Transform Hashio into a community-managed service - the beginning of a journey to educate the community that free resources don't exist, and that a true Web3 community requires active participation from all stakeholders.
Mission: Create the first community-managed Hedera service that demonstrates how to build innovative, decentralized Web3 infrastructure using Hedera's unique capabilities.
Free basic service + Premium community-managed tier
Smart contract owners control their own relay infrastructure
Higher throughput, gas fee payment, better debugging
Teaching community about sustainable decentralized services
The relay currently handles all default traffic for Ethereum transactions to Hedera, creating significant operational costs (though upcoming HIPs will reduce these costs considerably) and forcing the service to throttle requests.
Users demand enterprise-level performance and reliability from a free service, creating unsustainable expectations and resource strain.
Centralized infrastructure makes it challenging for developers to debug issues, limiting their ability to optimize their applications effectively. Running multiple relays is an option, but at the moment it creates friction points on the users side.
Rate limiting on the free service restricts high-volume applications and prevents optimal user experience for demanding use cases.
Maintain Free Tier: Hashgraph continues providing free JSON-RPC Relay service at https://*.hashio.io/api with existing limitations (throttling, debugging challenges).
New Advanced Tier: Users can use the https://web3.*.hashio.io/api endpoint to leverage the custom relay network.
Smart Registration & Routing: Smart contract owners can register their own relay servers for smart contracts they control. When users interact with registered contracts, requests are automatically routed to the community-managed relays. Unregistered contracts continue using the free service.
Smart Contract-Aware Routing: Dynamically routes Ethereum JSON-RPC requests to custom backend servers based on contract addresses.
Hedera-Secured: Uses Hedera Consensus Service for secure, cryptographically-verified route registration.
Open Source & MPV-Ready: Comprehensive monorepo with proxy server, registration client tools (prover), and documentation.
Spam Protection: Built-in HIP-991 paid topics ($1 per message) prevent malicious registrations.
RSA+AES encryption with ECDSA signature verification
Defaults to hashio.io for unregistered contracts
Supports CREATE & CREATE2 deployment verification
Verifies endpoint availability and authenticity
Sustainable and decentralized services are not only possible but superior to traditional centralized approaches.
Web3 communities actively participating in building and maintaining their own infrastructure can prove it.
Start planning your community relay infrastructure and evaluate the benefits for your applications
Engage in discussions about sustainable Web3 infrastructure and the future of decentralized services
Begin technical planning and resource allocation for this revolutionary community-managed approach
Technical Implementation Available:
https://github.com/internetofpeers/hiero-json-rpc-relay-proxy