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Blockchain Node Service and Infrastructure Companies
Key Takeaways
- GetBlock supports over 40 blockchains, while Blockdaemon provides access to 43 blockchains.
- Alchemy offers services for the Flow, Arbitrum, Crypto.org Chain, Optimism, and Polygon networks, while Bison Trails currently supports 21 blockchains.
- Cloudflare is not primarily a blockchain company, but an Internet infrastructure provider. However, Cloudflare also offers Ethereum (and IPFS) node services. Avado is a physical device that enables users to run nodes on multiple blockchains securely and efficiently. It supports the Bitcoin, Monero, Avalanche, Kusama, and Ethereum blockchains.
Introduction
Twenty four blockchain node service providers and blockchain infrastructure companies have been listed below and provided in the attached spreadsheet. Conducting additional research could yield additional results. Additional research might not uncover many more node providers (Node-as-a-service companies), but many more Blockchain-as-a-Service (Baas) companies exist (e.g. companies that offer API access to various blockchain nodes), as well as boutique blockchain infrastructure firms like BlockSpaces and KORE Technologies.
List of Blockchain Node Service and Infrastructure Companies
- Infura provides access to the Ethereum network and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol.
- GetBlock supports over 40 blockchains: BTC, ETH, BSC, BCH, XRP, DOT, ZEN, EOS, LTC, ADA, XMR, MATIC, KSM, TRX, NEO, XLM, ATOM, DASH, ZEC, THETA, ETC, DOGE, WAVES, HECO, ICX, DCR, BTG, LSK, HIVE, BCN, GRC, FCT, RSK, FUSE, BSV, STAKE, XEM, XTZ, MIOTA, DGB, ZIL, BAND, XVG, STEEM, WAXP, RDD, CCXX, XYM, IRIS, LOKI, FIRO, PART, BDX, GBYTE, LBC, and SOL.
- Alchemy offers services for the Flow, Arbitrum, Crypto.org Chain, Optimism, and Polygon networks.
- Bison Trails currently supports 21 blockchains: ALGO, ADA, CELO, ATOM, CRO, EDG, ETH2, FLOW, KEEP, KSM, LPT, MINA, NEAR, NU, ROSE, ONT, DOT, SOL, TERRA, and XTZ. The company is currently developing support for ACALA, AVALANCHE, COMPOUND CHAIN, HELIUM, MOONBEAM, SKALE, and The Graph blockchains.
- QuickNode currently supports BSC, ETH, BTC, MATIC, xDAI, Fantom, and Optimism networks.
- Blockdaemon provides access to 43 blockchains: Algorand, Anchorage, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Celo, Cosmos, Dash, Dfinity, Diem, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Ethereum 2.0, Ethereum Classic, Filecoin, Fireblocks, Flow, GoChain, Harmony, Hyperledger Fabric, Karura, Keep, Kusama, Litecoin, Livepeer, Mina, MobileCoin, Moonbeam, Moonriver, Near, Oasis, Parity Substrate, Polkadot, Provenance, Quorum, Skale, Solana, Stellar, Terra, Tezos, The Graph, XRP Ledger, Zcash.
- Rivet provides node services for Ethereum.
- Chainstack supports Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Fabric, Corda, Bitcoin, Quorum, and MultiChain blockchains.
- Moralis provides support for Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Polygon.
- Cloudflare is not primarily a blockchain company, but an Internet infrastructure provider. However, Cloudflare also offers Ethereum (and IPFS) node services.
- LinkPool offers node services specifically for Chainlink.
- Avado is a physical device that enables users to run nodes on multiple blockchains securely and efficiently. It supports the Bitcoin, Monero, Avalanche, Kusama, and Ethereum blockchains.
- The Pocket Network has a native blockchain, POKT, but it also supports Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, FUSE, Polygon, Pocket, Solana, and xDAI blockchains.
- Chainflow is a small node provider that provides access to Akash, Cosmos, Flow, the Graph, Livepeer, Nucypher, Oasis, Osmosis, Pocket, Polygon, Regen, SKALE, and Solana blockchains.
- Simply VC (does not appear to be a VC fund) provides blockchain infrastructure services for Cosmos, Polkadot, Chainlink, Celo, Oasis, Akash, Kusama, e-Money, IXO, Regen, Microtick, Pocket, Secret Network, FreeTON, Bitsong, Ki Chain, and Persistence blockchains. It also supports the testnets of CosmWasm, Agoric, StarGaze, KIRA, Desmos, and Elixir (ELX).
- Skillz offers a blockchain infrastructure product solution, Ba2s, that supports Pocket, Ethereum, Tezos, ETH 2.0, and Polkadot blockchains.
- P2P Validator offers node services (including staking) for Tezos, Cosmos, Polkadot, Solana, Kusama, Kava, Ethereum, The Graph, Cardano, Nucypher, Irisnet, Flow, DAOBet, Oasis, Terra, Near, Marlin, Mina, Regen, and Persistence blockchains.
- Easy 2 Stake offers staking and node services for Cosmos, Elrond, Celo, Pocket, Terra, The Graph, Solana, Kava, Wanchain, e-Money, Iris Network, Akash, Microtick, Regen, Sentinel, and Stafi networks.
- TosDis offers staking and yield farming as a service and supports Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polkadot, Cardano, and Solana blockchains.
- NodeSmith provides infrastructure services for Ethereum (and IPFS), Aion, Cosmos, and xDAI blockchains.
- Coinfirm currently only supports Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, support for BCH, ETC, NEO, DASH, LTC, ZEC and XLM is on Coinfirm's roadmap for 2021.
- Kaleido provides Blockchain-as-a-Service and blockchain infrastructure enterprise solutions for Ethereum, Quorum, Hyperledger Besu, Corda, and Fabric blockchains.
- BlockSpaces offers custom blockchain integration solutions for multiple blockchains. It does not list the supported blockchains, and it appears to provide customized solutions for customers, choosing the appropriate blockchain based on use case.
- KORE Technologies offers Node-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions on 60 blockchain protocols, but it never lists the supported blockchains.
Research Strategy
We have searched through software review websites like Capterra and G2 and press reports in order to find the listed blockchain node service and infrastructure companies. We have also looked through the documentation of major blockchains to find recommended node service providers (for example, the documentation for Ethereum). Finally, some providers publish (often biased) comparisons of different providers on their websites (e.g. Moralis), which we have leveraged to identify additional companies to include.