What is a Solana RPC node provider?

A Solana RPC node provider builds and manages the infrastructure necessary for decentralized applications (dApps) to send transactions, make requests, and receive information from the public Solana blockchain. There are multiple types of Solana RPC node providers including public, private, and shared. What does RPC mean?

Does Solana support JSON-RPC requests?

Solana maintains dedicated api nodes to fulfill JSON-RPC requests for each public cluster, and third parties may as well. Here are the public RPC endpoints currently available and recommended for each public cluster:

What happens if a Solana RPC node fails?

When any node fails, Solana RPC requests are rerouted to any of the other functioning public nodes. These public nodes serviced ~2,000 requests per second over the past 30 days (as of 7/20/22). By opting for Ankr’s premium tier, users get access to faster, dedicated Solana RPC endpoints.

How do RPC requests work in a Solana Dapp?

When running a Solana dApp, RPC requests are used to request data from the Solana node cluster. Then, specially designed RPC nodes (sometimes called RPC endpoints) process RPC requests made by a decentralized application (dApp), run transactions through the network’s validator protocol, and send back the data the dApp asked for.