OnFinality | High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 & Q4 2025)

Proponent: 42RrwG92YkDW5nE4as3Zp1qfWZh4FszeKVFgV7KcLKdSyTiM
Date: 7th July 2025
Total Requested PHA: $15,300 USD or 157,731.96 PHA
Short description: Ongoing & advanced costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure in Q3 and Q4 of 2025 for Phala.

Why are Public RPC Services Needed for Phala
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 Phala 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 Phala nodes to any cloud of your choosing.

Background on our RPC Service
As Polkadot’s largest and most cost efficient infrastructure provider, we provide scalable free public API services for Phala. 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
In 2024, we upgraded our Phala endpoints to multi-region setups - Hong Kong and North Virginia.
OnFinality provides the lowest global latency RPC endpoint for Phala. We have achieved 99.93% uptime over the past 90 days.

We are the only RPC provider to guarantee 99.9% uptime with actual financial penalties (see appendix A). We proudly display and share our 90 day uptime statistics for each network publicly here.

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 Phala for all of Q3 and Q4 2025. By paying 6 months up-front we will apply a 15% discount to our services.

The total combined running cost is USD $15,300. 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/10VVFu_mdPU0HGAkx6kxvZx6tBZKf5MNDa1DTJraGtyA/edit?usp=sharing

A proposal has been made by 42RrwG92YkDW5nE4as3Zp1qfWZh4FszeKVFgV7KcLKdSyTiM on 7th July 2025, requesting $15,300 USD or 157,731.96 PHA for the ongoing and advanced costs of running high-performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure for Phala in Q3 and Q4 of 2025.

Public RPC services are needed for Phala because setting up blockchain infrastructure is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. It requires server development expertise, is costly to run a full node continuously, and managing production-level infrastructure is challenging. A shared node API service helps reduce these costs and barriers to accessing a new protocol.

OnFinality, as Polkadot's largest and most cost-efficient infrastructure provider, offers scalable free public API services for Phala. They focus on performance/reliability, providing more value from their Ultimate API service, and cost optimization. In 2024, they upgraded their Phala endpoints to multi-region setups in Hong Kong and North Virginia, achieving 99.93% uptime over the past 90 days and guaranteeing 99.9% uptime with financial penalties.

The proposal includes a fixed price for combined running costs for Phala's infrastructure for Q3 and Q4 2025, with a 15% discount for paying 6 months in advance. The total cost is $15,300, covering capital and operating expenses, administration time, onboarding costs, backup costs, and monitoring and right-sizing by the OnFinality team.