Scaling to $10M+ Daily Volume
How "Apex Alpha," a leading prop trading firm, leveraged AllenHark's low-latency infrastructure to dominate cross-DEX arbitrage on Solana.
The Challenge
Apex Alpha had a winning arbitrage strategy. Their algorithms were sharp, identifying price discrepancies across Raydium, Orca, and Meteora milliseconds before the market corrected. However, they faced a critical bottleneck: network latency.
Using public RPC nodes and standard cloud hosting, their transactions were frequently landing just too late. They were losing profitable trades to faster bots, and their "fail rate" on transactions was climbing above 15%, eating into their margins with wasted gas fees.
The Solution
Apex Alpha turned to AllenHark for a complete infrastructure overhaul. We implemented a two-pronged approach:
1. Co-Location in Tokyo (TY3)
We migrated their execution servers to our dedicated racks in the Equinix TY3 data center, physically located next to major Solana validators. This cut their network round-trip time (RTT) from ~45ms to under 2ms.
Explore Co-Location Services2. Dedicated 0-Slot RPC Nodes
They switched from shared endpoints to AllenHark's dedicated 0-Slot RPC nodes. This gave them guaranteed bandwidth and direct WebSocket streams for account updates, ensuring they saw price changes the instant they happened on-chain.
The Results
The impact was immediate. Within 48 hours of migration:
- Transaction Success Rate: Improved from 85% to 98%.
- Daily Volume: Scaled from $3M to over $10M as they could confidently execute larger bundles.
- Profitability: Net profit increased by 210% due to reduced slippage and failed tx costs.
"AllenHark didn't just provide servers; they gave us a competitive edge. The speed difference is palpable. We're now winning trades we didn't even see before."
— CTO, Apex Alpha
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