T-Systems MMS Celo Oracle Operator Forum Post
Summary
- Name of the node operator: T-Systems MMS
- Location of headquarters: Dresden
- Service: Celo Oracle Service
- Conditions: requested as proposed from nimittank on Celo Forum (30.09.2022) & written out in the attached files (DT_Celo_Oracle_Proposal 1-5).
Motivation
About T-Systems MMS: T-Systems MMS is the digitalization and innovation company within the Deutsche Telekom AG – Europe’s largest telecommunications company by revenue with annual revenues of EUR 101 billion (2020). The parent company is also very successful in the US with its T-Mobile brand and employs over 223,000 people worldwide. Based inside T-Systems MMS is the Blockchain Solutions Center (BCSC), which has been active since 2020 as an infrastructure provider for different public blockchain networks. Starting with Chainlink, the BCSC is now also live on Flow, Celo, and Polkadot, Q and Ethereum. In addition to providing infrastructure for public networks, Deutsche Telekom is also investing in them – with recent investments in Celo and Polkadot.
The Team
Our team consists of blockchain enthusiasts and as those we believe that this technology will make the world a better place, at least a tiny bit. In line with this, we spent the last years bringing the behemoth that is Deutsche Telekom on track with this vision. Infrastructure provisioning is the core of Deutsche Telekom - from telephone, to internet, the next big step will be to provide decentralized infrastructure for the web3.
Activities on Celo and Partnership with cLabs
Celo & Deutsche Telekom share, in crypto time, a now long history as well as partnership. Celo & its community represent values that perfectly match those of Deutsche Telekom: Sustainable growth of local economies, a green focus with fully CO2 neutral transactions & finally the mobile-first approach. For these reasons, Deutsche Telekom 2021 decided not only to provide infrastructure for the Celo network, but also to invest in the network. We want to contribute to the growth of the Celo ecosystem & are very pleased with cLabs’ efforts to decentralize the Celo Oracle service. With our investment, that of a16z as well as community delegations, Deutsche Telekom has been successfully running validators since 2021 - a full group since May this year. Since September this year we have been running our Celo Oracle service on Baklava on a test basis for cUSD & cEUR. With the same quality standards as our validators, we would like to apply with this proposal as a service operator for Celo Oracle Service.
Discussion
We invite the Celo Community to share thoughts & comment on our operator CV.
