Dear community,

I present this proposal on the authorization of the curators of bounty 25.

This proposal seeks to continue funding of Public RPC Providers for the period of six months plus an additional month's contingency. Funding is issued to bounty 25 which awards vendors for RPC services on the Kusama relay-chain as well as its system parachains. The total cost for such provision is USD$107,237.98, which represents $12,397.21 per month without contingency and administrative fees.

Bounty 25 adopts an tender based procurement model in which service providers bid on requirements as set-out by the curators. The tender requirements are aligned to ecosystem needs and can scale up/down depending on usage. Tenders are scored and the highest scoring providers receive funding.  
  
Attention is also being placed on quality of service and should service providers fail to meet said quality-standards they will be penalized or lose funding altogether.

This approach has seen a reduction with independent funding proposals for such services and steering of providers to a "market rate".

Further details can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WV7n5HVKtO5s0ub6g4uEQAN4Y7SRNcu56QYFXPgN15I/edit?tab=t.0)

Kind Regards,  
Will | Paradox | ParaNodes.io

This proposal covers the maintenance, development, and hosting of open source projects built by the Acala team. The projects include ORML, Chopsticks, and Subway. ORML is a community pallet library that offers many essential pallets including multi-token support, NFT, XCM, and more. Chopsticks offers the ability to fork mainnet into a local devnet for testing and development purposes. Subway is a JSON RPC Gateway built with Substrate and Ethereum RPC in mind.

- **Problem Statement:** 
  - Funding continuation for Public RPC Providers on Kusama relay-chain and system parachains.
- **Significance:** 
  - Reduction in independent funding proposals, steering providers to a market rate.
- **Proposed Solution:** 
  - Authorization of funding for Public RPC Providers through bounty 25's tender-based procurement model.
- **Expected Outcomes:** 
  - Total cost of $107,237.98 for 6 months, ensuring quality service provision and alignment with ecosystem needs.

#439 Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 25

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