Phala is a company that works with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. They are planning to attend two big events in 2023: Consensus in Austin and EthCC & DevX tour in Europe. 

At Consensus, Phala will give a talk and demo about off-chain computation and Phat Contract. They will also host a dinner event and show a demo of their decentralized Oracle API platform for the Polygon and LensProtocol ecosystem. 

During the EthCC & DevX tour in Europe, Phala will attend several events in different countries, including Amsterdam, Zagreb, London, Paris, Lisbon, and Berlin. They will talk about their work with blockchain technology and meet with other people in the industry. 

The costs for attending these events include airfare, hotel, transportation, and event expenses for Phala team members. 

The price of 1 PHA is currently 0.091867 USD based on the 7-day average price on CMC.

Awarded

Treasury Proposal for Austin Consensus in April and at EthCC & DevX tour in Europe in July

Dwellir - Phala & Khala Public RPC Endpoint Services (Q4 2023)

SubQuery is a platform that helps blockchains process and query data more efficiently. They also provide a managed service to help teams deploy indexers to cloud providers and run them at high availability. 

Phala Network is using SubQuery's managed service to provide reliable hosting for their SubQuery projects. 

SubQuery supported 5 different projects for Phala Network with a total of 9 deployments over the period of July to September 2023. 

The proposal includes the combined running costs for SubQuery's infrastructure for Phala Network from July to September 2023, which is USD $4,968.00. 

The total compute hours for the projects was 19,872 and each project deployment requires an indexing service, a compute service, and database access run in a production environment and monitored constantly to ensure availability.

SubQuery Managed Service Solution (Q3, 2023)

OnFinality is a company that provides public infrastructure for blockchain technology. They help reduce the cost and difficulty of setting up blockchain infrastructure. They provide a shared node API service that manages all the nodes for their users and distributes them across the world to achieve global scalability. They guarantee 99.99% reliability and have invested hugely into a team dedicated to optimizing their application gateway and caching layer to ensure that they provide the fastest possible service for their customers. They also provide advanced rate limiting controls to help save costs. This proposal is for the ongoing and advanced costs for the running of high performance, scalable, and reliable public infrastructure in Q3 and Q4 of 2023 for Phala and Khala.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q3 & Q4 2023)

Phala Network invested in marketing and growth activities to achieve its goals for 2023. They sponsored the DevX Global Tour, which is a global tour of guild events, regional hackathons, and invite-only “Polygon Connects”. Phala team joined 6 guild meetups across Europe and is preparing for the Americas tour. They partnered with Developer DAO, a web3 developer community, to push the latest product releases to a developer audience. Phala also sponsored a post in The Defiant newsletter, which has over 200,000 subscribers. The total budget for these activities is $76,500 or 791,827 PHA.

Treasury proposal for Product Marketing & Growth Expenses

- Phala will attend two events, Parachain Summit and Polkadot Decoded, in Denmark and Shanghai respectively, to discuss the latest progress of ecological projects and technology.
- Phala will also host a workshop at the Parachain Summit to introduce Phat Contract to the parachain ecosystem offline.
- The team will also attend a satellite event in Vietnam on July 25th.
- The proposed budget for the events includes airfare, hotel, and transportation for the Phala team members.
- The budget is 13209.82 USD, which is equivalent to 142,963 PHA based on the 7-day average price on CMC.

Treasury Proposal #82: Phala at Polkadot Summit and Decoded Global Tour from June 24th to July 29th.

SubSquare has submitted a proposal for funding support to cover the operation and maintenance fees associated with the Subscan services provided for Phala and Khala networks from 01/07/2022 to 30/06/2023. The proposal includes the following details:

- Subscan provides essential services for both networks, including computing resources, database storage, network egress bandwidth, monitoring and DevOps, node status monitoring and notification, and technical support.
- The current charges for the services are US$9,588 for Phala and US$9,588 for Khala, with a service charge of 5%.
- The total amount due is US$20,134.8, and the amount of PHA will be converted based on the EMA7 price on the day of the official submission.
- SubSquare requests funding support from the Khala Treasury to cover the total amount due.
- Securing this financial support will ensure the continued seamless functioning of Phala and Khala networks and sustain their growth and development.

Funding Proposal for Phala & Khala Operation and Maintenance Fee - 01/07/2022 to 30/06/2023

Rejected

Feature update for pRB v3 July 2023

- A proposal for Bond funds was rejected due to cost and milestone review.
- An updated plan for pRB v3 was created by an agent and implementer Krhougs.
- The plan includes updating subxt, merging prb package, and fixing nonce management logic.
- Lifetime management for transactions will also be fixed to reduce errors.
- The progress of the plan can be tracked on the phala-blockchain repo pull request.

Re-propose for Treasury Proposal #79 - Feature update for pRB v3 July 2023

OnFinality is a service that helps people access blockchain infrastructure. They manage all the nodes for their users and distribute them across the world to achieve global scalability. They have made many improvements to their service, including performance/reliability, providing more value, and cost optimization. They have launched Trace API, allowing unprecedented visibility for dApp builders. They have added support for a number of new networks, including Anmol, HydraDX, Equilibrium, as well as Osmosis, Evmos, Harmony, Arbitrum, Optimism, Fuse, DFK Chain, Celo, and Klaytn from outside the ecosystem. This proposal includes combined running costs for their infrastructure for Phala Network in Q2 (April, May, June) 2023. The total combined running cost is USD $14,225.35.

OnFinality High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q2 2023)

Dwellir - Phala & Khala Public RPC Endpoint Services (Q3 2023)

SubQuery is a platform that helps blockchains process and query data more efficiently. They also provide a managed service to help teams deploy indexers to cloud providers and run them at high availability. 

Phala Network is using SubQuery's managed service to provide reliable hosting for their SubQuery projects. 

SubQuery supported 5 different projects for Phala Network with a total of 9 deployments. Each project deployment requires an indexing service, a compute service, and database access run in a production environment and monitored constantly to ensure availability. 

This proposal includes the combined running costs for SubQuery's infrastructure for Phala Network from 1st April 2023 until 30th June 2023. The total combined running cost is USD $4,914.00. 

The goal of this proposal is to cover the ongoing costs for Quarter 2 (April, May and June) of 2023, for the running of a high performance and reliable data indexing managed service for Phala Network.

SubQuery Managed Service Solution (Q2, 2023)

1. Phala team went to South Korea for three events: ETHSeoul, Buidl Asia, and HackaDOT.
2. At ETHSeoul, Phala team met potential partners and discussed technical topics related to Ethereum.
3. At Buidl Asia, Phala team introduced Phala and Phat Contract at the booth and launched the programmable oracle - LensAPI Oracle.
4. Phala team participated in HackaDOT as mentors and joined the panel discussion at the after-party.
5. Phala team learned that game is a trend in the East Asia market, the developer community in Korea is very active, and the locals are unfamiliar with the Polkadot ecosystem. The total expenses for the trip were 62881 PHA.

Treasury proposal #75 - Phala at Korea Blockchain Week from June 1st to 10th.

Phat Contract is a service that is being tested before it is released on Phala mainnet. The aim of the test is to identify any issues and improve the quality of the service. There are rewards for developers who participate in the test. The prize pool for the test rewards is $10,000 PHA in total, and for innovation rewards, $5,000 - $10,000 PHA for each project. There are 8 participants who meet the test rewards requirements, and each of them will get 5737.37 PHA. For the 2 Innovation Rewards participants, each of them will get 51636.89 PHA. The rewards can be claimed before July 20th CET 23:59.

Closed Beta Rewards Application - treasury proposal #74

- SubSquare is a platform for managing blockchains.
- They have implemented SubSquare for Khala since July 2021.
- They want to continue providing services to the Phala community.
- They will do daily work to keep everything running smoothly and update common dependencies.
- They have a list of features they want to add, like user governance activities and support for uploading images.

Maintenance of Subsquare khala and phala integration from 03.2023 to 08.2023

Dwellir - Phala Public RPC Endpoint Service (Q2 2023)

- Phala Network wants to grow its brand through continued developer relations.
- They have launched the Phala Builders Program (PBP) to provide funding, guidance, and support to developers that want to build high-value projects with Phat Contract.
- The PBP offers funding to developers in up to $50k USD value in PHA token, paid out on-chain at agreed-upon intervals dictated by the Builder Agreement.
- The requested funds are 1 million dollars in PHA tokens, which can support a maximum of up to 20 projects with the highest funding amount of $50k USD.
- The Phala Builders Program supports teams that have a solid understanding of the Phat Contract platform and a clear vision of how they will utilize Phat Contract within their project.

Phala Builders Program funds - via Child Bounty distribution

- Phala Network attended a blockchain conference called Web3 Festival in Hong Kong in April 2023.
- The conference was one of the biggest in Asia and attracted many blockchain experts and enthusiasts.
- Phala Network shared their brochures during the event but did not sponsor it.
- They also participated in a Polkadot workshop and attended over 160 side events during the week-long blockchain event.
- The expenses for Phala Network's team members included airfare, hotel, transportation, brochures, and visa fees, totaling 2050.17 USD.

Phala at HongKong Blockchain Week - treasury proposal #70

Slance is a company that makes animated videos for blockchain teams. They have helped over 75 teams since 2020. They make videos that help with brand credibility and building communities. They want to make two videos for the Phala community for a total cost of $2025. The cost includes one feedback round per production phase and high-quality design and animation. There are also optional extras available for an additional cost. The project agreement that is signed applies to this proposal. Slance retains creative freedom.

Videos service for Phat Contract intro series- treasury proposal #69

Phala attended EthDenver 2023, a big Ethereum event, from February 27th to March 5th. They had a booth and attended several events to meet partners, new users, and potential Dapp builders. The team had two speaking engagements at Polkadot events during the BUIDL week. They made many new connections with industry-defining projects and discussed best practices for TEE networks. The expenses for the events were around 13,114 USD or 82,478 PHA.

Treasury proposal for EthDenver

Dwellir - Public RPC Endpoint Service (Q2 2023)

- SubQuery is a platform that helps blockchains process and query data more efficiently.
- SubQuery also provides a reliable and high-performance hosting service for teams that don't have the expertise or resources to manage their own infrastructure.
- Phala Network is using SubQuery's hosting service to provide data to their applications.
- SubQuery supported 5 different projects for Phala Network from January to March 2023, with a total of 9 deployments.
- The proposal includes the running costs for SubQuery's infrastructure for Phala Network during this period, which is USD $4,859.975.

SubQuery Managed Service Solution (Q1, 2023)

OnFinality is a service that helps people access blockchain infrastructure with low costs. They manage all the nodes for their users and distribute them across the world to achieve global scalability. They have made many stability improvements to their Ultimate API service to allow them to add a large number of new parachains over the last quarter as well as support for multiple chains outside of Polkadot. They have added more features to provide a better experience for customers that sign up for paid API keys, including geolocation insights and automatic upsizing of storage on nodes to prevent downtime. They have also delivered some key service enhancements that benefit the Polkadot ecosystem, including auto expand storage, partnership with POKT network, and geographical insights.

Proposal: High Performance Public Infrastructure (Q1 2023)

- A group of Phala members and ambassadors noticed the absence of a telegram bot that can monitor the performance of a staking pool and/or vault.
- They plan to propose the development of a telegram bot that can be used by the entire Phala community that can handle general statistics on Phala/Khala and monitor a single pool or vault with statistics such as APR, commission, cap, active workers, and free stake.
- The bot could be integrated into Phala International's main channel (TG) and used privately by each user to get information about their pool delegation over time.
- They are asking for reimbursement of costs related to bot development, management of the bot during its lifetime, and reimbursement of costs related to the VPS.
- They propose 10k PHA as reimbursement for this activity, with the release of these funds contingent on the release of the various project milestones and most importantly the same could have vesting (for one year for example).

Phala / Khala pools management telegram bot - Phala app 2.0

1. A group of people are working on creating a new system for a type of computer called Dotsama.
2. They want to make a special program called an oracle that will help the computer work better.
3. They are using a system called Phala to make the oracle.
4. They have a plan for how the oracle will work and how people will use it.
5. They are asking for money to help pay for the work they are doing.

Treasury Proposals