[MS] DOT #1661 - SQD (fka Subsquid) - Public Data Indexing Infrastructure for Polkadot and Kusama (Q4 2024)

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https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1661

Subsquid Lab is asking for $308,704 to support public data archives for Polkadot and Kusama.
These archives help many projects like Talisman Wallet and Polimec by providing free data access.
In Q4 2024, they improved their tools and grew their network to 1,600 worker nodes.
They served over 11 TB of data and handled 2.3 million requests.
Costs include cloud services ($100,134) and engineering work ($155,664).
New features were added, like tracking PolkaVM contracts.
The network is now more decentralized and resilient.
Full details are in their spreadsheet.

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Why DOT request?

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Subsquid is no doubt a good product, but it has its own business model. Projects pay their deployments on subsquid, and SQD should seek a balance between their cost and pricing strategies. All in all, it's more a business than a infura.

For archived data, the treasury has funded archived node RPCs with which projects can easily call history data. Projects can also make their scripts to index history blocks for customized history data. We already have several indexing tool candidates. So it's hard for me to acknowledge this high spend is necessary even it's in USD.