dRPC

dRPC is a decentralized remote procedure call (RPC) infrastructure platform that gives developers and protocols reliable access to blockchain data across more than 100 networks—including Solana, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, TON, Cosmos, Bitcoin, and hundreds of EVM-compatible chains. Founded around 2022 and headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, the company emerged as a direct response to the fragility and opacity of conventional centralized RPC services: single-point-of-failure endpoints, opaque pricing, and limited network coverage. CEO Constantine Zaitcev and CTO Vyacheslav Shebanov lead a team of roughly 21 employees building what they describe as the first production-grade decentralized RPC marketplace.

How dRPC Works

Rather than owning and operating its own node fleet, dRPC aggregates capacity from more than 30 independent node operators. Incoming requests hit dRPC's Dproxy gateway layer, which evaluates each request in real time before routing it to the most suitable underlying provider via Dshackle, dRPC's open-source routing engine. The selection algorithm considers node synchronization state, geographic proximity to the requester, current latency, availability, and a cost model that balances load fairly across providers. The result is a system that routes around individual node outages automatically, without the developer needing to maintain fallback logic.

The network runs across seven geo-distributed clusters with multi-region failover, giving the platform a stated throughput ceiling of 5,000 requests per second on a single endpoint. Because the load is spread across many independent operators rather than a single provider's data center, the system has natural resilience: no single operator failure takes down the service.

Three Product Tiers

dRPC is structured around three products aimed at different user profiles:

NodeCloud is the managed, hosted RPC service. Developers generate an API key, select a network, and start making calls immediately. NodeCloud handles all infrastructure concerns—node health monitoring, failover, rate limiting, and analytics—behind a single endpoint URL. This is the fastest path to production for teams that do not want to manage their own nodes.

NodeCore is dRPC's open-source self-hosted version of the same routing infrastructure. Organizations that need full control over their RPC stack—whether for compliance, data sovereignty, or cost reasons—can deploy NodeCore on their own hardware. The project is publicly available and allows node operators to contribute capacity to the broader dRPC network.

NodeHaus is the enterprise-grade tier, offering dedicated infrastructure, custom SLAs, and support contracts for protocols and large dApps that need guaranteed performance levels beyond what the shared network provides.

Solana Integration

For Solana developers, dRPC provides access to both current-state and archive nodes, covering all standard JSON-RPC methods alongside debug and trace APIs for deep inspection of transactions and accounts. A notable Solana-specific feature is support for stake-weighted Quality of Service (QoS)—the mechanism Solana validators use to prioritize transactions from staked connections during network congestion. By routing through dRPC's stake-weighted endpoints, applications can improve transaction landing rates without having to negotiate direct staked connections with individual validators. The platform also includes MEV protection at the endpoint level, which routes sensitive transactions in ways designed to reduce front-running exposure.

Solana RPC access is available on both the free tier and paid plans, making it accessible to developers at every stage from prototyping to high-volume production.

Pricing and Free Tier

dRPC uses a Compute Unit (CU) pricing model where each RPC method consumes a different number of units proportional to its cost to serve. There are no bundled request minimums or fixed monthly slot allocations—teams pay only for what they use. Paid plans start at roughly $6 per one million requests (or 20 million Compute Units), with a $50 minimum on credit card billing. For developers and small projects, dRPC maintains a free tier with rate-limited access across all supported chains, including Solana, with no credit card required to start.

This usage-based structure contrasts with flat-fee models from competitors like Chainstack or Alchemy's tiered plans, and is particularly well-suited to applications with uneven or unpredictable request volumes.

Additional APIs and Developer Tooling

Beyond raw RPC endpoints, dRPC has expanded into higher-level APIs. A Crypto Wallet API, launched in 2025, aggregates wallet balances, DeFi positions, transaction history, and profit-and-loss calculations into single API calls, abstracting the need to stitch together multiple RPC calls manually. The platform also introduced Agent Skills for RPC, a set of pre-built integrations that allow AI agents to query on-chain data without requiring manual RPC configuration—positioning dRPC as a backend for the emerging AI-driven web3 application layer.

Analytics dashboards give developers per-endpoint visibility into request volumes, latency distributions, error rates, and node-level performance, which is especially useful when diagnosing issues across a distributed provider network.

Ecosystem Position on Solana

Solana's architecture creates specific RPC demands that differ from EVM chains. The network's high throughput—thousands of transactions per second at peak—means RPC nodes must keep up with rapid state changes, and connection quality directly affects transaction success rates during congested periods. dRPC's stake-weighted QoS support and archive node availability address both the reliability and the historical data requirements that Solana DeFi protocols, wallets, and indexers typically need.

By maintaining Solana alongside 100+ other chains through a single API key and unified dashboard, dRPC simplifies the infrastructure overhead for teams building cross-chain applications. A developer building a portfolio tracker that spans Solana, Ethereum, and Arbitrum can access all three through the same account, billing model, and monitoring interface—avoiding the operational cost of managing separate accounts with chain-specific providers.

Status and Activity

As of mid-2026, dRPC is actively shipping: recent additions include support for Robinhood Mainnet and eighteen other new networks, HyperCore integration, a partnership with Web3 infrastructure firm JAW.id, and continued blog-based technical publishing. The company has remained bootstrapped—no external funding rounds have been disclosed—while supporting billions of requests per day across its customer base. The domain resolves, documentation is maintained, and the product is under active development.