Alchemy joins the Solana Research Institute as a founding member

Today we're announcing that Alchemy is a founding member of the Solana Research Institute (SRI), an applied research forum focused on how financial institutions participate in blockchain-based capital markets. We're joining alongside organizations like the Solana Foundation, Jito, R3, and Figment to help build the technical and strategic groundwork that institutions need before they move serious capital onchain.

What the Solana Research Institute is

SRI exists to answer a specific question: what does it actually take for banks, asset managers, and other regulated institutions to operate on a public blockchain? Its work spans the full lifecycle of financial activity, from origination and execution through governance and risk management. Rather than promote a single product or protocol, SRI produces systematic analysis of onchain infrastructure and evaluates the path from legacy financial systems to high-performance onchain markets.

Why this is a natural fit for Alchemy

We've spent 8+ years as an infrastructure provider for teams that cannot afford to be wrong about reliability or performance. That includes a growing set of institutions and enterprises who treat blockchain access the way they treat any other critical system: it has to be fast, it has to be available, and it has to hold up under scrutiny. That standard is why companies like Visa, Stripe, Robinhood, Coinbase, and Circle build on Alchemy, and why our platform now powers more than $1 trillion in transactions annually. The same infrastructure that carries their volume is what institutions evaluate when they decide where to put real money onchain.

Supporting that audience means supporting many chains at once, because no single network covers every use case. A payments team, a trading app, and a consumer wallet often live on different chains with different performance needs. Our job is to make each of those chains feel dependable through one consistent interface, so an institution can build across networks without rebuilding its infrastructure each time.

Why chains need bespoke infrastructure

Treating every blockchain the same way is the fastest path to poor performance. Each network has its own execution model, data layout, and failure modes, and the differences get sharper as throughput climbs.

Solana is the clearest example. Its high throughput and low fees come from a design that is genuinely different from EVM chains, which means generic node setups leave performance on the table and struggle under load. Getting it right takes infrastructure tuned to how Solana actually works, not a copy of what works elsewhere.

Our Solana infrastructure

We built our Solana stack specifically for the demands of high-volume applications, with a dedicated in-house team of experts. The result is a setup tuned for the network rather than adapted from EVM defaults.

In practice that means roughly 2x the throughput of standard setups, about 10x better handling of heavy calls like getProgramAccounts, and up to 20x faster archival lookups for historical data. We offer low-latency gRPC streaming in the 5 to 15 millisecond range for teams that need real-time data, backed by 99.99% uptime. For builders, we also run a $20M Solana ecosystem fund and offer up to $25k in credits to help teams scale.

This is the kind of infrastructure institutional work depends on, and it's what we bring to SRI's research on what production-grade onchain markets require.

Why Solana, and why now

Solana has crossed from a network institutions watch to one they build on. The clearest signal is tokenized real-world assets on the network hitting a record $2.8 billion, with Solana now carrying the vast majority of onchain tokenized-equities trading volume.

The names moving onchain make it concrete. Western Union and SoFi both launched stablecoins on Solana this year. State Street and Galaxy stood up a tokenized liquidity fund on it. And JPMorgan began settling through it. These are institutions that don't move until the operational and risk questions have credible answers.

What makes that possible is a network built for serious volume: sustained throughput above a thousand transactions per second, block times around 400 milliseconds, fees that stay below a cent even under load, and a multi-year record of staying up.

The questions SRI is taking on, around execution, governance, and risk, are the same ones our largest customers ask before they commit. Helping answer them with rigorous, public research is good for the ecosystem and good for the institutions deciding where to build next.

Get started

Start building on Solana. If you're an institution evaluating onchain infrastructure and want to talk through your requirements, reach out to our team.

And, to learn more about the Solana Research Institute, visit solresearch.institute