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Between August 25 and October 6, 2026, ten of 110 chains we scanned stopped producing blocks for 10 minutes or more. TAC was down 10.6 days, Neutron 77.75 hours, Cosmos Hub 24.8 hours, Cronos 17 hours. The full list, the method, and the raw data.
Read →Free public RPC endpoints are perfect for learning and prototyping — and a liability in production. Here's the honest breakdown of where public RPC bites you (rate limits, downtime, deprecation, stale blocks, missing methods) and when paying for an endpoint actually earns its keep.
Read →A naive retry loop turns a brief blip into an outage. Here's how to retry RPC calls correctly: exponential backoff with jitter, knowing which calls are safe to retry, and failing over across providers — with copy-paste examples in viem, ethers, and web3.py.
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