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Processing digital asset payments on AWS

In this post, we explain how blockchain-based digital asset payment systems can reduce costs and delays. We demonstrate how to build a serverless payment system on AWS, using stablecoins such as USDC, PYUSD, or USDG as an example. This solution creates a low-cost, scalable, and decentralized alternative to legacy payment methods. The implementation is available in our GitHub repository.

Improve Solana node performance and reduce costs on AWS

Solana Agave v2.0.14 was released on October 18, 2024. Since then, operators of Solana nodes reported that occasionally their Solana nodes struggle to stay in sync with the latest slots on mainnet-beta. Searching for “catch up” on Solana’s StackExchange reveals numerous discussions of this challenge. In an earlier post, we explained how to run Solana […]