CFP: mydefichain Ocean Q1/2024 and Q2/2024 (60,000 DFI)

[Stonygan]

Hello Community,

to take decentralization further, we are providing an independent Ocean API that can be used by anyone in the Light Wallet or by other community projects. The infrastructure is intended to be a fallback for the official Ocean API and can be used by DeFiChain users in case of failure.

You can see how you can change the Custuom provider in the Light Wallet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1hTcK1mHmA

At the moment we operate Servers in different Providers and Datacenters in Europe: Paris (France), Vienna (Austria), Frankfurt, Berlin, Duesseldorf and Nuernberg (Germany)The servers can be accessed via a unique URL (https://ocean.mydefichain.com), behind that a load balancer takes over the distribution of the requests. (https://testnet-ocean.mydefichain.com:8443 for Testnet)The Load Balancer operate as a Master and Backup Load Balancer in active/passive mode with a Highly Available IP address (a special highly available address, which is routed to the master Load Balancer instance) Should the master instances experience a failure, this address is automatically rerouted to the backup one.Master and backup are running on different hardware clusters to ensure that they don't share physical resources and minimize the risk of a simultaneous failure.

We believe that an independent provider from the official Ocean infrastructure is not only important for decentralization, but should and can serve as a fallback especially in case of failure of the official endpoint. Our statistics have shown over the last weeks that our infrastructure is often used as an alternative in case of problems.

To always see the current status of our Ocean infrastructure, we have created a fork of defiscan.live, which has our own Ocean infrastructure for the Mainnet, Testnet and changi permanently stored as a custom service provider.

So if defiscan.live fails due to problems, our explorer can be used as an alternative:

https://explorer.mydefichain.com/

Due to the increased requirements, primarily in disk storage (growth is ~15 GB per month) the monthly cost is 2500$ for the cloud infrastructure, which we herewith request from the Masternodes for the first half of the year 2024. The entire amount will be spent on infrastructure costs ( ~$2500 per month).

At a price of $0.25 per DFI, this is 10,000 DFI per month and 60,000 DFI for the first half of 2024.

Please note: We have decided to request the total amount for the 1st half of 2024 this time instead of requesting each cycle again.