How Is Alchemy Secretly Fixing Blockchain's Node Nightmare – Part 2

If It’s Not Magic, Then It’s Alchemy

According to Viswanathan, in 1972 computers were used by computer companies only whereas by 2019 it was used by the entire world and so in 2019 who is using blockchain? As he suggests the implications thereby come as ubiquitous adoption coming to transactions entwined with code as blockchain is set to become so common as we don’t even talk about it the same way as no one says they are using an internet application. Hereby Alchemy’s goal is to make the same true for blockchain as typically it is to just get started where businesses spend tens of thousands of dollars set to operate those nodes that can interpret and thereafter write to blockchains. 

Here it comes to be not only slow and costly but also sucking up a ton of engineering resources as the condition is worse yet that the node architecture is not gracefully supporting massive scale whereas load balancing across servers as is the traditional web applications which break down when those nods are mistakenly returning block numbers out for sync with the blockchain apps running slow and buggy or crashing completely with programmers spending nights awake fighting fires.  

Using a whole different decentralized architecture, Lau says that it, therefore, lets it separate the different types of data into those special data stores for the much faster and more reliable access resulting what is easier to build apps on Bitcoin, Ethereum as well as other coins with fewer engineering resources wherein the sense it is not unlike an Amazon AWS for the blockchain. In this case, Alchemy is also taking inspiration from Microsoft offering a wide range of tools required for managing decentralized apps. 

In this scenario, it includes analytics for tracking the usage, monitoring of performance as well as availability thereafter alerting to inform teams when things break thereafter logging for tracing back errors as also debugging for getting apps running it right again. It is hereby on the traditional web that it is set to work off multiple start-ups as blockchain standardize the database and how it is accessed, whereas Alchemy does it all and is already building more tools. 

According to Tom Kysar Augur’s director of operations, the team has been able to refocus its time on building the new product features for Augur as they wouldn’t have been able to otherwise using Alchemy as they used to spend a notable amount of time thereby dealing with infrastructure issues as they don’t worry at all. Along with this his prediction market start-up writes Alchemy resolved 98% of reliability issues as well as made its user's applications load 3X faster. 

More On Alchemy And The Like

To specify the further improvements it was that the crypto exchange AirSwap had then ditched the node system and it had built and thereafter open sourced to use Alchemy instead with another client stating it got 25% of the engineering staff back. As Coinbase COO Emilie Choi comments Alchemy has therefore grown quietly as also quickly becoming a leading infrastructure provider as they are excited to see how alchemy pushes forward the crypto ecosystem. 

As IBM had underestimated the market of personal computers, in the first age, it subsequently allowed Microsoft to swoop in as Windows opened PCs to the third-party software devs. Whereas it was found in the second age that the browser and then the mobile OS let Apple and Google conquer the middle ground which is between HTTP and our favorite apps. This is where Alchemy assumes a lucrative spot in the vision of Viswanathan of the blockchain equipped third age. As of the infrastructure layer, he says this is what spins the innovations cycles thereby increasing the speed of development. 

The relevant question is that of timing as Viswanathan admits it is the biggest threat as how quickly is crypto set to becomes a massive market where Alchemy already makes a fair amount of money selling the tools as also service packages starting in the tens of thousands of dollars whereas it may also need the technology to jumpstart the blockchain developer flywheel powering a breakout success thereby serving mainstream consumers turning to attract more creators to the industry.

The challenging part of outsourcing a key part of their infrastructure to Alchemy for the engineering-focused start-up is convincing developers especially incumbent corporations as it only hired the first salesperson helping pitch big banks as well as commerce giants intrigued by blockchain’s efficiencies. It is possible that running their decentralized apps through a central platform is what crypto zealots might also balk at. To conclude it is luckily that while Alchemy powers everything from exchanges to the games to the finance to integrating the distributed ledgers into traditional businesses as it hereby just needs something to win on the blockchain. 

Wrapping Up The Discussion 

While many of the start-ups have thereby died waiting for blockchain, will Alchemy preserve as the founders often say it comes to be a sense of duty to pay it forward and as Viswanathan comments, he feels so lucky to live in 2019 which has technology and computers and internet as never before in the history of a human before the last 20 years is that it could build something and potentially everyone on the planet’s life has improved by it? He further concludes that as these technology shifts happen every 20 to 30 years, this comes as a massive technology shift having the chance to build a foundational company in the space and it isn’t about money as there are so many less stressful ways than start-ups making money.