> Past discussions: [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/610
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Subscan is an aggregated Blockchain explorer for Substrate-based chains. We have supported several chains, such as Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo, for more than one year. We have seen an encouraging trend in the number of users and their level of activity. However, with the rapid growth of users, stability and reliability in infrastructure are becoming a challenge. As a result, Subscan has to expend more resources to ensure the quality of the service.

In the long run, we foresee Subscan is being a financially independent service. Although Subscan is starting to generate some revenue, it currently falls short of supporting the infrastructure costs. Therefore, we are looking for financial support from Polkadot Treasury to help to continue providing a realiable explorer service to the community.

## Current Service Scale of Subscan

Below are some metrics from Cloudflare and Subscan's monitoring system for the last few weeks.

*Subscan traffic overview:*
![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/subscan-cloudflare.png)

*Subscan API traffic and distribution:*
![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/subscan-qps-per-network.png)

As the charts demonstrate, Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo are the major user traffic of Subscan. This request-per-second value is showing a decreasing trend from ~80% the last time we submitted the proposal to ~70% currently.

We also launched the [service status page](https://subscan.statuspage.io/) in the last few months. In order to improve the transparency of the Subscan service, several core metrics of our backend have been published on it. Any user in the community is able to watch the incidents, scheduled maintenances, real-time request success rate, service response time graph, etc.

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/subscan-statuspage-metrics.png)

## Billing Info

The infrastructure cost refers to what we have spent on Google Cloud Platform.

### June 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/cost-table-june.png)

Subtotal in June: $7,384.03

### July 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/cost-table-july.png)

Subtotal in July: $7,865.29

### August 2021

![](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/raw/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/cost-table-august.png)

Subtotal in August: $8,643.68

### Total Amount

`$7,384.03 + $7,865.29 + $8,643.68 = $23,893`

*Compute Engine*, *Cloud Logging*, and *Cloud SQL* are the three primary services, among which *Compute Engine* alone `constitutes around 70%` of the total cost. Detailed billing info and other relevant proof are available upon request.

The estimated infrastructure cost we spent on Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo adds up to `$16,725` according to the request distribution chart. Therefore, the amount we are requesting is `568 DOT (1 DOT ≈ 29.40 $USD)`. Such support is indispensable for our goal to capitalize on economies of scale.

## References

- Subscan for Polkadot Network: https://polkadot.subscan.io/
- Subscan Service Status: https://subscan.statuspage.io/

The source code of this proposal is hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/itering/subscan-treasury-proposals/blob/master/infrastructure-costs-2021-june-to-august/).

This proposal announces the successful completion of an initiative to deliver an MVP for a UI Kit, which has been deployed and tested on Westend and Rococo networks.

Producing 24 educational videos about infrastructure projects, parachains, and ecosystem diversity.

Publishing 144 articles on Polkadot-related topics and distributing them across multiple platforms.

Hosting 30 live streams covering various topics like Paracha in progress Updates, Community AMA, Proposal Progress Updates, and Polkadot 101 sessions.

Conducting interviews with 12 parachains or eco-projects, editing them into videos, and sharing them on social media platforms.

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beneficiary

- Subscan is a service that helps people explore and understand blockchain technology.
- They have been supporting different blockchain networks like Polkadot, Kusama, Westend, and Rococo for over a year.
- They have seen a lot of growth in users, but it has become challenging to keep the service stable and reliable.
- They are asking for financial support from the Polkadot Treasury to continue providing their service.
- They have spent a lot of money on infrastructure costs and are requesting 568 DOT (a type of cryptocurrency) to help cover those costs.

#68 The Infrastructure Costs of Subscan for Polkadot Network from June 2021 to August 2021

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