Guides
Running the infrastructure, not just calling it
11 articles on getting, choosing, running, scaling and watching a node — general where the problem is general, and per chain where it is not. Written for the decisions that come before picking a provider from the rankings, and the ones that come after deciding not to.
Ethereum
BSC
Solana2 articles in clients for SolanaWhich node software exists on each chain, and what changes with each.
- Clients· All three chains
Why the client mix matters
“Does it matter which client everybody else is running?”
What a supermajority client bug costs at 33% and at 66%, why the published diversity figures disagree with each other by more than they agree, and what any of it changes for an application rather than a validator.
- ClientsSolana
Solana clients
“Agave, Firedancer, Frankendancer, Jito — which is which?”
Three implementations and a fourth thing people call a client, why an RPC node is a different job from a validator, and why getVersion cannot tell you which one you are talking to.