by Coinbase Cloud staff
Coinbase Cloud’s Solana Archival Nodes can look at historic tackle balances, run complicated queries, and simulate the blockchain state at any given level within the chain’s historical past.
Coinbase Cloud beforehand launched safe, devoted Solana infrastructure nodes by way of Question & Transact, permitting builders to entry and confirm information and transaction info from the Solana blockchain.
At present, Coinbase Cloud is increasing that providing with the launch of Solana Archival Nodes. Managing archival nodes in a scalable manner is technically difficult resulting from Solana’s excessive throughput design (~2–3 blocks/sec) and enormous information footprint (~100TB for all historic information).
We’re enthusiastic about serving to to empower builders to construct higher services that contribute to the expansion of the Solana group!
Solana Archival Node Highlights:
- Constructed for builders: Solana builders can let Coinbase Cloud do the heavy lifting and entry the archival information they want.
- Constructed with Solana experience: Coinbase Cloud’s Solana archival node infrastructure is constructed with deep understanding of the Solana community. We operated one of many first validators on Solana on the Tour de Sol testnet, and have since been working validator and browse/write node infrastructure.
- Cloud-based, dependable infrastructure: Coinbase Cloud’s multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure is architected to reduce downtime threat, and allow you to entry information with out skipping a beat.
- Safety-first: Coinbase Cloud’s infrastructure is constructed to satisfy or exceed the safety wants of extremely regulated establishments.
- Designated help: Our engineers and buyer success staff are prepared to help you in managing your infrastructure.
Solana: a high-performance blockchain
Solana is an open supply, high-performance, permissionless blockchain that makes use of extremely scalable know-how to prioritize transaction throughput, the flexibility to course of numerous transactions in a brief span of time. Solana is at present in a position to course of greater than 50,000 transactions per second.
Safe, dependable, and easy-to-use infrastructure is vital for the continued flourishing of the Solana ecosystem. Solana’s excessive throughput capability is well-suited for a lot of use instances together with buying and selling. The excessive throughput capability additionally requires experience in developer operations and {hardware} choice to run a performant node. Nodes require highly effective {hardware}, extraordinarily excessive bandwidth, and vital protocol experience to handle participation.
Coinbase Cloud has collaborated intently with the Solana staff to help the community as it’s rising and scaling securely. We operated one of many first nodes in Tour de Sol, Solana’s incentivized testnet. Since mainnet beta launch, we now have helped our shoppers handle the complexity of participation with safe, examined validator infrastructure run by seasoned protocol engineers and specialists.
Now, we’re increasing our Solana choices to incorporate our Solana Archival Nodes to empower builders excited about constructing on the blockchain.
Solana Question & Transact: run dependable, safe learn/write nodes to construct functions and providers
With Question & Transact, builders excited about constructing on Solana can simply run learn/write nodes, entry information from the blockchain, and construct functions and providers that connect with Solana.
Even for extremely technical groups, working nodes may be an costly, time-consuming course of. It requires sturdy protocol experience, staying up-to-date with the newest community modifications, and scaling infrastructure to handle potential modifications in throughput. These calls for are significantly true for Solana learn/write infrastructure, given the upper throughput capability than different protocols.
Coinbase Cloud’s Solana Question & Transact alleviates this problem and makes it simpler to construct on Solana. Builders and enterprises excited about constructing functions and providers related to the Solana community can simply handle their infrastructure from a single platform, and shortly scale their infrastructure primarily based on altering throughput necessities.
Why run Solana Archival Nodes with Coinbase Cloud?
We’re infrastructure specialists with a deep understanding of the Solana community. With Solana Archival Nodes working on Question & Transact learn/write infrastructure, you’ll be able to focus in your product and clients as a substitute of core node infrastructure.
- Excessive uptime: Our Question & Transact learn/write nodes are constructed on multi-region cloud infrastructure, with 99.9% uptime assure.*
- Simple-to-use platform: We make participation and constructing on blockchains easy, together with extra complicated networks like Solana. You possibly can handle your node infrastructure simply from a single dashboard.
- Devoted help: Our engineers and buyer success staff are prepared to help you in managing your infrastructure.
Get in contact with us about our Solana merchandise:
- Solana Take part (staking infrastructure): Safe validator infrastructure to take part within the Solana community.
- Solana Question & Transact (learn/write infrastructure): Learn/write infrastructure to entry information from the Solana community, confirm info and transactions, and construct services that run on Solana.
*topic to the phrases and circumstances set forth in our SLA, some exceptions apply
Disclaimers
This doc and the knowledge contained herein shouldn’t be a advice or endorsement of any digital asset, protocol, community, or mission. Nonetheless, Coinbase might have, or might sooner or later have, a major monetary curiosity in, and should obtain compensation for providers associated to a number of of the digital belongings, protocols, networks, entities, tasks, and/or ventures mentioned herein. The danger of loss in cryptocurrency, together with staking, may be substantial and nothing herein is meant to be a assure towards the potential for loss.
This doc and the content material contained herein are primarily based on info which is believed to be dependable and has been obtained from sources believed to be dependable, however Coinbase makes no illustration or guarantee, categorical, or implied, as to the equity, accuracy, adequacy, reasonableness, or completeness of such info, and, with out limiting the foregoing or anything on this disclaimer, all info offered herein is topic to modification by the underlying protocol community.
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