OnFinality: High Performance Public Infrastructure (2023, Q1)

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).

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Service Details and Enhancements

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.

Enhancements

Additionally, we are proud to have delivered some key service enhancements that benefit the Polkadot ecosystem in the last quarter. This includes:

• Auto Expand Storage - When the node's storage reaches 85% utilisation, the storage size will be automatically increased by 10%. Saves developers and devOps time on having to constantly check on and manually upgrade their node storage size
• Partnership with POKT network to bring in more external developers into the Polkadot ecosystem
• 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
• We're testing access to various unsafe methods like traceBlock and subscribeStorage that will help developers create applications that utilise XCM - contact us if you would like to be part of the beta
• Reduced our exposure to any single cloud provider - Progressively migrated resources away from AWS to other cloud providers for lower cost and exposure.
• Expanded our OnFinality for Startups Programme to support teams from the Substrate Builders Programme and Scytale Ventures
• Added support for a number of new networks, including Ajuna, Unique, Clover, SORA, Composable Finance, Collectives, xx network, as well as Polygon, BNB, Fantom, Gnosis and Evmos 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

You can always see live data on our API service on our public status page and network analytics page.

Costings

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