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Build vs. Buy: Blockchain Infrastructure
The true costs, technical challenges, and strategic trade-offs every team should evaluate before going onchain. Four case studies from teams processing billions in volume.
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$850K–$1.4M
Annual cost of building in-house
6–12 mo.
Before a single production request
6,000+
Eng hours/year diverted from product
Inside the guide
What you'll learn
A comprehensive guide for the person building the infrastructure recommendation their organization will act on.
The True Cost of Building In-House
Engineering, hosting, tooling, and the hidden costs — opportunity cost, inconsistent data, and the 3 AM operations burden.
What Good Infrastructure Looks Like
Five hard problems of blockchain infrastructure and what 8 years of investment in reliability, consistency, and latency produces.
The Decision Framework
When to build, when to partner, and a decision matrix to map your situation. Plus the hybrid approach sophisticated teams use.
Making the Business Case
Executive summary template, side-by-side cost comparison, and objection handling for lock-in, flexibility, and compliance.
Late 2025 — six weeks that tested the industry
Three infrastructure crises. Three providers went dark. One didn't.
Oct 10
$19B Liquidation Cascade
Largest in crypto history
Oct 20
AWS Region Failure
8+ hours offline
Nov 18
Global Cloudflare Outage
~20% of web traffic down
Alchemy had 99.99% uptime through all three — the full analysis is in the guide.
Case studies featuring
125K concurrent users
2024 US presidential election
23M users, 160 countries
99.99% reliability since launch
$10B+ annual payments
Gas fees fully abstracted
200K+ users
Daily stablecoin remittances
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The true costs, technical challenges, and strategic trade-offs — plus four case studies from teams processing billions in volume.
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