Fast Swaps: How Aori Delivers Sub-Second Crosschain Execution with Nirvana Cloud

Fast Swaps: How Aori Delivers Sub-Second Crosschain Execution with Nirvana Cloud

How Aori Uses Nirvana Cloud to Power Fast Swaps Across Chains

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Crosschain swaps have always been limited by latency: finality delays, network hops, and mismatched infrastructure slow the entire process down. Fast Swaps by Stargate Finance, powered by AORI, changes that narrative.

Today, Fast Swaps deliver sub-second to a few seconds end-to-end crosschain execution. Aori’s design makes this possible, and Nirvana is proud to provide the performance infrastructure behind it.

Here’s the high-level story👇

Aori: The Universal Intent Layer on Stargate

Aori powers crosschain trading with an intent-based system that turns the entire flow into a real-time experience:

Users submit intents → solvers compete → liquidity moves instantly → settlement finalizes in seconds.

Execution speed directly impacts user experience and solver pricing.
The faster the engine, the tighter the quotes, the better the UX — and the more volume the system can support.

Aori set out to push that speed to the absolute limit.

How Nirvana's Cloud Fits In

Aori needed infrastructure that could keep up : fast RPC, real-time execution, and minimal network hops all in one environment. Generic cloud wasn’t designed for this.

Aori began on Nirvana with dedicated RPC nodes, but as routing volume surged, tests quickly showed their DEX router needed to live right beside those nodes to reach true Fast Swaps performance. So they moved from hyperscalers to Nirvana’s bare-metal colocation, placing routing and RPC in the same environment.

Once colocated, everything accelerated: multi-chain expansion happened in weeks, node pools scaled from single nodes to production-grade clusters, and high-availability load balancers prepped the system for zero-day chain launches.

Hyperscalers out. Node-level colocation in.

Running routing and RPC together unlocked the instant, consistent execution that powers Fast Swaps today - sub-second crosschain swaps with real volume behind them.

How Nirvana x AORI cut latency

Solvers price every trade around three core risks: finality, slippage, and volatility. The longer it takes for an intent to hit the chain, the larger each of those risks becomes and the worse the price users receive.

Aori’s entire system is designed to shrink that latency window to the smallest possible footprint. That only works when the routing engine and RPC nodes run side-by-side in the same high-performance environment, free from public-internet jitter and unpredictable hops.

The First 60 Days: Measurable Impact

The impact of moving Aori’s routing engine onto Nirvana’s cloud was immediate and visible in production. In just the first 60 days, Aori processed more than $450M in swap volume, expanded to seven chains including Optimism, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Plasma, BNB Chain, and Monad and unlocked sub-second crosschain execution (average 2–4 second).

What Nirvana Provides Behind the Scenes

Nirvana supports Aori with a performance-first cloud designed specifically for ultra-low-latency execution. The stack includes:

  • Custom bare-metal compute
  • Dedicated RPC pools
  • Node-level colocation
  • Private networking
  • High-availability scaling

Workloads run next to the node, not halfway across the world.

Aori Sets the Standard.
Nirvana Helps Them Hit Their Ceiling.

Aori delivers Fast Swaps that are fast, gasless, and best-in-class on pricing.
Nirvana simply provides the high-performance environment that supports their architecture and helps unlock the speed their system is built for.

📘 Download the Full Case Study

See all the details of how Aori and Nirvana achieved sub-second crosschain swap:👉 Download the full PDF

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