Modes and types
Types
Chainstack supports 2 types of nodes for public chains: elastic node and dedicated node. Elastic nodes are available for all networks by default. To get a dedicated node, you'll have to contact us directly.
Modes
For most of the available public chains, Chainstack supports deploying nodes in the following modes:
- Full — a node that stores full blockchain data. However, it has limitations to how many blocks are available for querying.
- Archive — a node that stores full blockchain data and an archive of historical states, which makes it possible to query any block since the chain genesis.
- Trader — a node that propagates transactions to the global mempool at high speed. See Trader nodes.
The following modes are available for on-platform public chains:
| Protocol | Full | Archive | Full mode querying limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Solana | ✅ | ✅ | Up to the first block available on the node. ~1.5 days worth. |
| BNB Smart Chain | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Polygon | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Arbitrum | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Base | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Optimism | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Avalanche | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 32 blocks of C-Chain |
| TON | ✅ | ✅ | Both v2 and v3 (indexer) are supported |
| Ronin | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
| Blast | ✅ | ❌ | |
| zkSync Era | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Starknet | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Scroll | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Aptos | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 100,000,000 transactions |
| Fantom | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Cronos | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 100 blocks |
| Gnosis Chain | ✅ | ✅ | 1,024 MB of historical states. ~10 hours worth of immediately previous blocks. |
| Kaia (ex. Klaytn) | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Celo | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Moonbeam | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Aurora | ✅ | ❌ | Latest 5 epochs |
| Oasis Sapphire | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Polygon zkEVM | ✅ | ✅ | A full node currently stores the full blockchain data and an archive of historical states starting from the chain genesis. |
| Tezos | ✅ | ✅ | With a full node, you can query any block information or operation but you cannot query the balances, staking rights or block metadata before the current checkpoint. With an archive node, you can query the entire history at any point, including balances, staking rights, block metadata. See also Tezos docs: History modes. To query your node's current checkpoint data: curl 'NODE_ENDPOINT/chains/main/checkpoint' |
| Harmony | ✅ | ❌ | Latest 128 blocks |
Advanced options on paid plans
Dedicated nodes, archive nodes, debug & trace APIs are available starting from the Growth plan.
Updated 22 days ago