QuickNode
Overview
QuickNode is a blockchain development platform offering a wide range of APIs and tools, making it as easy as possible to build in web3.
Consumer applications today consist of many components (front-end, back-end, database, APIs, libraries, etc.), and tying these components together is not easy.
On top of that, blockchain adds another layer of complexity as it requires integration with blockchain networks with new challenges. This is where QuickNode can help.
Products
Core RPC API
This is the flagship product of QuickNode. Core API offers fast, secure and reliable access to all the major blockchain networks.
With QuickNode Core API users gets access to QuickNode's globally distributed network of nodes that helps in blockchain interaction without having to run blockchain nodes themselves. You leave the heavy lifting to QuickNode and focus on your application.
Core API can be used to make both read and write interactions on the blockchain via HTTPS and WebSocket endpoints.
Token and NFT API
These APIs help you as a user to get Ethereum ERC-20 tokens and NFT data via JSON-RPC.
Getting ERC-20 token or NFT data requires querying that particular token's smart contract, which can get tedious given the number of tokens out there. With Token and NFT API, you can get this data by calling the API.
Marketplace
There can be some APIs or tooling that QuickNode is not offering at the moment, but you, as a user, might need it in your BUIDL. QuickNode Marketplace staying true to QuickNode's spirit of making lives of developers easier offers a universe of in-house and third-party tooling in the form of add-ons.
QuickAlerts
Tracking onchain activity requires deep knowledge of the blockchain's data models and robust infrastructure. Ensuring reliability and the lowest latencies requires frequent polling or redundant websocket connections which can be very costly at scale.
With QuickAlerts, you can deploy alerts for data changes on the blockchain. You have to write a small expression to target specific data on the blockchain, and as soon as that change takes place on the blockchain, QuickAlerts will send the notification in real-time. Whether it's tracking transactions sent and received by a wallet address, smart contract events, gas changes within a block, or new block confirmations, anything on-chain can be tracked using QuickAlerts.
Streams
Creating a data pipeline in itself is a complex process, and the blockchain adds another level of complexity on top of it.
With Streams, you can easily deploy blockchain data pipelines that are consistent, scalable, and robust. Streams provides guaranteed data delivery to the destination of your choice, from webhooks to data stores and messaging services.
Streams ensures you get the maximum throughput, with no errors, and even handles reorgs for you.
IPFS
Blockchain storage space is costly, and storing files on the blockchain network could be impractical. That is where decentralized storage protocol like IPFS comes into play. IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer file storage system.
Files on IPFS are uploaded via IPFS nodes, and when these files are not accessed for a long time or if the node goes down, the file can be lost.
With QuickNode's IPFS pinning service, you can pin your IPFS files without worrying about losing access to your data. You can upload, store, and manage your files anytime, and they will be available anytime you want to access them without running your own IPFS node.
Since IPFS is a protocol, most browsers cannot access the files natively as they work with HTTPS protocol. So, one needs a gateway to access files on IPFS via HTTPS protocol. QuickNode offers IPFS gateways, which you can use to access files from IPFS. With QuickNode, you can create custom domains for your IPFS gateways and create private (can only access files uploaded via QuickNode IPFS pinning) or public (can access any file stored on IPFS) gateways.
QuickNode IPFS pinning can be accessed via both QuickNode dashboard and REST API.