Hello Terra community 
At Chainstack we strive to make it simple for Web3 innovators to launch and scale decentralized applications. Simply put, we take care of the node API infrastructure so that users can focus on more important matters.
Recently, we have seen a steady stream of users requesting integration with the Terra blockchain. Our goal has always been to remove the barrier to entry by providing fast and reliable infrastructure at an affordable price. The integration is a manual process now which increases the time and costs associated with building/deploying on the Terra blockchain.
With this grant proposal, we hope to establish a partnership between Terra and Chainstack aimed at providing fast, easy, and affordable infrastructure while fostering Terra’s ecosystem growth within the developer and business communities.
Terra support on Chainstack
Proposal items:
- Product development, engineering, operations, and marketing activities to onboard Terra as a new protocol on Chainstack
- Global shared node infrastructure, fully managed with support
- Global self-service offering to deploy dedicated Terra nodes, fully managed with support
- Global public LCD/RPC infrastructure
Project URL: https://chainstack.com/
About Chainstack
At Chainstack we are building the most reliable Web3 infrastructure for the next generation of web applications—open, trustless, and robust.
Thousands of innovators in DeFi, NFT, gaming, analytics, and other verticals are empowered by scalable distributed Chainstack APIs. We process billions of requests on a daily basis and provide unified user-friendly access for developers to all prominent Web3 protocols.
By building on Chainstack, developers reduce the time, cost, and risk involved with leveraging decentralized technologies. With fast and secure API as well as flexible deployment options, one can immediately accelerate and future-proof the development of decentralized solutions:
- Multi-chain: support for all popular and emerging blockchain networks
- Multi-cloud: support for multiple hosting environments and regions
- Reliable: self-healing infrastructure with 99.9% uptime
- Scalable: run any number of nodes and networks, anywhere
- Affordable: pay only for what you use
Benefit and impact towards Terra and the Terra community
As mentioned earlier, the purpose of this proposal is to establish a partnership between Terra and Chainstack aimed at fostering Terra’s ecosystem growth within the developer and business communities.
This will be done in the following ways:
- Chainstack will build a complete suite of managed services for Terra. This includes public LCD/RPC endpoints, advocating Terra in the developer and business community, and driving increased adoption of the Terra ecosystem
- We will provide all developers and partners building on Terra, access to shared nodes with a free tier
- We will launch and maintain nodes in various hosting environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Virtuozzo) and in several different regions (US, EU, APAC) on the Terra public networks
- We will provide a self-service offering to deploy dedicated Terra nodes using Bolt technology for instant sync, fully managed with support
- Web3 projects and businesses will be able to deploy Terra nodes in multiple hosting environments and locations, or in their own cloud via the private hosting feature. This will make the Terra network more resilient
- We will utilize our sales force and marketing resources to evangelize Terra across our 30k+ community of developers and businesses. This will help to foster the Terra ecosystem and its adoption
Breakdown of costs (detailed breakdown of the usage of the funds for the proposed project)
Co-funding the onboarding effort: $60,000
- This includes 40 days of professional services priced at $1,500 per day
- The professional services include product costs, engineering, operations, and marketing activities to onboard Terra as a new protocol on Chainstack
Co-funding for free shared node infrastructure: $50,000
Co-funding for public LCD/RPC infrastructure: $50,000
- This is to cover the development of the public LCD/RPC node infrastructure.
- Chainstack will contribute with co-funding in-kind, by providing all the engineering and operational resources to create and maintain the public LCD/RPC endpoints
- Chainstack will host nodes in multiple data centers in US / EU / APAC with georouting enabled on the API to target 100% uptime as well as fast response time
There might be additional funding requests for shared node and public API infrastructure after the integration is complete and the exact cost is identified.
Links and references to past work
Contact information
Name: Eugene Aseev
Email: [email protected]
