High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 & Q2 2025)

Proponent: 42RrwG92YkDW5nE4as3Zp1qfWZh4FszeKVFgV7KcLKdSyTiM
Date: 24th January 2025
Total Requested PHA: $16,490 USD or 59,125 PHA
Short description: Ongoing & advanced costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure in Q1 and Q2 of 2025 for Phala and Khala.

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 reduce the pain of getting started on Phala and Khala 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 Khala 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 and Khala. 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 and Khala endpoints to multi-region setups - Hong Kong and North Virginia.

OnFinality provides the lowest global latency RPC endpoints for both Phala and Khala. We have achieved 100% and 99.99% 90 day uptime respectively.

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.

Cost Optimisation & Decentralisation
OnFinality is very conscious about providing a strong level of support for Phala and Khala at an extremely competitive price.

That’s why our Khala and Phala API services are running entirely on OnFinality Cloud, our own private hardware and self service Cloud.

This allowed us to upgrade both setups to multi-region at no additional cost to the community.

The total cost for our Phala (H1 2025) and Khala (January 2025) RPC services is $16,490 USD

Read the complete proposal here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dMydMZiU3btAk398jCLhgj4Brx_uQzg3kVxD5zBLauk/edit?usp=sharing