[Blockdaemon] Update on the Infrastructure Proposal for Community Pool Funding

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Hi Terra Community,

Our Terra Cluster endpoint is now available! You can access it here and try it out:

Endpoint: https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317

  • LCD endpoints only! Swagger UI
  • Performance highlights:
    • Improved test cases to mimic actual user actions
    • 3924 request made over 5 minutes
    • max 100 concurrent users
    • we had a 92.02% success rate on being able to fulfill request made to the cluster
      • This factors in timeouts and when nodes need to be rotated out when they stop syncing (known issue with LCD)
    • Request per second 11.890737/s
    • Request duration of 1 minute on average when looking up randomized valid data (e.g. block height, validator sets at blocks, account information, account balances, validator information, delegations for randomized validators, outstanding rewards/commission/slashes for random validator endpoints, …)

Due to the documented mem issues the network is experiencing, we’ve chosen to disable the tendermint RPC until the issues are improved or resolved.

In addition, we will have more news later this week on the bounties going up on gitcoin for

  • Adding additional to the Memory Fragmentation bounty
  • Sync issue when calling LCD endpoints
  • Network performance related to increasing validators

We will be continuously testing and looking to improve the cluster, so the community has the best and improved experience, as some of these issues are resolved.

Stay tuned for more details and further updates over the next few weeks/months. If you have feedback, please reach out to us at [email protected] so that we can answer your questions quickly!

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I am relived to see real results, thank you for producing as requested. I look forward to hearing further details from Blockdaemon as there are many specifics of the original deal that remain unresolved or unaddressed.

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Hi Katie, do you have any updates on the following? Its been well over a week:

Thank you!

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Hello @Katie_DiMento,

Can we please be given an update? Or does the community really need to take to twitter again to get your attention?

Thank you.

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Hi @somethingelse,

Apologize for the delay and know that we are on it. We’re wrapping up milestone one (part 2) this week, in having the cluster provided previously available through our Ubiquity app - with the addition of our standard API integration for common calls.

The access will still be available free of charge to the community for the next year.

Following soon after in February will be streaming, through the Ubiquity platform.

Will post again later this week when Terra option is in the app for you to play with!

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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. :disappointed:

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Hi Terra Community!

We have some great news - all of the deliverables on our infrastructure proposal are complete.

Here the deliverables as follows:

Relaunch of the Terra Validator -DONE - launched in May ’21 and can be viewed here: Terra Finder

Grant Milestone 1 - Transactions & Balances and RPC Endpoints -DONE:

Part 1: RPC Endpoints

  • Endpoint delivered Nov ’21

Can access it here and try it out:

Performance highlights:

  • Improved test cases to mimic actual user actions
  • 3924 request made over 5 minutes
  • max 100 concurrent users
  • we had a 92.02% success rate on being able to fulfill request made to the cluster
    • This factors in timeouts and when nodes need to be rotated out when they stop syncing (known issue with LCD)
  • Request per second 11.890737/s
  • Request duration of 1 minute on average when looking up randomized valid data (e.g. block height, validator sets at blocks, account information, account balances, validator information, delegations for randomized validators, outstanding rewards/commission/slashes for random validator endpoints)

Part 2: Ubiquity integration complete, available in the blockdaemon app - DONE - Jan ‘22

Grant Milestone 2 - Streaming - DONE - Jan ’22

  • Part of the Ubiquity feature set

We do understand the delays and because we did not deliver in the timeframe that was originally discussed, we are giving back ALL of the tokens received at their current price to the community pool. We wanted to deliver on these milestones because we are committed to the Terra community and know the importance of the projects that need the above milestones. By delivering the tokens back, more projects can utilize funds to continue to progress the overall ecosystem!

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Hi Katie,

What a journey it has been. I’ll be the first to say that I had doubted Blockdaemon’s commitment to fulfilling its promise to Terra. However, this post puts all doubts to rest, you did the right thing and I truly appreciate that. Bravo! Thank you again and I hope to see more from Blockdaemon in the future!

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Kudos for delivering and returning the tokens. Appreciate you addressing the doubts, and supporting the community fund.

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I went to the RPC endpoint and got this: “not implemented”

https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317

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Hi @Kyu - could you let me know what request it was so we can troubleshoot?

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Hi Kyu,

I didn’t hear back but wanted to show more guidance on how to use and examples that you can do as this cluster is available for anyone to use. There is no need to have the end user have an auth token, the user will just need to use the URL plus port(s) to use the correct endpoints on the cluster. Here are some examples of how you can use the end points:

Base URL:

https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net/

Tendermint Endpoints

URL for Tendermint endpoints:

https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657

To see a list of endpoints that are supported in our cluster the user will need to visit the following URL: https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657/

Note that not all official endpoints are supported on our cluster so if you do not see it in the above output, please reach out to us and we can look into it and let you know how we can assist.

If you need information on the endpoints you can look at the official docs found here: Tendermint RPC

Example of how to use the endpoints:

Get Block info
REST API (works on browsers)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657/block?height=6311484
RPC equivalent (does not work on browser)

Get Block Info
Get Block Info1262×158 28.6 KB

For reference above: curl -X POST ‘https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657’ --header ‘Content-Type: application/json’ --data-raw ‘{“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,“method”: “block”, “params”: [“6311484”], “id”: 1}’

Number of unconfirmed Transaction
REST API (works on browsers)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657/num_unconfirmed_txs
RPC equivalent (does not work on browser)

Number of unconfirmed txs
Number of unconfirmed txs1264×158 28.3 KB

For reference above: curl -X POST ‘https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657’ --header ‘Content-Type: application/json’ --data-raw ‘{“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,“metod”: “num_unconfirmed_txs”, “params”: [], “id”: 1}’

Check validators at specific height
REST API (works on browsers)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657/validators?height=6311484
RPC equivalent (does not work on browser) - for this RPC example you will need to pass all parameters into your call

Check validators height
Check validators height1250×188 32.6 KB

For reference above: curl -X POST ‘https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:26657’ --header ‘X-Auth-Token;’ --header ‘Content-Type: application/json’ --data-rw ‘{“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,“method”: “validators”, “params”: [“6311484”,“1”,“30”], “id”: 1}’

LCD Endpoints

URL for LCD Rest Endpoints

https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317

There is no endpoint that gives you the list of supported endpoints for LCD but the official documentation can be found here: Swagger UI

Example on how to use endpoints:

Get Node info using Terra Rest
REST API (works on browser)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317/node_info
There is no RPC equivalent

Get block height info using Tendermint Rest
REST API (Works on browser)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317/blocks/6311484
There is no RPC equivalent
Query to view validator info, Blockdaemon is used an example

REST API (works on browser)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317/cosmos/staking/v1beta1/validators/terravaloper155x8vngnz4u2ce3fs6dvu027v8w90jqdjtdp3h
There is no RPC equivalent

Query the exchange rate of a denomination, denomination UUSD used in this example
REST API (works on browser)
https://blockdaemon-terra-lcd.api.bdnodes.net:1317/terra/oracle/v1beta1/denoms/uusd/exchange_rate
There is no RPC equivalent

I hope this helps and please again reach out for any questions!

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