Category: Database

Decentralized finance (DeFi) trading decisions require blockchain pricing and liquidity data. However, direct blockchain node queries are inefficient and resource-intensive creating a bottleneck for timely decision-making. Blockchains are not optimized for efficient data queries, with data being stored sequentially (block by block). Retrieving specific information often requires scanning the entire blockchain. Indexers offer a solution to […]

In this post, we share how Derive successfully scaled their hybrid decentralized trading platform to achieve billions of dollars in trading volume and low-latency execution by using a robust compute and database infrastructure, using AWS Graviton on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Aurora. We explore Derive’s hybrid exchange model and how AWS played a crucial role in their growth and scalability.