Title
OnFinality’s Proposal for High Performance RPC & Bootnode for Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase Alpha in Q2 2026/Q3 2026
Abstract
OnFinality kindly requests support from the Moonbeam Treasury so that we can continue to run the Moonbeam Community’s preferred RPC services
Motivation
OnFinality has a proven track record providing RPC API support for the Moonbeam networks since January 2021 and plans to continue the long standing partnership of a reliable top-tier API service
- Over the past 2 funding periods, provider usage data showed that OnFinality’s Moonbeam RPC is the community’s preferred choice - a clear testament to our high standards in service and support.
- OnFinality is the only Moonbeam RPC service provider to guarantee high availability and low latency with financial penalties if service level targets are not met
Service Performance (Q4 2025 & Q1 2026)
| Network | Average Daily Requests | January 2026 Requests | February 2026 Requests | Total Egress (Period) | Total Requests (Service Lifetime) | Uptime (90 days from Status Page) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moonbeam | 23 Million | 523 Million | 493 Million | 4.5 TB | 32 Billion | 99.97% |
| Moonriver | 7 Million | 217 Million | 195 Million | 1.5 TB | 25 Billion | 99.90% |
| Moonbase Alpha | 3 Million | 70 Million | 121 Million | 0.5 TB | 39 Billion | 99.90% |
| Totals | 32 Million | 808 Million | 809 Million | 6.5 TB | 97 Billion | 99.92% |
Rationale
Setting up reliable and scalable RPC infrastructure is difficult and expensive:
- It requires a level of server development expertise that many do not have. Running production level infrastructure is especially tricky. You need to autoscale quickly to handle bursty traffic, and you want to provide services in different regions around the world to provide low latency services — all of this is incredibly costly.
- Asking others to run their own node hurts your ability to onboard developers into your ecosystem and serves as a massive barrier to entry. It’s costly to run a full node nearly continuously, especially when your dApp’s traffic is low and inconsistent.
- Running nodes and performing the related DevOps activities requires constant attention - time that would be better spent elsewhere building.
OnFinality’s Ultimate API service mitigates these barriers of entry. Users in your ecosystem can enjoy the ultimate reliable API endpoint that can power their app as it grows.
Key Terms
Our services include:
- 99.9% Service Availability Level (SLA) with financial penalties
- Externally monitored 99th Percentile latency of under 1 second with financial penalties
- Complete Archive history
- Support for Trace and Debug methods
- Support for eth_getLogs RPC method
- 24/7 Monitoring and on-call engineers operating
- Community support via our telegram channel and Support Centre
- Rate Limits ensure fair usage of shared public RPC services. Public access to our Moonbean, Moonriver, and Moonbase Alpha endpoints will be provided at 50 responses / second, per IP
- Public access at 50 requests / second (trace & debug methods have a lower limit)
- Free private API access at 50 requests / second via the OnFinality portal with usage and performance insights. Up to 500,000 requests per day.
- Higher access levels available for users on our Growth and Ultimate plans
- Self Service Dedicated Node provisioning on OnFinality Cloud
- One free bootnode per network
SLA Discount
OnFinality’s Moonbeam, Moonriver, and Moonbase Alpha endpoints were funded during Q4 2025 and Q1 2026. Our proposal included trace and debug methods on the public endpoint, but in February we were notified by the Moonbeam team that they weren’t working.
We corrected the misconfiguration, and trace & debug methods are now available on all our Moonbeam family public endpoints.
We are applying our SLA discount of 10% to this coming proposal as compensation.
Overall Cost
| Network | RPC Regions | Nodes* | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moonbeam | North Virginia (North America) + Hong Kong (Asia) | 3 RPC Nodes + Free Bootnode | $990 / month |
| Moonriver | North Virginia (North America) + Hong Kong (Asia) | 2 RPC Nodes + Free Bootnode | $725 / month |
| Moonbase Alpha | North Virginia(North America) | 1 RPC Node + Free Bootnode | $375 / month |
| SLA Discount | 10% Discount for previously missing trace/debug on public endpoint | ($209) / month | |
| Total | North Virginia (North America) + Hong Kong (Asia) | 6 RPC Nodes + 3 Free Bootnodes | $1,881 / month |
or
$5,643/quarter
$11,286/complete period
Use of Treasury Funds
This is all inclusive of capital and operating expenses (hardware, data centre fees, network), administration time from OnFinality, onboarding costs, backup costs, and all other monitoring and right-sizing by our team.
Steps to Implement
All services are live.
Complete Proposal