The Tatum Gateway: The Why for Builders

If you’ve built your own internal solution to manage RPC traffic, you are not alone.

We are lucky at Tatum. We speak with many of the leading engineers who’ve built Web3’s most successful applications. And what we hear among builders is identical.

Web3 applications struggle with the reliability, latency and cost of their RPC traffic. This leads to broken user experiences, and since blockchain apps handle financial assets, users are extra sensitive to delays, errors, or downtime.

In an attempt to manage it all, teams often build and maintain internal proxies or middleware to manage multiple RPC vendors.

But this creates a massive operational burden. Teams spend time babysitting infrastructure versus creating differentiated market value.

Reliability is just one hurdle. Latency often impacts an end-user's experience. Data quality can be suspect. And pricing varies vastly across providers and even across protocols and methods. This forces developers to invent complex routing strategies: to ensure fast transactions, deliver valid results, avoid overages, and dodge expensive calls. Most builders optimize on one of these metrics and understand that sub-optimization in other vectors is simply the cost of avoiding complexity.

This doesn’t have to be the case. We’re building a service that manages all of this, allowing builders to finally focus on what matters.

What is the Tatum Gateway?

Tatum Gateway is a managed RPC service that automatically handles the hard parts of RPC traffic for your application. You can add any number of endpoints from any number of vendors, including your own - the Gateway handles the rest:

• Geo-load balancing
• Failover
• Cost optimization
• Routing preferences
• MEV-protected transactions
• Monitoring node health
• Accessing usage insights that were previously hidden

It is not just sophisticated technology made simple, but it is supported by an ecosystem of partner RPC providers. These partners specialize in complex, high-maintenance chains like Solana or Sui. But, Gateway also can leverage your own nodes or any third party endpoint.

A New Default

We believe that services like the Tatum Gateway will become the default way teams manage blockchain infrastructure. Our belief is not shaped by intuition, but the direct conversations and feedback from builders like you.

Our pilot program saw more demand for the Gateway than we could support in its earliest stages. Now, it’s open to everyone.

We welcome you to try the Tatum Gateway, and we’re eagerly awaiting your feedback.