**Proponent**: 0xf1cCF19F71D820dB4cd1263516a958D3E6272021

**Date:** 25th August 2022

**Requested GLMR:** 130,343.29

**Short description:** Ongoing costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for the Moonbeam networks.

**Full Proposal:** https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZfqYes0Oq0L5H6TAPsCxlvrT1pXhUjpmplbm3m8Kbs/edit?usp=sharing

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### Service Details

Since February 2021 we've provided a scalable free public API service so that everyone can access public pools of managed Moonbeam, Moonriver and Moonbase Alpha nodes. This provides the following three outcomes:

- Grow the ecosystem by reducing the barriers to entry to access a high performance nodes
- Help scale existing projects in the ecosystem by providing infrastructure  services that can be depended on
- Assist with the testing of all networks by providing valuable data back to the community on how archive nodes are running and scaling as the network traffic increases

The time period from February 2021 to July 2022 was of huge growth for Moonbeam and OnFinality,  this proposal only covers the period from the 1st February to 31st July. Over this period we served a total of 39,466,226,247.00 (39 billion) responses through our API service and almost 75 TB of data egress.

We’ve made significant enhancements to our service to better support Moonbeam including splitting and prioritising ethereum traffic to dedicated archive nodes. This has increased our node pool size but allows us to make significant optimisations in the effort to reduce latency and drive uptime. As a result, we have multiple clusters running in data centres around the world servicing tens of thousands of unique IP addresses.

We continued to execute on our efforts to provide unprecedented service stability and reliability to this ecosystem. All supported networks exceeded our 99.9% target, including 100% uptime for Moonbeam and 99.98% for Moonbase Alpha over the last 90 days to 12th August. At this stage, OnFinality is operationally striving for a minimum of 99.99% availability, which means less than an hour of downtime each year.

**Full Proposal:** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZfqYes0Oq0L5H6TAPsCxlvrT1pXhUjpmplbm3m8Kbs/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZfqYes0Oq0L5H6TAPsCxlvrT1pXhUjpmplbm3m8Kbs/edit?usp=sharing)

- The proposal is requesting money for the ongoing costs of running infrastructure for Moonbeam networks.
- They have been providing a free public API service since February 2021.
- The service helps grow the ecosystem, scale existing projects, and provide valuable data to the community.
- They have served billions of responses and a lot of data through their API service.
- They have made improvements to their service to reduce latency and increase uptime.

Requested: 0.13 undefined

#1 OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (to end of Q2 2022)