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Patract Labs' maintenance cost for Polkadot of 2021
This is copy from https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/760
Patract is developing development tools and services for Polkadot’s Wasm contract technology. With the support of Polkadot Treasury, we have completed the development, report, and external review of Redspot, Europa, Elara, zkMega, Metis. However, in the past six to twelve months, the underlying technology of Wasm contracts led by Parity has undergone tremendous breaking changes, so we continued to contribute our developers for long-term maintenance. Among them, the function changes of Pallet-Contracts and ink! mainly include :
- Change of Pallet-contracts
- Refactors
- update about host_func
- update about debug_message
- update about wasm executor
- Change of ink!
In addition, we paid a lot of cloud server and bandwidth costs for API service Elara, and maintained the Jupiter test chain. At the same time, we also provided the community with video and document developer education content, and continuously iterate the product line based on the community’s feedback. The following is a summary of the maintenance work and cost of each product in the past year:
Redspot (6 months)
Redspot is a Polkadot Wasm contract scaffold similar to Ethereum Hardhat. 6 months ago, we completed the development of version 0.4. After that, the maintenance work of the Github repo are as follows:
- Submitted 54 Commits
- Processed 19 issues，with 14 Closed，and 5 Open
- Processed 19 PRs，with 17 Closed，and 2 Open
The main function updates are:
- Upgrade to support the latest ink! and polkadot-js.
- Support HDAccountsUserConfig
- Export buildTx function
- Fix the compilation error caused by the project name
- Updated the contract code of examples
- Fixed the bug of getting the wrong contract address
- Add the --release parameter when compiling the contract
- Support target_directory parameter when compiling contract
The maintenance costs are:
- 1 maintainer * monthly salary $1000 * duration 6 months = $6000
Europa (5 months)
Europa and Europa-UI is a running sandbox for Polkadot Wasm contract, similar to Ethereum Ganache. 5 months ago, we completed the development of version 0.3. After that, the maintenance work of the Github repo are as follows:
- Submitted 22 Commits，Released 6 new versions
- Processed 8 issues，with 5 Closed，and 3 Open
- Processed 18 PRs，with 18 Closed
The main function updates are:
- Upgraded version to v0.3.6, basically compatible with the latest pallet-contracts.
- Release v0.3.1, Remove weight check in runtime, for some contract code in debug mode is too large.
- Release v0.3.2, adapted to refactored pallet-contracts
- Release v0.3.4, support stable seal_debug_message
- Release v0.3.5, change the rent parameters to zero, it will cause the same result compared with removed rent pallet-contracts.
- Release v0.3.6, support unstable seal_ecdsa_recovery
- Europa-ui follows Europa to make upgrades
- The Europa-ui upload contract part supports uploading .wasm files and .json files separately
The maintenance costs are:
- 1 maintainer * monthly salary $1000 * duration 5 months = $5000
Metis (4 months)
Metis is a Wasm contract standard library similar to Ethereum OpenZepplin. 4 months ago, we completed the development of version 0.1. After that, the maintenance work of the Github repo are as follows:
- Submitted 10 Commits
The main function updates are:
- Add receiver module for ERC721 and ERC1155
- Update to be compatible with the new version of ink!
The maintenance costs are:
- 1 maintainer * monthly salary $200 * duration 4 months = $800
Jupiter (12 months)
Jupiter is the Wasm contract test-chain provided by us. It is divided into two versions, independent chain and parachain. We didn't applied treasury proposals for this, but maintained by ourself. The maintenance work of the Github repo are as follows:
- Submitted 115 Commits，Released 4 versions
The main function updates are:
- Upgrade to the latest substrate
- Jupiter network supporting independent chain, sepc_version is changed from 1 to 4.
- Jupiter network supporting parachain (cumulus/polkadot-v0.9.8)
The maintenance costs is $3500:
- Cloud cost for independent chain Jupiter PoA:
- 2Core4G * monthly price $50 * duration 12 months = $600
- Cloud cost for Parachain Jupiter Para:
- 4Core8G * monthly price $100 * duration 5 months = $500
- Maintainer cost:
- 1 maintainer * monthly salary $200 * duration 12 months = $2400
Elara for Polkadot (12 months) and Statemint (1 month)
Elara is a node API service similar to Ethereum Infura. By building a middleware service layer, we can provide large number of users to visit by a small number of nodes. More than a year ago, we completed the development of version 0.2. After that, the main maintenance cost is from maintainer and cloud service.
maintenance cost ($38534) :
- 1 maintainer * monthly salary $500 * duration 12 months = $6000
- The total cost of Alibaba Cloud service in Singapore is $32534 (204969 CNY), the details are as follows:
- The unit price of each service is:
- Resources and costs actually consumed by each network：
- This is the screenshot of the Alibaba Cloud bill, the total cost is 805773 CNY, from which the Polkadot/Statemint services should be paid by the Polkadot Treasury are 204969 CNY, and the Kusama/Statemine/Westend/Westmint services should be paid by the Kusama Treasury are 434579 CNY, the rest are for other community chains.
- This is the screenshot of the Elara website statistics, total is 97352 GB / 6.06 Billion Requests, from which the traffic for Polkadot/Statemint is 18693 GB, for Kusama/Statemine/Westend/Westmint is 77572 GB, the rest are for other community chains.
- The unit price of each service is:
Education (12 months)
In order to explain Patract's technical design and implementation details for the community members, Patract Labs currently recoreded 16 sessions of Chinese and English video courses, with a total duration of 19.6 hours / 1176 minutes.
PatraShare in Chinese
- Get started with ink quickly! Smart Contract (76 minutes)
- ink!'s Paradigm vs Solidity (Part 1) - Single Contract (65 minutes)
- ink!'s Paradigm vs Solidity (Part 2) - multiple contracts (75 minutes)
- ink!'s Paradigm vs Solidity (Part 3) (74 minutes)
- Patract's contract development tool chain-Redspot&Europa (152 minutes)
- Europa's Usage and Techniques (86 minutes)
- Wasm Contract Summary (Part 1) (100 minutes)
- Wasm Contract Summary (Part 2) (86 minutes)
- Outlook of contract platform outlook in the future (68 minutes)
- ink! Development Practice - Paradigm Combination (Metis) (80 minutes)
- ink! Development Practice - Paradigm Combination (Metis) of Available ERC20 (71 minutes)
- ink! Development Practice - Paradigm Combination (Metis) of ERC721 and Receiver (71 minutes)
Patract Tutorial Series in English
- Ask! (Part 1) —— Patract Tutorial Series/#1 | Ask! (30 minutes)
- Ask! (Part 2) —— Contract deployment and testing with Europa（18分钟）
- Ask! (Part 3) —— Contract storage and Simple Token（38分钟）
Patract community activities in English
- Sub0: Wasm smart contract with Patract Labs (66 minutes)
- Substrate Seminar: Patract suite and Wasm contract (66 minutes)
- ZKV: Privacy on Polkadot Wasm contract (10 minutes)
maintenance cost:
- 1 maintainer * monthly salary $500 * duration 12 months = $6000
Summary (2021)
Total is $59834 / Monthly avg price of DOT $33.8 = 1770 DOT
- Patract is making tools for Polkadot's Wasm contracts and has completed several projects like Redspot, Europa, and Elara.
- Important software updates include changes in the Pallet-Contracts and ink! functions.
- They support many users by providing cloud services and developing educational content.
- Maintenance costs for different projects range from $800 to $6,000.
- Patract recorded many educational videos to help the community understand their tools better.
- The total maintenance cost in 2021 was about $59,834, equivalent to around 1,770 DOT tokens.