The Spartan Proposal Recently we have seen significant growth in usage and users of the Secret Network, but this same growth has highlighted that we are ill-prepared for it from an infrastructure standpoint. To address existing infrastructure shortcomings we propose building a 70 node cluster of load-balanced endpoints to help power the upcoming generation of secret dapps launching over the years to come. This cluster would be publicly available to all and private to none, acting as a public good resource maintained by the Secret Infrastructure team. We estimate this capacity to be sufficient to power a backbone capable of handling a minimum of 2 simultaneous launches on the scale of sienna and secretswap. And while we don’t believe it’s enough capacity to handle traffic alone if Secret becomes a top 30 coin, we think this is a good first step towards addressing the demands placed on infrastructure to prepare the network for new phases of growth. This initiative is intended to enable us to get ahead of the curve on API related scaling issues. Due to the current wait times on hardware, achieving something at this scale requires significant planning ahead of time. Secret Infrastructure has done the planning to prepare for this and is qualified to deploy and maintain this public good. Charter Here is a link to the living doc which represents the Secret Infrastructure Charter. This proposal is an auxiliary proposal directly connected to Secret Infrastructure. https://github.com/SecretInfrastructure/charter/blob/main/secret-infra-charter.md Notes Based both on feedback and the expected 4x improvement to query throughput here is the plan. A proposal to upgrade one of the builds from the infra b proposal to be able to handle 70 nodes (up from 20). Note 1 : 1 x System Supermicro120U-TNR & 2 x Intel Platinum 8380 CPUs. Note 2: We are open to structuring the new api to load balance across our nodes + nodes from other api providers on the network. Currently exploring the feasibility and doing this would require cooperation from 3rd parties) Note 3 : There is a wait time of 4-6 weeks minimum and longer for certain components. We hope to have the equipment arrive in time to deploy in in Q1 2022. Note 4 : This is not a discretionary budget. If the value of SCRT in this proposal increases when passed, or is more than is needed to purchase hardware, then it will be exclusively used for the purpose of upgrading the build for this specific proposal. If there is a surplus that goes unapplied to hardware upgrades, then it must go to maintenance, data center costs, and any software licenses associated with this equipment. Budget Hardware, Shipping, Warranty $75,010.90 Sales Tax on hardware $3,427.51 Buffer for Volatility 10% $7,843.85 = $85,732.26 Subtract $20,000 (Taking 20 nodes / $20,000 budget from Infra prop b) Total $66,282.26 Total SCRT ask 10,813 SCRT based on SCRT @ 6.13 on Oct 23, 2021 (Note: this proposal was modified from 300 nodes to 70 based on discussions and feedback)