Berachain Case Study: How Ormi Powered 2025’s Most Innovative Mainnet Launch and TGE
Ahead of Berachain’s 2025 launch, Ormi deployed real-time subgraphs in under 5 hours, enabling 50M+ transactions in 48 hours, 20× faster queries, and zero throttling, ensuring a seamless mainnet and TGE rollout.
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50 million txns
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Context
- 48 hours before Berachain mainnet launch: traffic surged and the existing subgraph providers began throttling under load.
- Impact on ecosystem apps: apps relying on real-time data experienced degraded performance due to delayed indexing responses.
- Ormi deployed a dedicated subgraph in under 5 hours: resolving the throttling issue and restoring real-time data access in under 5 hours.
Results
- Query response improved 20x from 10 seconds to 0.5 seconds
- 50 million txn processed within 48 hours with zero throttling
- Supported 1 million+ concurrent users during peak traffic with zero issues
- Enabled TVL growth from $0 to over $3 billion
The most innovative chain in 2025
Berachain is the most innovative and highly anticipated mainnet launch of 2025. Arguably the first blockchain utilizing the Proof-of-Liquidity mechanism, Berachain directly integrates decentralized finance (DeFi) components such as liquidity pools, decentralized exchanges, and lending protocols at its core.
This marks the first time a blockchain truly emphasizes a first-class user experience centered around what blockchain does best: permissionless finance.
Berachain’s success isn't solely dependent on its functioning mainnet but also relies heavily on its interoperable suite of first-party DeFi applications, which significantly enhance its user experience.
However, immediate instability in its existing core data infrastructure threatened its launch until Ormi intervened.
The crisis
48 hours before launch, native dApps' performance was throttled.
With a mere 48 hours remaining before its highly anticipated mainnet launch (February 4, 2025), Berachain’s subgraph and data infrastructure were throttled. Essential first-party dApps experienced lag and became unusable, placing the highly anticipated mainnet launch—and, in hindsight, over $3 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL)—at imminent risk.
Rapid response, less than 5 hour infrastructure provisioning
Partnering with Ormi via a trusted ecosystem partner
Dolomite, Berachain's trusted ecosystem partner see Dolomite case study, quickly facilitated an urgent introduction to Ormi. Recognizing the stakes, Ormi’s CEO took immediate action. A swift agreement was secured by 9 PM. In an unprecedented five-hour window, Ormi provisioned fully operational, dedicated infrastructure tailored to Berachain’s critical needs.
0xgraph stabilized Berachain
Thanks to Ormi’s hyperscale subgraph solution, 0xgraph, Berachain gained instantaneous access to sub-second latency blockchain data without throttling. This infrastructure addressed severe throttling and slashed average query response times from over 10 seconds to under 0.5 seconds, instantly stabilizing the dApp ecosystem and bringing critical dashboards back to life.
Why Subgraphs?
Subgraph technology remains dominant in the DeFi landscape, critical for accurate, efficient data indexing. Berachain’s sophisticated DeFi ecosystem – from DEXes to lending platforms – needed access to a fast, reliable data infrastructure in order to operate.
Thanks to Berachain’s quick thinking and Ormi’s flawless execution, they did.
A meteoric launch, onwards to $3 Billion+
Ormi's decisive and swift deployment facilitated a flawless mainnet launch and Token Generation Event (TGE). Under Ormi’s load-bearing infrastructure, Berachain seamlessly processed over 50 million transactions within 48 hours and supported peak usage of 1 million concurrent users without downtime.
Following the launch, Berachain’s TVL skyrocketed from zero to over $3 billion in just 15 days, with Ormi’s infrastructure quietly operating in the background, underscoring its critical role in Berachain’s meteoric rise.
Sustained partnership and growth
The robust Ormi infrastructure continues to support Berachain’s ecosystem, cementing a strategic partnership focused on performance, resilience, and reliability in high-stakes scenarios. Months after the initial launch, Ormi continues to handle hundreds of millions of subgraph API calls, serving tens of millions of Berachain end users and delivering a seamless, native Berachain DeFi user experience.
Since the initial integration, Ormi has served billions of requests on Berachain's native dApps and streamed billions of events to the team's data stack. Berachain’s adoption of Ormi has streamlined its data backend and reduced costs, all while maintaining top-tier performance. This journey underscores Berachain's commitment to pushing the boundaries of decentralized finance, providing developers and users alike with a first-party, seamless experience for a permissionless financial future.
Why Berachain?
Berachain’s Layer-1 sets itself apart thanks to its DeFi focus, allowing it to support world-class DEXes, lending protocols, and many other crypto-finance protocols. Berachain uniquely employs a Proof-of-Liquidity mechanism, incentivizing users to stake assets into liquidity pools, which enhances capital efficiency and reduces impermanent loss. The distinctive combination of scalability, security, and exceptional user experience made Berachain's 2025 mainnet launch one of the most highly anticipated blockchain events of the year.
About Berachain and Ormi
Berachain is a pioneer in transformative DeFi solutions, distinguished by community-driven innovation, unparalleled scalability, and first-class application experiences. Ormi specializes in robust blockchain infrastructure, providing mission-critical reliability and precision at scale. Together, their strategic partnership epitomizes excellence in blockchain innovation, resilience, and sustained growth.
About Ormi
Ormi is the next-generation data layer for Web3, purpose-built for real-time, high-throughput applications like DeFi, gaming, wallets, and on-chain infrastructure. Its hybrid architecture ensures sub-30ms latency and up to 4,000 RPS for live subgraph indexing, sub-10ms responses across 100+ API schemas, and a powerful SQL engine for historical and AI-ready data.
With 99.9% uptime and deployments across ecosystems representing $50B+ in TVL and $100B+ in annual transaction volume, Ormi is trusted to power the most demanding production environments without throttling or delay.