience.
Brock operates several storage and compute nodes to contribute to Iagon's network of decentralized physical infrastructure. These nodes create opportunities for dApps and blockchain-based services to move away from centralized cloud providers and host their services in a decentralized and secure way.
BROCK Nodes run several batching and order routing bots for decentralized exchanges (DEXs) on Cardano, helping maintain a high throughput and fast user experience for DeFi on Cardano.
Brock creates free, open-source scripts and bots to help node operators, developers and users of many sorts. These scripts and bots can be found on GitHub and can help maintain higher uptimes, schedule regular updates, among other operational tasks.
Brock developed a community-managed repository for known scam tokens on Cardano, and also created a pubic wallet with the handle $sendscams for anyone to submit a suspected scam token for community review. This comes along with an automatic token processing bot that detects newly submitted tokens in the $sendscams wallet and adds them to the queue of tokens to be reviewed by community maintainers of the Cardano Scam Token Registry GitHub repository. The public registry can easily be parsed so that anyone in the community can use it to create their own scam token detection tool. Wallets can use it to create a warning feature for scam tokens; marketplaces can use it to filter out scam tokens entirely from their platform; etc.
Time Constraints: Participating in governance, particularly in systems with many proposals, can be time-consuming. ADA holders who want to contribute to the governance process but lack the time to thoroughly research and vote on every proposal can delegate their voting power to a dRep. The dRep will then vote on their behalf, ensuring their voice is still heard in the decision-making process​.
Expertise: Not all ADA holders have the technical knowledge or understanding of the proposals being voted on. Delegating to a dRep allows them to entrust their voting power to someone with more expertise, who can make more informed decisions based on research, data, and expert consultation​.
Scalability: As blockchain ecosystems grow and the number of proposals increases, it becomes harder for individual voters to keep up with every decision. Delegation helps streamline the governance process by concentrating voting power in the hands of representatives who can dedicate more time and resources to evaluating proposals​.