Blockfrost submit servers are processing a big percentage of Cardano transactions, which is not good for decentralization. We need to increase the choice of providers to promote decentralization.
We need to build a multi-provider transaction submit plugin to Blockfrost open source backend and deploy it across the platform.
This is the total amount allocated to Blockfrost multi-provider transaction submit plugin.
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No dependencies.
Project will be open sourced.
This solution has been tracked for some time on Github https://github.com/blockfrost/blockfrost-backend-ryo/discussions/8 and will consist of two major milestones:
This proposal considerably enhances the Cardano infrastructure, promoting not only the decentralization of the protocol but also providing fault tolerance to the submitted infrastructure.
We are going to measure the diversity of submitted transactions through Blockfrost. We will consider it a success if no submit infrastructure component takes more than 50% of the transactions submitted.
The output of this project is going to be an open source contribution to the Blockfrost open source backend. The final report of the project will include data about adoption and diversity of the submit providers.
We are one of the most trusted entities in the Cardano ecosystem. We are best known for developing Blockfrost.io, a service that provides developers with an API to interact with Cardano blockchain.
In addition to more than 30 successful Catalyst proposals over the past two years, we’ve also integrated Cardano into a digital wallet application developed by one of the industry's top hardware wallet manufacturers.
Further adding to our portfolio, we have developed a unique solution for safeguarding and preserving the digital representation of Cardano NFTs by providing secure, global and long-lasting cold storage backups - Continuity Token.
With a skilled team of blockchain enthusiasts and experts, Five Binaries is committed to making the Cardano blockchain more accessible and secure for developers and users alike.
The milestones are:
We estimate this project will take no longer than 3 months.
Outputs and deliverables are described in detail in the previous section. After the deployment phase we will track the usage of each submit provider on Blockfrost.io.
We estimate the cost of development will be around 43,000 EUR.
The ability to choose a provider for the Transaction Submit (Tx Submit) API adds significant value to the ecosystem, and it's an investment that can yield substantial benefits for the community as it greatly improves decentralization, censorship resistance, resilience of the network and eliminates single point of failure.
The technical tasks detailed in this proposal will be carried out by our existing Blockfrost team. This team possesses considerable knowledge of and experience with the Cardano blockchain and Blockfrost platform. Given their existing expertise, we see no need for additional recruitment. We have full confidence in our team's ability to perform the work needed in an efficient and effective manner.