Polkadot System Parachain Collators - Tips
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.
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.
Comments (5)
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Proposal Failed
ChaosDAO would like to provide the following feedback from our community. We offer this feedback voluntarily in the spirit of OpenGov, in order to help teams improve their proposals so we can all build the network together.
1. Some members commented that the request of $300 per month per systems parachain seems a reasonable cost for ensuring liveness of these system parachains.
ChaosDAO votes as a collective based on the results of our anonymous internal voting procedures. Our members are not required provide any feedback as to why they have voted in a particular direction. Similarly, to respect our members' right to anonymity, we will not be sharing names of individuals who have chosen to voluntarily provide feedback.
@ChaosDAO Thank you for the support and your understanding of the of the expenses associated with community-run infrastructure.
Adams tweet on temporary suspension of the services - an unfortunate example of the challenges associated with running infrastructure without funding.
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