Polina Kotilva

RPC Fast - Blockchain API and node infrastructure, node as a service

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RPC Fast is a geo-distributed high-available endpoint for blockchain that works as a node-as-a-service providing your project with the fastest access and the best network characteristics.

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Jim Zhou
I don't uh, understand what segment of the EVM-chain user demographic your product targets, since there are multiple companies that offer RPC access to more chains at the same starting price of zero (and sometimes, the only plan available is the free plan) like infura, quiknode, nownode, chainstack, alchemy, zmok.io (which surely wins an award for trying to upsell frontrunning openly without any mention of MEV a year after miner bribery became the standard), and probably a ton more companies that I can't think of off the top of my head because I run my own nodes in smaller datacenters on dedicated 1Gbps lines and bare metal that I prepay a year in advance for ($650 a pop) and latency ceases to be a meaningful problem when I can deploy my code directly onto the node to connect via IPC and at the same time, chip away a little into the situation where 75% of Eth nodes are deployed on AWS, GCloud, Hetzner/HCloud, or OVH/OVHCloud. I won't say no to free resource for development, but getting down to brass tacks, $650 is a drop in the bucket for anyone seriously engaged in dark arts of forestry but I'd also consider $480 a year - your lower-tier paid plan - too much to spend for resources that'll be throttled and limited - I can make 100-200k calls and txes on my nodes in 48 hours, then what? 85ms gets you a response but through the IPC endpoint 85ms gets me half of the txes in the mempool on a good day but even on a bad day I still have a head start. I'm sure you have a Goldilocks customer base in mind, but what differentiates your service with the myriad of EVM infrastructure providers who are all jockeying for market share but with a gigantic head start? Very curious since the imperative is to decentralize node hosting, not spin up more nodes on public cloud infra, one of the 75% (probably closer to 80 if you add up DO, Scaleway, Azure, etc and their shares too). And I feel like it costs more than $650 a year to run a full erigon node on the cloud. So yeah, don't quite get what underserved market gap you're seeing, but best of luck nonetheless.
Polina Kotilva
@jim_zhou thank you so much for your comment and questions. I will be happy to provide more details on RPC Fast. We focus on DApps with a global audience and require connecting to a JSON-RPC endpoint directly from the client. Most JSON-RPC providers have servers in one particular location (let's look at Alchemy, for example, "Our servers are primarily located on the US East Coast"). Accordingly, additional latency will occur, which affects the UX when accessing from the EU or Asia. RPCFast uses a geo-distributed infrastructure with a Global Load Balancer that chooses the closest server to the client, as well as an AI-based autoscaler, and our other solutions allow you to run a fully synchronized node within 30 minutes. So, with RPC Fast, regardless of the load and location of the end client, DApps will work as stable and fast as possible!