Case Study: Usual achieves seamless 30,000 RPS airdrop scaling with Alchemy

Usual serves 30,000 requests per second with Alchemy

Usual, a community-first stablecoin protocol, faced the challenge of scaling its infrastructure to handle an anticipated peak of 25,000 requests per second for a major airdrop event, requiring complex concurrency management and zero downtime for hundreds of thousands of users. With only 10 hours notice before the event, they turned to vendor Alchemy and its RPC services to ensure a seamless user experience.

Alchemy implemented a solution that included massively scaling Usual's throughput to 500,000 compute units per second, optimizing their node infrastructure, and enhancing eth_call handling to manage high concurrency. The results were exceptional, with the system peaking at 30,000 requests per second and processing 38 million requests in the first hour alone. This allowed Alchemy to deliver a flawless experience for Usual's users with no failed transactions, timeouts, or downtime.

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