Magma Devs, an engineering crew constructing on the decentralized RPC routing protocol Lava Community, unveiled its RPC Good Router on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Market on Monday, Dec. 22.
The launch, in partnership with Google, goals to provide corporations a extra dependable manner to hook up with public blockchains akin to Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon. The Good Router distributes blockchain requests throughout a number of suppliers, mechanically choosing the quickest and most secure possibility in actual time.
By avoiding reliance on a single entry level, it seeks to forestall outages and cut back failed transactions or delays in decentralized functions, in response to a press launch considered by The Defiant.
“Blockchain methods are solely as dependable because the pipes that join them to the world,” stated Yair Cleper, Energetic Chairman of Magma Devs. “If that entry layer breaks, the whole lot above it breaks too.”
Magma Devs stated the Good Router has already been used during times of heavy site visitors and supplier outages, together with by custody supplier Fireblocks, to keep up service availability.
“RPC failures aren’t minor glitches. For enterprises, they’re business-critical occasions,” Cleper stated. “By bringing Good 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 12 months, 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 immediately’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 complete 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 is just not. On this occasion, Cleper described the Good Router as “the gateway for decentralization.”
He instructed The Defiant that the software program layer can run throughout totally 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 client, Cleper emphasised, explaining that the Good Router is open supply and permits customers to outline insurance policies governing how requests are routed, validated, and dealt with underneath totally different community circumstances.
Cleper additionally clarified that Magma Devs doesn’t host the service itself, as a substitute 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 stated. “The SR hosted model precisely helps this, as it may be deployed throughout a number of environments or suppliers, however redundancy is the client’s duty in that setup.”
