Posts tagged #chain-spotlight

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June 13, 2026 · 5 min read

Zora RPC: A 2026 Developer's Guide

Zora is an OP Stack L2 built for mints, and minting traffic is bursty in a way that punishes public RPC endpoints. Here's what you need to build on Zora in 2026 — chain ID 7777777, Superchain finality, the public-node trap, and the query patterns for reading mints at scale.

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June 11, 2026 · 4 min read

BNB Smart Chain RPC: A 2026 Developer's Guide

BNB Smart Chain is one of the busiest EVM chains on the planet, but its public RPC endpoints fold under any real load. Here's what you need to connect reliably in 2026 — chain ID, finality, the public-node trap, and the query patterns that matter at BSC's transaction volume.

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June 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Arbitrum WebSocket Gotchas We Hit in Production

Connecting to Arbitrum over WebSocket the same way you connect to Ethereum mainnet will bite you. The sequencer has no public mempool, newHeads is a firehose, and reconnecting isn't enough. Here's what actually breaks and how to handle it.

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June 2, 2026 · 6 min read

Base RPC Endpoints: A 2026 Buyer's Guide

Eight serious providers offer Base RPC in 2026. Here's the honest comparison — pricing, free tiers, WebSocket support, archive access, and which one to pick for which workload.

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