This proposal requests a 6-month top-up to continue supporting Polkadot System Parachain collators (AssetHub, BridgeHub, Collectives, Coretime, and People). The goal is to sustain a reliable, decentralized collator set for critical system infrastructure by funding performance-based incentives for eligible collators (invulnerable + permissionless; developer slots are excluded). Payouts are distributed proportionally to blocks authored during each assessment period. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

The proposal also includes (1) staking rewards capped at the yield earned on 1,000 DOT per collator (estimated at ~634.67 DOT/month using an 11.9% APY annual-to-monthly conversion), (2) coordinator support (12 hours/month at $85/hour) to act as a technical liaison between collators and curators, (3) ongoing infrastructure costs for local archive RPC access used for verification and dispute resolution (with retrospective queries limited to 3 months), and (4) amortized completion of a new block-author scraping tool (already partially developed and being prototyped) to reduce operational overhead and improve reliability of monthly accounting. The curator fee (7.5%) is applied last to the full monthly subtotal. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Ask (6 months):

• ~70,201.39 DOT total (estimated), based on $2.0834 per DOT
• Equivalent to $146,257.58 USD total :

Monthly estimate:

• ~11,700.23 DOT/month
• Equivalent to $24,376.26 USD/month

Full proposal -> https://gist.github.com/paradox-tt/432c8bc5671fdb06d006ffc03b971206

Regards,
Will | Paradox