Nirvana Labs January 2026 Roundup

January was a heads-down, shipping month.

We launched Accelerated Block Storage (ABS), opened up our Silicon Valley data center, shipped product upgrade,

Here’s what moved:

ABS is Live

ABS is our crypto-tuned block storage built for always-hot blockchain data.

• 20K baseline IOPS (sustained)
• up to 600K burst
• sub-ms latency
• performance included in pricing
• scales from 32 GB → 4 PB

No credits. No throttling. No “upgrade to unlock speed.”

If you need storage that stays fast under real load, ABS is built for you.
Check out the details.

Related reads

How We Designed ABS for Sustained IOPS
A behind-the-scenes look at the design decisions - decoupling storage from compute, leaning into parallelism, and ditching credit systems, so performance holds for hours and days, not just benchmarks.

👉 Read the full breakdown

Block Storage Price Comparison: Traditional Cloud vs ABS
We lined up public gp3/io2 pricing against ABS and found that once you actually need sustained IOPS, traditional cloud stacks on add-ons fast, while ABS often lands 80–90%+ cheaper simply by including performance by default.

👉 See the numbers

Inside SVA2: Storage, Compute, and Nodes - Together

We also shared a closer look inside our Silicon Valley (us-sva-2) facility.

This is the first place where we run:

• storage
• dedicated compute
• bare-metal nodes
• private networking (coming soon)

all in the same building.

Shorter paths → fewer hops → lower variance → more predictable latency.

👉 Read the full SVA2 deep dive

Product & Control Plane Updates

We kept polishing the day-to-day experience too:

• faster onboarding
• tighter security (IP filtering)
• CLI + tooling improvements
• smoother multi-chain ops

Nothing flashy - just better experience for teams running real production infra. Details here.

Case Study Highlight - Optimism Foundation

We’re powering unified, low-latency RPC across the 19 Superchains for Optimism.

It’s a great example of what dedicated + colocated infra looks like in practice — consistent performance across multiple OP Stack networks without the usual noisy-neighbor surprises.

👉 Check out the Optimism case study

Company

Sonny Singh Joined the Board

We welcomed Sonny to help guide Nirvana’s next phase of growth. He brings a mix of crypto, fintech, and infrastructure experience that lines up well with where we’re headed. See more here.

Education

We also kept investing in fundamentals:

• What is the cloud, really?

• What is block storage?

What’s Coming Next

February’s already looking busy:

• Consensus Hong Kong - we are cohosting a RWA night with Pharos. RSVP now.
• ETHDenver - more details coming soon.
• more ABS updates
• more case studies

Same focus as always:
make performance the default, not the premium tier.

Because blockchains is demanding and the cloud should keep up.

About Nirvana Labs

Nirvana Labs is a high-performance storage cloud purpose built for blockchain, AI and databases i.e. the most demanding, real-time, stateful workloads. Accelerated Block Storage (ABS) offers 20K baseline IOPS included, no over provisioning. Nirvana Kubernetes Service (NKS) with Karpenter auto-scaling, high clock-speed compute and private networking. Backed by Jump Trading, Crucible, etc with 50+ customers live in production today.

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