Alchemy Unveils New Blockchain Engine For Faster Polymarket and World Chain

Alchemy, which powers the stablecoin infra of Circle, PayPal, Stripe, Tether, Paxos, has unveiled a significant blockchain upgrade for faster web3 projects.

Published by

Sneha Agrawal

July 31, 2025

New Product Alchemy Unveils New Blockchain Engine For Faster Polymarket and World Chain

Alchemy:- Last year saw $27.6 trillion in stablecoin transfers exceeding combined Visa and Mastercard volumes. This growing adoption of stablecoins and decentralised applications highlight the emerging demand for next-gen payment infrastructure too.

Alchemy which already supports 70% of stablecoin activity, has come up with a significant blockchain upgrade for it.

The world’s leading blockchain infrastructure provider has announced Cortex, an intelligent new engine that supercharges on-chain applications. This is going to boost performance for major platforms like Polymarket and World Chain by as much as 50×.

Besides these, its issuers and integrators such as USDC, PYUSD, Paxos, Stripe, Coinbase, and institutional rails for J.P. Morgan and World Liberty Financial are also going to be benefitted.

How Does Alchemy’s Cortex Engine Boosts Blockchain Performance

This launch marks a critical milestone in Alchemy’s 18-month overhaul of its core architecture. It aims to help blockchain networks to rival—and even surpass traditional finance systems in speed and reliability.

Built on seven years of real-world usage data and trained on trillions of requests, Cortex transforms how applications interact with blockchains. It leverages AI-powered traffic optimization, context-aware routing, and purpose-built bare-metal servers.

With this, Cortex delivers up to 66% faster response times on average, 500× greater throughput per node. It uses Kubernetes affinity and Istio to co-locate latency-sensitive workloads and prefer intra-node traffic.

Further, it also promises Block-perfect consistency, ensuring every user sees the exact same data instantaneously. These enhancements translate into dramatic, application-level gains.

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PolyMarket and World Chain Report Results

According to the press release shared with BrandTalk, in early tests, Polymarket using Cortex saw its transaction latency drop by more than half – from 250 ms to 100 ms. This enabled up to 50× faster market updates during peak event volumes.

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Similarly, World Chain – the Layer 2 network which partnered with Alchemy last year – reported 50× improvements in wallet creation and transaction finality. J.P. Morgan’s public proof-of-concept for a USD-pegged digital token was also powered by Cortex’s engine.

Thus, faster and more reliable infrastructure would lower the friction for financial institutions to on-chain stablecoin pilots. This comes as in H1 2025, total stablecoin supply has jumped 23.5% – from roughly $204 billion to $252 billion. This has been driven by new entrants in the market, growing payments adoption and regulatory shifts.

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With over four years of experience in covering and tracking the financial markets, Sneha Agrawal is a dedicated Crypto Journalist and Editor with passion for researching and writing the crypto pieces. She is currently leading the Brandtalk section, here at CoinGape. She likes to keep track of political, legal and financial happenings all around the world - without which she deems her day incomplete. Apart from her Journalistic endeavours, she is a solo traveler, museum goer, and a keen reader of books.