Tag: infrastructure

Ethereum gets privacy on two fronts in 2026: validator anonymity via Vitalik’s Lean Chain, and confidential EVMs like Oasis Sapphire. Different problems, different users.

Chainstack now supports Arc testnet — Circle’s Layer 1 for stablecoin finance. Deploy Global or Dedicated nodes in under two minutes, with debug and trace enabled.

Robinhood Chain deep dive: Arbitrum Orbit L2 for tokenized stocks and RWAs. Architecture, Chainstack node access, ~100ms blocks, ERC-4337, and use cases for builders.

Self-hosting blockchain nodes changed. Most engineers didn’t notice. Five myths from 2021 that still shape infrastructure decisions — checked against the data.

Base is #1 by daily stablecoin volume and hosts most x402 agent traffic. When to run your own Base node — and how Chainstack Self-Hosted makes it a deploy.

Every year someone publishes another “Top 50 Blockchain Leaders” list. This isn’t that list — 20 Web3 builders who wrote the code you use every day.