Case Study: Dapper Labs achieves stable, outage-free blockchain infrastructure and frees developer resources for R&D with Alchemy

Dapper Labs, creator of CryptoKitties, relies on Alchemy for infrastructure

Dapper Labs, creator of CryptoKitties and other blockchain-based experiences, struggled with unstable node infrastructure—outages, network congestion, dropped peers and nonce-management problems—that forced two developers to run and constantly babysit a cluster of geth nodes. To solve these operational challenges, Dapper Labs turned to Alchemy for managed blockchain infrastructure and API services to provide a reliable, consistent view of the chain.

By switching to Alchemy, Dapper Labs eliminated the frequent sync failures and downtime, regained a stable developer experience, and reallocated the two engineers who had been maintaining nodes to R&D and new product work. Alchemy now handles production traffic (about 7 million queries per day and thousands of on‑chain transactions), delivering measurable stability improvements and peace of mind for the Dapper Labs team.

Dapper Labs

Eric Lin

Head of Engineering