Proponent: Subsquid Lab Official - FAyqRVLZmXVUU9pNeG8w8SxS5xRgN8FRGeWLL6u9S32TMHc
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 - July, August, September
Requested KSM: 1,447.28 KSM*
*added 33.33 KSM due to bond associated with our proposal in governance 1.0. This proposal supersedes the proposal made with governance 1.0 = https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/246 . Further we added another 6.66 KSM due to an issue with u128 conversion for the requested amount in Polkadot JS.
Previous proposal:
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/171
https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/134
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
At the end of Q2 Subsquid released a new generation of Archives, together with a major version of the SDK, both code named “Fire Squid”.
The improvements brought by this release include:
Between 2022-09-03 (when tracking has started) and 2022-09-30 Subsquid’s Archive infrastructure has collectively:
Full report here
Subsquid is a company that provides data indexing infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.
Archives are important for data exploration and ad-hoc queries.
Subsquid has released a new generation of Archives called "Fire Squid" which has improved performance and supports batch requests.
Between September 3 and September 30, Subsquid's Archive infrastructure served a total of 129 million queries.
Subsquid is continuously improving the product by adding features such as EVM Transactions indexing and subscriptions to queries.