Kintsugi Proponent: a3c2E9dmBARJfPWgahQK5Y2B6CCALpdgft3dhRK7r738rHj1G
Date: 14th February 2025
Total Requested KINT: USD $3,162.00 or 8776.02 KINT
**Short description: ** Ongoing & advanced costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure in Q1 and Q2 of 2025 for Kintsugi.
Why are Public RPC Services Needed for Kintsugi
Setting up blockchain infrastructure is difficult, time consuming, and expensive:
It requires a level of server development expertise that many do not have
It’s costly to run a full node nearly continuously, especially when your dApp’s traffic is low and inconsistent.
Running production level infrastructure is especially tricky. You need to autoscale quickly to handle bursty traffic, and you want to provide services in different regions around the world to provide low latency services - all of this is incredibly costly, but comes with significant economies of scale for a provider.
DevOps requires constant attention - time that would be better spent elsewhere building.
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. We manage all the nodes for our users and distribute them across the world (with intelligent routing) to achieve global scalability from day 1, we monitor each node and ensure that they meet certain service levels, and we have the expertise and scale to handle production workloads and high peak traffic.
In summary, we reduce the pain of getting started on Kintsugi Network and minimise the costs of accessing secure nodes while traffic from your dApp is low. When you grow, you can continue to use our shared API service, or we also provide access to one click deploy dedicated Kintsugi nodes to any cloud of your choosing.
OnFinality’s RPC Service
As Polkadot’s largest and most cost efficient infrastructure provider, we provide scalable free public API services for Kintsugi. Since our inception in November 2020 we have a long track record focussing on three key areas; performance/reliability, providing more value from our Ultimate API service, and cost optimisation.
Performance/Reliability
OnFinality is operationally striving for a minimum of 99.9% reliability, we are the only RPC provider to guarantee this with actual financial penalties (see appendix A). We proudly display and share our 90 day uptime statistics for each network publicly here.
We have invested hugely into a team dedicated to optimising our application gateway and caching layer to ensure that we provide the fastest possible service for our customers. We run clusters in 4 different regions (North Virginia, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Tokyo) and across 3 different cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and our own dedicated hardware) to ensure that we are fault tolerant to any single region or cloud provider ceasing service.
Cost Optimisation
OnFinality is very conscious about providing a strong level of support for Kintsugi at an extremely competitive price.
That’s why our Kintsugi RPC Service runs entirely on OnFinality Cloud - North Virginia, our own private hardware and self service Cloud
This allows us to support the decentralisation of the Interlay Network while delivering exceptional performance at a competitive price.
Costings
We are using a fixed price to allow us to bill in advance and to simplify the administration of this proposal, as well as provide cost clarity to both parties. This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for Kintsugi for all of Q1 and Q2 2025. By paying 6 months up-front we will apply a 15% discount to our services.
The total combined running cost is USD $3,162.00. This is all inclusive of capital and operating expenses, administration time from OnFinality DevOps, onboarding costs, backup costs, and all other monitoring and right-sizing by our team.
Read the complete proposal here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_aSY9NK3lBxm7UHyon6aOkfvf4qNBsSZ1WavCyJLny8/edit?usp=sharing