Unlocking DeFi's Fragmented Liquidity: How Soul Served 100K+ Users Without a Single Interruption

The Challenge: Building a Bridge Across DeFi's Fragmented Landscape

For DeFi users today, the promise of financial freedom often collides with the reality of fragmented liquidity. Soul recognized this fundamental pain point and set out to solve it by creating the first cross-chain lending aggregator that unifies liquidity across DeFi's fragmented ecosystem.

Soul’s platform enables users to deposit collateral on one protocol or chain and borrow from another without needing to bridge assets or switch between ecosystems. By integrating protocols such as Aave, Compound and Venus, Soul creates a unified liquidity layer that serves various user needs.

Delivering on this promise requires rock-solid infrastructure. By virtue of being an always-on aggregator, maintaining uptime is paramount to Soul's success.

The Solution: Building on Bedrock Infrastructure

The Soul team needed to fetch reliable blockchain data from multiple networks with minimal downtime and maximum throughput. Their infrastructure required consistent performance and scalability across networks, without introducing the complexity of managing their own nodes.

Initially, Soul integrated multiple data providers and built a ranking system that selected endpoints based on real-time performance metrics. While this provided some resilience, it introduced unnecessary complexity and maintenance overhead that distracted them from their core mission: building impactful dApps. The team had also tested other third-party infrastructure providers, but none offered the consistent uptime, latency performance, or developer support that matched Alchemy’s capabilities.

The turning point came when Soul decided to partner with us, transitioning to use Alchemy as the default data provider for both frontend applications and backend services. This unified their access layer and significantly reduced latency, failure rates, and operational challenges.

In addition to reputation, Alchemy’s support for smart contract whitelisting, real-time monitoring tools, and high-throughput APIs played a pivotal role in the team’s evaluation process.

The Results: Serving 100,000 Users without Interruption

With Alchemy's support, Soul successfully executed their testnet campaign without any service interruptions, serving over 100,000 users in just a few weeks. This level of reliability would have been difficult to achieve with their previous setup and saved substantial engineering time and infrastructure costs.

Soul's platform now enables users to:

• Maximize capital efficiency and unlock yield opportunities across chains without the friction of moving assets manually

• Run complex, multi-chain strategies without relying on bridges, wrapped assets, or redundant collateral

• Shift capital instantly across chains to capture opportunities by borrowing where they need liquidity

• Access the best rates by supplying liquidity where it's most profitable and borrowing where it's most cost-effective

• Benefit from unified risk management for assets distributed across ecosystems

The Soul team primarily utilized Alchemy's HTTPS and WebSocket APIs for reliable data access. Additionally, tools like the Mempool dashboard and transaction logs helped them monitor real-time activity and debug issues more efficiently.

Looking Ahead: Expansion and Optimization

Following their successful testnet rollout, Soul is fine-tuning performance, optimizing the user experience, and completing final security audits with Runtime Verification. They will also be partnering with other top-tier firms including ABDK, Hacken, and Certik to ensure a sound code base and long-term resilience.

The team is actively working to onboard new lending protocols across both EVM and non-EVM ecosystems. From blue-chip platforms like Aave and Morpho to protocols like Kamino and Suilend, their goal is to aggregate only the highest-quality, audited markets to maintain strict risk standards.

Looking forward, Soul is exploring ways to further reduce the number of on-chain queries by implementing local simulations within their application. This will enhance performance and decrease external API dependency even further.

The Takeaway: Delegated Infrastructure = Concentrated Innovation Power

Soul's partnership with Alchemy demonstrates that reliable infrastructure directly translates to superior user experiences onchain. By focusing on what they do best—creating a unified liquidity layer across DeFi- and letting Alchemy handle the infrastructure challenges, Soul can better serve their diverse user base:

• Yield farmers and retail users looking to maximize capital efficiency

• Power users and DeFi strategists running complex, multi-chain strategies

• Arbitrageurs and fast-moving traders who need to shift capital instantly across chains

• Users seeking the best rates for both borrowing and lending

• DAOs and institutional treasuries seeking better capital deployment

• Builders and protocols wanting to plug into Soul's omnichain liquidity layer

For teams building the next generation of cross-chain dApps, the message is clear: choosing the right infrastructure partner doesn't just solve technical problems, it enables you to deliver on the full potential of web3 for your users.