The Web3-native business modular payments platform, Pulsar Money, has greatly enhanced its content verification workflow by integrating Teneo Protocol. According to the company, the processing speed of one of the key functions of the company increased by 50 times, which is a large improvement in its on-chain payment infrastructure.
The upgrade will focus on the automation of the process of verifying posts posted by users on X, which used to experience frequent bottlenecks caused by API rate limits and reliability problems.
Building Smarter Payment Infrastructure for Web3
Pulsar Money is a consumer-friendly on-chain wallet paired with programmable payment services, stablecoin-only flow of transactions, real-time rewards, and game-related functionality. It tries to achieve this by ensuring that blockchain transactions are smooth and reliable enough to be used daily.
When the platform grew, it became crucial to verify the content posted by users to guarantee trust and to ensure that users experience no issues. This, however, was a source of tension between the use of native social network APIs. The team regularly needed to verify lots of data in a short period, sometimes using a monthly quota of API calls in a day.
This usage pattern was incompatible with the traditional API rate structures that were created to be used with evenly distributed requests. Verification became slow as demand was high. In case of failures, there was a need to revise manually, which put pressure on operations and slowed user interactions.
The Challenge of Burst Workloads
The verification requirements at Pulsar Money are not steady like the workload of the enterprise. Sudden increases in the number of user submissions can be instigated by campaigns, rewards programs, and community-based programs. In such circumstances, centralized APIs were unable to be reliable.
Performance constraints and rate limits were revealed by high throughput. Verification, in addition to internal effectiveness, posed a risk of loss of trust between the user and the system. Manual checks helped to solve the problems, but they brought additional work and scalability issues.
The team was looking for an infrastructure solution to manage the compressed demand cycles without compromising on the speed or reliability.
Why Teneo Protocol Stood Out
Teneo Protocol, according to Lead Developer at Pulsar Money Adrian Larionescu, had three decisive benefits: resilience to high-demand workloads, variable workloads that are easily scaled, and easy integration.
The agent-based architecture of Teneo offers a decentralization of wealth in form of redundancy, which is impossible to achieve with centralized APIs. Rather than having a single data source that is choke-headed, Pulsar can now access distributed verification sources that are set to work under pressure.
This integration process was efficient and enabled the Pulsar Money engineering team to incorporate the verification as part of its manufacturing setting, and did not require extended downtime and complicated reconfiguration.
From Manual Checks to Full Automation
In the present day, Teneo Protocol is a fully integrated part of the application flow of Pulsar. Whenever the users place their posts to be verified, they are automatically processed in real time by the system. The former use of manual review queues has been done away with.
What used to be a time-consuming and manual process has turned into an automated and scaled process, and the load of the network can be easily managed without problems. Confirmation of the previous stalling on API limits is now consistent, even when there is heavy traffic.
The outcome is that the processing time of the Pulsar Money’s core verification workflow is improved by half.
