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Lava Network: Scaling blockchains w/ RPC APIs
Recorded: Dec. 12, 2025 Duration: 0:33:12Space Recording
Short Summary
Lava Network and Arbitrum announce a strategic partnership to enhance blockchain accessibility, with Lava experiencing a 5x growth in usage and achieving Mika compliance for broader enterprise access. The introduction of Lava Pools allows node runners to monetize their infrastructure, while the new website highlights the network's commitment to reliability.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. I'm everyone.
GM, GM when?
GMagma, how you say?
Sorry?
GMagma, as we say in our community.
Let's go.
G Magma.
Yes, that's right.
Yeah. Thank you. you hear me loud and clear let's go okay um shall we start clipper
yeah i'm here yeah you know sounds good jet lag after this, but that sounds amazing.
So yeah,
GM Arbitrum community,
GM GMagma from the lava community as well.
So today we have a special guest,
Clapper from lava network.
And today is to mainly to explain a bit on our collaboration between lava network,
explain a bit what lava does and how's the experience in building on
Arbitrum in general. So Clapper, if you could introduce yourself for a bit what Lava does and how's the experience in building on Arbitrum
in general.
So Klepper, if you could introduce yourself for a bit and as well as like doing like a
30 second intro to Lava, that would be appreciated.
Yeah, definitely.
Super excited to be here.
Arbitrum is one of the first community that kind of adopted us and we adopted them.
So super happy to be on an Arbitrum Community Podcast space.
My background is in tech.
I'm a computer engineer.
I was lucky to found my first company when I was 21.
And since then was in the rabbit hole of entrepreneurship
founded a few startups and had three successes I jumped into web 3 four years
ago started in the nft summer and yeah fell very quickly in the rabbit hole
looking on how to bring our expertise and build scalable products.
And one of the things we noticed from the get-go is the access, how actually every application exchange, anyone needs the blockchain data on one hand, and it means that they need to run node
or use a centralized providers.
And that's where the first idea of Lava hit us.
Like we wanted to give any users
that using blockchain and application,
we wanted to give them the experience, how to interact with every chain
super easy. And that's actually brought us to develop Lava, which is a reliability access
to on-chain economy. Awesome. Great to hear. And I believe that you guys already have a bunch of clients that are using Lava's core technology for their RPC services. So Klepper, would you mind sharing who are your major clients that are using Lava today and how you guys are planning to expand your user base of Lava as well?
So I was catching up with the team early this week.
I was very surprised to see that the Lava network usage
just grew up 5x during 2025.
And Lava was actually,
the inception was one and a half years ago, the mainnet.
But since then, it's adopting more and more chains.
So you can see that already more than 160 billion RPC requests
are being served now. And it means that millions of daily transactions are powering more than
millions of users in exchanges, wallets, and applications, and also AI agents. So, you know, you can find the top chains that are supported by Lava
and use the Lava RPC access on the different chains,
including obviously Ethereum, Arbitrum, Hedera, Hyperliquid and more.
Ethereum, Arbitrum, Hedera, Hyperliquid and more.
And yeah, within the users themselves,
you can find applications from like Fireblocks
that would love to share a bit more
about the collaboration with them.
And yeah, it's a big community now
and more than happy now to take the partnership to the next level with Arbitrum.
Definitely. And good to hear that Lava is already gaining a lot of traction and serving a lot of clients in this space using Lava core technology in general. So since today's conversation is mainly between Lava and Arbitrum, the question
that we would like to ask is, why Arbitrum? And what does it feel like to build on Arbitrum
along with Lava in general? And how users could access Lava along with Arbitrum as an
Arbitrum builder in general?
Definitely. So just maybe a quick step about what actually Lava is doing.
Lava developed a protocol in Lava, we develop a protocol that give access to any chain and actually eliminating the need to choose an RPC provider.
When I say RPC, I talk about the language of blockchain, how you interact with the blockchain themselves.
So I give you an example. When you use your wallet and you're opening the wallet, the wallet
queries and you want to see the account balance of your ARB, the wallet
queries the Arbitrum chain in order to find the wallet to see the balance.
And in order to do so using the RPC, Remote Procedure Call, it's kind of an API that querying the blockchain for different information.
Obviously, you can add for information requests, but also you can send transactions with that.
And that's the basic core of RPC.
core of RPC. So, you know, when we thought about adoption, we thought, what are the chains that we
see the highest number of transactions? We were thinking, what are the most battle-tested L2s
that can help us scale quickly? We thought, okay, we're looking for ecosystem that is mature.
There are serious builders, you know,
very high conviction and long-term teams.
And obviously we were looking for a home
that has a strong foundation and now behind the chain.
And all the checkbox kind of ticks.
And also I'm also excited to share that I met Steven in one of the first event, my first event in New York. And he was really gave us a lot of
amazing nuggets of how to build lava. So this is why So this is the key points of why we chose Arbitrum.
But I think on the dev side,
if you think about Arbitrum and Lava,
it's about removing the friction.
Arbitrum brings fast and low-cost execution environment.
And Lava gives a single endpoint,
a reliable RPC endpoint that can handle traffic with no problem.
And I would love to share more, like, you know,
what is the really interesting part that we realize
and where the narrative and evolution of Lava brought us to.
But yeah, that's in general why i think if if i can summarize that
um arbitrum is the best l2 performance and enterprise red infra with lava that's that's
what we get that's the access that we are all looking for definitely and also i like the point
clapper that you mentioned that uh there's a lot of synergies between Arbitrum in general,
because one of the unique things about Arbitrum is you can launch your dApps on a general purpose chain such as Arbitrum 1,
which is one of the number one TVS according to L2Beats chain in this space.
in the space. And also you can launch your own chain. And nevertheless, whatever choice that
And also, you can launch your own chain.
you select, either launching on a general purpose chain or building your own chain using the
Arbitrope Tech Tech, you could all use Lava behind the scene because RPC is such a core infrastructure
behind every need when you're using crypto in general. So maybe after we talk about like the core infra about Lava, your history about
Lava in general, would be great to chat a bit more about the milestones so far in 2025. Maybe
looking back to, for example, the end of 2024, what is your key milestones about achieving Lava
to the next level in 2025? And what is like, for example, the network growth stats of Lava Network in general?
Definitely, Wendt. So I think if you look at the evolution of Lava,
it started with a decentralized RPC layer that's serving dozens of dApps
with dozens of giving access to different chains.
Then different foundations, including Arbitrum,
reached out to us and said,
basically, you're developing a public good. So why don't you take this protocol? And instead of
supporting many RPC provider and giving grants to anyone, you can develop a pool, a community pool
that everyone can join permissionlessly, run the node and receive rewards at the end of the month.
The last evolution, the last phase that we've experienced in 2025 is that I like to say the on-chain economy is here bigger than ever before.
bigger than ever before. You see stablecoin, RWA, you see huge growth in all these parameters,
the regulatory framework like never before. But one thing is keep hitting us hard, and this is
the reliability access and uptime. How many times during 2025 you heard that RPC is down? We heard at the
beginning of January it was, I think, in Solana. Afterwards, GCP was down. AWS, in the summer we
had Polygon. In the last two months alone, I'm sure everyone here experienced the AWS outage during October.
You know, I could not use my credit card.
It was back then in New York.
And in the last months, we see two times big outages of Cloudflare.
of Cloudflare.
So all of that is to say that
if we are able to develop
this unstoppable reliability access,
we can make sure that your users,
your end users, the wallets, the exchanges,
your end users never hit downtime.
That's our goal here,
is to protect every on-chain interaction
from outages and failure across any blockchain.
So that's what brought us to 2025.
And when we started that,
obviously it started with Trump and Trump MemeCoin.
And at that stage,
we were working closely with Fireblocks that told us, we see a
very interesting module in your open source technology. And could you wrap it and create
a product out of that? And this is how Smart Router came to life. And it gave them the ability to have 100% uptime
during Trump MemeCoin
when all our PC providers were not able to serve
and users were not able to buy, to sell.
And it was obviously a crazy scale
and crazy milestone there.
So fast forward now, if I can recap the usage and growth to 2025, we see that Lava serves daily between 5 to 10 million transactions
per day. And it means that billions of dollars are being settled on the Lava RPC layer,
even without the users knowing that.
On the other side of that,
providers that were serving on the Lava chain as RPC providers
already earned millions of dollars for serving that traffic.
And yeah, I'm super excited to share that the new smart router will be able to support
not only dozens of chains, but any chain.
And yeah, that's what we're working on right now.
Awesome.
Super great to hear.
And also, I'm glad that you mentioned about the ethos of decentralization, about Lava
Network, about Lava Network,
about encouraging no downtime for future infrastructure in general.
Maybe, Clapper, I know that you guys also have a few other milestones that you guys have hit in 2025.
This includes some of the big ecosystem wins
that you guys just achieved Mika compliance,
and as well as you guys have several listings with different partners.
If you can share a bit more on that,
that'll be very helpful as well for the audience to understand.
Yeah, for sure.
So, you know, right after Fireblocks announced in July
that they are deploying Lava in older chains.
They're deploying the smart router during older chains.
It kind of creates a lot of traction coming to us from other enterprises.
And we realized that any enterprise out there is doing the same thing.
They want to get access to different blockchains.
So they're running nodes.
They're going to amazing providers such as Alchemy, Quicknode, Infura that gives them that.
But they never trust only a single provider.
never trust only a single provider.
And this helps us to understand that no one yet developed such a product like the smart router.
No one yet to develop something that can plug and play to a super crazy infrastructure.
The enterprise is able to use the existing contracts
that they have with the providers,
but still kind of orchestrate
and make a node management system
that keeps them alive with 100% uptime.
I think this is what brought Fireblocks,
which they secure over $10 trillion in digital assets and for thousands of different institutions.
But they need a reliable access in order to stay all the time up.
time up, all the time up.
One of the things that we developed and we see it's really interesting is what we call
a cross-validation.
So when you ask, when you query the blockchain and you want the data, sometimes the nodes
are not synced.
Sometimes somebody hacked to the node and then you presented the false information.
So this and many more features are being deployed over the smart router in order to make sure
that the enterprise and the user are getting the right information.
are getting the right information.
When you think about RWA,
when you think about stablecoin
that just hit, I don't know,
like around $20 trillion volume only in 2024,
you want to make sure that the end customers,
end user never hit a downtime.
And yeah, that's what we're focusing on.
The protocol also, they generated millions of dollars since inception.
And yeah, and we are right now, I'm working with the community on the roadmap for 2026.
And I will be very excited to share it soon.
One thing that you asked about the Mika compliance that also gave another
stamp, it's a very important milestone because now also in 25 countries in EU, they are able to to have a single regime, which is the Mika.
And it means that, you know, enterprise from that using Mika node runners are suddenly able to push them and make sure they give access
and rewards in the same regime.
Awesome.
Super, super good to hear that you guys have achieved this Mika compliance
and also enabling more people to utilize Lava in general.
So maybe it would be great to chat a bit more about what is the future plans
as 2025 is coming to an end.
What is the main key priorities for the next 12 months for Lava Network?
What could the community and users
expect from Lava Network in general?
And if there's any plans
specific towards the Arbitrum community
that people are able to utilize in general?
Yeah, so I enjoy working with the Arbitrum community.
I think that, you know, we have a very strong partnership with different apps.
I'm looking now in the stats board during when we speak,
and I see that dozens of different applications,
the apps are using Lava only on the Arbitrum ecosystem.
This is something that we look for enhancing more and more.
If you think like you have,
when a developer wants to come and build
on the Arbitrum ecosystem,
so usually as any other ecosystem, there is this most critical layer
of the RPC. You need to choose which endpoint you use. And right now, what we're developing
for Arbitrum community is a unified layer that is basically what I described before as the smart router, but just now for the Arbitrum community.
So imagine that now any project coming up,
they don't need to think about what RPC provider they will have.
The smart router for foundation can create a unified,
reliable access layer for any application that's building on Arbitrum.
It's actually aggregate all the existing RPC endpoints
into a single endpoint.
It's delivery, so when one endpoint is down,
automatically it's routes to another endpoint
to make sure that there is 100% uptime
and much more faster response.
All the providers that are providing service on that are being scored and able to receive rewards at the end of the month based on their performance.
And the third thing that's adding to this smart router for foundation is the lava pools that is built in.
So during the last one year, the lava pools run for anyone who's running nodes on the Arbitrum community and wants kind of monetize its infrastructure
to other consumers.
Because many people are running nodes
in a specific location,
but why not monetizing them
and kind of create Uber for nodes
on the lava pools?
That's exactly what the lava pool is doing.
It's a public good that's serving the
Arbitrum community and gives back the infrastructure budget back to the community. So any node runner
was joining in this year and received rewards. And I think it was in $10,000 rewards for the ones that were giving an amazing service.
So this is one thing that I'm super glad to work on now,
back to the Arbitrum community.
And apart from that, we're going to present in our upcoming roadmap
how actually we look in the future of blockchain access.
We want to create kind of the TCP IP moment for blockchain,
but in a reliability layer that is relevant for how blockchain is working on. If
you want, I can elaborate on that. But yeah, we're working with a top university like MIT to
advance kind of this always up reliability layer. And yeah, I'm super excited to share it soon.
reliability layer and yeah i'm super excited to to share it soon awesome good to hear and yeah
clapper if you mind if you don't mind sharing like is there any like specific uh category you
you guys are looking at in terms of expansion as well uh are you guys looking into like rwas which
is super popular in the industry currently are you guys looking into stable coins as well?
Or are you guys thinking of powering AI agents in the future as well?
Is there a specific sector that you are super excited to serve
or support in the upcoming year in general?
Yeah.
So the right analogy that you can think about Lava is kind of,
it's the invisible force that keeping the on-chain economy always up
and always online.
So, you know, anything around trades, balances, contract calls,
AI agents interaction, it's something that we are curious about. It's
something that we want to support. We want to make sure that every developer or enterprise
that getting access to blockchain data, they don't need to think about the infrastructure of RPC. We want to make sure that AI agents
are able to work in a specific guardrail
that gives them the right intents
when representing someone.
That's also something that we're in conversation
right now with MIT and other universities.
We want to make sure that when, you know,
customers like Fireblocks, exchanges like Kraken
are serving customers,
they can focus their resources
not on downtime, running nodes,
making sure Cloudflare is not down.
They will put the resources
on what actually they're developing.
And this is something that once we are able
to take away from the community,
from this burden,
when we were able to take it away,
I think we made it something that,
you know, is kind of the TCPIP moment.
Just, you know, I touched on that before,
but in the 70s, not many people know,
but in the 70s, there were different protocols
that were supporting the internet.
But one of the first problems was that
when one computer in the network was going down,
all the network was going down, all the network was going down. And that cannot be,
you know, the internet that we know today, obviously, cannot survive. In the 70s, it was
more for military purposes. But this is when the TCP IP protocol was presented. It basically said that even if one of the network computers is
down, still there is a resilience power in the system. And this is exactly why we were,
this is where Lava is evolving in this year. We're looking to be the default access layer
when every serious on-chain activity and traffic stays.
And yeah, that's what we want to develop now.
So you mentioned RWA, you mentioned AI agent,
all of them we would like as a community
to support with the Lava layer.
Definitely.
And yeah, really thanks for sharing and a really good knowledge sharing regarding the
past technology within the previous entry as well.
So really good to hear.
Yeah, so I believe, Clapper, we are coming close to an end for this EMA.
And really thanks for sharing everything about Lava in general and your knowledge in the
infraspace.
I believe all of the community members had a really good time listening to your speech.
So maybe the next step will be like, hey, where could people learn more about Lava in
general?
Is there any like site or any docs docs or Twitter account that they could follow?
Is there any depth resources between Arbitrum and Lava that people could utilize?
And the best place for builders to get Lava support in general?
Definitely.
So first of all, I'm really proud to be part of this Arbitrum community. And thank you, Wenn, for the support. And want to develop the always up layer
and we are welcoming all the parties
and everyone that can make this vision happen.
It means that we need everyone here in the community
on Arbitrum that's running RPC nodes.
Reach out to us and let's build
the most resilient layer on Arbitrum.
It means that we want the users, everyone who's developing AI agents,
everyone who needs AI agents, they don't sleep, they don't drink coffee,
so they need this super resilient layer to make sure that it's up and running. Come to our new
website. It's not you, but the lava net dot XYZ website has been
turned a makeover. And now you can see also all the outages happened during 2025 when Lava didn't have a single outage.
I'm inviting everyone to come to the blog, use the docs.
And for Arbitrum specific, we have also a page that's speaking more about the public RPC endpoints
and also the bridging and RPC guides, how to use it.
Community is super active on Discord.
Yeah, I'm always here trying to serve to be an educator for the community
and taking the protocol to the next level.
All right. Good to hear.
You guys hear the words from Clapper itself. Feel free to visit Lava's website. Go to all of this educational resource to check it out. And yeah, thanks for hopping into this EMA today, Clapper. We're super happy to host you today with this EMA and really excited for future collaboration together.
Same here. Same here, same here.
And GMAGMA.
GMAGMA.
Have a nice day, guys.
See you.
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