$USUAL ,, How to scale up to 30,000 requests per second. The story behind USUAL's seamless Airdrop.
The scale of what happened during Usual's airdrop is best understood through the actual activity of users. In just the first hour, the system processed what would normally be a month's worth of traffic for many protocols.
Imagine the following: 38 million requests in a single hour, each representing a user trying to claim their share of the protocol. At its peak, over 200,000 users tried to claim their share simultaneously: imagine a virtual stadium of users, all clicking at the same time and all managing to access.
Second highest activity: 30,000 requests, even more than estimated!
First hour of launch: 38 million requests, almost a billion CU
36 hours later: 1 billion requests and 20 billion CU
A month after launch, Usual is taking off: it continues to receive hundreds of millions of requests every day.