Empowering the Bitcoin star chain

Empowering the Bitcoin star chain

Background

Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution that integrates several advanced technologies: the ZK-Rollup network, decentralized oracle network, data availability, and on-chain BTC fraud-proof modules. Its primary objective is to enhance Bitcoin’s native assets, protocols, and products on Layer 1 by leveraging its Layer 2 network, and ultimately achieve the goal to “Make Bitcoin Fun Again.”

Why Chose BlockPI?

Challenges/Needs

Merlin Chain is a leading Bitcoin L2 public blockchain with millions of users and developers. With the continuous increase in users’ on-chain participation and active on-chain transactions, Merlin Chain’s public RPC service is facing performance bottlenecks, which affects the user experience in a significant way. However, the strategy of purely expanding the RPC nodes is not feasible as its cost is tremendous.

To ensure a better user experience and stable development environment for Merlin’s users and developers, Merlin needed an RPC solution that can scale with its growing user base while maintaining a good stability of the network and also keeping the cost in reasonable range.

BlockPI’s Solution/Results

After having BlockPI as an infrastructure partner, Merlin Chain has achieved the following results:

Money saving: Traditional way of RPC nodes setup requires a lot of server resources, thus resulting in very high expansion costs, and such an expanding strategy can hardly meet Merlin Chain’s growing demand as it does not scale. BlockPI managed to make the best use of its server resources and came up with a variety of optimization technologies to further reduce the deployment costs, helping Merlin Chain save a lot of money.

High performance: Due to the surge of the number of users on Merlin Chain, its original infrastructure architecture could not handle such a huge volume, resulting in significant performance downgrading within its network. BlockPI’s special distributed architecture allows BlockPI to split the request volume to multiple different nodes, and dynamically adjust the load of service nodes according to real-time traffic conditions, thus ensuring the high performance and good reliability of Merlin Chain.

Improved efficiency: The original infrastructure architecture of Merlin Chain is quite complicated, thus requiring adjustment on technical supporting strategies from time to time and also bringing certain difficulties for the network’s upgrades. To ensure the problems solved immediately and keep the network always running stably, BlockPI always provided the needed technical support in a timely manner and helped Merlin Chain successfully complete multiple important network upgrades, receiving a lot of positive feedback from users on Merlin Chain.

In summary, the infrastructure solution provided by BlockPI for Merlin Chain not only ensures the highest stability and efficiency of its network improving the user experience greatly, but also provides a perfect infrastructure solution that can scale with Merlin Chain, helping Merlin Chain stay ahead of the highly competitive blockchain market.