We brought DIN to Midweek with Max. E. G., a co-founder of Infura, laid out why DIN exists and why it matters for Hemi. Traffic spikes. Single vendors buckle. Users leave, and you cannot refund trust. DIN makes RPC a registry and a marketplace on chain. You find providers, you pay in crypto, you route across multiple operators. No card farms. No email chains.

Hemi is moving real volume. Max said we pushed close to 100 TB of RPC this month. Shifting load to a wider set of providers raises our ceiling. It also shrinks the blast radius when something fails. Diversity is resilience. With DIN you can pick two providers, or ten, and route based on need.

DIN is an on-chain registry of services, L1s, L2s, and other APIs. Providers list. Builders discover. Payments clear on crypto rails. You get programmatic discovery that plays well with agents that stitch services together.

DIN grew up in EVM land. Hemi sits where Bitcoin and Ethereum meet. Builders need Bitcoin data next to HVM calls. You can already reach Bitcoin views through HVM precompiles, some calls add delay. The next step is serving Bitcoin reads in parallel, so your app can show a Bitcoin event the moment it lands, even before HVM observes it. DIN and Hemi will explore this together.

Bitcoin Core RPC is sturdy, but not a full index for common dApp needs. Address lookups and rich queries need extra indexing. EVM stacks solved this years ago with layers on top. DIN pushes shared standards and open code so every operator clears a higher bar.

Hemi is now in the MetaMask fee API. Gas estimates in MetaMask should be more accurate on Hemi. That helps builders and users.

DIN offered a perk. Use code BDCFI for 50 percent off your first bill. We will share details in Discord and on socials.

Hemi Protocol Updates

ZK provability. We are close to full ZK settlement to Ethereum. We will begin with a 24 hour window, then move toward two to three hours as we harden the path. This also feeds hbitVM, our approach to secure Bitcoin tunneling with challengeable flows and wide participation. It is public good work.

Safer upgrade testing. End-to-end tests for L1 contract upgrades are wrapping. We will simulate in a safe setup, then ship to testnet and mainnet.

OG role claims. Backend linking for EVM addresses is in flight, frontend follows. If you did Deimos on testnet but missed mainnet verification, a final window opens before claims.

VeriBlock claims and PoP payouts. Work resumed after Singapore. The updated payout algorithm heads to testnet first, then mainnet if checks pass. The design aims to handle Bitcoin fee spikes.

Incentives, Next Phase

Season 2 moves from long seasons with slow accounting to faster, more liquid rewards. Some point-style sprints may remain, but the bias is clear. Quick feedback. Clear yield. Expect a mix of liquid and staked rewards, plus occasional non-HEMI incentives with partners.

Near term. ZK provability to Ethereum, then hbitVM on top, then decentralize sequencer and publisher roles. HVM improvements land along the way.

Farther out. Chain Builder for L3s on Hemi. Custom execution when needed, with access to HVM and assets from Bitcoin and Ethereum through the tunnel.

Builders, What To Do Now

If you ship on Hemi, test DIN. Split traffic. Measure error budgets. Run failover drills. Check MetaMask fee behavior. If you need Bitcoin data, plan for parallel reads next to HVM calls. Talk to us if you want to push indexing. We can help line up the right people.

Decentralization should show up when it counts. At block zero. At peak traffic. In the middle of the night. DIN makes that practical. Hemi makes it useful across chains.