- Subscan 2025 Q3–Q4 Funding Proposal: Operation and Maintenance Fee for Bifrost and Bifrost Kusama
Subscan Explorer remains a critical pillar of infrastructure for the Bifrost and Bifrost Kusama networks. 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.
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 Bifrost ecosystem moving forward.
We have simplified our pricing into a flat base rate per network, supplemented by generous Annual Payment Network Discounts that stack with our updated plans.
| Network | Monthly Fee |
|---|---|
| Bifrost (Mainnet) | $799 / month |
| Bifrost Kusama (Canary) | $799 / month |
To reward long-term commitment and ease the treasury burden, we are introducing specific network discounts for annual prepayments.
Additionally, amid constantly rising infrastructure costs, annual prepayments help Subscan lock in prepaid pricing with upstream suppliers, mitigating price volatility and ensuring long-term service stability.
Therefore, we offer the following discounts:
| Network | Discount |
|---|---|
| Bifrost (Mainnet) | 10% Off |
| Bifrost Kusama (Canary) | 25% Off |
As there are ongoing plans to discontinue explorer services for the Bifrost Kusama network, but the exact timing has not yet been confirmed, this proposal requests funding for the full 2026 service period for the Bifrost mainnet.
For Bifrost Kusama, we are only requesting reimbursement for service costs already incurred between January and May 2026.
The discount structure follows the 2026 pricing model and is applied proportionally to the service period covered by this proposal.
The service fee is calculated as follows:
| Network | Service Period | Calculation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bifrost (Mainnet) | 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-31 | USD 799 × 12 months × 0.90 | USD 8,629.20 |
| Bifrost Kusama (Canary) | 2026-01-01 to 2026-05-31 | USD 799 × 5 months × 0.75 | USD 2,996.25 |
Total Service Fee: USD 11,625.45
We kindly request funding support from the Bifrost Treasury to cover the total amount due of USD 11,625.45.
The equivalent amount in BNC will be calculated based on the EMA7 price at the time of conversion.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Timestamp | 2026-06-08 16:00 UTC |
| Block | #12551236 |
| BNC EMA7 Price | USD 0.022700 |
| Required Amount | 512,136.56 BNC |
Supporting this proposal ensures Subscan can continue delivering enterprise-grade SaaS infrastructure, extending far beyond simple cloud hosting.
Operating the public API gateway entirely free of charge for developers, continuing to power the ecosystem's wallets, dashboards, and analytical tools.
Thank you to the Bifrost 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.
Subscan wants money from Bifrost to keep running its explorer tool.