Aurimus from Alchemy @ Breakpoint Abu Dhabi | The Latest Development Podcast

In this special on-site episode of The Latest Development, recorded live at Breakpoint 2025 in Abu Dhabi, we sit down with Aurimus from Alchemy to dive deep into Alchemy’s bold entry into Solana infrastructure.

Aurimus shares his journey from building early Solana projects in 2021, founding Dexter Labs (later acquired by Alchemy), and how his team’s bare-metal, open-source innovations are now powering Alchemy’s push to become a top-tier RPC provider on Solana.

We discuss:

- Why Alchemy acquired Dexter Labs

- Key differentiators: sub-millisecond latency, massive scaling, multi-region reliability, and enterprise-grade performance

- How Alchemy stacks up against established players like Helius and Triton

- The future of wallet infrastructure, social logins, and abstracting away blockchain complexity

- Bare metal vs cloud, the exploding data problem on Solana, and the insane race for millisecond-level performance

If you’re building on Solana or just curious about the infrastructure arms race, this one’s for you.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro & Welcome from Breakpoint Abu Dhabi

00:18 - Aurimus’ background and early Solana journey (2021)

01:20 - Building Dexter Labs & the Bigtable problem

02:00 - Alchemy acquires Dexter Labs to enter Solana

03:24 - Size of Alchemy’s Solana team & recent launches

04:08 - Alchemy’s differentiators: speed, scaling, reliability

05:31 - Adoption by larger dApps & being late to the game

06:25 - Why developers use multiple RPC providers

07:27 - Multi-region infrastructure & Cortex routing

07:51 - Beyond RPC: Wallet infrastructure & onboarding tools

09:09 - Abstraction layers, gas sponsorship, and social logins

10:15 - Mobile UX pain points & the future of on-chain access

12:20 - Bare metal vs cloud: the 10x cost difference

13:26 - Competitors & the performance race

14:26 - Advice for founders choosing infrastructure

14:41 - Solana’s massive data growth (1.5PB historical cluster)

16:48 - Hardware vs software scaling debate

17:16 - The millisecond-level RPC arms race

18:45 - Final thoughts & where to find Aurimus

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