Case Study: Berachain achieves scalable, high-performance DeFi infrastructure with Hypotenuse Labs

Berachain builds scalable DeFi infrastructure with Hypotenuse Labs, reaching 18,000+ RPS and 70% test coverage

Berachain, a high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, partnered with Hypotenuse Labs to address scaling challenges in its core DeFi infrastructure. The original system was a tightly-coupled monolith that suffered from data races, inconsistent state, and duplicated rewards when scaled, which threatened user trust.

Hypotenuse Labs redesigned the architecture by splitting it into two separate services: a durable, queue-driven processor and a horizontally scalable public API. This solution, which included robust testing and benchmarking, was benchmarked to handle over 18,000 requests per second. The result was a resilient, production-ready system that ensured correctness and provided predictable scaling, with client engineers highlighting the major improvement in maintainability.

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