Dear Polkadot community,

Collators on System Parachains are provided with minimal rewards for block production and small incentives in terms of transaction fees. This reduces incentives for Collators to act in a favorable manner and they may also be inclined to under-resourcing their hosts to save costs. Collators should receive funding for the provision of their services. Ultimately, this should be provided by the chain in a preferably sustainable manner. Implementation of such a system is a long-term solution. In the medium term, funding for collators can be provided by the respective Treasuries in the form of a bounty. This allows funding to be pre-allocated and independently managed.

Based on Kusama System Parachains Collator Bounty, and RFC-0007: System Collator Selection, this proposal is a short-term solution aiming to post-pay monthly operating costs of service providers until a more suitable solution (Bounty) is established.

Full Proposal

The proposal aims to secure 6,075.79 DOT for Collators on the Polkadot System Parachains network for services delivered for the period of 2 months - 08-09/2023.

This discussion will be open for a period of one week before submitting the proposal onchain. We encourage the Polkadot community to review this proposal and provide any feedback or suggestions.

Thank you!

*Update 11/09: Parity Collators excluded from the funding proposal. Updated the document with new verified identities.