**Abstract** - Ongoing costs for supporting Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha networks in BlastAPI (https://blastapi.io). These costs are ongoing for as long as the Moonbeam, Moonriver,  Moonbase alpha ecosystems need this service and are requested on a quarterly basis. The costs requested are for Q3 & Q4 2023 (from July 1 to December 31, 2023).

**Motivation** - Easy, fast, and reliable access to high-performance HTTP and WSS APIs for all Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha networks through https://blastapi.io in just a few clicks. Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha builders can focus on developing their applications without worrying about running and maintaining infrastructure.

**Project Overview and Team Experience** - Blast is Bware Labs' API provider platform that aims to solve Web 3 infrastructure issues related to reliability and latency, by employing geographically distributed third-party nodes.
Blast offers a multi-region architecture that, along with a series of clustering and geo-location mechanisms, ensures optimal routing of user requests to the closest point of presence relative to where a call is generated.
The development and maintenance of the Blast platform are provided by a highly technical team of engineers with proven experience in both Web3 and Web2 projects. 

**Rationale**- We support Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha networks in Blast API platform (https://blastapi.io ) so blockchain developers that are building their dApp on can bypass all the hurdles involved in running their own infrastructure thus reducing both their outage risks and infrastructure costs.

**Overall Cost**- The total cost, including three regions’ support for Moonbeam, Moonriver plus Moonbase alpha (EU, US, and APAC), is $4500 per month, meaning $27000 for Q3 & Q4 2023 payable 80% in Moonbeam Network (GLMR) and 20% in Moonriver (MOVR), tokens that are calculated at an average USD price over the last 30 days. The costs for Q3 & Q4 of 2023 (from July 1 to December 31, 2023) are 109280 GLMR and 1370 MOVR.


**Use of Treasury Funds** - The funds will be used to pay for the infrastructure and maintenance of the Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha nodes between July 1 to December 31, 2023.
These funds will be directed to cover the costs from the infrastructure providers that are used for the Blast backend like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Hetzner, OVH, Servers.com and Digital Ocean and our internal resource cost for the support provided by our engineering team to have high quality infrastructure services for Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha networks.

**Specifications** - On our decentralized, multichain, subscription-based, API platform, Blast we support Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha networks with the following services and specifications:

- Expose RPC and Websockets APIs for Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha;
- The Service availability is at least 99.9%;
- 24/7 Monitoring and alerting for reduced downtime.
- 24/7 On-call engineering support.
- Developer support on Bware Labs Discord Channels.
- The incoming traffic is Geo-load balanced over three regions: North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, with automated traffic routing for optimal response times.
- The Clients that use the Public API free version of Blast are limited to 25 API Calls/second.
- 12 Million API calls/month with a throughput of 40 API calls/second offered for free to Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha users on each dedicated Blast account
- Total traffic supported on all subscription plans and Public API: 3700 calls/second per region per network.
- Multi-region node hosting: Moonbeam (EU, US, and APAC), Moonriver (EU, US and APAC), Moonbase alpha (EU, US and APAC)
- Support for Debug and Trace methods
- Security ensured through continuous integrity monitoring coupled with a smart routing mechanism significantly reduce the risk of malicious behavior from bad actors within the ecosystem

Through Blast API decentralization third party nodes can join the protocol for Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha networks, and earn rewards for their contribution. More details about this can be found here: Blast protocol - Blast Documentation 1

**Public APIs:**
https://moonbeam.public.blastapi.io
wss://moonbeam.public.blastapi.io
https://moonriver.public.blastapi.io
wss://moonriver.public.blastapi.io
https://moonbase-alpha.public.blastapi.io
wss://moonbase-alpha.public.blastapi.io

**Dedicated APIs:**
https://blastapi.io 

**Blast API Usage Report**
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mDyKBnjOOK3FQXpzdqw626C-Z8krPJwe/edit#gid=1871162999 


**Steps to Implement**
We’ve been supporting Moonbase alpha and Moonriver networks since June 2021 and Moonbeam network since January 2022. We will continue our support as long as the Moonbeam, Moonriver, Moonbase alpha ecosystems need this service.


**Forum Proposal Discussion**
https://forum.moonbeam.network/t/proposal-xx-blast-support-for-moonbeam-moonriver-and-moonbase-alpha-q3-q4-2023/1153


- Problem Statement: The Polkassembly CouncilMotion post discusses the need for a safe and effective upgrade to Statemint, a common-good parachain, through two scheduled transactions. The intended audience is the Polkadot community, particularly those involved in the technical aspects of the network.
- Significance: The upgrade is crucial to ensure the smooth functioning of the Statemint parachain, which is a key component of the Polkadot ecosystem. The upgrade process involves setting storage keys and authorizing the upgrade, which requires careful planning and execution.
- Proposed Solution: The post proposes a two-step solution. The first step involves setting some storage keys in Shell for Statemint's "genesis". The second step authorizes the upgrade to Statemint. Both calls need to be constructed on Shell and then dispatched from the Relay Chain in an XCM. The post provides detailed instructions and call data for both steps.
- Expected Outcomes: The successful implementation of the proposed solution will result in a safe and effective upgrade to Statemint. This will ensure the continued smooth operation of the parachain, contributing to the overall stability and functionality of the Polkadot network.

Requested: 0.62 undefined

#17 Blast support for Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase alpha (Q3 & Q4 2023)