AORIPowering Fast Swaps x Aori Sub-Second Cross-Chain Swaps
settlement throughput
6 chains in weeks: Controlled Scaling to Optimism, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Plasma, and BNB Chain with massive load increases.
"Migrating to Nirvana's cloud gave us the speed and reliability we needed to scale. Colocating our most critical workloads - our proprietary DEX router - wasn't just about shaving milliseconds. It's what allowed us to grow volume fast, expand chains quickly, and hit hundreds of millions in crosschain swaps while giving traders that UX they've been looking for"
SUMMARYAori is a high-frequency intent protocol that powers LayerZero Labs's Stargate Fast Swaps.
Aori runs their proprietary intent router directly on Nirvana's colocation cloud stack, right next to the chains, paired with Nirvana's dedicated node pools for RPC performance. This architecture delivers the bare-metal speed and reliability needed for fast, securing cross-chain swaps and settlement.
Nirvana provides the dedicated node pools, custom load balancing with high availability, and private network interconnect that power Aori's intent engine delivers sub-800ms bridge execution and sub-4s average settlement across six chains — enabling truly instant cross-chain swaps.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Co-located compute for ultra-low latency intent execution
Dedicated node pools engineered for high-performance workloads
Fast multi-chain provisioning with flexible node configurations
Private network connectivity with Nirvana Connect
High-Availability Load Balancing (WIP)
Deepdive
BACKGROUNDAori is a high-frequency, cross-chain and same-chain intent protocol built on LayerZero, using off-chain matching for instant intent routing, liquidity aggregation for deeper books, and atomic settlement to finalize everything in a single MEV-protected transaction.
Users submit signed intents and solvers compete to fill them instantly by fronting liquidity as blocks close, taking on the finality, slippage, and volatility risk themselves.
Aori's job is to make that entire process as fast and safe as possible, compressing slippage, latency, and settlement risk, so solvers can quote tighter and fill more reliably.
Nirvana powers this speed with ultra low latency RPC, co-location compute along the RPC nodes, and private networking; giving solvers the low-latency environment they need to operate at true high frequency.
WHY NIRVANA?Nirvana solves this with chain-prox bare-metal infrastructure, dedicated RPC node pools, and private network paths that remove public-internet jitter and preserve sequential-call integrity. By placing Aori's DEX router and Nirvana's managed node pools inside the same environment, achieving 800ms bridging. Early setups on generic cloud and "global RPC pool" providers offered reliability but not control.
Calls were routed to different nodes inside shared pools, creating variable latency and unpredictable tail behavior, especially at Aori's high call volume. Per-call pricing also scaled poorly, making performance inconsistent and expensive. Moving to dedicated node pools on Nirvana eliminated this variability entirely.
Unlike generic clouds, Nirvana co-designs the stack with partners - tuning latency, routing, scaling, and high-availability architecture around real execution flow, including load-balancer pairs, region-level redundancy, and disaster-recovery paths.
With compute, nodes, and networking unified in a single footprint, Aori avoids cross-cloud egress entirely, reduces data-transfer spend, and gets an execution environment that matches the speed and determinism their solvers depend on.
Use Cases
Co-Location on Nirvana Cloud for High-Performance Routing
For Aori, execution speed is everything. Their DEX router powers intent-based swaps that depend on near-instant resolution to avoid race conditions, slippage, and failed transactions across fast cross-chain markets. Early deployments on generic cloud infrastructure introduced unpredictable latency and high egress costs, limiting routing quality and scalability
Co-Location on Nirvana Cloud for High-Performance Routing
For Aori, execution speed is everything. Their DEX router powers intent-based swaps that depend on near-instant resolution to avoid race conditions, slippage, and failed transactions across fast cross-chain markets. Early deployments on generic cloud infrastructure introduced unpredictable latency and high egress costs, limiting routing quality and scalability
Fast Multi-Chain Rollout at Scale
Aori's rapid growth depends on the ability to expand to new chains quickly. To keep up with user demand and liquidity opportunities, they needed reliable, low-latency infrastructure across multiple networks without engineering bottlenecks. Aori is scaling across both networks and TBs of data from four initial chains to Plasma and BNB, with Monad and Stable coming next.
Node-to-Fit Scaling with Production-Grade Performance
Early routing volumes ran on VMs for agility, but as orderflow grew, Aori needed production-grade performance without over-provisioning. Nirvana enabled a node-to-fit model, scaling from VMs to bare metal as volume increased and dynamically resizing node pools up or down as new chains launched.
Private Direct Connectivity
Public internet routing introduced latency spikes and jitter that undermined transaction speed. Aori needed full control over the network to guarantee stable routing performance. Nirvana provided private interconnect, removing the unpredictability of public routing and lowering costs.
High-Availability Load Balancing
Aori is a cross-chain and same-chain intents protocol on LayerZero, where solvers fill user orders near-instantly, so latency and consistency are critical. They run across multiple priority networks (BNB, Base, Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum) and require very tight block-lag tolerances. Their prior setup relied on per-chain load balancers without HA, creating single points of failure and configuration drift.
KEY INTEGRATION MILESTONESThe Journey
June 2025
Partnership
Initial integration begins with Aori connecting their DEX router (hosted on GCP) to Nirvana's Optimism node pool.
July 2025
First Integration
OP router on GCP connects to Nirvana's Optimism node; testing shows Wisent needs to be co-located on Nirvana Cloud.
Early August 2025
Multi-chain Build-out
Base, Ethereum, and Arbitrum provisioned; node pools grow from single nodes to 4-node pools
Mid August 2025
VM to Bare Metal
Routing moves to bare metal; pools expand to 8 nodes for launch.
Late August 2025
Go-live
Four co-located node pools launch in Silicon Valley, eliminating egress and stabilizing sub-5 ms latency.
September 2025
Plasma Live
October 2025
BNB Added
November 2025
Zero-day Launch Prep
HA load-balancer pair deployed for upcoming Stable and Monad integrations.
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