This is a follow-up proposal on what we submitted in August, to further fund the development of the RPC service and to cover the maintenance costs of it.

This new proposal includes two Milestones.

Milestone 1: Run the Kusama RPC service on new dedicated hardware, to increase the performance of the service.

Milestone 2: Onboard a Rust developer to work with the RPC code to make it use resources much more efficiently. We found a problem, during the last quarter, with the scaling of the RPC-service and have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this bottleneck. We published a report in this Github-issue about it. This optimization work will reduce the cost for all RPC service providers in the community.

This proposal only covers Milestone 1 and 2 for now, while in upcoming maintenance proposals we will submit Milestone 1 (continued maintenance) and Milestone 3 (further development of the RPC code).

• Our RPC service is online and the pull request can be found here.
• Our full proposal can be read here.