Context

RegionX Hub is the primary application for interacting with Polkadot’s Agile Coretime model. There is no other project in the ecosystem that fulfills this role, and we are proud to play this key role. At its core, Coretime is the product that Polkadot—and, in the future, JAM—offers. It is very important to have a project that gives users simple, intuitive access to all Coretime-related functionality. We represent the ecosystem in this area, which is why we take development at RegionX very seriously.

We are the only team to have successfully implemented a trustless secondary Coretime marketplace, live on Kusama. The concept of a secondary market was introduced in the Agile Coretime RFCs, and since then RegionX has led the effort and was the first to implement it. 

We are a team that, since Agile Coretime was introduced in RFC-1, has been working toward the goal of providing a web application for managing Coretime in an intuitive way. The Agile Coretime model is quite abstract, and creating a user interface that is both intuitive and easy to understand and use is definitely not a simple challenge. Therefore, we are proud to be the only team so far to have successfully tackled this challenge and to be the leading application for Coretime management.

In the new iteration of the app, called RegionX Hub, we have worked closely with designers to deliver something that not only looks great but is also highly usable for all the different types of users we have identified.

Overall, we believe we are working in a very important area of the ecosystem. With this proposal, we cover the retroactive work completed on the application and implement the requested features and improvements, along with essential updates required following the Coretime chain changes. With RegionX, we aim to represent the ecosystem in the best possible light when it comes to Coretime.

Proposal

This proposal covers a significant amount of work we have delivered since our last proposal. It includes necessary updates following Coretime chain upgrades, as well as key improvements to ensure all pages present the required information and offer an intuitive overview and interface. The proposal also includes other UX and UI improvements that were either requested or identified as missing from the RegionX Hub.

Many of the UI and UX improvements have already been implemented, and their results can be found in the Delivery section.

For this proposal, we are willing to reduce our hourly rate to 70 USD/hour. We are doing this because we believe in the Polkadot and want to keep RegionX Hub active in the ecosystem. We’ve also removed in-depth data analytics and reduced the proposal to only the most essential work and ongoing maintenance.
It’s in the ecosystem’s interest to keep this project live rather than shut it down, so our team has agreed to request the smallest possible cost from the treasury to keep it running.

The project will be made more accessible to outside contributors so anyone can add requested features and contribute to the RegionX Hub.

Full proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XXrOz-pc4jDsSehIBRQUXHlWKMe5EoylWTKi4wdyj-Y/edit?usp=sharing