Infrastructure Funding for Polkadot Asset Hub #4 - Maintenance & Continuation of Public good Polkadot NFT marketplace

TL:DR

Full proposal

This proposal continues from KodaDot's one-year treasury proposal (#1262)  which concludes in October 2025. After successfully delivering on that proposal, the founder chose to pursue other ventures. We've been building NFT infrastructure in Polkadot for 5 years.

Chaotic requests $180,000 USDC to maintain critical NFT infrastructure for the Polkadot ecosystem. This proposal ensures continuity of services previously delivered under KodaDot, which concludes operations in October 2025.

Background

We're the team that built and ran KodaDot for 5 years., the core development team has established Chaotic to ensure uninterrupted service for the ecosystem's NFT infrastructure. This transition preserves critical services that currently support 90,000+ NFTs and process 1.14 million monthly requests.

Current Infrastructure Status

Our infrastructure currently maintains:

• Our indexers processing 285,000+ weekly requests across AssetHub Polkadot and Kusama
• APIs serving ecosystem projects including Nova Wallet and Dotmemo
• IPFS gateway managing 90,000+ NFT metadata files
• 99.9% uptime with 143ms average response time

Scope of Work

Milestone 1: Infrastructure Maintenance ($80,000)

• Maintain indexer operations and hosting
• Ensure API availability and performance
• Complete KodaDot to Chaotic platform migration

Milestone 2: Feature Development ($60,000)

• Mass Mint V2 implementation
• Traits and rarity systems
• Advanced filtering capabilities

Milestone 3: Platform Support ($40,000)

• Runtime compatibility updates
• Security patches and bug fixes
• Artist onboarding program ($12,000 allocation)
• PolkaVM research & integration

Critical Timeline Considerations

The Asset Hub launches November 4th, 2025. Without continued funding, the Polkadot ecosystem will lack NFT marketplace functionality at this critical juncture. Additionally, cessation of our indexing services would require ecosystem projects to develop alternative solutions at significantly higher cost.

Risk Assessment

Failure to secure funding would result in:

• Immediate cessation of indexing services upon proposal #1262 expiration
• Loss of API access for dependent projects
• Inaccessibility of indexed blockchain data accumulated over 5 years
• Absence of NFT marketplace infrastructure on Asset Hub launch
• No frontend for Polkadot & Kusama NFTs on Asset Hub

Full proposal