Lava Supports Polygon Devs With Decentralized RPC & APIs!
A new chain was added to Lava! 🍾🍾
RPC for Polygon Mainnet & Testnet is now available on our testnet, via the Gateway and Server Kit!
Lava enables Polygon developers to focus on building web3 apps with the best user experience. Fast, reliable & open-source — the decentralized Lava way.
🟣 About Polygon
Polygon Labs has developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s, sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols.
Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 223 million, over 1.2 million smart contracts created and 2.52 billion total transactions processed since inception.
The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
💪 How is Lava supporting Polygon?
Lava is equipping builders with automatic access to a decentralized network of Polygon RPC & API endpoints, without having to spend time and money on their own node-infrastructure, or to rely on centralized/public endpoints. Why rely on one endpoint when you can leverage multiple at once, without any extra work?
Lava provides Polygon endpoints that support JSON-RPC and Websocket Subscriptions! ⚡
📢 ️Calling developers! Start using Lava RPC, join our developer community and help us build Lava 🌋
You can also get started together with our DevRel @kagemniarimu, who’s made a really great tutorial, especially for Polygon Devs! ️🎓👇
SDK and Server Kit
Developers can also use our Server Kit to build their own self-hosted gateway, and gain p2p access to providers on Lava Network.
Very soon we’ll release our SDK — a JavaScript / TypeScript implementation of Lava’s Protocol, that empowers developers with plug & play integration of multi-chain RPC, by adding a simple js library to their code!
📚 Check out our Docs to starting building!
🌐 Decentralized RPC means reliable, secure and open-source support for any chain or API
Many assume that decentralization = worse performance, due to the high coordination needed to reach consensus. However, in the context of blockchain APIs, decentralization is actually the best way to achieve maximum performance, reliability and accuracy.
Apps that are using Lava, gain access to a network of top-tier RPC providers, each directly incentivized to give the best quality of service all around.
Lava’s decentralized design gives it many advantages over centralized providers:
Connect to many providers = High uptime — Clients pair with a list of Providers and score them across latency, freshness and availability in a peer to peer system which determines Provider rewards. Providers are rewarded according to their QoS per session, meaning your users get the best experience possible, without downtime.
Specifications that can support any chain, any API — With Lava as your provider, you can change your configuration to access any chain and any API currently served by the network. The DAO and contributors can quickly implement new network support using the open-source code, so developers don’t need to spend time searching for new providers which support their needs. All the RPC you need, through one open-source protocol.
Network redundacy for scaling with traffic surges— Applications interact with a list of Providers, which maximizes uptime and service coverage. Chains are also able to quickly bootstrap their RPC nodes by creating a new specification on Lava Network for Providers to onboard and offer service
Consensus-based Data Accuracy — Clients uses a threshold-based algorithm, without charge, to sample API endpoints and probabilistically minimize response conflicts. Consensus is created around the data on-chain, with plans for light clients in the future to further remove trust assumptions. Developers don’t need to worry about stale or inaccurate data.
Check out our Litepaper to learn more!
🌋 About Lava
Lava Network is a decentralized network of top-tier API providers that developers can subscribe to for access to any blockchain. Providers are rewarded for their quality of service, meaning your app and users get maximum speed, data integrity and uptime. Pairings are simultaneously made to multiple providers, meaning anyone can query or send transactions on-chain in private.
We help developers build web3-native apps on any chain, while giving users the best possible experience.
You can follow all the Lava related news on our Twitter and Discord. You can also read Lava’s Litepaper on our website.
