Overview

With the newly deployed RegionX Hub, we have received very positive feedback so far, along with feature and improvement requests — some of which came from Parity and Fellowship members.

We fulfilled the smaller requests and covered the development costs using funds from our previous proposal. This proposal is intended to fund the development of features and improvements that would significantly enhance the overall value the RegionX Hub provides.

With recent incidents, such as failing to renew Coretime on time, it has become clear how important it is to offer an easy-to-use, intuitive interface for managing Coretime for projects. 

We still feel that the majority of the community remains confused about how the Agile Coretime model works, what it offers, and how it can be used for their own purposes. We aim to address this by providing a clear, easy-to-use UI with dynamic dashboards and help centers tailored to specific types of users.

We have identified the following four types of users who use the RegionX Hub:

• Existing teams that already have a project on Polkadot: These users are primarily interested in renewing their core in each sale. However, they may choose to purchase a new core from the sale if the price is significantly lower than renewing their existing one. This is why it’s important for them to track both the current state of the bulk sale and the secondary market.
• New project teams: Users interested in purchasing a core either from the bulk sale or the secondary market. On the secondary market, it's possible to purchase regions that are usable immediately — unlike on bulk sale, where users must wait for the sale to end, which takes up to 28 days. The secondary market also allows users to purchase only a portion of a core, which is ideal for projects that don't require the full resources a core provides.
• Coretime resellers: Users who purchase cores from the bulk sale and sell them on the secondary market for profit. They may also end up partitioning or interlacing the purchased region and selling it that way in the sale.
• Enthusiast: Interested in tracking data related to Coretime sales and projects deployed on Polkadot. These individuals can be regular enthusiasts, developers, or investors monitoring Polkadot-related data.

For each user type, we want to establish a help center that provides all the relevant information specific to that user. This way, users won’t be overwhelmed by all the information about Agile Coretime, but will instead see only the parts that are relevant to them.

Also, the user-specific dashboards will display components relevant to the selected user type.

With this proposal, we aim to cover the development costs of delivering major features and improvements requested by the community and identified internally as valuable additions to the RegionX Hub.

Below is a table outlining the features and improvements covered by this proposal.

Here is the link to the full discussion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNL_5FbTSN_ik68K068W8adepdwUZoFevJG6-n_4Pbs/edit?usp=sharing

RegionX Hub: https://hub.regionx.tech/