Lava Public RPC - Advantages and Considerations

Lava has served 140 billion+ RPC requests across leading ecosystems like Ethereum, Arbitrum, Filecoin, NEAR and Starknet. Lava’s unique Public RPC onboarding process addresses some of the pitfalls and difficulties foundations encounter with traditional providers.

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Tool Set for Improved Developer Experience 

Simplifies onboarding with easy-to-integrate, high performance decentralized infrastructure, introducing reliable, accessible RPC endpoints tailored for uninterrupted development. Supports multi-chain access, enabling developers to build cross-chain applications at scale.

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• Offers scalable solutions that adapt to growth, during initial launch, rapid expansion or at any time for consistent performance.
• Facilitates real-time data access with low latency, improving user experience and application responsiveness.

Community-Driven Approach

Blockchains benefit from onboarding providers and developers, equipping their ecosystem with a resolute provider community and as a result, a reliable, decentralized and highly scalable infrastructure.

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Avoids Vendor Lock-ins, Achieve More With Less

Chain-Funded RPC Endpoints: Public RPC access is supported by creating Lava Pools, minimizing operational complexity and simplifying the onboarding process. Fund and receive provider support at scale, faster and with less expenditure.

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Infrastructure Coverage, Reliability, and Performance

Lava’s innovative approach routes requests to top performing data providers and anyone can run nodes to compete, with providers that have proven track records of low latency, high uptime and consistent quality of service.

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Mitigates Single Points of Failure

Decentralized access ensures high availability, consistency, data accuracy and freshness. Reducing the reliance on centralized endpoints improves user experience over time, preventing issues like data inconsistency and downtime.

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• Consistency & stickiness - The protocol solves issues of both block and mempool inconsistency by implementing a smart consistency paradigm. Smart consistency optimizes provider selection and propagates data without employing stickiness.

Lava Pools Enable Public RPC

What is a Lava Pool? 

A Lava Pool is created by foundations, organizations, or grant programs and attracts high-quality RPC services while providing a decentralized, reliable and secure public RPC endpoint backed by a global network of providers.

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The process is as follows: 

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1. Foundations, grant programs and large scale decentralized applications create a Lava Pool to attract providers.
2. The blockchain is added to Lava’s infrastructure services as a ‘spec’.
3. Providers begin operating a node to serve requests, earning from the pool based on criteria like provider stake, geolocation and Quality of Service.
4. Dapps, developers and researchers benefit from reduced fragmentation, improved reliability and uptime, and scalable access.

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If you're interested in using Lava Pools to power your blockchain's or rollup's public RPC, reach out to our partnerships team.

The Lava Ecosystem

As Lava expands with the blockchain ecosystem, we aim to support leading chains with reliable data access at scale. 

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• Arbitrum, Filecoin, NEAR and others benefit from reliable Public RPC endpoints backed by Lava Pools.
• Ethereum, Hyperliquid, BNB Chain, Optimism and Base developers can use high throughput endpoints available via the Lava Gateway. 

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Lava's open-source protocol is uniquely suited to support chains during periods of rapid growth or expansion, capable of handling high traffic across its decentralized network of providers.

Collaborate with Lava

Lava collaborates with leading blockchain ecosystems to empower developers with reliable, high-availability data access. Recently, Filecoin and Lava collaborated to empower builders highlighting the need for decentralized infrastructure.

Collaborate together, for your ecosystem: 

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• Engage developers: Lava hosts workshops, Townhalls and developer-focused updates to foster growth.
• Hackathons: Lava sponsors hackathons with ultra-reliable RPC for developer teams to thrive.
• Enterprises: Lava powers enterprise-grade multi-chain access with the Smart Router.
• Dapps: Lava delivers fast and reliable multi-chain responses for decentralized applications.
• Ecosystems: Lava supports ecosystems like Midnight to further growth and expansion

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You can get in touch with the Lava team for collaborations by filling the form on the partnerships page.