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Guest: Aurimus | https://x.com/_unixas Project: Alchemy | https://www.alchemy.com/ | https://x.com/Alchemy Alchemy Joins the Solana RPC Race | Aurimus from Alchemy @ Breakpoint Abu Dhabi | The Latest Development Podcast In this special on-site episode of The Latest Development, recorded live at Breakpoint 2025 in Abu Dhabi, we sit down with Aurimus from Alchemy to dive deep into Alchemy’s bold entry into Solana infrastructure. Aurimus shares his journey from building early Solana projects in 2021, founding Dexter Labs (later acquired by Alchemy), and how his team’s bare-metal, open-source innovations are now powering Alchemy’s push to become a top-tier RPC provider on Solana. We discuss: - Why Alchemy acquired Dexter Labs - Key differentiators: sub-millisecond latency, massive scaling, multi-region reliability, and enterprise-grade performance - How Alchemy stacks up against established players like Helius and Triton - The future of wallet infrastructure, social logins, and abstracting away blockchain complexity - Bare metal vs cloud, the exploding data problem on Solana, and the insane race for millisecond-level performance If you’re building on Solana or just curious about the infrastructure arms race, this one’s for you. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro & Welcome from Breakpoint Abu Dhabi 00:18 - Aurimus’ background and early Solana journey (2021) 01:20 - Building Dexter Labs & the Bigtable problem 02:00 - Alchemy acquires Dexter Labs to enter Solana 03:24 - Size of Alchemy’s Solana team & recent launches 04:08 - Alchemy’s differentiators: speed, scaling, reliability 05:31 - Adoption by larger dApps & being late to the game 06:25 - Why developers use multiple RPC providers 07:27 - Multi-region infrastructure & Cortex routing 07:51 - Beyond RPC: Wallet infrastructure & onboarding tools 09:09 - Abstraction layers, gas sponsorship, and social logins 10:15 - Mobile UX pain points & the future of on-chain access 12:20 - Bare metal vs cloud: the 10x cost difference 13:26 - Competitors & the performance race 14:26 - Advice for founders choosing infrastructure 14:41 - Solana’s massive data growth (1.5PB historical cluster) 16:48 - Hardware vs software scaling debate 17:16 - The millisecond-level RPC arms race 18:45 - Final thoughts & where to find Aurimus Follow Alchemy on X: @Alchemy (link in bio) Alchemy on Solana: https://www.alchemy.com/solana Subscribe for more raw conversations with the builders shaping Solana’s future. #Solana #Alchemy #RPC #Breakpoint2025 #CryptoInfrastructure #Web3 #SolanaDevs #AlchemyonSolana #Engineers #Crypto #TradFi #BareMetal #Podcast #CryptoPodcast #TLD #TheLatestDevelopment #AbuDhabi #Finance #FinanceInfrastructure #CryptoFuture #EXO #EXOSolana #EXOPodcast