Stellar Community Fund

By Nodies

Nodies Web3 Infra Services

SCF #30

$62.0K

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Awarded

With 3+ years of experience, Nodies offers the Stellar community high-performance RPC & Horizon services in Mainnet and Testnet.

Products & Services

Nodies plans to integrate Stellar RPC and Horizon into our platform, nodies.app. Upon integration, users will be able to easily create private endpoints for the corresponding blockchain on our platform and enjoy highly performant RPC and Horizon services.

Soroban

Yes

Requested Budget

$62.0K

Success Criteria

Success for our project is defined by 3 primary metrics:

Completion of Deliverables on Time: We consider our project successful if all deliverables are completed within the specified timelines.
High Performance of RPC and Horizon: Another crucial indicator of success is the performance of our nodes. We benchmark our nodes to ensure they provide fast, reliable access. Achieving and maintaining high performance in these benchmarks confirms our capability to deliver top-tier infrastructure services.
Widespread Adoption of Nodies’ Stellar Endpoints: A significant measure of our success is the broad adoption of our Stellar Mainnet and Testnet endpoints. We aim for a substantial number of developers and projects to utilize these endpoints, demonstrating the value and effectiveness of Nodies’ services within the developer community.

By achieving these goals, we ensure not only the fulfillment of our project requirements but also the broader impact and utility of Nodies’ offerings in the blockchain ecosystem.

Go-To-Market Plan

Our go-to-market strategy is centered around leveraging Nodies' established reputation for high-performance and reliable Web3 infrastructure. Here's our approach:

Targeted Community Outreach - We will actively engage with the Stellar and broader blockchain developer communities through forums, developer events, and partnerships to promote our services, emphasizing our proven track record in providing reliable and cost-effective RPC and Horizon solutions.
Partnerships - We will build partnerships with blockchain projects and foundations, as we've successfully done with Kava, Metis, and many others, to integrate our services into their ecosystems, helping streamline developer onboarding and infrastructure setup.
Content Marketing - We will create targeted content (blog posts, updated docs pages, tutorials, etc.) highlighting the benefits of using our infrastructure, particularly in simplifying blockchain development, ensuring fast response times, and maintaining high uptime.
Scalable Pricing Models - We will offer clear and affordable pricing models to accommodate both small developers and large enterprises, reducing the barriers to entry and scaling as needed.

Traction Evidence

We currently have over 3000 registered users on our platform. We average around 1-1.5 billion RPC requests daily, with peaks of close to 3 billion. Our Snapshot services, though fairly new, are already seeing significant download traffic at about 3TB per day.

Tranche 1 (Deliverable Roadmap) - MVP

MVP Deliverable 1
1. Allocate hardware and spin up Stellar Mainnet & Testnet RPC and Horizon nodes in multiple geographical regions
2. Completed once all nodes are syncing up to the current block
3. Estimated to complete within 2 weeks
4. Budget $35,000
MVP Deliverable 2
1. Load test RPC nodes using Flood/Vegeta across various RPC methods
2. Completed once all nodes are load-tested to handle high RPS without issues, See here for more on our benchmark standards.
3. Nodies will publish results of the load tests on our Docs page, in addition to other channels as requested by SCF team.
4. Estimated to complete within 1 week after completion of Deliverable 1.
5. Budget $5,000

Tranche 2 (Deliverable Roadmap) - Testnet

Testnet Deliverable 1
1. Whitelist Stellar testnet RPC and Horizon onto Nodies' platform, enabling access to public and private endpoints
2. Nodies will notify SCF team once the endpoints are available
3. Estimated to complete within 2-3 days after completion of MVP Deliverable 2.
4. Budget $5,000
Testnet Deliverable 2
1. Allocate 5 million daily requests in public traffic for Stellar RPC and Horizon Testnet for a period of 1 year
2. This automatically becomes available upon completion of Testnet Deliverable 1
3. Budget $6,000
Testnet Deliverable 3
1. Update Stellar and Nodies Docs pages
2. Estimated to complete within 1 week after completion of Testnet Deliverable 2, dependent on coordination with Stellar’s Docs team.
3. Budget $0

Tranche 3 (Deliverable Roadmap) - Mainnet

Mainnet Deliverable 1
1. Whitelist Stellar testnet RPC and Horizon onto Nodies' platform, enabling access to public and private endpoints
2. Nodies will notify SCF team once the endpoints are available
3. Estimated to complete within 2-3 days after completion of MVP Deliverable 2.
4. Budget $5,000
Mainnet Deliverable 2
1. Allocate 5 million daily requests in public traffic for Stellar RPC and Horizon Mainnet for a period of 1 year
2. This automatically becomes available upon completion of Mainnet Deliverable 1
3. Budget $6,000
Mainnet Deliverable 3
1. Update Stellar and Nodies Docs pages
2. Estimated to complete within 1 week after completion of Mainnet Deliverable 2, dependent on coordination with Stellar’s Docs team.
3. Budget $0

Team

We have a team of 13 members with over three years of experience in running blockchain infrastructure. Our expertise includes developing node-running software that has dramatically reduced the cost of node operation by 99%. Additionally, Nodies is leading efforts to develop open-source gateways within decentralized RPC protocols. This initiative not only simplifies the onboarding process for additional gateways but also contributes to the broader open-source community.

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