How Universal Delivers 24/7 Crypto Asset Tracking on Railway

Angelo Saraceno's piece details the transformative infrastructure shift of Universal, a DeFi startup managing crypto assets across multiple blockchains, from Vercel to Railway, resulting in a 70% reduction in infrastructure costs and a significant increase in operational efficiency. Universal, led by engineers Jakub Swierczek and CTO Jun Hong, faced escalating costs and architectural constraints with Vercel, particularly due to serverless function expenses and the necessity for static IPs to meet security standards required by Coinbase Custody. Railway provided a viable solution by offering platform-as-a-service simplicity combined with powerful infrastructure capabilities, facilitating seamless migration and deployment across three environments and enabling efficient management of complex DeFi architecture by just two engineers. The migration allowed Universal to handle over 1,000 requests per minute, improve deployment speed by 20 times, and ensure security compliance through static IPs and private networking, all while maintaining focus on product development. With Railway's robust features, Universal efficiently scaled its operations to accommodate the listing of their assets on platforms like World App, securing millions in crypto assets across five blockchains, and establishing Railway as their long-term infrastructure solution.