ERPC launches multi-region discount coupons for Solana Bundle plans, enabling global acceleration and cost optimization
ERPC launches multi-region discount coupons for Solana Bundle plans, enabling global acceleration and cost optimization
ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands, CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO, operators of ERPC, have launched multi-region discount coupons for the Solana Shared Plan Bundle and Stream Bundle (collectively referred to as the "Solana Bundle plans"). These coupons are designed for users who operate their infrastructure across multiple regions.
The performance and stability of a Solana application are determined not only by code quality or RPC tuning, but also by which region you connect from and which validator region you actually reach. For globally used Web3 services, more and more teams are seeking multi-region architectures from the very beginning, rather than starting from a single region.
With the new multi-region discount coupons, it is now easier to deploy the popular Solana Bundle plans across more regions at a realistic cost. The goal of this initiative is to help teams secure the number of regions required for global acceleration, while reducing the cost barrier to doing so.
Solana leaders rotate around the globe: why the validator map makes multi-region a necessity
Solana leader slots rotate among validators distributed across the globe, and the region with the lowest latency changes depending on the time of day. During some time windows, regions around Frankfurt and Amsterdam are structurally favoured; at other times, New York or Chicago, or Tokyo or Singapore, become the most advantageous.
Looking at the validator map, it is clear that stake is widely distributed across Europe, North America, and Asia. This distribution directly affects which region has an advantage at any given time window, and therefore also impacts the perceived speed of your application.
If you rely on a single region, there will inevitably be periods when that region is far from the current leader region. Even if it is fast at certain times of day, it will suffer from structurally higher latency at others. On top of that, Solana and Web3 users are spread all over the world, so whether you can complete processing in a region close to the user has a major impact on user experience.
For these reasons, ERPC has been receiving more and more requests from the early stages of projects such as “we want to cover EU / US / APAC from day one” or “we want to start with two or three regions first and expand later.”
What the multi-region discount coupons solve
When adopting a multi-region architecture, a very practical issue arises: monthly costs accumulate as you add more regions. Teams frequently face trade-offs between performance requirements and budget, especially in the following scenarios:
- You want to cover EU / US / APAC, but signing separate contracts per region pushes the total cost above your initial expectations
- You want to secure regions for production, plus additional regions for testing and backup
- The Business tier does not provide enough RPC tokens, but upgrading to Pro would be excessive for other conditions
- You want to add more regions, but stepping up a plan tier makes the total cost jump significantly
The Solana Bundle plans provided by ERPC (Shared Plan Bundle and Stream Bundle) have already offered a more cost-efficient approach than contracting individual services separately, since multiple components can be used in a single package. However, as teams added more regions, the combined cost still became a bottleneck, preventing them from expanding to the number of regions they actually wanted.
The new multi-region discount coupons aim to remove exactly this barrier: situations where teams “would like to cover several regions, but hesitate purely for budget reasons.” When you use multiple Solana Bundle plans, the included RPC tokens are pooled across those bundles, allowing you to:
- Increase the number of regions
- Increase the total amount of tokens as a shared pool
- Add only the additional capacity you actually need, when you need it
In this way, you can design your architecture and cost structure as a single, integrated plan.
Overview of the Shared Plan Bundle
The Shared Plan Bundle is a package that combines multiple components such as RPC, gRPC, and Direct Shreds Connect into a single plan. It is designed to provide a balanced set of building blocks required for Solana application development, testing, and production, and to scale step by step as your project grows.
The three tiers, Standard, Business, and Pro, are intended for the following use cases:
- Standard: Entry-level tier suitable for PoC and early-stage development
- Business: Mid-tier for projects preparing for production workloads
- Pro: High-capacity tier for large-scale projects with high request volumes and traffic
When you use the Shared Plan Bundle across multiple regions, the multi-region discount allows you to cover more regions within the same budget. For example, in a configuration such as “two regions in Europe plus one in North America,” you can more easily secure the combined token capacity you need, while benefiting from the discount.
Overview of the Stream Bundle
The Stream Bundle is a unified package combining Shredstream (UDP / gRPC), Geyser gRPC, Solana RPC (HTTP / WebSocket), and SWQoS. It is designed for users who need both ultra-fast data detection and final consistency, and adoption has been steadily increasing in the following types of workloads:
- High-speed transaction submission and arbitrage
- Bots and automated trading systems
- High-frequency trading (HFT) infrastructure
- Payment and settlement backends
- Real-time monitoring and analytics services for exchanges and data platforms
Each regional gRPC node is fed with Shreds from the nearest origin, so by adopting a multi-region configuration you can more easily ensure that “you are always consuming Shreds from the closest region for the current situation.” With the new multi-region discount, it becomes more feasible to combine regions such as EU with US and APAC at a realistic cost level.
Multi-region discount coupons for both Shared and Stream Bundles
The newly introduced multi-region discount coupons apply to both the Shared Plan Bundle and the Stream Bundle.
- 2 regions: 5% OFF
- 3 regions: 8% OFF
- 5 regions: 10% OFF
- All regions: 15% OFF
Regardless of which Bundles you combine, all RPC tokens are pooled and can be used as a single shared capacity. For example, if you use two Business Bundles across two regions, you do not need to manage or exhaust each token allocation separately. Instead, you can consume the total available tokens as one combined pool.
This makes it easier to meet needs such as:
- Separating Bundles for development and production environments, while sharing tokens
- Deploying Bundles in multiple regions, while treating tokens as a common shared pool
New users who subscribe to Solana Bundle plans will automatically receive the discount according to the number of regions they select. Existing users who are already operating Bundles across multiple regions can contact us via the Validators DAO official Discord support tickets. We will review your current subscription status and guide you through how and when the discounts can be applied.
Validators DAO official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR
Multi-region usage patterns and example use cases
By leveraging the multi-region discount coupons, it becomes easier to adopt the following kinds of configurations at a practical cost:
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Three-region setup covering EU / US / APAC
This allows you to serve users in Europe, North America, and Asia from their nearest region, providing consistently low-latency responses regardless of where they access from. -
Five-region setup with a strong European core plus North America
By combining FRA, AMS, and LON with NY and CHI, you can densely cover the core of the Solana validator stake distribution. -
High-speed Asia setup plus global extension
By basing your low-latency configuration on TY and SGP, while adding AMS and NY, you can minimize latency in Asia and at the same time be ready for global usage.
Typical use cases include:
- Infrastructure for HFT, MEV, and arbitrage strategies
- High-speed transaction submission and payment backends
- Global Web3 applications with users in many regions
- Monitoring, alerting, analytics platforms, and data providers
In domains where differences in distance and latency directly translate into differences in outcomes, having or not having a multi-region architecture becomes a major source of competitive advantage.
ERPC, SLV, and Validators DAO: building a global multi-region foundation
ERPC, SLV, and Validators DAO have been building and refining their infrastructure based on the knowledge gained from developing the Solana NFT card game Epics DAO. By continuously measuring network distances and paths, they have worked to ensure the shortest possible routes to key validators around the world.
Solana’s networking and communication layers will continue to evolve, including initiatives such as Alpenglow. ERPC’s goal is not only to follow these changes, but to make it easier and safer for users to take advantage of new technologies, while steadily expanding the options and flexibility of multi-region architectures.
Providing as uniform and fast a Solana experience as possible, no matter where in the world your users are located, is the shared objective of ERPC and Validators DAO. The new multi-region discount coupons are intended to help projects who are considering global deployment take that next step with less friction.
- ERPC official site: https://erpc.global/en
- SLV official site: https://slv.dev/en
- elSOL official site: https://elsol.app/en
- Epics DAO official site: https://epics.dev/en
- Validators DAO official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR
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