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Smart Router

The Smart Router is an open source infrastructure layer that supports any RPC (Lava, Alchemy, self-hosted etc.) and chooses the best nodes for you with automatic failover, error recovery, smart caching, fast TXs and more.

Features​

  1. Routes requests to the best nodes based on reliability, speed, and sync
  2. Automatically retries and fallbacks when providers face errors or downtime
  3. Delivers faster transaction propagation by broadcasting to all providers at once
  4. Has two layers of smart caching
  5. Samples and checks data accuracy

Get Started​

Follow the steps to get started with Smart Router:

  1. Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/lavanet/lava.git
  1. Navigate to the Smart Router directory:
cd lava/protocol/rpcconsumer
  1. Install all dependencies:
make install-all
  1. Create a configuration file with the following format:
endpoints:
  - network-address: <network-address>
    chain-id: <chain-id>
    api-interface: <api-interface>
  - network-address: <network-address>
    chain-id: <chain-id>
    api-interface: <api-interface>

The network-address specifies the IP address and port number of the node, chain-id specifies the unique identifier of the blockchain, and api-interface specifies the API interface used by the node.

  1. Start the consumer using the command:
rpcconsumer --config <path/to/config/file>