Quicknode

Quicknode operates a managed blockchain infrastructure and developer tooling platform that gives applications programmatic access to public blockchains without running their own nodes. Its core offering is low-latency RPC across 79+ chains and 135+ networks, including full and archive nodes, plus dedicated, isolated clusters with burst capacity up to 50,000 requests per second and guaranteed uptime SLAs. The company states it handles more than 500 billion requests per month at 99.99% uptime and cites public benchmarks showing response times about 2.5x faster than other providers (83ms versus 1,200ms in its own comparison).

Beyond RPC, the platform layers real-time and historical data services: Streams and webhooks for ingesting onchain events with built-in reorg handling, transformations and guaranteed delivery, and historical backfills for replaying past chain activity through the same pipeline. Indexed data products include an SQL Explorer exposing over 500 billion rows of Hyperliquid trading data via dashboard and REST, Blockbook wallet history, the Metaplex DAS digital-asset API, and Ordinals and Runes data. For trading workloads, Quicknode offers a Swap API and Metis (running Jupiter end-to-end), Solana gRPC and HyperCore gRPC market-data streams, MEV protection and transaction broadcast services, and Hyperliquid node peering for direct block and mempool access. Earlier product coverage also lists Rollups for deploying enterprise-grade rollups, an NFT and Token API, GraphQL API, QuickAlert webhooks and the Quicknode Marketplace of add-ons.

Enterprise features include Prometheus exporter support, 14-day platform and infrastructure log retention, 24/7 priority support and security controls audited against SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. The company positions itself as an outsourced infrastructure team, operating nodes, client upgrades and monitoring on behalf of customer engineering teams.

Founding story

Quicknode was founded in 2017 by Alex Nabutovsky (CEO), Dmitry Shklovsky and Manuel Kreutz with the goal of bringing Web 2.0-grade infrastructure to Web3 and giving developers fast, reliable blockchain access. From 2018 to 2020 the founders supported builders and iterated on the product on nights and weekends before the platform scaled during the 2021 crypto cycle.

Business model

Quicknode sells managed blockchain infrastructure as a service on a subscription basis, with a free tier, a Growth tier and custom-priced Enterprise plans that add dedicated account management, priority support and SLAs. Usage is metered through API credits, and enterprise customers can contract for dedicated clusters under a single security review, SLA and invoice.

Recurring subscription and usage-based revenue from RPC endpoints, data streaming, indexed data APIs and add-ons, with free, custom-priced Growth and Enterprise tiers; enterprise agreements can include fixed credit pools. The company reported revenue growth of more than 300% during 2022, with Q3 and Q4 2022 described as record revenue quarters.

Traction

Customer case studies report outcomes such as Dune scaling from 16 to 91 chains in 12 months with 200M+ daily API responses, Monad serving 40B+ monthly requests at 25,000 average and 50,000 burst RPS, Ormi indexing over 100B onchain transactions across 70+ networks for DeFi apps representing about $50B TVL, Decurity cutting block-to-detection latency from 2s to under 0.5s while monitoring 8 chains and eliminating $48K/year in infrastructure costs, Supermission moving from ~500 to 17,400 daily RPC requests with latency from 2s to 50ms, and fomo scaling platform consumption 18x. Company materials cite 500B+ requests per month and 1m+ users; in January 2023 the company reported 200 billion API requests monthly, 50,000+ developers, 400% user base growth during 2022 and a 300% increase in team size.

Latest developments

Current product emphasis includes Hyperliquid node peering for direct block and full mempool access, an SQL Explorer over 500B+ rows of Hyperliquid trading data, HyperCore and Solana gRPC market-data streams, Swap API with Metis running Jupiter end-to-end, Blockbook, Metaplex DAS and Ordinals & Runes APIs, Agent Identity, and institutional staking. Coverage now spans 79+ chains and 135+ networks with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification.