For developers, builders, experimenters keen to get started with Lava RPC now
If you're a dapp, node runner or project wanting to become an early partner, contact our BD team
It’s super easy and free! Our Gateway is the most familiar way for most developers to create an RPC endpoint for your chain. If you would like more low-level functionality, you can also use our SDK and Server Kit today. Getting set up takes only a few minutes and instructions are available in our docs.
Instead of representing one provider, Lava is a protocol which aggregates a decentralized and distributed network of RPC providers, creating resiliency and diversity.
To ensure high service quality, RPC relays are automatically routed to the most relevant providers - based on geolocation, speed of response, availability, data accuracy and stake.
The network offers greater redundancy and resiliency than a single provider. Being permissionless and decentralized, the network draws support from an open-source community of contributors and providers.
As a result, app developers can enjoy high levels of uptime, multi-chain and up-to-date RPC specs all in one place, as well as enhanced privacy across relays.
It helps to think about Lava as taking an optimistic approach to RPC.
All relays on the network are peer-to-peer - Lava is not a middleman and creates no additional latency to the response time. Providers, however, must stake on Lava to be eligible for pairing with apps, and this stake allows them to be held optimistically accountable for their service standard.
Lava believes that creating an open network creates more competition between providers, encouraging high performance, innovation and better pricing for users.
Combined, that means high performance for users, without sacrificing web3 values.
We support 20+ networks currently, including Ethereum, Cosmos Hub, Aptos, Celo, Arbitrum, Starknet, Polygon, Osmosis, Fantom, Canto, Base, Evmos, Optimism and Juno.
New chains are added all the time, for which our ongoing Provider Incubation programme will onboard new Providers to help bootstrap initial service.
Lava is also building towards a fully open-source protocol. That means contributors will be able to propose and implement support for new chains - meaning we can support new networks faster than centralized providers.
Our self-service options are all free and you can start today.
We’re also looking for early partners for our mainnet and would be happy to talk to you about additional infrastructure support or partnership opportunities.
You can reach out by completing the form above.