Ankr and NOWNodes both give an application a way to talk to a blockchain without the team running its own node, and that’s where the similarity mostly ends. NOWNodes bills a flat monthly request quota across 120+ networks, including Bitcoin,…
NOWNodes and Infura solve the same basic problem — connecting an application to a blockchain without you running the node yourself — but they start from different scopes. NOWNodes gives one account access to 120+ networks, from Ethereum and Bitcoin…
NOWNodes and Alchemy both solve the same core problem — giving your application access to blockchain data without you running a node yourself — but they solve it in different ways. NOWNodes covers 120+ networks under one flat-quota account, while…
Liquid staking is a way to earn staking rewards on your crypto without losing access to it. You deposit an asset like ETH into a staking protocol, and instead of locking it away, the protocol hands you back a tradable…
A BSC blockchain explorer is a search tool that lets you look up any transaction, wallet, or smart contract on BNB Smart Chain and see exactly what happened on-chain. The default one is BscScan, run by the same team behind…
A Litecoin explorer is a website or tool that lets you look up any block, transaction, or address on the Litecoin network and see exactly what happened, without running your own node. Type in a transaction ID and you’ll see…
A Base blockchain explorer is a search tool that lets you look up any transaction, wallet, or smart contract on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, and see exactly what happened on-chain. The default one is BaseScan, built by the Etherscan…
EIP-4844 is the Ethereum upgrade that introduced “blobs” — cheap, temporary data packets that rollups use to post transaction data to the main chain instead of paying for expensive calldata. It shipped as part of the Dencun upgrade on March…
Every application that reads blockchain data or sends a transaction eventually talks to a node through an RPC connection. Building and operating that node yourself is one option. Using one of the best RPC providers on the market is the…
A Monero RPC provider gives your wallet, exchange, or backend hosted access to the Monero network, so it can check balances and broadcast transactions without you running monerod yourself. The list of companies that actually support it is short: NOWNodes…