I have got this slow moving bot that handles settlements for a basket of tokenized real-world assets, private credit, treasuries, commodity indices. Updates only matter every few hours or once a day at most. On push only oracles I used before, those feeds still got spammed to the chain constantly, burning gas on identical prices nobody needed until settlement time.
Apro’s pull model cut that waste to almost zero for me. The bot only requests fresh data when it’s actually time to calculate NAV or trigger a payout. If the underlying hasn’t moved enough since last pull, the cached validated value gets returned instantly, no new onchain transaction, no gas spent.
My private credit vault settles weekly. Before Apro it was paying for daily or hourly pushes on feeds that barely budged. Gas bill was stupid for how little action there was. Now the bot pulls once per settlement cycle, maybe twice if there’s an early trigger. Costs dropped over 90% on those feeds alone, and accuracy stayed perfect.
The pull response still goes through full verification, multi source aggregation, AI anomaly checks, two layer consensus. You’re not sacrificing quality for savings; you’re just skipping the noise. Nodes stay incentivized because they earn on valid pulls and readiness, not just volume.
I have mixed it perfectly with push for the volatile stuff. Crypto price triggers and volatility indices run on push for real time safety, while the slow RWA components stay pull only. One oracle integration handles both modes without extra code or approvals.
During quiet stretches the savings really stack. Holiday weeks, low-vol periods, the bot just sips gas on pulls instead of guzzling it on constant pushes. Profits compound cleaner because less gets leaked to overhead.
Devs I know building insurance or structured products love this too. Their contracts only need commodity or rate data at specific windows, monthly claims, quarterly coupons. Pull lets them run lean without compromising on data freshness when it matters.
For any strategy that isn’t living tick by tick, RWA vaults, prediction resolutions, periodic yields, long dated options, this pull option is pure efficiency. My settlement bot went from bleeding gas on boredom to only paying when there’s actual work to do.
If you’re running anything that doesn’t need second by second updates, switching the stable feeds to Apro pull is the easiest cost cut you will make. Same security, same reliability, fraction of the expense. Lets the strategy keep more of what it earns instead of feeding the oracle nonstop. Exactly the kind of quiet optimization that adds up big over time.
