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Promote with Leviathan NewsAnkr, a major Web3 infrastructure and RPC provider, has completed a significant upgrade of its stack by moving its remote procedure call (RPC) traffic from Cloudflare to a private global fiber network operated by its sister company Asphere and launching a blockchain‑native load balancer built in Go. According to Ankr, this migration has cut RPC latency by roughly 50–80% across major regions while improving tail latency, throughput, and giving the company full operational control and stronger privacy guarantees by removing third‑party cloud intermediaries from the data path. The private backbone and custom edge stack are now the transport layer for Ankr RPC, which serves traffic to dozens of blockchains and millions of requests. On top of the new network, Ankr has introduced a protocol‑aware load balancer designed specifically for blockchain RPC rather than generic web traffic. The system tracks node block heights in real time so lagging nodes are automatically deprioritized before they fail health checks, helping ensure users are routed to the freshest on‑chain data. It also performs protocol‑aware routing (distinguishing full vs. archive nodes) and geo‑aware latency scoring, combining real‑time round‑trip time data with regional thresholds to minimize response time while maintaining consistency across zones. For Web3 developers and dApps, these changes matter because they reduce latency and failure modes tied to centralized cloud outages, increase privacy and reliability of RPC calls, and provide infrastructure that is more tightly aligned with the performance and state‑sensitivity requirements of multi‑chain blockchain applications.
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