RPC Node Infrastructure
Suppose your company wants to implement and operate a decentralized application. What are the requirements? In addition to the selection of a suitable blockchain technology and the development environment, one question in particular is crucial. How should the application access the blockchain data? So-called RPC endpoints are needed for this purpose. There are various ways to gain access to these endpoints.
Either your company hosts full nodes itself, which provide the endpoints, or you use centralized or decentralized service providers. If you host the application yourself, the costs are usually very high because the internal developers have to invest a lot of time in server maintenance. This time would be better invested in the actual implementation of the application.
With centralized service providers, the operation of the application is completely dependent on a large, centralized organization. MetaMask, one of the largest browser wallets, for example, uses Infura as such a service provider. Now, there have been numerous service failures at Infura in the past. Moreover, it is not the point of “decentralization” if most requests to blockchains go to centralized, large organizations. In purely theoretical terms, these large service providers could also censor or manipulate blockchain data. Sure, everyone could run their own server and validate the data, but who really does that?
The approach of a decentralized service provider is very good, but it depends on which networks are supported. In addition, payment is usually made with a separate, project-native token. Of course, this comes with exchange rate risks.
In addition to accessing the pure data on the blockchain, your application may also need external storage, since not everything can be stored on-chain, or external services such as indexing or price oracles. Server infrastructure is needed for this as well.
We at decentnodes work with you to develop an individual solution for your specific application. It is possible to have the servers operated and maintained by us, but it is also possible to integrate servers directly into your existing IT environment. In this case decentnodes takes over the initial setup and training of an internal administrator, so that the developer costs are greatly reduced due to time savings. Of course, further consulting is also possible afterwards. Since we at decentnodes do not operate any centralized, large server farms, you can help blockchain projects become truly decentralized by hiring us.
