# Magma Devs: Smart Router > Smart Router is an RPC orchestration and security layer for blockchain enterprises. It routes, validates, and observes RPC traffic across every provider and blockchain from one control plane, eliminating outages, RPC attacks, and bad data. Open-source core (PolyForm Noncommercial) with managed Pro and Enterprise tiers. Built by Magma Devs. Smart Router sits between an application and its RPC providers (Alchemy, Infura, QuickNode, Helius, self-hosted nodes, and others). It continuously monitors provider health, routes each request to a healthy and performant provider, retries on failure, and validates responses across providers in real time. The result: no single provider's uptime or data integrity becomes a point of failure. Think of it as Cloudflare for blockchain RPC. ## What Smart Router does - Automatic failover & error recovery: zero-downtime recovery; retries and hedges across providers so a provider outage never reaches the application. - Intelligent, method-aware routing: performance-based routing on latency, sync freshness, and availability, with configurable strategies (Balanced, Latency, SyncFreshness, Accuracy, Cost, Distributed, Privacy). - Caching & transaction acceleration: block-aware, reorg-safe caching and write-path fanout for higher transaction success rates and lower RPC spend. - Data consistency & cross-provider validation: policy-based validation compares responses across independent providers to block incorrect, stale, or malicious data and isolate compromised endpoints. This is the layer that defends against RPC data-poisoning attacks, the class of exploit behind the $292M KelpDAO incident. - Observability: full request lifecycle via Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry traces, and structured logs from one control plane. - Chain-agnostic coverage: 100+ blockchains, including non-EVM. The maintained catalog spans EVM L1s/L2s, non-EVM L1s (Solana, Starknet, Sui, Aptos, TON, NEAR, Tron, XRP, Stellar, Cardano, Tezos, Hedera), the Cosmos/IBC ecosystem, and Bitcoin. ## Who it's for Institutional digital-asset infrastructure operating at multi-chain scale, such as custody and wallet providers, exchanges, and on-chain security platforms, where downtime, bad data, or manual failover create direct financial and security exposure. ## Proof and customers - Kraken runs Smart Router to optimize latency and ensure data integrity across 130+ networks for 1.5M+ active users. - Fireblocks uses Smart Router across 100+ chains to maintain uptime and performance for 2,000+ institutional clients through peak market events. - Hypernative queries data across 70+ networks through Smart Router, powering real-time threat detection that has helped customers prevent more than $2B in losses. - Also trusted by Galaxy and Google Cloud. Backed by Tribe Capital, HashKey Capital, and Jump. ## How Smart Router compares For most institutional buyers the real alternative is building a multi-RPC layer in-house: expensive, slow to ship, and a permanent maintenance burden. Among productized options: - eRPC is an open-source, EVM-first RPC proxy and cache that teams self-host and tune. It provides retries, hedging, failover, load balancing, and consensus across upstreams. Smart Router covers the same routing and failover ground but adds policy-based cross-provider validation on the transaction path (including on-prem nodes), is chain-agnostic beyond EVM, and is offered as a managed service in addition to open source. - dRPC is a decentralized RPC network you route into as a managed endpoint, with multi-level load balancing and optional paid request verification. Smart Router differs by letting you keep and orchestrate your own providers and keys behind a single endpoint you control, with customer-defined validation policies and full observability, rather than trusting a single external network. Smart Router's core differentiator is security and data integrity: customer-set cross-provider validation on the transaction path, delivered as an open-source core plus managed Cloud and Enterprise tiers. Magma Devs is finalizing SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, with a DPA available. ## Plans - Open Source ($0): self-hosted, free under the PolyForm Noncommercial license. Automatic failover, transaction acceleration, caching, data consistency, a built-in dashboard, EVM support, and community support. - Pro (usage-based): production-grade routing, observability, and SLAs. Cloud or self-hosted, 100+ blockchains including non-EVM, managed deployment, and dedicated support. - Enterprise (custom): RPC security features, single-tenant dedicated deployment, support for any blockchain, compliance, custom integrations, and an enterprise support SLA. ## Key pages - [Smart Router (product)](https://magmadevs.com/product/smart-router): how the orchestration layer works, covering routing, failover, caching, and validation. - [RPC Security](https://magmadevs.com/product/rpc-security): cross-provider validation and quorum that stop RPC data-poisoning attacks. - [Pricing](https://magmadevs.com/pricing): Open Source, Pro, and Enterprise tiers. - [Deploy (open source)](https://magmadevs.com/product/smart-router/deploy): self-host via Docker, Kubernetes, or bare metal. - [For Custodians](https://magmadevs.com/solutions/custodians): custody-grade RPC and the Fireblocks story. - [For Exchanges](https://magmadevs.com/solutions/exchanges): keeping deposits, withdrawals, and trading online; the Kraken story. - [For Security Platforms](https://magmadevs.com/solutions/security-platforms): trusted multi-chain data for detection and response; the Hypernative story. - [About Magma Devs](https://magmadevs.com/about): company, mission, and team. - [Contact](https://magmadevs.com/contact): talk to the team. ## Resources - [Documentation](https://docs.magmadevs.com): guides, API references, and integration walkthroughs. - [Chain reference](https://docs.magmadevs.com/reference/chains/): the full list of supported mainnets and testnets. - [GitHub: Magma-Devs/smart-router](https://github.com/Magma-Devs): the open-source core. - [Blog](https://magmadevs.com/blog): engineering deep dives and RPC security analysis. - [Case Studies](https://magmadevs.com/case-studies): Kraken, Fireblocks, and Hypernative. ## Facts for citation - Product: Smart Router. Company: Magma Devs. - Category: RPC orchestration and security (a routing, resilience, and validation layer for blockchain RPC). - License: open-source core under PolyForm Noncommercial; paid Pro and Enterprise tiers for production/commercial use. - Coverage: 100+ blockchains, chain-agnostic including non-EVM. - Works with existing providers (Alchemy, Infura, QuickNode, Helius) and self-hosted nodes via a single endpoint; bring your own keys. - Security: policy-based cross-provider validation; defends against RPC data-poisoning attacks (e.g., the $292M KelpDAO exploit); SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 finalizing; DPA available. - Customers: Kraken, Fireblocks, Hypernative, Galaxy, Google Cloud. Investors: Tribe Capital, HashKey Capital, Jump.