Operations
The original documentation for the Infrastructure Builders' Programme indicated that it would extend the mission of Polkadot's and Kusama's Thousand Validators Programme to include the provision of core infrastructure services in a decentralized, autonomous, fault-tolerant, and self-sustaining manner.
Operators chosen for the Infrastructure Builders' Programme would lease rack space at unique facilities and deploy owned hardware to provide common endpoint and functionality for a variety of core infrastructure services (RPC endpoints, Snapshots, Bootnodes, Validators, Telemetry, and so on).
More details are available in the documentation below:
| No. | Date | Governance | Proposal | Full Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 2022 | Kusama | Referenda 35 | Infrastructure Builders Program |
| 2 | April 2024 | Polkadot | Referenda 649 | Decentralized Infrastructure Services for the Polkadot Ecosystem |
Some of these documents are historical and some administrative and technical aspects (e.g. stage numbering and scope, High availability requirements, etc) may have changed, please refer to the information in this wiki to have the updated version of these concepts
Bounty Management
As shown above, the programme was initially funded by a bounty of the Kusama treasury, and it will be maintained in the future with funding from both Polkadot and Kusama bounties.
The bounties are managed by their relevant curators via a 3/5 multi-sig account.
Each curator provides a secured account that is used to create the 3/5 multi-sig.
Payments to members are executed by child-bounties.
Team
The team is composed of Curators, Advisors, and Members:
Curators
The current curators of the programme are:
- anaelleltd | Parity (non-exec)
- bLd | Astar (non-exec)
- CoinStudio (exec)
- Otar | Parity (non-exec)
- will | Parity (non-exec)
exec positions are compensated for performing additional tasks.
Advisors
The current advisors are:
- Tom | Stake.Plus (exec)
- Derek | Metaspan (exec)
Hobbyist Members
(*): pending migration to Professional track
Professional Members
| ID | Region |
|---|---|
| Dwellir | Africa (West) |
| StakePlus | America (North East) |
| LuckyFriday | America (North West) |
| Gatotech | America (Central) |
| STKD | America (South)* |
| Helikon | Asia (West) |
| RadiumBlock | Asia (South) |
| Rotko | Asia (South East) |
| Amforc | Europe (Central) |
| Metaspan | Europe (West) |
| Turboflakes | Europe (South) |
| Polkadotters | Oceania (Australasia) |
(*): pending deployment.
Meetings
All meetings are recorded, and posted to the IBP Youtube Channel
Announcements
Progress reports: TBC, the Curators will decide on the regularity of reporting - either monthly or quarterly.