**Proponent:** a3byawr54JPxf1RpvnbLZPkZN2Q9Ry7gg5CXiqcvEtgPWvQM8

**Date:**  20th April 2023

**Requested KINT:** 33,501.5242

**Short description:** Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Interlay's Kintsugi Network.

**The service details outlined in this proposal specifically reference Q1 2023 however the costings combine Q3 2022, Q4 2022 and Q1 2023.**

**FULL REPORT:** [OnFinality Q3 2022, Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 Combined Interlay Report](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--eurmLTzS5bk9_jdvBJXKyFq4RBO0sQjNn7Vl5Ufcg/edit?usp=sharing)

**For further detail on previous quarters, please find individual treasury reports:**

Q3 2022: [Interlay - Treasury Report/Proposal - Q3 2022](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJ_FzSnq32KkrIcePATqf-Yuflkny3vwQvdmTNAlBxs/edit?usp=sharing)\
Q4 2022:  [Interlay - Treasury Report/Proposal - Q4 2022](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ofyf1U3_1Dya49d4ksQAoUb6F-ZndKoQgxFnpuRaCz8/edit?usp=sharing)\
Q1 2023:  [Interlay - OnFinality Treasury Report/Proposal - Q1 2023](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nUjQxqfNXfJz0ZCEoVRjDFqzKTFReLxRhZX6SBKaU48/edit?usp=sharing)

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Original Motivation
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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 try to 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](https://onfinality.io/dedicated_nodes)  to any cloud of your choosing.

Service Details and Enhancements
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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.

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](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-developer-update-auto-expand-storage-for-dedicated-nodes/) - 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](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-partners-with-pocket-network-to-unlock-access-to-unstoppable-infrastructure/) to bring in more external developers into the Polkadot ecosystem

-   [Geographical Insights ](https://blog.onfinality.io/onfinality-adds-geolocation-insights-for-dapps-and-api-apps/)- 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](https://blog.onfinality.io/how-does-onfinality-deal-with-personal-information/) - 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](https://status.onfinality.io/) and [network analytics page](https://onfinality.io/networks).

**FULL REPORT:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--eurmLTzS5bk9_jdvBJXKyFq4RBO0sQjNn7Vl5Ufcg/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--eurmLTzS5bk9_jdvBJXKyFq4RBO0sQjNn7Vl5Ufcg/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality's High Performance Public Infrastructure (Combined Q3 2022, Q4 2022, Q1 2023)

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Proponent/Paid to: a3bDuQajgZhVs7Z9bJxfxBNyqBqmQCZr37okVrU7NCfzABJo8
Date: 11th April 2023
Requested KINT: 1,278.0051
Short description: Ongoing costs for Quarter 1 (January, February and March) of 2023, for the running of a high performance and reliable data indexing managed service for Interlay.

## Original Motivation

Almost every blockchain has a need to process and query data, however everyone knows that a core weakness of blockchain data is that the processing and query performance is extremely inefficient. SubQuery is an open source platform that solves that.

Additionally, managing infrastructure can also be extremely challenging and many teams don't have the expertise or resource that is needed to deploy indexers to cloud providers and then run them at high availability so that they can be relied on for production use cases. SubQuery provides a hosted service with 99.9% reliability to remove this burden from teams, so they can stay focused on building their dApps.

## Service Details 

Interlay is currently leveraging SubQuery’s enterprise-level managed service to provide reliable hosting for their SubQuery projects. This critical service provides production data to applications built by the Interlay team and the 99.9% uptime reliability ensures a seamless experience for the core team and their ecosystem. 

Over the period of 2023-01-01 to 2023-03-31, SubQuery supported Interlay’s SubQuery projects running in a shared database for a total of 4,320.0 compute hours. Each project deployment requires an indexing service, a compute service, and database access run in a production environment and monitored constantly to ensure availability.


## Costings

This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for Interlay from 1st January 2023 until 31st March 2023. The total combined running cost is USD $934.32. 

[Full proposal can be found here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yim3fMa6IIvCn8T7M-QY4PggzWTMGbKUHLAQl0_U7fI/edit?usp=sharing)

Awarded

SubQuery Managed Service Solution (Q1 2023)

Proponent/Paid to: a3bDuQajgZhVs7Z9bJxfxBNyqBqmQCZr37okVrU7NCfzABJo8
Date: 7 February 2023
Requested KINT: 1,303.5031 
Short description: Ongoing costs for Quarter 4 (covering October to December) of 2022, for the running of a high performance and reliable data indexing managed service for Interlay.

# Original Motivation
Almost every blockchain has a need to process and query data, however everyone knows that a core weakness of blockchain data is that the processing and query performance is extremely inefficient. SubQuery is an open source platform that solves that.

Additionally, managing infrastructure can also be extremely challenging and many teams don't have the expertise or resource that is needed to deploy indexers to cloud providers and then run them at high availability so that they can be relied on for production use cases. SubQuery provides a hosted service with 99.9% reliability to remove this burden from teams,  so they can stay focused on building their dApps. 

# Costings
This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for Interlay from 1st October 2022 until 31st December 2022. The total combined running cost is USD $1,040.58.

[Full proposal can be found here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eFPXgN5yQw6ZXVQ77hwifafFv7ilskiAyGFTopr23Ow/edit?usp=sharing)

SubQuery Managed Service Solution (Q4, 2022)

Proponent/Paid to: a3bDuQajgZhVs7Z9bJxfxBNyqBqmQCZr37okVrU7NCfzABJo8
Date: 7 December 2022
Requested KINT: 912.840 
Short description: Ongoing costs for Quarter 3 (covering August to September) of 2022, for the running of a high performance and reliable data indexing managed service for Interlay.

# Original Motivation
Almost every blockchain has a need to process and query data, however everyone knows that a core weakness of blockchain data is that the processing and query performance is extremely inefficient. SubQuery is an open source platform that solves that.

Additionally, managing infrastructure can also be extremely challenging and many teams don't have the expertise or resource that is needed to deploy indexers to cloud providers and then run them at high availability so that they can be relied on for production use cases. SubQuery provides a hosted service with 99.9% reliability to remove this burden from teams,  so they can stay focused on building their dApps. 

# Costings
This proposal includes combined running costs for our infrastructure for Interlay from 1st August 2022 until 30th September 2022. The total combined running cost is USD $752.18.

[Full proposal can be found here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bv6UsREPsC4_X_pMpThT4uFe7iGvA3sXT5dRCx-AR5E/edit?usp=sharing)

SubQuery Managed Service Solution (Q3, 2022)

Proponent: a3exf9eKEVPGXSyFA9T8wBFsAFY5YecUDR8N133juhnt2HkPa (web3alert.io) 
Date: 12.08.2022
Requested KINT: 4428 EUR / 2.8 = 1581 KINT (based on 7day avg rate by Coingecko)
Short description: Web3alert.io maintenance costs for Kintsugi at the rate of 600 EUR/month (+ VAT) for the period 1 August 2022 to 1 February 2023.

![Kintsugi](https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*CwnkMbmZwoOfiA-2uOI5XA.png)

https://web3alert.io is a service that listens for events on Kintsugi and sends notifications about them to messengers. At the moment, Web3alert supports Telegram, Discord and Slack.

[Medium story about the Kintsugi integration on Web3alert](https://medium.com/@web3alert/web3alert-integrates-with-kintsugi-af3e9423fe52)

[See the full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M2YEVzi9RoOcT8LOzEBn03IKgDI9izbQTCKH8ZxjBXo/edit?usp=sharing)

Maintenance of web3alert.io Kintsugi integration for 6 months

SubSquare is a governance platform for substrate based blockchains, and we have integrated kintsugi since 01.2022. We are keep doing the maintenance and common features development work. We propose a treasury spend to support the work.

## Work scope

1. The routine maintenance work to keep the deployment well running.
2. Common features developed
    - UI improvement including header customization, democracy referenda metadata improvement, etc.
    - DID login without email/username signup.
    - Post features enhancement like supporting banner and polls.
    - UI improvements & bug fixes. 
3. Future common features
    - Support more user call interfaces.
    - UI improvements and UX enhancements.
    - User profile page.

## Budget

We request $800 per month for these 6 months maintenance, common features development and server fee. Note that we maintain separate packages for kintsugi, so the request is a big more than that of other para chain deployments.

| Item        | detail            | Cost   |
|-------------|-------------------|--------|
| Monthly fee | 05.2022 - 10.2022 | $4,800 |
| In KINT      | 3.22/KINT        | 1490 |

Subsquare kintsugi maintenance from 05.2022 to 10.2022

**Proponent:** a3byawr54JPxf1RpvnbLZPkZN2Q9Ry7gg5CXiqcvEtgPWvQM8
**Date:** 7th July, 2022
**Requested KINT:** 3,383.31
**Short description:** Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Interlay’s Kintsugi Network.

OnFinality has been running API service resources for Interlay since the 1st of September 2021 - this proposal covers this period from the 1st/April 2022 to 31st/July 2022. Over this period we served a total of 547,285,279 responses through our API service and over 2.14 TB of data egress. Our highest day saw over 11.6 million responses in a single 24 hour period and at the end of the period the 7 day average is 4,223,836 responses. We also have a 90 day uptime of 99.96%

[See the full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ut7isNPnQPj7iJxE92Na5i0MUOz2LpDYJSmOlmavrbc/edit?usp=sharing)

OnFinality - High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2, 2022)

I am the owner of the vault impacted by the unsupported bitcoin version bug detailed in the Kintsugi post mortem here https://medium.com/interlay/kintsugi-the-first-60-days-of-decentralized-bitcoin-87085c2bf717

As of today, 19 KSM and 0.02 BTC are locked and can't be recovered

Recovering funds impacted by the unsupported Bitcoin version bug

**Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Interlay’s Kintsugi Network.**

OnFinality has been running API service resources for Interlay since the 1st of September 2021 - this proposal covers this period from the 1st/September 2021 to 31st/March 2022. Over this period we served a total of 514,371,649 responses through our API service and over 3 TB of data egress. Our highest day saw over 14 million responses in a single 24 hour period and at the end of the period the 7 day average is 8,955,955 responses.

[You can read the full proposal here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QIAb5yD2q1aW4iMyPSufCL1SxtXuIL4I4FpP7hlpEOI/edit?usp=sharing)