OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2 2023)

Abstract - Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for the Moonriver network from 1st April 2023 until 30th June 2023 (3 months).

Motivation - Setting up blockchain infrastructure is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. A shared node API service helps mitigate these barriers of entry to trying accessing a new protocol by reducing all these costs to near zero. In summary, we try to reduce the pain of getting started on the Moonbeam Networks and minimise the costs of accessing secure nodes while traffic from your dApp is low.

Project Overview and Team Experience - OnFinality is a SaaS platform providing infrastructure services for the Polkadot/Substrate community. Our mission is to support all blockchain developers in the world by providing core infrastructure so they can focus on building the next dApp.

Overall Cost - We've created two proposals to cover the combined running costs for our infrastructure - one for Moonriver network and one for both Moonbeam and Moonbase Alpha Networks. The total outstanding costs for these networks are 3,081.3435 MOVR (USD$17,145.17) and 100,215.4235 GLMR (USD$25,543.41) respectively.

Use of Treasury Funds - All funds will be used to pay for resources and infrastructure used to provide the service during January, February, March (Q1) of 2023.

https://moonbeam.api.onfinality.io/public
wss://moonbeam.api.onfinality.io/public-ws
https://moonbeam-alpha.api.onfinality.io/public
wss://moonbeam-alpha.api.onfinality.io/public-ws
https://moonriver.api.onfinality.io/public
wss://moonriver.api.onfinality.io/public-ws

Specifications - We have a heavily modified multi-cloud and multi-region landscape that maximizes performance, reliability, scalability, and decentralisation. Additionally, we are proud to have delivered some key service enhancements that benefit the ecosystem in the last quarter.

Launched Trace API allowing unprecedented visibility for dApp builders. Trace API captures and records vital information otherwise not available through regular RPC methods and extrinsics (such as complete XCM transfer records and complete list of balance changes). These APIs are essential in order for developers like Polkaholic to parse and understand XCM transactions.
Geographical Insights - API key owners can view statistics about where in the world your community are to help influence decisions around where to expand infrastructure and to view the effectiveness of regional BD initiatives
Clarify our IP address handling - OnFinality does not, and will never, correlate or link specific wallet addresses to the IP address or request origin making the RPC request
Added support for a number of new networks, including Anmol, HydraDX, Equilibrium, as well as Osmosis, Evmos, Harmony, Arbitrum, Optimism, Fuse, DFK Chain, Celo, and Klaytn from outside the ecosystem. OnFinality is a new one stop shop for all of your RPC needs from multiple ecosystems.
A variety of improvements to our health metric collection tools and automated recovery scripts to ensure our 99.9% SLA is exceeded.
Scale improvements to our team, processes, and systems to allow us to provide this same service to any substrate team

Steps to Implement - This service has already been provided and we are proud to have achieved 100%, 99.59% and 100% uptime for Moonriver, Moonbeam and Moonbase Alpha respectively (https://status.onfinality.io/ ).

Full Proposals can be found here:

Moonriver Q2 2023 Treasury Report/Proposal

Once the community has reviewed and is happy to proceed we will lodge the proposal on chain.

Moonriver Network Infrastructure Costs (April-June 2023)

Cost Overview: The proposal seeks funds to cover infrastructure costs for Moonriver, Moonbeam, and Moonbase Alpha networks from April to June 2023. Total costs are 3,081.3435 MOVR (USD$17,145.17) and 100,215.4235 GLMR (USD$25,543.41).
Motivation: The goal is to reduce the cost and complexity of accessing secure nodes for new dApps on the Moonbeam network.
Service Provider: OnFinality offers shared node API services, supporting the Polkadot/Substrate community.
Infrastructure Details: OnFinality uses a multi-cloud, multi-region setup for high performance, reliability, and scalability.
Service Enhancements: Recent improvements include the Trace API for better dApp visibility, geographical insights, and support for new networks.
Uptime: The service has achieved 100%, 99.59%, and 100% uptime for Moonriver, Moonbeam, and Moonbase Alpha respectively.
Proposals: Full proposals are available for review, and once approved, they will be submitted on-chain.