Dappnode has tried to find many ways to financial sustainability, to continue supporting the thousands of users that use our software to manage the more than 3700 self-reported Dappnode validators in Ethereum. 

On one side, some of them have bought the Dappnode Hardware, making a contribution with their payment to the team that also builds the software. Unfortunately this is not enough to maintain the project at the current rate of updates in the sector. 

On the other side, many of you will recall a Governance token named $NODE that got hacked. Dappnode made everyone who was providing LP whole on their ETH and GNO positions and will revive the $NODE token. This token was not sold and contributed negatively to Dappnode's sustainability because of the hack refunds. 

We also have Gnosis to thank because when we did not have any more money to continue funding the project, they jumped in and helped without asking for anything in return. 

Finally, we want to stress that Dappnode doesn't take a cut of any validators running on them and dappnode users are completely self-sovereign!

Our intention is to become sustainable and not to rely on grants, but unfortunately this is not the case as of now. We believe we can find a non-extractive business model that will leverage web3 characteristics to create truly win-win-win situations. 

Our mission is to make running decentralized infrastructure accessible to all, empowering users in one side, and being a positive force for decentralizations for networks in the other side.

Thanks for your help on pushing our team forward while we find new non-extractive business models that can give sustainability to the project! 