This is a follow-up proposal on what we [submitted in August](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/910), to further fund the development of the RPC service and to cover the maintenance costs of it.

This new proposal includes two Milestones. 

**Milestone 1:** Run the Kusama RPC service on new dedicated hardware, to increase the performance of the service.

**Milestone 2:** Onboard a Rust developer to work with the RPC code to make it use resources much more efficiently. We found a problem, during the last quarter, with the scaling of the RPC-service and have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this bottleneck. We published a report in this [Github-issue](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/issues/4064#issuecomment-979449201) about it. This optimization work will reduce the cost for all RPC service providers in the community. 


This proposal only covers Milestone 1 and 2 for now, while in upcoming maintenance proposals we will submit Milestone 1 (continued maintenance) and Milestone 3 (further development of the RPC code).

- Our RPC service is online and the pull request can be [found here](https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/pull/6620). 
- Our full proposal can be [read here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B1AjPj8yfi4JPvR0sCdh0sdBGGduIPkeRxAwTpPGD-U/edit?usp=sharing). 
- KSM rate base on 30 day avg tool by Subscan: [Available HERE](https://kusama.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price)

- This proposal is about funding the development and maintenance of the RPC service.
- There are two milestones in this proposal.
- Milestone 1 is about running the RPC service on new hardware to make it faster.
- Milestone 2 is about optimizing the RPC code to make it more efficient.
- The full proposal can be read in the provided link.

#125 Proposal: Update 1, RPC-node Dwellir