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. |
| Harmony | ✅ | ❌ | Latest 128 blocks |
Advanced options on paid plans
Dedicated nodes, archive nodes, debug & trace APIs are available paid plans.
Updated about 1 month ago