Firstly, from the team at OnFinality I would like to thank the Astar community for your continued support.
Astar’s dApp staking platform helps us to keep our industry leading Astar and Shiden Public RPC services free to the community, driving growth in the Astar ecosystem
Thank You
Original Motivation
Setting up blockchain infrastructure is difficult, time consuming, and expensive:
- It requires a level of server development expertise that many do not have
- It’s costly to run a full node nearly continuously, especially when your dApp’s traffic is low and inconsistent.
- Running production level infrastructure is especially tricky. You need to autoscale quickly to handle bursty traffic, and you want to provide services in different regions around the world to provide low latency services - all of this is incredibly costly, but comes with significant economies of scale for a provider.
- DevOps requires constant attention - time that would be better spent elsewhere building.
A shared public RPC API service helps mitigate these barriers of entry to trying accessing a new protocol by reducing all these costs to zero. In summary, we reduce the pain of getting started on your and minimise the costs of accessing secure nodes while traffic from your dApp is low. When you grow, you can continue to use our shared API service, or we also provide access to one click deploy dedicated Astar/Shiden Alpha nodes to any cloud of your choosing.
Service Details
OnFinality Astar and Shiden RPC services now run entirely on OnFinality Cloud, the self service cloud running on our own hardware in leading data centers worldwide.
Our Astar RPC has two regions, Hong Kong (Asia Pacific) and North Virginia (USA) for excellent global latency.
Our Shiden RPC is based in Cloud Hong Kong.
OnFinality also runs an Astar bootnode.
| Service Average | Daily Requests | Period Requests (3 Months) | Lifetime Requests | Period Egress (3 months) | 90 Day Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astar | 14 Million | 1.37 Billion | 26.5 Billion | 5.2 TB | 100% |
| Shiden | 5 Million | 335 Million | 4.9 Billion | 406 GB | 99.9% |
Raw data can be found here: Astar/Shiden - Q1 2025 Usage Data
Astar March Requests by Country
Shiden March Requests by Country
Project Roadmap
OnFinality continues to expand its infrastructure for enhanced global performance and reliability.
In 2025 we will expand our self-service Dedicated Node offering to our Hong Kong region, and are preparing to launch our 3rd OnFinality Cloud region in Europe.
About OnFinality
OnFinality is a SaaS platform providing infrastructure services for the Polkadot/Substrate community. Our mission is to support all blockchain developers in the world by providing core infrastructure so they can focus on building the next dApp.
We continue to reaffirm our dedication to providing free support of 500,000 responses to our API service each day for users around the world. You can access our public API service by connecting to it using Polkadot.js or via the endpoints listed below. You can also create your own free API key in our application and track metrics and statistics.
- https://astar.api.onfinality.io/public
- wss://astar.api.onfinality.io/public-ws
- https://shiden.api.onfinality.io/public
- wss://shiden.api.onfinality.io/public-ws
Our mission remains to support all blockchain developers in the world by providing core infrastructure so they can focus on building the next dApp.
