dAPI Team April 2023 Report

James Watt (1736–1819) In His Glasgow Workshop

Similarly, to the beginning stages of Phase 1, there isn’t much to say about the development of Phase 2 yet, with the exception that it’s in full force. Recently, we have begun setting up aggregated data feeds for testing purposes with the providers that have deployed their Airnodes thus far. Seven of the planned ten providers are ready now with the remaining ones in the final stages of onboarding. IEX Cloud is one of the new providers that have completed onboarding in the past month.

Additionally, we’ve deployed on zkSync Era Testnet with the cooperation of the Core Technical Team and Nodary. All of our dAPIs are available on that network now and will be available on the zkSync Era Mainnet as soon as they release required repositories to run RPC clients. We’ve also released some new assets after some users have asked for them and you can expect announcements about this soon.

So what are we working on right now? To summarize, we’re fighting a war on multiple fronts. Our frontend team is busy adjusting the API3 Market to display managed dAPIs as well as incorporating the payment flow for users to upgrade self-funded dAPIs to managed dAPIs. Our backend team is creating the tooling and processes necessary to upgrade dAPIs, process payments, monitor our infrastructure as well as incorporate regulatory requirements such as sanctions monitoring. Our product team is focusing on determining pricing for our products as well as managing the overall delivery and communication surrounding Phase 2.

In the coming days we will be releasing the next dAPI Team proposal for the following three months. While the details of what we have accomplished can be found in our monthly reports as well our specialized Phase 1 report, we’ll be expanding on what is next in that proposal. To address the elephant in the room:

We expect to launch Phase 2 within the timeframe of the next proposal.