Magma Devs Launches RPC Smart Router on Google Cloud

Magma Devs, an engineering group constructing on the decentralized RPC routing protocol Lava Community, unveiled its RPC Sensible Router on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Market on Monday, Dec. 22.

The launch, in partnership with Google, goals to provide firms a extra dependable method to hook up with public blockchains reminiscent of Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon. The Sensible Router distributes blockchain requests throughout a number of suppliers, robotically choosing the quickest and most steady choice in actual time.

By avoiding reliance on a single entry level, it seeks to stop outages and cut back failed transactions or delays in decentralized functions, in keeping with a press launch seen by The Defiant.

“Blockchain methods are solely as dependable because the pipes that join them to the world,” mentioned Yair Cleper, Energetic Chairman of Magma Devs. “If that entry layer breaks, all the pieces above it breaks too.”

Magma Devs mentioned the Sensible Router has already been used in periods of heavy visitors and supplier outages, together with by custody supplier Fireblocks, to take care of service availability.

“RPC failures usually are not minor glitches. For enterprises, they’re business-critical occasions,” Cleper mentioned. “By bringing Sensible Router to Google Cloud, we’re giving organisations a clearer path to production-grade blockchain infrastructure.”

The launch follows a number of high-profile outages throughout cloud and blockchain companies this yr, together with an Amazon Net Companies (AWS) outage on Oct. 20 that lasted a number of hours and disrupted main web sites and apps, together with Robinhood and Coinbase.

The incident highlighted the vulnerabilities of right now’s web infrastructure, which is concentrated amongst a handful of cloud suppliers: AWS controls 29% of the worldwide cloud market, forward of Microsoft Azure at 20% and Google Cloud at 13%, with the three collectively accounting for greater than 60% of whole cloud share, per Statista.

The outages additionally reignited a long-running debate in crypto: whereas blockchains are designed to be decentralized, a lot of the infrastructure they depend on just isn’t. On this occasion, Cleper described the Sensible Router as “the gateway for decentralization.”

He instructed The Defiant that the software program layer can run throughout completely different environments and deployment fashions and, by default, connects to Lava Community’s decentralized RPC infrastructure, whereas additionally permitting clients to plug in different RPC suppliers they already use.

Management over routing logic finally sits with the shopper, Cleper emphasised, explaining that the Sensible Router is open supply and permits customers to outline insurance policies governing how requests are routed, validated, and dealt with beneath completely different community situations.

Cleper additionally clarified that Magma Devs doesn’t host the service itself, as an alternative deploying the software program and offering service-level agreements.

“If a buyer makes use of the Google Cloud Market deployment solely, and Google Cloud goes down, they would wish a backup deployment,” he mentioned. “The SR hosted model precisely helps this, as it may be deployed throughout a number of environments or suppliers, however redundancy is the shopper’s duty in that setup.”