Case Study

From 8 Seconds to 1: How Notus Used Enso to Power ita High-Performance Wallet

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Notus: cutting swap quote time by 85% with Enso Routing

While building Chainless, a wallet for the Brazilian market, the Notus team hit a wall. The existing infrastructure was not built for the clean, seamless experience they wanted to provide to their customers. The result was Chainless: a wallet with smoother UX, thanks to faster swap quoting.

But, the team didn't stop there: they shipped Notus API, a platform bringing out-of-the box features like cross-chain swaps, social login, real-time webhooks, and detailed transaction history, available for a fraction of effort the standard smart contracts route would take.

Infographic showing Notus x Enso partnership results: $1.5M monthly volume, 11,000 users acquired, and 87% faster routing. Shows problem-challenge-solution-result framework with quote from Hamilton Haskel about ease of blockchain development.
From 7-second quotes to sub-second performance

The Problem: slow quotes

  • Fragmented and complex integrations: "The process of integrating various blockchain services is a mess", according to Thalles Passos, a developer at Notus. Builders would have to manually piece together different providers for swaps, wallet history, and notifications.
  • The historical data "nightmare": According to business representative Hamilton Haskel, the biggest nightmare for developers is getting reliable historical wallet data and real-time event notifications—a critical feature for any financial app.
  • Slow quotes performance: Speed was a major issue. Some of the APIs were too slow, taking seven to eight seconds just to return a quote for a swap. This latency created a poor user experience and made the experience sluggish.

This technical friction meant developers were spending their time dealing with infrastructure instead of building features, leaving the end-user with a clunky, intimidating application.

The Solution: A unified gateway powered by swap shortcuts

Instead of accepting the status quo, Notus built their own solution: a powerful API that acts as a single "gateway to swaps and transfers." This abstracted away the complexity, but they still needed to solve the core performance problem.

The answer was integrating Enso. Here’s how the solution works:

  1. A single point of entry. A developer wants to add crypto functionality (like swaps or balance checks) to their app. Instead of integrating multiple protocols, they make a single call to the Notus API.
  2. High-speed execution. For swaps, the Notus API leverages Enso's efficient routing to instantly find the best price and execution path. This cut their API response time for quotes from over 8 seconds down to 1.06 seconds.
  3. Seamless user experience. Built on account abstraction, the entire process is smooth for the end-user. They don't need to worry about complex approvals or managing gas tokens, making the experience feel as simple as a traditional banking app. 
Chainless wallet showing pools available for high-performant routing

The Results: from Internal tool to developer-first product

By solving their own development "nightmare", Notus created a robust and reliable platform that not only powered their own success with Chainless, but also became a valuable product for others.

  • Powered retail success.The Notus API was the engine behind their Chainless wallet, which grew to 11,000 users and processed $1.5 million in monthly volume, proving the model's effectiveness.
  • Enabled financial inclusion. The success of their own Chainless wallet in Brazil proved their model. By abstracting away crypto's complexity, Notus provides the essential infrastructure for creating products that can serve underbanked populations.
  • Created a developer-first product. The Notus API, which started as internal "dog food," became a successful B2B product. Their B2B clients, including investment funds and remittance services, can now build sophisticated financial products minus the complexity.

As Hamilton puts it, Notus’s goal is to provide the infrastructure for Web2 developers to create blockchain applications with a good user experience, and this partnership was key to achieving that.

For developers new to blockchain, the primary value is the ease of use. It makes blockchain development feel similar to Web2 development through simple API calls.

— Hamilton Haskel, Business Representative, Notus

Performance in seconds, integration in hours

The Notus team has demonstrated it is possible to build a financial product that brings convenient and performant asset management for end users using Enso's routing, in a fraction of the integration time.

Start integrating Enso's routing infrastructure today and deliver the fast, seamless user experience your customers expect.

Questions? Contact our team to discuss your integration.