Your protocol is decentralized. The infrastructure it depends on is not.
A handful of centralized providers power the majority of Web3 traffic
A single entity controls transaction ordering on every major L2
One delayed price feed can trigger cascading liquidations
MetaMask, Uniswap, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base all went down.
| Nexus Mutual | InsurAce | RPC Providers | Traditional | SLAx | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smart contract exploits | Yes | Yes | - | - | - |
| RPC downtime | No | No | Refunds fees only | No | Yes |
| L2 sequencer outages | No | No | - | No | Yes |
| Oracle failures | Limited | Limited | - | No | Yes |
| Automatic payouts | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Payout speed | Weeks | Weeks | Days | 30–90 days | Minutes |
Browse 100+ monitored endpoints across 10 chains and 12+ providers. Pick what you depend on.
Our risk model prices your premium based on actual historical reliability. Quote in seconds.
When downtime exceeds your threshold, confirmed by 2+ independent sources, you get paid. No claim to file.
| Component | Detail |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | 100+ endpoints, 10 chains, 12+ providers, sub-minute polling from multiple regions |
| Risk Pricing | Statistical risk model calibrated on real-time monitoring data |
| Guardrails | 7-layer system: eligibility, premium bounds, contract limits, concentration, circuit breakers, systemic exclusions |
| Payout Detection | Background jobs match outages to active policies automatically |
| Capital Management | Ledger-style reserve tracking with worst-case capital reservations |
Your coverage starts immediately. If something goes down, you know within minutes.
| Traditional Insurance | SLAx (Parametric) | |
|---|---|---|
| Payout speed | 30–90 days | Minutes |
| Trigger | Subjective loss assessment | Objective monitoring data |
| Claims process | File, negotiate, wait | Automatic, no action required |
| Disputes | Common, "was it really downtime?" | None, data is deterministic |
| Minimum policy | $50K+ premiums | Accessible to any protocol |
| Crypto expertise | Underwriters don't understand the risk | Built for blockchain infrastructure |
Every major outage proves the demand. AWS October 2025 took down five chains.
Nobody got compensated.
Target customers: DeFi protocols, trading firms, L2 ecosystems, RPC providers
SLAx is the insurance layer that blockchain infrastructure is missing.