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QuickNode is Ropsten PoS Ready!

QuickNode is Ropsten PoS Ready!

QuickNode has upgraded its Ropsten nodes in the view of Ethereum community's transition toward PoS.

Icy.Tools & QuickNode Joining Forces

Icy.Tools & QuickNode Joining Forces

Our mission at QuickNode is to empower builders and companies to create high-quality web3 applications through our reliable infrastructure, powerful APIs and suite of seamless developer tools.

Avalanche & QuickNode: Powering and Scaling the Future of Crypto

Avalanche & QuickNode: Powering and Scaling the Future of Crypto

The future of Avalanche is bright, and QuickNode is proud to support the network with our robust cloud infrastructure.

New UI, New Experience, Same ⚡️ Speed

New UI, New Experience, Same ⚡️ Speed

Simplicity and ease of use have always been at the core of our users’ experience. Developers love QuickNode because they get exactly what they want: the fastest blockchain nodes on earth, without unnecessary baggage that weighs down the user experience.

Comparisons of Latency across Node Service Providers in Ethereum

Comparisons of Latency across Node Service Providers in Ethereum

QuickNode published benchmarking study showing a 2.4x latency improvement against popular infrastructure providers, Alchemy and Infura.

Algorand and QuickNode: a Partnership to Democratize Finance Infrastructure

Algorand and QuickNode: a Partnership to Democratize Finance Infrastructure

A partnership to support futuristic finance applications and democratize the entire financial infrastructure.

Whitepaper: Comparisons of Latency across the Solana Ecosystem

Blockchain Development

Whitepaper: Comparisons of Latency across the Solana Ecosystem

Authors: Manuel Kreutz, Noah Hein What is latency, and why does it matter? Applications built on blockchain technology are expected to drive the next wave of innovation in the consumer internet experience. Today we are starting to see this with blockchain-native applications like Audius in music, Chingari in social media,

EOY QuickNode Wrap-Up 2021

EOY QuickNode Wrap-Up 2021

In the history of the Internet, 2021 will forever be a transformational year. Blockchain technology thrust into the spotlight, with real-world use-cases and applications hitting the mainstream.

Arbitrum & QuickNode: Cutting edge L2 scaling solution for Ethereum

Arbitrum & QuickNode: Cutting edge L2 scaling solution for Ethereum

We’re excited to announce the support for Arbitrum One, the Arbitrum Deployment on mainnet, and Arbitrum Rinkeby testnet in collaboration with Offchain Labs to scale the Ethereum ecosystem, making it more usable by everyone.

Terra & QuickNode: Advancing Decentralized Economies and Infrastructure

Terra & QuickNode: Advancing Decentralized Economies and Infrastructure

A blockchain technology partnership rooted in ease-of-use, innovation, and performance: Terra support arrives on QuickNode today.

Shatterproof NFT Mints with QuickNode

Shatterproof NFT Mints with QuickNode

NFTs are all over the place and are one of the hottest blockchain applications right now. So what the heck is an NFT? Is it a token? Is it a JPEG? Or just magic? Let’s find out. Non-fungible token (NFT) is unique and represents an asset on the blockchain.

Celo & QuickNode: expanding EVM options for everyone

Celo & QuickNode: expanding EVM options for everyone

Next-gen Proof-of-Stake EVM blockchains are already here!

QuickNode Archival Node Arrives on Solana

QuickNode Archival Node Arrives on Solana

QuickNode Archive Nodes combine the full nodes that QuickNode offers across all our base plans, which users know and love, with an add-on feature, Archive mode, that provides full access to all historical data going back to the original genesis block. Anyone building products and services with blockchain data need

Multi-Chain Drives Market Share: How Companies Can Embrace this Growing Trend

Multi-Chain Drives Market Share: How Companies Can Embrace this Growing Trend

Scalability and transaction costs are key challenges Scalability and transaction costs are some of the most cited impediments to the growth of Web3, a catch-all term for applications using blockchain technology ranging from decentralized finance to non-fungible tokens to wallets and other applications. In the last year, as crypto markets

QUICKNODE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR SOLANA BLOCKCHAIN

QUICKNODE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR SOLANA BLOCKCHAIN

MIAMI – August 3, 2021 - QuickNode, the leading Web3 developer cloud platform for building and operating blockchain-powered applications, today announced the expansion of its blockchain ecosystem with the launch of Solana support on its platform. The Solana blockchain, which launched in 2020, allows the processing of up to 65,000

Fantom & QuickNode: Speed, Security, Scalability - an EVM Blockchain for #DeFi and Beyond!

Fantom & QuickNode: Speed, Security, Scalability - an EVM Blockchain for #DeFi and Beyond!

Two of the fastest technologies in blockchain partner up to help smart-contract dApps scale to 5-10k+ TPS (transactions per second)

Optimism & QuickNode: Ushering In a New Era of On-Chain Ethereum Scalability

Optimism & QuickNode: Ushering In a New Era of On-Chain Ethereum Scalability

Helping bring Ethereum and blockchain adoption to the masses. Optimism MainNet and Optimism Kovan testnet are now live on QuickNode!

Blockchain Startup QuickNode Raises $5.3M Seed for Web3 Developer Tooling and Infrastructure

Blockchain Startup QuickNode Raises $5.3M Seed for Web3 Developer Tooling and Infrastructure

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce our Seed Round financing, led by Internet pioneers and best partners in the business. Funds will be used to expand the company in every direction, to help meet the increasing demands of the community and rapidly-growing blockchain industry.

Binance & QuickNode Team Up To Deploy Fast Binance Smart Chain (BSC) Node Infrastructure for Web3 Developers

Binance & QuickNode Team Up To Deploy Fast Binance Smart Chain (BSC) Node Infrastructure for Web3 Developers

QuickNode deploys global Node RPC service for Binance Smart Chain to support the growing number of users, developers and dApps using the BSC network!

Polygon is Now Live on QuickNode API!

Polygon is Now Live on QuickNode API!

The teams at Polygon and QuickNode have joined forces to provide robust, reliable, high-performance node infrastructure to developers & projects building on top of Polygon.

The Importance of Web3 Provider Redundancy

The Importance of Web3 Provider Redundancy

In a time when we are trying to build unstoppable apps, we must understand the importance of Web3 providers and redundancy of Web3 providers.

QuickNode 2020 Recap

QuickNode 2020 Recap

A look back at QuickNode's accolades & accomplishments in 2020.

Getting Started With QuickNode

Developer Tools

Getting Started With QuickNode

QuickNode is a Web3 developer platform used by teams big & small to build and scale blockchain applications. Access Ethereum, Bitcoin, BSC, Polygon and xDai networks in seconds, and get tools to ship the best version of your dApp. Read more on how to use QuickNode to #buidl the dApp of your dreams!

QuickNode Supports Bcoin Client for BTC

QuickNode Supports Bcoin Client for BTC

Today we announce support for Bcoin, a Bitcoin client written in JavaScript and maintained by dozens of generous and thoughtful volunteers. It has several neat features, read more below!

Awesome dApp, but too Slow? #DeadInTheWater

Awesome dApp, but too Slow? #DeadInTheWater

One of the most critical factors of choosing any app and continuing to use it, is its speed. When users can use an app to work quicker and achieve their goal, they are going to hang, but it’s a fact that when an app lags, they’re going to look to competitors for an alternative.