Short description: Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable data indexing infrastructure for most of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem (and growing).
Raw data: Archive Infrastructure metrics -October, November, December
Requested KSM: 3,594.64 KSM
Previous proposal
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/246
Archives are an important piece of Polkadot and Kusama data infrastructure provided by Subsquid. They provide access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot, with more chains getting support as the ecosystem grows. They are being used as a data source for Squids and for efficient data exploration and ad-hoc queries. An up-to-date list of Archives is kept in a public Archive Registry
Over the course of Q4, Subsquid released incremental upgrades to the SDK, including:
The data collection pipeline has undergone some changes, and because of this, there are some gaps in the available data (which also influence the weekly moving average in red).
With that being said, it is reasonable to assume a linear trend, and the red line represents a linear regression estimation of total queries over time. The gaps in the collected data are visible as "flattened" sections of the blue line in the chart:
Under this assumption, we can extrapolate these key metrics about Subsquid's Archive infrastructure, over the course of Q4 2023:
Full report here
Subsquid is a company that provides important data infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. They provide access to on-chain data in GraphQL format for all major parachains on Kusama and Polkadot. They have released incremental upgrades to their software development kit, including improvements to the TypeScript boilerplate code generator, direct support for polkadotJS types bundle format, and improvements to substrate metadata parsing. They have also deployed new Archives, expanding the list of available networks to 48. They have served a total of 128,567,499 (~128.5 million) queries, with the highest daily total being 1,832,412 responses in a single 24 hour period. The daily queries confirm a growing trend towards the end of the year, only partly due to the deployment of some new Archives. They are requesting 3,594.64 KSM for ongoing costs for the running of their data indexing infrastructure.
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