OnFinality is pleased to announce that it has completed milestone 1 and 2 of this proposal. 
There are three ways that the Compound Gateway community can now access free high performance shared nodes on the OnFinality platform:
1. Directly via the Public API Endpoints
Compound Gateway community members can access OnFinality’s enhanced API service in a minute using the following two public endpoints:
HTTPS: https://compound.api.onfinality.io/public
Websocket: wss://compound.api.onfinality.io/public-ws
Try it out in Polkadot.JS
2. Directly via their own Private API Endpoint
By creating their own API key in OnFinality, users access OnFinality’s enhanced API service with the addition of insightful metrics and reporting. Free private API keys can be requested from app.onfinality.io
3. Dedicated Nodes
Compound Gateway community members can create their own validators by using our one-click dedicated node deployments in app.onfinality.io (extra charges apply)
Thanks for supporting OnFinality with this grant, we look forward to helping the Compound Gateway community over the long term in as many ways as possible! We really believe in your mission and want to support you in every way - James Bayly (Head of Business Development)
P.S. If you’re curious then take a look at the requests roll in on our status page! status.onfinality.io