Closing the Year with Real-World Performance
December was about proof.
After a year of building, testing, and refining what performance really means for Web3 infrastructure, December marked the moment it all came together, with production launches, real traffic, and real results.
From powering a new L1 to supporting sub-second cross-chain execution, this month showed what happens when infrastructure is designed for how blockchains actually operate.
Here’s what moved in December.
Stable Mainnet Launch
- High-Throughput L1 for USDT Powered by Nirvana Infrastructure
Stable officially launched its mainnet, built on top of Nirvana’s performance cloud.
Stable is a high-throughput Layer 1 purpose-built for USDT, designed for sub-second finality, gas-free transfers, and large-scale stablecoin settlement.
To match that speed, Aori, the universal intent protocol powering crosschain trading on Stargate, runs its DEX router on Nirvana’s dedicated RPC node pools, tuned for low latency, predictable performance, and high call volume.
Every Stable RPC call Aori relies on is served from Nirvana’s bare-metal environment, removing virtualization overhead and delivering consistent performance under sustained load.
Fast Swaps: Aori × Nirvana
- Sub-Second Crosschain Execution
Aori powers Fast Swaps with an intent-based execution engine that requires ultra-low latency and predictable performance. To achieve this, Aori runs its DEX router directly alongside Nirvana’s dedicated RPC nodes, eliminating public internet hops and enabling true node-level colocation.
The result is sub-second crosschain execution, even under real volume. By pairing Aori’s high-frequency routing with Nirvana’s bare-metal infrastructure, Fast Swaps delivers fast, reliable execution that simply isn’t possible on traditional cloud setups.
Goldsky × Nirvana
- Real-Time Indexing at Scale
Goldsky powers real-time blockchain indexing for data-heavy applications, where latency and consistency are non-negotiable. As chains produce more data at faster rates, traditional cloud architectures struggle to keep up.
By colocating indexing infrastructure directly on Nirvana’s performance cloud , including RPC nodes and Elasticsearch clusters, Goldsky achieves sub-5ms query latency, stable throughput, and truly always-hot datasets. The result is reliable, real-time indexing built for modern blockchain workloads.
Why Generic Cloud Still Breaks Under Web3 Load
Across all of these launches, a common theme emerged:
- Generic cloud infrastructure was never designed for continuous, high-throughput blockchain workloads.
- Cloud platforms optimize for bursty, intermittent usage. Blockchains don’t behave that way. They generate constant data, require sustained IOPS, and demand low, predictable latency over long periods of time.
This mismatch is why teams hit performance ceilings — and why we continue to see a shift toward:
- Bare-metal compute
- Node-level colocation
- Private networking
- High sustained IOPS storage (coming soon)
That’s the foundation Nirvana is building.
Wrapping Up 2025
2025 was a real turning point for us.
It’s the year we stopped thinking of Nirvana as “fast RPC” and fully committed to building the performance cloud Web3 actually needs. We raised $6M (bringing us to $11.8M), became SOC 2 Type II, and leaned hard into node-level colocation — putting compute, storage, and networking right next to the chain.
Along the way, we helped power sub-second swaps with Aori, 5× faster indexing with Goldsky, unified RPC for the Optimism Superchain, and the first full archive node for Monad.
We now support 90+ networks, move petabytes of data, and run infrastructure that people rely on in production every day.
