Summary

This proposal was submitted on-chain on 15th March 2023. Motion had all 7 positive votes from the council but was short of one active vote. Motion was further delayed due to the transition from Governance 1 to OpenGov. This is a claim on an expense that was made in Q4 of 2022 and will be the final one.

Please note that we were advised to include the deposit made on the initial proposal (192.645 DOT) which will be slashed once this is approved.

Thank you for your support.

Proponent: Pinknode
Date: 26/06/2023

Amount in USD: $20,093.46

Proposal Amount in DOT: 4,053.55 DOT

Deposit in Gov 1 Proposal: 192.645 DOT

Total Claim in DOT: 4,246.19 DOT

DOT Rate: $4.957 (using EMA7 as of 26/06/2023)

DOT Account: 13EAhGcpe93mqSFZQrQ4P2cfpdAo5txWc5UQVTfEKDoqZjhw

Proposal Summary: Costs for running secure, reliable, and scalable public infrastructure for Polkadot, Statemint, and Westend

Project Summary

Pinknode is a node-as-a-service platform focused on providing shared API endpoint and node operation services catering exclusively to the Polkadot ecosystem. We launched our MVP in June 2021 and have been providing free RPC services to the Polkadot ecosystem’s participants since Q3 2021. Our mission is to aid the Polkadot protocol in achieving its vision of a multi-chain future by providing easy-to-use, reliable, and scalable infrastructure services which remove an entire layer of complexities for developers to start building on Polkadot/Substrate.

Ecosystem participants can access our free API service by creating their own API Key on Pinknode Portal or using our public endpoints (listed at https://polkadot.js.org/apps). In a bid to reduce barriers to entry and attract more developers to the ecosystem, our premium plan, which includes archival data and higher rate limits, is also free for all builders and participants of Polkadot to utilize. We are not charging our users anything at this moment.

https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/polkadot
wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/polkadot
https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/statemint
wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/statemint
https://public-rpc.pinknode.io/westend
wss://public-rpc.pinknode.io/westend

Service Details

From 1 October 2022 to 31 December 2022,

Pinknode’s Polkadot RPC nodes have served an average of 7,259,280 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 675,113,094 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Statemint RPC nodes have served an average of 213,150 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 19,609,835 requests for the quarter.

Pinknode’s Westend RPC nodes have served an average of 229,823 requests per day, for a cumulative total of 21,373,571 requests for the quarter.

Enhancements during Q4 2022:

-Added “Team API calls used’ on main dashboard for effective summary

-Moved request log storage to AWS S3 for faster UX

-Added toggle switch for live request viewer, to be initiated by users as opposed to default

-Upgrades to our proxy for more accurate logging

Pinknode achieved service reliability of 99.88% for Q4 2022 with one major downtime incident on 21 November 2022.

Our status page is publicly maintained.

Our full report including raw data and graphs can be viewed here.