Customer
Astaria
Description
Onchain NFT lending platform that allows borrowers to access instant liquidity by posting NFTs as collateral
Primary Focus
NFT Lending
Products In Use
NFT Rendering
NFT Metadata
NFT Ownership
NFT Search
Astaria skipped building NFT data services in-house — and saved money while shipping faster
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Millions of Requests
Served via Center API
< 50ms
Ownership p95 response time
< 50ms
Metadata p95 response time
Astaria requires a wide variety of NFT-related data
Astaria is an NFT lending protocol. When they started building a front-end for their users, they realized that they needed a range of general NFT-related data and functionality beyond just NFT lending in order to build a rich experience. They needed to accurately display the latest NFT media, retrieve metadata, and track real-time ownership information. There are also other challenges inherent to NFTs — spammy collections, malicious NFT media, constantly evolving standards, and more. Properly indexing the blockchain, and making sure the latest blocks are captured in real-time, is a difficult problem that Astaria can’t afford to get wrong — users expect to see the assets they own, accurately, every single time they use the protocol.
Expensive, time-consuming and difficult to build the necessary infrastructure to retrieve this data in-house
To solve these problems themselves, Astaria would need to build complicated infrastructure and dedicate valuable engineering time to maintaining it. Even after doing that, there would likely be edge cases (like custom contracts or newly introduced standards) that would require ongoing engineering work. This would all take time away from their core focus: building the best NFT lending platform.
Astaria found Center, and realized that the Center API could solve all of these problems for them. Center allows Astaria to abstract away all of the complexity associated with NFT data, providing Astaria with:
NFT Ownership: Astaria can see all NFTs owned by a particular address, updated within milliseconds of new blocks, with one query of the Center API
NFT Metadata: Astaria retrieves all metadata associated with any NFT using Center, including traits, rarity, verification flags, descriptions, social links, and more.
NFT Rendering: Astaria renders NFT media with one call to the Center API — in any size or format. Center also provides “Safe Rendering”, which means Astaria can serve a rasterized image file that has any potential malicious content removed.
NFT Search: Astaria provides powerful search functionality, for both collections and assets, to users using the Center Search API
Spam Detection: Center flags collections suspected to be spam, so that Astaria can filter those out from their UI.
“We didn't want to build the service ourselves to call all the NFT data that Center has worked so hard to build. Working with Center gave us an opportunity to skip building all of that in-house so we could focus on the hard problems”
Joseph Delong / CTO at Astaria
Pristine data quality and lightning-fast load times at https://astaria.xyz/
Astaria can launch new features powered by Center without having to invest any development time themselves — this allowed them to launch enhanced search functionality within days of Center’s new Search API release
Astaria can focus on the things they are most interested in, like building the leading NFT lending platform