## Previous Proposal

[- Subscan 2025 Q3–Q4 Funding Proposal: Operation and Maintenance Fee for Hydration](https://hydration.subsquare.io/referenda/235)

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## Overview

Subscan Explorer remains a critical pillar of infrastructure for the Hydration network. We provide accurate on-chain data indexing, timely technical responses to runtime updates, continuous network monitoring, and free community APIs that power the ecosystem's dashboards, bots, and analytics.

Over the past year, our team successfully completed multiple infrastructure and indexing optimizations. These upgrades have drastically improved our overall efficiency and reduced operating costs, all while maintaining our high standards of reliability and performance. As a direct result of these optimizations, we are thrilled to introduce an updated, simplified, and significantly more cost-effective pricing structure for 2026.

We are passing these savings directly back to the community. Base fees have been substantially reduced, are projected to remain stable long-term, and now include highly favorable, stackable discounts for annual prepayments.

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## 2025 Retrospective: Delivering on Optimization Promises

In our 2025 proposal, we committed to ongoing infrastructure optimizations and explicitly stated that our goal was to decrease fees in 2026. We are proud to announce that we have delivered on this promise.

By overhauling our resource allocation, streamlining our data indexing architecture, and improving our DevOps automation, we have successfully lowered our cloud and operational overhead. The transition from our previous data-usage billing model to this new optimized tier system provides a fairer, highly predictable, and substantially cheaper baseline for the Hydration ecosystem moving forward.

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## Updated Pricing & Cost Structure for 2026

We have simplified our pricing into a flat base rate per network.

### 1. Base Monthly Pricing

| Network | Monthly Fee |
|----------|----------|
| Hydration (Mainnet) | $1,699 / month |

### 2. Reduction Analysis

Although usage has increased by approximately 25%, our pricing remains the same as in 2025, with no increase in fees. We can also confirm that pricing will remain unchanged throughout the second half of the year. This effectively represents a reduction in cost per unit of usage and reflects the infrastructure optimizations completed during 2025.

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## 2026 Q1-Q2 Maintenance Fee

![image.png](https://subsquare.infura-ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUNZEoLRNf19cXzK6ArSHcqh5upTAMDQg21PWEtt4hoRd)

The service fee for Hydration for the period from January through June 2026 is calculated as follows:

| Network | Calculation | Total |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Hydration (Mainnet) | USD 1,699 × 6 months | USD 10,194 |

Total Service Fee: USD 10,194

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## Total Requested Amount

We kindly request funding support from the Hydration Treasury in the amount of **10,194 HOLLAR** (equivalent to USD 10,194).

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## 2026 Service Scope & Deliverables

Supporting this proposal ensures Subscan can continue delivering enterprise-grade SaaS infrastructure, extending far beyond simple cloud hosting.

### Core Infrastructure

- Highly available on-chain data indexing
- Full historical database storage
- Scalable bandwidth

### Monitoring & DevOps

- 24/7 real-time alerting
- Automated anomaly detection
- Rapid disaster recovery

### Technical Support

- Continuous Substrate & EVM feature maintenance
- Maintaining multi-chain UI/UX
- Guaranteeing day-one compatibility for runtime and network upgrades

### Free Community API

Operating the public API gateway entirely free of charge for developers, continuing to power the ecosystem's wallets, dashboards, and analytical tools.

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## Closing Statement

Thank you to the Hydration community for your continued trust and partnership.

We are incredibly proud to share the fruits of our optimization labor with you this year in the form of these substantial cost reductions. Subscan remains deeply committed to providing reliable, transparent, and developer-friendly data infrastructure for the ecosystem's long-term growth.

#350 Subscan 2026 Q1-Q2 Funding Proposal: Operation and Maintenance Fee for Hydration