System Collator Bounty Topup

This proposal requests a 6-month top-up to continue supporting Kusama System Parachain collators (AssetHub, BridgeHub, CoreTime, People, and Encointer). The goal is to sustain a reliable, decentralized collator set for critical system infrastructure by funding performance-based incentives for eligible collators (invulnerable + permissionless; developer slots are excluded). Payouts are distributed proportionally to blocks authored during each assessment period.

The proposal also includes a small monthly allocation for staking rewards (yield on 50 KSM per collator), ongoing infrastructure costs for local archive RPC access used for verification and dispute resolution (with retrospective queries limited to 3 months), and amortized development to complete a new block-author scraping tool (already partially developed and being prototyped) to reduce operational overhead and improve reliability of monthly accounting.

Ask (6 months):

17,456.59 KSM total (estimated), based on $7.3985 per KSM
Equivalent to $129,152.59 USD total

Monthly estimate:

2,909.43 KSM/month (estimated)
Equivalent to $21,525.43 USD/month

The proposal document can be found here -> https://gist.github.com/paradox-tt/a30a2661935a8343c39b47ae127cc5aa

Regards,
Will | Paradox

Edited

This is a plan to keep important parts of Kusama running smoothly for six more months.
It pays for computers called "collators" that help run five key networks: AssetHub, BridgeHub, CoreTime, People, and Encointer.
The collators get paid based on how much work they do, like how many blocks they create.
The plan also pays for a little bit of staking rewards and the costs to run the computers.
A new tool is being built to make checking the work easier and more reliable.
The total cost for six months is about 17,456 KSM.
That is equal to about $129,152 USD.

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