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 |
Polygon | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
BNB Smart Chain | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
Base | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
Avalanche | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 32 blocks of C-Chain |
Arbitrum | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
zkSync Era | ✅ | ❌ | A full node currently stores the full blockchain data and an archive of historical states starting from the chain genesis. |
Polygon zkEVM | ✅ | ❌ | A full node currently stores the full blockchain data and an archive of historical states starting from the chain genesis. |
Optimism | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 128 blocks |
NEAR | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 5 epochs |
Aurora | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 5 epochs |
Solana | ✅ | ❌ | Up to the first block available on the node. ~1.5 days worth. |
Scroll | ✅ | ✅ | A full node currently stores the full blockchain data and an archive of historical states starting from the chain genesis. |
Ronin | ✅ | ❌ | Latest 128 blocks |
Aptos | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 100,000,000 transactions |
Oasis Sapphire | ✅ | ❌ | A full node currently stores the full blockchain data and an archive of historical states starting from the chain genesis. |
Gnosis Chain | ✅ | ✅ | 1,024 MB of historical states. ~10 hours worth of immediately previous blocks. |
Cronos | ✅ | ✅ | Latest 100 blocks |
Filecoin | ✅ | ❌ | |
Fantom | ✅ | ✅ | As Go Opera, the Fantom client, does not have automatic state pruning implemented, there is currently no difference between a full node and an archive node. |
Starknet | ✅ | ❌ | |
Harmony | ✅ | ❌ | Latest 128 blocks |
Tezos | ✅ | ✅ | With a full node, you can query any block information or operation but you cannot query the balances or staking rights before the current checkpoint. A checkpoint is automatically done every 4,096 blocks. This means that with a full node, you can only query the balances and staking rights from when the last checkpoint happened until the latest block within the current 4,096 block cycle. |
Advanced options on paid plans
Dedicated nodes, archive nodes, debug & trace APIs are available starting from the Growth plan.
Updated 15 days ago