system-architecture.md

POKT Gateway Server Architecture

• Gateway Server Responsibilities
  • Primary Features
  • Secondary Features
• Gateway Operator Responsibilities

Gateway Server Responsibilities

Primary Features

Under the hood, the gateway server handles everything in regard to protocol interaction to abstract away the complexity of:

1. Retrieving a session
2. Signing a relay
3. Sending a relay to a node operator & receiving a response

Secondary Features

1. Node Selection & Routing (QoS) - determining which nodes are healthy based off responses
2. Metrics - Provides underlying Prometheus metrics endpoint for relay performance metadata
3. HTTP Interface - Providing an efficient HTTP endpoint to send requests to

Gateway Operator Responsibilities

1. Key management - Keeping the encryption key and respectively the app stakes keys secure.
2. App stake management - Staking in the approriate chains
3. SaaS business support - Any features in regard to a SaaS business as mentioned in the overview.