Summary:

The Infrastructure Builders Program (IBP) is a collective of independent infrastructure service providers that supports the Polkadot ecosystem and its parachains with RPC and ‘IT department’ services. Established in 2022, IBP is a globally distributed and resilient ecosystem service provider, thanks to its unique design. This proposal seeks to secure continued funding for the services it provides to the ecosystem.

Changelog:

As part of the IBP RFC process, the IBP members have among other things:

• Built a custom GeoDNS solution which allows for more efficient service provision through individual sub-domains per supported chain.
• Reworked the Prometheus/monitoring stack with the long-term goal to make the dashboards publicly available.
• Voted that every member deploys all eligible parachains for global coverage, but compensation is proportional to utilization.
• Voted that members in addition to penalties only get paid based on uptime.
• Voted to discontinue Westend to save costs.
• Deployed RPC Revive.
• Started providing ephemeral Github runners to the fellowship.
• Discontinued RPC support for Mythos following their pivot.
• Discontinued RPC support for InvArch.
• Discontinued RPC support for Kilt following their pivot.
• Discontinued RPC support for Xcavate following their temporary shutdown of their Collators.
• Discontinued RPC support for Polimec following the project’s shutdown, while preserving an archive node backup so its history and outputs remain accessible for ecosystem reuse.
• Started running validators for Parity’s Bulletin Chain.

Treasury burn saving:

We propose that GiantSquid going forward should be maintained and operated through the IBP which results in cost savings of 80-90%. This calculation is based on a single archive squid node deployment in a redundant config deployment to a member.

Monthly Usage:

The following metrics are from 2026-02-9 covering the previous 30 days. During this period, IBP served over 20.5 billion requests across all relay chains and their system chains.

See the Full Proposal here