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+# Liquify RPC Infrastructure Grant 
+
+- **Team Name:** Liquify Ltd
+- **Payment Details:**
+  - **Payment**: USDC/USDT address: 5Fnz1tqWztXX7TUewdPoSJJx4chjPKTwDiJi4iHNWHjq6uyx
+
+## Project Overview :page_facing_up:
+
+### Overview
+
+Liquify.io Grant Proposal to Web3Foundation
+
+**About us**
+Founded in 2021, Liquify LTD is a UK based bare metal Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company servicing institutions and foundations with nodes, validators, RPC endpoints, snapshots, Graphs nodes, monitoring solutions and other custom tools. 
+Our utmost focus is decentralisation and quality of service - we go the extra mile being fully bare metal running all our own infrastructure in tier 3 and 4 data centres spread out globally (Asia, US East and West, and Europe).
+
+**Motivation**
+The industry is still heavily cloud reliant and centralised across cloud infrastructure providers and major market players. 
+Liquify is one of a few fully bare metal providers powering all decentralised RPC networks, rocking a global set up and guaranteeing 99.95% uptime. Our vision is to drive decentralisation with high quality of service, reliability and scalability.
+
+**Goals**
+We want to support Polkadot ecosystem and community with high performance RPC endpoints and drive adoption by adding it to our RPC portal which is focused on decentralisation and will feature majority of decentralised RPC protocols starting with POKT, Lava, DIN, Arkeo etc.
+
+### Project Details
+
+Scope of the grant.
+Provision of Polkadot nodes including:
+- 3 dedicated RPC endpoints (hosted in the US, EU, Asia);
+- 1 dedicated archival RPC endpoint;
+- Connected to geomeshing and load balancer;
+- Fallback infrastructure with 99.95% uptime guaranteed in the SLA;
+- Access to the monitoring dashboard.
+- Adding Polkadot RPC endpoint to Liquify RPC Portal, currently in BETA, which will also have a decentralised toggle for routing traffic via POKT Network.
+
+### Ecosystem Fit
+
+- Where and how does your project fit into the ecosystem?
+- We can see ourselves as one of the main RPC providers of the ecosystem supporting the community with stable, fast and reliable infrastructure while offering decentralised option.
+
+- Who is your target audience (parachain/dapp/wallet/UI developers, designers, your own user base, some dapp's userbase, yourself)?
+- Developers.
+
+- What need(s) does your project meet?
+- User adoption, performance, decentralisation, cost efficiency and network growth.
+
+- How did you identify these needs? Please provide evidence in the form of (scientific) articles, forum discussions, case studies, or raw data.
+- We can see this naturally since we support over 60 networks, cloud reliance limits the redundancy and we could see performance improvements (better latency since we are multiregion), better uptime (because of the redundancy) etc.
+
+- Are there any projects similar to yours in related ecosystems? 
+- Yes, we can see RPC service provided by OnFinality, Dwellir, Pinknode, Radium Block, 1RPC, NOWNodes, All That Node, SubQuery.
+We contribute with offering more regions, redundancy, bare metal set up and uptime guarantees + decentralised connection via our Portal.
+
+## Team :busts_in_silhouette:
+
+### Team members
+
+- Andy Pohl - CEO/Founder - 12+ years experience as a Software engineer - Been running liquify for 3+ years previously worked as senior engineer for a large automotive company working on signal processing and data pipelining - andy@liquify.io
+- Simon Brackenridge - Chief Security Officer, 8+ years as an accredited pen tester - Managers Cyber security team and networking infrastructure - simon@liquify.io
+- Luke Eckersley - Lead Infrastructure Engineer - 7+ years experience as an infra engineer previously working for a large UK managed service provider (MSP) - luke@liquify.io
+
+### Contact
+
+- **Contact Name:** Roman Chekhovych
+- **Contact Email:** roman@liquify.io
+- **Website:** https://www.liquify.io/
+
+### Legal Structure
+
+- **Registered Address:** 23 Sheepcote Drive, Long Lawford, Rugby, England, CV23 9FE
+- **Registered Legal Entity:** LIQUIFY LTD
+
+### Team's experience
+
+Liquify is currently doing around 500m to 1b RPC requests per day across 60+ chains
+Recent infrastructure grants:
+- POKT Gateway: https://forum.pokt.network/t/open-priority-gateway-demo/4874/2
+- Selfchain RPC and validator: https://x.com/selfchainxyz/status/1806251581186379816
+- Subquery validator: https://app.subquery.network/indexer/0x0eF0C25353c31B17A043C8bAD47B3De12cD9925e
+- Stellar RPC: https://communityfund.stellar.org/project/infrastructure-support-liquify
+- Syscoin RPC: https://rollux.com/news/weekly-240426
+- Pyth Network & Hermes provider: https://docs.pyth.network/price-feeds/api-instances-and-providers/hermes
+
+### Team Code Repos
+
+- https://github.com/liquify-validation
+
+Please also provide the GitHub accounts of all team members. If they contain no activity, references to projects hosted elsewhere or live are also fine.
+
+- https://github.com/Andrew-Pohl
+- https://github.com/Luke-Liquify
+
+### Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available)
+
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-pohl-4b52959b/
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-brackenridge-42a376b5/
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-eckersley-780a22173/
+
+
+## Development Status :open_book:
+
+N/a
+
+## Development Roadmap :nut_and_bolt:
+
+### Overview
+
+- **Total Estimated Duration:** 12 months
+- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE):**  2
+- **Total Costs:** 70,000 USDC
+
+### Milestone 1 — Endpoints implementation and test access
+
+- **Estimated duration:** 1 month or less depending on testing
+- **FTE:**  2
+- **Costs:** 7,500 USDC
+
+Deliverables:
+- Service agreement signed
+- Access to endpoints' provided
+- Grafana access has been set up for the foundation for monitoring
+- Optimisation
+
+### Milestone 2 — Endpoints going public and Polkadot is added to RPC portal
+
+- **Estimated Duration:** 2 months
+- **FTE:**  2
+- **Costs:** 10,000 USDC
+
+Deliverables:
+- Redundancy set up
+- Access to endpoints' provided, public ready
+- Ongoing optimisation
+- Polkadot is added to Liquify's RPC portal and available for the users
+
+### Milestone 3 - Ongoing support
+
+- **Estimated Duration:** 3 months
+- **FTE:**  1
+- **Costs:** 17,500 USDC
+
+Deliverables:
+- SLA on the uptime and overall performance are met
+- Ongoing optimisation
+
+### Milestone 4 - Ongoing support
+
+- **Estimated Duration:** 3 months
+- **FTE:**  1
+- **Costs:** 17,500 USDC
+
+Deliverables:
+- SLA on the uptime and overall performance are met
+- Ongoing optimisation
+
+### Milestone 5 - Ongoing support
+
+- **Estimated Duration:** 3 months
+- **FTE:**  1
+- **Costs:** 17,500 USDC
+
+Deliverables:
+- SLA on the uptime and overall performance are met
+- Ongoing optimisation
+
+Liquify is happy to adjust to recommended 1 month per milestone recommendation if preferred.
+
+## Future Plans
+
+Based on our experience with other foundations, we actively monitor the usage and performance and will add more endpoints for high demand region.
+As per Liquify RPC portal, we plan to add as many decentralised RPC providers as possible starting off with POKT network.
+
+
+## Referral Program (optional) :moneybag:
+
+You can find more information about the program [here](../README.md#moneybag-referral-program).
+
+- **Referrer:** n/a
+- **Payment Address:** n/a
+
+## Additional Information :heavy_plus_sign:
+
+**How did you hear about the Grants Program?** From David Hawig, he recommended to apply.