Chainstack

Chainstack is a managed blockchain infrastructure platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, with an additional office in Burlington, Massachusetts. It provides production-grade RPC nodes, archive data access, real-time gRPC streaming, and dedicated infrastructure across more than 70 blockchain protocols — including Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, Arbitrum, and dozens of others. The platform is designed so that developer and DevOps teams can provision reliable node access in minutes rather than managing the operational complexity of running their own nodes.

The Problem Chainstack Solves

Running a blockchain node in production is deceptively difficult. Nodes require continuous maintenance, hardware provisioning, sync management, monitoring, and scaling — work that does not directly advance an application's product roadmap. For teams building on Solana specifically, the challenge compounds: Solana's high transaction throughput demands low-latency infrastructure, and the chain's rapid state growth means archive access can require significant storage and compute resources. Meanwhile, many commercial RPC providers have complicated credit-based pricing systems that make costs difficult to predict, with some applying per-method multipliers of 20 to 26 times on individual calls.

Chainstack's founders, Eugene Aseev and Laurent Dedenis, identified both sides of this gap when they launched the company. Aseev, with a background in R&D and cybersecurity engineering, saw that DevOps teams lacked purpose-built tooling for blockchain infrastructure. Dedenis, coming from enterprise software leadership at companies including Microsoft Dynamics and Acumatica, recognized that larger organizations needed solutions compatible with enterprise compliance requirements. The platform they built abstracts infrastructure management while keeping pricing transparent and predictable.

How the Platform Works

Chainstack organizes its infrastructure into several distinct node tiers suited to different workloads:

Global Nodes route requests automatically to the nearest available data center across 12 global regions, providing geo-balanced load distribution and automatic failover. These are best suited for applications that need reliable access without locking into a single geography.

Unlimited Nodes replace per-request billing with a flat monthly fee starting at $149 per month, capped by requests-per-second (RPS) limits. This tier targets teams with high or bursty workloads that want cost predictability without committing to full dedicated infrastructure.

Dedicated Nodes provision isolated infrastructure on bare-metal or cloud hardware starting at $678 per month. These offer guaranteed P95 and P99 latency boundaries and target production applications where performance consistency matters more than cost optimization.

Trader Nodes are regionally bound endpoints fine-tuned for low-latency transaction propagation, integrated with bloXroute for Solana and EVM chains. They are designed for trading bots and MEV-sensitive applications that need the fastest possible path from submission to inclusion.

Self-Hosted Nodes, launched in May 2026, allow teams to deploy production-grade blockchain nodes on their own infrastructure with Chainstack's automated deployment and lifecycle management tooling — a model that retains the operational convenience of managed infrastructure while satisfying data-residency or security requirements that rule out third-party hosting.

Across all metered tiers, Chainstack uses a Request Unit (RU) billing model: one RU per standard full-node call, two RUs per archive node call. The company publishes overage rates by tier — ranging from $20 per million RUs on the Developer plan down to $5 per million RUs on Enterprise — so teams can calculate costs before committing. A free Developer Plan covers 3 million monthly API calls for prototyping.

Solana-Specific Capabilities

Solana is a first-class protocol on Chainstack, with support for mainnet, testnet, and archive access. Key Solana offerings include:

Yellowstone gRPC Streaming: Chainstack integrates the Yellowstone Geyser Plugin to deliver real-time structured data feeds covering accounts, transactions, and slots. Unlike polling-based RPC calls, gRPC streaming pushes events as they occur, which matters for latency-sensitive applications like trading systems and on-chain analytics. Plans start at $49 per month for one stream, scaling to $449 per month for higher throughput.

Jito ShredStream Integration: Chainstack supports Jito ShredStream for gap-free shred delivery, useful for applications that need complete, ordered transaction data rather than sampled snapshots.

Patented Bolt Technology: Chainstack markets a proprietary synchronization method called Bolt that enables same-day provisioning of fully synced dedicated Solana RPC nodes. Because a fresh Solana node typically requires days to catch up to chain tip, Bolt is a meaningful operational accelerator for teams that cannot wait.

Archive Access: Solana archive nodes are available starting at $49 per month, providing complete historical state for analytics, data pipelines, and AI data feeds.

Trader Nodes for Solana: Regional, latency-optimized endpoints built specifically for Solana trading workloads, with bloXroute integration for faster transaction propagation.

Developer Tooling: The platform supports standard Solana development libraries including @solana/web3.js and solana-py, provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration for teams building AI agents that interact with on-chain data, and offers a testnet faucet portal for pre-production development.

Security and Compliance

Chainstack holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications — two of the most common requirements for enterprise procurement in regulated industries. The platform offers DDoS mitigation, TLS encryption, IP whitelisting, single sign-on (SSO), and role-based access control (RBAC). The company markets a 99.99% uptime SLA across its managed infrastructure, and accepts payment in SOL and more than 150 other cryptocurrencies in addition to fiat.

These certifications position Chainstack in a segment of the market that purely developer-focused RPC providers do not always serve: financial institutions, fintech companies, and regulated enterprises that need documented security controls before they can approve a vendor.

Team and Structure

Laurent Dedenis and Eugene Aseev co-founded Chainstack in 2018. Dedenis brings over 20 years of experience managing technology companies, and Aseev has more than a decade leading R&D and engineering teams with a background in cybersecurity. The CEO role is held by Nils Hueneke, who has over 20 years of experience building high-performance software platforms and previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at WebPros and CEO of Plesk.

In June 2026, Chainstack joined the Wormhole Guardian network as one of its 19 Guardians, contributing to cross-chain message verification and security — an integration that extends the company's role beyond pure infrastructure provision into active protocol participation across the broader multi-chain ecosystem.

Positioning and Competitive Landscape

Chainstack competes primarily with Alchemy, QuickNode, GetBlock, Ankr, and Dwellir in the managed RPC market. Its primary differentiator is pricing transparency: the 1× RU multiplier stands in contrast to competitors that apply 20–26× per-method charges, and the company claims teams migrating from Alchemy or QuickNode typically achieve 50 to 66 percent cost savings as a result.

Independent reviews note the platform is particularly well-suited to teams that prioritize operational clarity: multi-chain applications, analytics platforms, and enterprise integrations where predictable monthly costs and documented compliance matter as much as raw throughput. Solana-specific throughput on shared plans ranges from 5 to 50 RPS depending on tier, so high-frequency trading applications requiring the absolute ceiling of available throughput may find Dedicated Nodes or Trader Nodes a better fit than shared plans.

Solana Ecosystem Fit

Chainstack has invested specifically in Solana infrastructure at a time when the Solana developer ecosystem is expanding rapidly. The combination of Yellowstone gRPC streaming, Jito ShredStream support, archive access, same-day dedicated node provisioning via Bolt, Trader Nodes with bloXroute integration, and transparent flat-fee pricing addresses the most common pain points that Solana application developers encounter when scaling beyond free public RPC endpoints. For teams that need production-grade infrastructure without the operational burden of running their own validator or RPC infrastructure, Chainstack offers a mature, compliance-ready option with a clear upgrade path from prototyping to enterprise deployment.