Moralis

Moralis is a Web3 API infrastructure platform that gives developers production-ready access to blockchain data across 50+ chains — including Solana — through a single, standardized interface, eliminating the need to build and maintain custom indexing pipelines.

The Problem Moralis Solves

Building a blockchain application means dealing with raw, low-level on-chain data: parsing transaction logs, maintaining node infrastructure, syncing historical state, and wiring up real-time event feeds. Doing this in-house for even one chain is expensive and time-consuming; doing it across multiple chains requires dedicated infrastructure teams. Moralis abstracts this entire layer, replacing it with REST APIs that return decoded, enriched data in developer-friendly formats. The company estimates this cuts infrastructure costs by approximately 50% compared to in-house solutions.

How It Works

Rather than exposing raw RPC data, Moralis indexes blockchain state continuously, decodes it, and enriches it with metadata — token prices, NFT attributes, wallet labels, DeFi position details — before serving it through unified API endpoints. For Solana specifically, the platform is built around Solana's native account model, program architecture, and transaction semantics rather than forcing the data into an EVM-style abstraction. This means Solana wallets, SPL token accounts, compressed NFTs, and program-derived addresses are all represented faithfully.

Applications can query Moralis on-demand via the Data API, receive real-time pushes via Streams webhooks, or ingest full historical datasets through Datashare exports to cloud data warehouses. The result is three distinct access patterns — synchronous reads, event-driven webhooks, and bulk pipeline exports — from the same underlying indexed data.

Core Products

Data API is the foundation: REST endpoints returning wallet portfolios, token balances, NFT holdings, transaction history, token prices, DeFi positions, and raw block data. Responses are decoded and enriched, so a wallet balance call returns current USD value alongside token metadata, not just raw lamport counts.

Streams enables event-driven architectures by delivering real-time blockchain events to a developer-specified webhook. Applications can filter by contract address, event type, or wallet address and receive structured payloads the moment on-chain state changes. Delivery guarantees are built in, making this suitable for liquidation bots, portfolio trackers, and compliance tools that cannot afford missed events.

Datashare provides full historical blockchain datasets exported directly to Snowflake, BigQuery, or other cloud destinations. This targets data teams building analytics pipelines, research applications, or compliance systems that require complete historical backfills rather than on-demand point queries.

Data Indexer is the enterprise tier: a fully managed custom indexing pipeline with configurable schemas, real-time ingestion, and full pipeline control. It is designed for teams with bespoke data models that standard API endpoints cannot satisfy.

Solana-Specific Capabilities

Moralis's Solana Data API is segmented into four functional areas:

Token API covers SPL token transfers, native and token balances, token pricing in USD, profitability metrics, token search, analytics, metadata retrieval, and liquidity data. Price data is sourced from leading Solana DEXs including Raydium, Meteora, Orca, and Pump.fun, enabling real-time market data without separate integrations.

Wallet API provides portfolio snapshots across SPL tokens and SOL, wallet profitability analysis for tracking smart money flows, and full transaction history. PnL breakdowns per token are available, making this useful for trading analytics, portfolio trackers, and tax tools.

NFT API supports Solana NFTs, compressed NFTs (cNFTs), and semi-fungible tokens (SFTs), returning full metadata and ownership data by wallet address. Compressed NFT support is notable given how heavily Solana's NFT ecosystem relies on state compression for cost efficiency.

Price API delivers real-time SPL token prices aggregated from major Solana DEX liquidity sources, along with OHLCV candlestick data for charting and technical analysis applications.

Scale and Adoption

Moralis processes over 2 billion API requests per month and its infrastructure powers more than 100 million end users across the applications built on it. Notable integrations include MetaMask, Ledger, Blockchain.com, Trust Wallet, Ronin, and Aave. The platform supports 50+ chains in total, with Solana alongside the major EVM networks, Bitcoin, and others.

Security and Compliance

Moralis holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, the two primary enterprise security compliance standards. SOC 2 Type II covers operational security controls over time, while ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized information security management standard. These certifications make Moralis suitable for enterprise and regulated-industry deployments where infrastructure compliance is required.

Team and Funding

Moralis was founded in late 2020 by Ivan Liljeqvist (CEO) and Filip Martinsson (COO), two Swedish developers who had previously built the largest blockchain coding academy, used by over 38,000 developers. The company is headquartered in Sweden and operates as a remote-first organization.

The company raised a EUR 11.5 million seed round in 2021 led by EQT Ventures, followed by a USD 40 million Series A in 2022 backed by Coinbase Ventures, EQT Ventures, Fabric Ventures, and Dispersion Capital. The Series A was one of the larger Web3 developer tooling raises of that period and positioned Moralis to expand its chain coverage and enterprise product tier.

Solana Ecosystem Fit

For Solana builders, Moralis reduces the friction of accessing structured on-chain data without running a dedicated indexer. The platform's Solana-native data model means developers working with SPL tokens, compressed NFTs, or Solana DeFi protocols get data formatted around Solana's architecture rather than adapted from an EVM baseline. Real-time DEX price feeds from Raydium, Orca, Meteora, and Pump.fun make the Streams and Token API products particularly useful for applications that need current market context alongside wallet data — a common requirement for Solana portfolio trackers, trading tools, and DeFi dashboards.