- The Radix Foundation is seeking commercial operators to take over three critical infrastructure services as part of its decentralization strategy.
- Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are open for the Babylon Gateway, Signalling Server, and Connect Relay, which are essential for wallets and dApps.
- These are production-grade contracts requiring high availability, low latency, and strict privacy standards, not experimental grants.
- The goal is to remove the Foundation as a single point of failure and establish a sustainable, community-led operational model.
- Operators are encouraged to build commercial models for heavy users to subsidize public access to these core services.
The Radix Foundation has initiated a major decentralization push by opening Requests for Proposal for three key network services, aiming to transition them from Foundation control to community and commercial operators. This move directly implements its outlined 2026 Strategy for a fully decentralized operational stack.
Consequently, the Foundation is now seeking one or more experienced infrastructure operators to run the production-grade Babylon Gateway. This service aggregates Ledger data into a queryable database and is the entry point for most user-facing applications, requiring massive scale and 99.9% uptime.
Meanwhile, proposals are also invited for the Signalling Server, which acts as a privacy-focused matchmaker for the Radix Wallet. This component must maintain sub-300ms global latency to ensure the instant feel of wallet connections without inspecting user data.
The third component, the Connect Relay, supports mobile-to-mobile browser interactions. It must operate as a secure, blind relay with aggressive anti-spam measures while guaranteeing message delivery for encrypted payloads.
These RFPs represent critical P1 infrastructure, not grants for new experiments. The transition systematically removes the Foundation as the default provider, detailed further in the Foundation Operational Stack.
Operators must guarantee service for core public goods like the Radix Wallet. However, the Foundation explicitly encourages sustainable economic models that commercialize access for heavy consumers to offset community costs.
Interested parties with proven operational maturity can review the full technical specifications and submit proposals via the provided links on RadixTalk. The complete details for the Babylon Gateway RFP, found here, and the Signalling Server RFP, found here, are now available.
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