Infrastructure

Atlas Relay

Public RPC endpoints in nine regions with a free tier for small apps.


Since
2023
Team
5 people, Cape Town
Reach
3.1B requests a month
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The story

Why Atlas Relay exists

Atlas Relay began at a student hackathon in Cape Town, where the team's app kept timing out because the nearest public endpoint was in Frankfurt. They set up a node in Johannesburg for the weekend and kept it running when other teams asked to use it.

The round 4 grant paid for endpoints in Johannesburg and São Paulo, a free tier for small apps and a status page with latency by region. Atlas now serves 3.1 billion requests a month from nine regions.

Grant milestones

What the round 4 grant paid for

MilestoneStatusPaid
Endpoints in Johannesburg and São PauloShipped March 2024$70,000
Free tier with fair-use limitsShipped July 2024$40,000
Status page with latency by regionShipped November 2024$30,000

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