Alchemy
Alchemy's mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. Articles written by Alchemy are contributed by various members of our incredible team who draw on decades of deep expertise in building massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain technology. Today, Alchemy's web3 development platform has powered $1T+ in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide. Alchemy's investors include a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Silver Lake, Lightspeed, Addition, Redpoint, and DFJ Growth.
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Introducing Admin APIs
Apps Management and Usage are generally available. Create apps, manage allowlists, and pull dashboard usage from one endpoint with one Access Key.
How to add x402 payments to an MCP server: a builder's guide to agent payments
Gate an MCP server behind x402, meter USDC per call, give an agent a wallet to pay, and see where AP2, MPP, and ACP fit. Runnable code included.
The cost of latency in onchain trading
Latency costs show up as the gap between observed state and execution. Here's where delay appears, why p95 matters, and how to evaluate your RPC path.
The 12 best blockchain node providers in 2026: a decision guide
Compare 12 blockchain node providers by free tier, pricing, request limits, chain coverage, products, regions, and dedicated infrastructure.
How Alchemy powers financial services onchain
A financial app is judged in milliseconds. Here's how Alchemy's RPC, Cortex, webhooks, and dedicated infrastructure power onchain lending, trading, payments, and market data.
Robinhood Chain RPC: low-latency, reliable access at launch
An engineering account of how Alchemy prepared production RPC and WebSocket infrastructure for Robinhood Chain's launch, and what builders should do to get the same reliability.
Best Base RPC provider for low latency: a Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism benchmark
In Alchemy's retained public benchmark window, Alchemy delivered the lowest average and p95 read latency on Base among four tested paid providers, with the fewest observed failures.
ZK-rollup projects: a complete guide
Most of the projects that topped ZK-rollup lists a few years ago are gone. The proving technology they bet on is in better shape than it has ever been.
Solana Account Archive: querying account state at any slot
getAccountInfo for any Solana account at any historical slot, with a never-pruned archive built by replaying a year of Solana.
How we rebuilt historical logs for speed
We rebuilt the storage and query engine behind eth_getLogs, making large-range historical log reads over 2x faster at p99 in every region.
Cronos is now live on Alchemy
Alchemy has launched support for Cronos, a purpose-built settlement layer for stablecoins and tokenized assets. Connect via RPC and build with gasless transaction infrastructure.
Introducing historical Solana token balances
getTokenAccountsByOwnerAtSlot returns everything a wallet held at any past point in time, with exact balances, in a single call.
How we fine tune our RPC for speed and reliability
We moved compression for large RPC responses to a better layer in our serving path, cutting P95 latency on heavy calls and reducing connection churn.
How Alchemy's node infrastructure keeps DeFi fast at scale
DeFi teams depend on latency, reliability, and scale. See how 0x, Solflare, and Usual run high-pressure workloads on Alchemy's infrastructure.
Alchemy expands support on Stellar with Data APIs and a path to Tier-1 validation
Alchemy is working toward becoming a tier-1 validator on Stellar and has added three indexed Data APIs for transfer history, token balances, and NFT holdings on mainnet and testnet.
How we built low-latency RPC infrastructure
RPC latency is a systems problem, not a single bottleneck. Here is how Alchemy reduced latency across the edge, routing, scaling, node operations, and measurement.
Robinhood Chain mainnet is live on Alchemy
Alchemy has launched native support for Robinhood Chain, a permissionless EVM-compatible Layer-2 built to bring traditional markets, crypto, and real-world assets onto one network.
How we benchmark RPC performance
Benchmark numbers are easy to quote and easy to misread. Here's exactly how Alchemy's public EVM read benchmark measures latency, success rate, failures, and timeouts under controlled conditions.
What are agent payments? How AI agents pay for APIs, data, and compute
Agent payments let AI agents pay for what they need — APIs, data, compute — autonomously and within limits. Learn how they work and why they matter for real agentic workflows.
AI agent crypto glossary: x402, ACP, and MCP and 20 more terms
A plain-language glossary of the terms you need to follow agentic crypto — from x402 and MCP to spend limits, account abstraction, and more.
Alchemy joins the Solana Research Institute as a founding member
Today we're announcing that Alchemy is a founding member of the Solana Research Institute (SRI), an applied research forum focused on how financial institutions participate in blockchain-based capital markets.
Alchemy is going all-in on Hyperliquid
HyperEVM RPC is live today. Next up: HyperCore data APIs, real-time streaming, and validator-grade infrastructure—the same platform that powers $1T+ in annual transactions.
Kaia support is live on Alchemy
Alchemy has launched native support for Kaia, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 built for stablecoin settlement and onchain finance across Asia.
What is the Solana Geyser Plugin? A 2026 guide for builders
Learn what the Solana Geyser Plugin is, how it relates to Yellowstone gRPC, and when to use streaming over RPC. Updated for 2026.
The 9 best Solana RPC providers in 2026: a decision guide
Compare the 9 best Solana RPC providers in 2026, including uptime SLAs, archival depth, CU pricing, gRPC streaming, free tiers, and a checklist to pick the right endpoint.