Proponent: 0xf1cCF19F71D820dB4cd1263516a958D3E6272021
Date: 11th April 2023
Requested: 1,764.6164 MOVR
Short description: Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for the Moonriver network from 1st January 2023 until 31st March 2023 (3 months).
During Q1 of 2023, we've made a large number of stability improvements to our Ultimate API service to allow us to add a large number of new parachains over the last quarter as well as support for multiple chains outside of Polkadot.
For customers that do sign up for paid API keys, we've been adding more and more features to provide a better experience. Geolocation insights provide statistics about where in the world communities are to help influence decisions around where to expand infrastructure and to view the effectiveness of regional BD initiatives. We can also now automatically upsize the storage on nodes to prevent the risk of any downtime.
Our customers are building cross-chain wallets, running some of the largest block explorers, and are indexing multiple networks - they've all benefited from these API access restrictions, improved monitoring, and the larger number of supported Polkadot chains.
As well as the ultimate API service we provide, we also run 2x Moonriver Bootnodes for provision to the community to aid and accelerate network syncing.
Additionally, we are proud to have delivered some key service enhancements that benefit the Polkadot ecosystem in the last quarter. This includes:
You can always see live data on our API service on our public status page and network analytics page.
This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for the Moonriver Networks during Q1 (January, February, March) of 2023. The total outstanding costs for these networks are USD $15,013.03 which we calculate to be 1,764.6164 MOVR.
The full report for this proposal can be found here
OnFinality is a company that provides infrastructure services for the Moonriver network. They have made many improvements to their services, including stability improvements and new features for customers. They also run two Moonriver Bootnodes to help with network syncing. They have made enhancements to benefit the Polkadot ecosystem, such as auto-expanding storage and geographical insights. They have added support for new networks and made improvements to their health metrics and recovery scripts. The proposal is for the ongoing costs of running their infrastructure for the Moonriver network from January to March 2023, which is 1,764.6164 MOVR.