Not gonna lie, I can’t help but feel there should have been a bit more urgency here. This isn’t to throw shade as we’re big fans of BlockDaemon (I have personally hung out with Konstantine a few times over the years, lovely guy) but to share realistic feedback from the trenches.
For us at Bidali, because this has been “coming” for almost a year now, in November last year we decided to pull the trigger and just run our own node. We got a fully synced RPC node up and running with websocket streaming behind our load balancers and integrated into our own blockchain agnostic API in weeks.
I know there are competing priorities and it takes additional work to make this scalable for others to consume reliably, but had we been granted a $100k in LUNA grant (worth ~$1.5M at today’s prices, assuming 25k LUNA) this would have been publicly consumable within months and made a major priority.
We’re now going on almost a year and we’re still unable to use BlockDaemon for Terra (and many other networks because of the lack of streaming support). Even QuikNode added it recently and AFAIK they didn’t receive any grants.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to finally see a meaningful progress update, but I can’t help but feel as if proper Terra support has taken a back seat to other priorities. 