You can read more details about this proposal, including detailed traffic and costings here.

Original Motivation

Over the last 3 months (July, August, September 2021) the team provided a scalable free public API service so that everyone can access public pools of managed Polkadot and Westend 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 validator nodes are running and scaling as the network traffic increases (we've made Github issues based on behaviour we've observed)

The motion aims to cover the costs for Q3 2021 of the rpc nodes service by OnFinality: the full proposal can be found HERE, please review and vote at your convenience!