# Validator Profile: Dora Factory

**URL:** <https://community.agoric.com/t/validator-profile-dora-factory/296>\
**Category:** Validator Profiles\
**Tags:** incentives\
**Created:** [May 29, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/validator-profile-dora-factory/296 "2023-05-29T21:47:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![briandora](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.agoric.com/briandora/32/167_2.png) [@briandora](https://community.agoric.com/u/briandora)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/validator-profile-dora-factory/296/1 "2023-05-29T21:47:07Z")

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**Validator Name: Dora Factory**

**Valoper Address** : agoricvaloper1tld8vujpmr64p2dlyfwd8pjtduywwc63u4z2ts  
**Self Delegate Address** : agoric1tld8vujpmr64p2dlyfwd8pjtduywwc63vd3rh3  
**Commission rate** : 5%  
**Location (Country)**: Singapore, South Korea, APAC  
**Description/Bio** : Mainnet Agoric validator. Dora Factory is a not-for-profit validator, where 90% of the yield generated is dedicated to providing developer grants, hackathon funding, bounty rewards, and maintaining public goods for the Agoric Community. These developer incentives will be available to all Agoric community members on the DoraHacks platform, and the yield generated from the Dora Factory validator, will ensure everlasting funding for Agoric developers, regardless of external market conditions

An Agoric “GrantDAO” can also be deployed on-chain by our devops team which creates a perpetual funding opportunity for developers to receive grants from a quadratic matching pool. A brief overview of how a Dora GrantDAO operates can be found at the below link:

> **[Funding Aptos Builders with Public Good Staking](https://research.dorahacks.io/2022/12/30/aptos-public-good-staking/)**
>
> The first round of Aptos Grant DAO just concluded with highest enthusiasm from the community — both the builder side and the contributor side. 18 grantees selected from 137 applicants went into a quadratic voting round, receiving 14,208.9 APT in...

The node is configured in accordance with the recommendations of the Agoric team.

The validator team consists of 5 devops engineers located in different time zones.

**Other mainnets that we validate:**  
Aptos, Cardano, Cosmos Hub, Evmos, Injective, Noble, AssetMantle, Cronos, Nolus, Stargaze

**Other testnets that we validate:**  
Babylon chain, Zetachain, Althea Network, Nibiru, Dymension, Denom & Noria, Nolus, Composable Finance, etc.

**Contact Info/Socials**

- **Twitter** : @DoraFactory
- **Discord** : Brian | DORA#0629
- **Telegram** : @briandora
- **Website** : [Public Good Staking · Dora Factory](https://dorafactory.org/staking/)