Reliable Infrastructure at Global Scale

Kraken operates one of the world’s longest-standing crypto platforms, serving institutional and retail clients globally. Operating at this scale requires infrastructure that can adapt to changing network conditions while maintaining reliable access to blockchain data across multiple chains.

How Lava Network Supports Kraken Operations

The Smart Router, built on Lava Network’s open-source protocol, continuously monitors multiple RPC providers, evaluates real-time performance, and routes requests dynamically to the highest-performing endpoint available. 

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By integrating Smart Router, Kraken is adding Lava-powered orchestration to strengthen the consistency of its onchain data access as demand scales. This design helps support continuity during peak periods, network congestion, or provider-level disruptions, without requiring changes to Kraken’s core systems.

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Lava already supports high-traffic production environments and has handled 170B+ RPC requests, which is why an orchestration layer built on Lava Network can operate under real load.

Bridging Institutional Standards and Onchain Infrastructure

As regulatory clarity increases and traditional financial institutions expand onchain operations, blockchain infrastructure must meet the operational standards expected of global financial systems. These standards include reliability under high-volume workloads, predictable performance, and resilience during periods of stress.

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In financial services alone, unplanned downtime is not just inconvenient: Splunk research estimates $152M in average annual downtime cost for financial services organizations.

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This partnership highlights the growing role of Magma Devs – a contributor to Lava Network – as an infrastructure partner for exchanges and institutions operating at global scale.

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“Our focus has always been helping industry leaders like Kraken focus on their business and reduce churn by giving their users reliable on-chain experiences. Our goal is to make blockchain data access faster, more reliable and secure for large companies and institutions. With deployments at high-volume, global operators like Kraken, Magma Devs is increasingly operating as a core infrastructure layer behind production blockchain systems.”
Tal Bar David, Magma Devs CEO and Lava Network Contributor

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By integrating Lava Network-powered routing solution into production environments, exchanges and institutions can benefit from a resilient access layer designed to minimize downtime, protect data continuity, and maintain reliable onchain interactions across supported blockchains, even during periods of peak activity or infrastructure disruption.

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By integrating Lava Network-powered routing into production environments, exchanges and institutions gain a resilient access layer designed to minimize downtime, preserve data continuity, and support reliable onchain interactions across supported blockchains, even during periods of peak activity or infrastructure disruption.

How the Integration Works

Kraken integrates the Smart Router as an additional layer on top of its existing systems. Kraken will integrate Smart Router into a homegrown blockchain platform that supports 120+ blockchains and over 620 crypto assets, so continuity has to hold across a wide operational surface area. The router continuously evaluates multiple RPC providers and automatically routes requests in real time based on performance signals.

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This architecture is designed to improve:

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• Continuity during peak trading periods
• More consistent onchain reads across supported chains
• Resilience against infrastructure failures or localized outages

The result is a more robust and adaptive access layer supporting Kraken’s global trading operations. The result is a more robust and adaptive access layer supporting Kraken’s global trading operations demand scales.