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# Traction

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Since being selected for the Stellar Kickstart cohort on May 3rd, Dobprotocol has demonstrated rapid execution, delivering product, onboarding partners, and validating demand.

Product and technical milestones

### Dob Validator

* We have developed and deployed on mainnet (<https://validator.dobprotocol.com>) our first version of Dobvalidator in almost 320 commits documented transparently in our repo: <https://github.com/dobprotocol/dobvalidator>
* We accomplished full kickstart submission for July 4 (all four deliverables), just five weeks after receiving the funds on June 1st.
* We launched a specific early investor program for Dobvalidator, creating high quality beta testers, in just 3 weeks, we have onboard more than 80 people. Here is the form: <https://forms.gle/5mEW95YkHmsh4FJr7> and here the whatsapp group of the program: <https://shorturl.at/DiMLo>

### Dob Token Studio

* ​​One Beta platform (on base network) launched at [dobprotocol.com](http://dobprotocol.com), enabling tokenization and real-time distribution of infrastructure revenues.

### Market and financials

* Three real-world infrastructure assets tokenized or in progress to be tokenized on-chain:
* EV chargers (eHive)(Tokenized) ($40.000 USD)
* Data center infrastructure (Bas3)(to be tokenized). ($250.000 USD
* 4 Million $USD In mining equipment under validation.
* Three additional operators in the mining sector are undergoing pre pre-validation process.
* Pipeline includes over ten infrastructure projects, representing several million dollars in future tokenizable revenue.
* Over 20 Web3 investment funds pitched through the Odisea Labs program

### Research and Academic Contributions

* 5 peer-reviewed publications authored by our CTO Fernando Castillo: <https://shorturl.at/d3Nyh>
* “Trustworthy Decentralized Autonomous Machines: A New Paradigm in Automation Economy” - arXiv preprint, 2025, Co-authored with Simón Espínola and Oscar Castillo.
* “Towards Credential-Based Device Registration in DApps for DePINs with ZKPs” - IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, 2024
* “TrustOps: Continuously Building Trustworthy Software” - EDOC 2024 Workshops (iRESEARCH), 2024
* “Trusted Compute Units: A Framework for Chained Verifiable Computations” - arXiv preprint, 2025
* “Advocate—Trustworthy Evidence in Cloud Systems” - 6th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications, 2024
* Nine user experience tests conducted with early adopter community and inside team, all publicly in our UX/UI Repo here: <https://shorturl.at/DOi14>

### Community and Social Media Traction

* More than 43K impressions in our Q2 with an engagement rate over 11% in our last two months (May and June) on <https://x.com/dobprotocol>. 83 Total active subscribers in our mailing list (+18 news members the last month with Early Investor Program campaign) Here is our Social Performance Q2 Report: <https://shorturl.at/QElRv>
* 80 real beta testers onchain users testing dob validator
* Over 340 community members on Telegram: <https://t.me/dobprotocol_official>
* Only in the last month and a half we have been presenting Dobprotocol in 4 IRL events: Stellar en la Nube in Valdivia, Global Pizza Party Santiago, Ime Link at Matucana 100 and Charlas Stellares - Campus on Chain at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Here is the photo album: <https://shorturl.at/c2Ick>
* We've participated in 6 online events (live on streaming): 3 “Infra Talks” sessions, the first online space in LatAm to discuss DePIN (+1200 views); a Spotlight session with Tellus Cooperative, a collaborative latam project developed on Stellar (+125 views); and 2 build-in-public streams with our own community via X (+500 views). Here is all the metrics and details of this online events: <https://shorturl.at/zosAc>

### Awards and Recognition

* Winners of the Stellar X Draper University Founder Residency 2025.
* Best Consumer Product at the Aleph Mantle Hackathon.
* Second place at AVAX Chile Pitch Demo Day 2025.
* Finalist at ApeCon Miami 2025.
* Named one of the Top 50 startups in Latin America by Rayuela (Lisk).
* Finalist at Virtuals Hackathon 2025.
* Prototype delivered in under 24 hours for the Red Pill Challenge on Virtuals.
* Accelerated by OdiseaLabs 2025.