Few people notice that behind the smooth connection experience of WalletConnect is the powerful support of its decentralized relay network, which transforms the slogan of "uninterrupted connection across the entire chain" into reality.
Unlike traditional centralized servers, its relay network consists of thousands of distributed nodes around the world. When a user initiates a connection request, the system automatically matches the optimal node for data transmission. Even if some nodes go offline, it can instantly switch to other nodes, preventing "single point of failure causing network-wide connection interruption".
These nodes are maintained by the community—users can become node operators by staking WCT tokens, providing computing power support for the network and earning a share of the connection fees based on their contributions. This model of "co-construction and sharing" allows the number of nodes to continue growing as the ecosystem expands, and it can now stably handle over 1 million connection requests daily.
As Web3 application scenarios expand, the relay network is also continuously upgrading, and in the future, it will support lower latency cross-chain message transmission, as well as larger-scale concurrent connection processing, solidifying the technological foundation for the "era of full-chain interconnection". $WCT
