Introduction

Our platform provides a rich set of features designed to enhance your experience, from core infrastructure guarantees to advanced, chain-specific APIs. This page serves as a guide to some of the key capabilities you can find throughout our documentation.

Core Platform Features

These foundational features apply to all our endpoints, providing a baseline of performance, reliability, and security.

• Global Request Routing Learn how our multi-layered system using GeoDNS and BGP Anycast ensures low-latency connections for your users worldwide. Read the Request Routing Guide →

• Security & Abuse Prevention A look into our proactive, multi-layered defense system, including intelligent rate limiting, protocol-level traffic filtering, and advanced fingerprinting. Learn about Abuse Prevention →

• High Availability Architecture Our endpoints are backed by clusters of nodes and load balancers, enabling instantaneous failover to ensure maximum uptime for your application.

Support for a Multi-Chain Ecosystem

While Solana is a core part of our services, our infrastructure is built to support a variety of high-performance blockchains. We provide dedicated, reliable RPC access for multiple ecosystems, including:

• Solana

• Sui

• Pythnet

• Eclipse

• Monad

Advanced Solana Features

As our core offering, Solana benefits from a number of specialized, high-performance features.

• Cascade Transaction Network An optimized network for high-performance transaction delivery on Solana, using Stake-Weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS). Explore Cascade →

• Steamboat Custom Indexes Serve heavy getProgramAccounts queries with exceptional performance using our custom-built, on-chain data indexes. Discover Steamboat →

• Digital Assets API A powerful, indexed API for querying NFTs and other digital assets on Solana, including support for compressed NFTs. Read the Digital Assets API Docs →

Data, Streaming & Archives

We offer multiple ways to stream real-time data or query historical information.

• Dragon's Mouth (gRPC) High-performance, low-latency gRPC streams for real-time Solana data, powered by Geyser. Get started with gRPC →

• Whirligig (WebSockets) An improved, more reliable WebSocket implementation for applications that require a stable connection for subscriptions. Learn about Whirligig WebSockets →

• Full Chain Archives Query the entire history of the Solana blockchain, back to the genesis block, using our BigTable and Old Faithful archival solutions. Learn about Archival Access →

Trading APIs & Tools

Gain a competitive edge with our suite of integrated APIs for on-chain trading.

• Jupiter Swap API Access deep liquidity and find the best price routes on Solana with our integrated Jupiter Swap API. Using the Jupiter Swap API →

• Pyth Hermes Price Feeds Directly query the Pyth Network's high-fidelity, real-time market data from our low-latency endpoints. Learn about Pyth Hermes →