Alchemy

Alchemy is a full-stack Web3 development platform that provides the infrastructure, data, and tooling developers need to build and scale blockchain applications without dealing with low-level node management or protocol complexity. Positioned as “the complete blockchain developer platform,” it powers a large share of leading crypto apps globally, emphasizing reliability, performance, and enterprise-grade support for fintechs, DeFi protocols, consumer dApps, and institutional use cases. The platform is built around Cortex, its intelligent blockchain engine, which underpins all services and is designed to deliver significantly higher throughput and reliability than competing providers, allowing teams to focus on product rather than infrastructure firefighting. ​ Alchemy offers high-availability blockchain infrastructure with 99.99% uptime, giving developers real-time, “block-perfect” access to on-chain data through Node RPC APIs across supported networks. This infrastructure abstracts away node operations, scaling, and failover so applications can handle surges in traffic and transaction volume—such as ETF inflows on Solana—without downtime. The same infrastructure powers rollup services that let teams launch custom chains, giving them control over throughput, fees, and execution environment while still benefiting from Alchemy’s managed operations and observability. This combination makes Alchemy attractive for projects that need both agility and strong reliability guarantees as they grow to millions of users or complex institutional demands. ​ Alchemy provides a wallet stack that allows teams to embed secure crypto wallets directly into their apps using either custodial or non-custodial models. Embedded wallets are designed to be user-controlled, fitting consumer and self-custody scenarios, while server wallets are developer-controlled, enabling programmable treasury, automated payouts, and enterprise workflows. By offering these as APIs and SDKs, Alchemy reduces the heavy lifting involved in key management, signing, and security, while still giving teams flexibility in how they design user experiences and compliance boundaries. This wallet layer is tightly integrated with the rest of the platform so that transactions, balances, and activity can be orchestrated and monitored at scale. ​ Alchemy’s orchestration capabilities focus on making on-chain money movement fast, seamless, and user-friendly, particularly by minimizing friction around gas and approvals. Gasless transaction tooling lets developers sponsor gas fees for users, enabling experiences where people can swap, mint, or stake without worrying about holding native tokens to pay for network fees. The platform also supports stablecoin-based payment orchestration and DeFi operations, such as swapping, earning yield, and staking, which helps apps bundle complex multi-step sequences into simple flows for end-users. These orchestration features are especially valuable for fintechs and consumer products that want to hide blockchain complexity behind familiar payment and onboarding patterns.

Alchemy’s competitive edge comes from combining extremely high-performance blockchain infrastructure with a broad, integrated developer platform that reduces complexity across the full Web3 stack. While many RPC providers only expose basic node access, Alchemy wraps intelligent infrastructure, data services, wallets, rollups, and orchestration into a single, Cortex-powered platform that is optimized for scale, reliability, and developer productivity. This makes it attractive not just for indie dApps, but for major fintechs, exchanges, and institutions that need predictable performance and uptime under heavy, volatile loads. ​ A core differentiator is the Cortex engine, which underpins all of Alchemy’s products—RPC APIs, data APIs, gasless transactions, and rollups—and is engineered to deliver sub‑50 ms global latency, 100K+ transactions per second, and multi‑nine reliability. Cortex relies on globally deployed bare‑metal servers, AI‑driven autoscaling, locality‑aware routing, and advanced observability to maintain performance even during extreme market events, which Alchemy highlights in case studies around major liquidation events and ETF‑driven traffic spikes. Benchmarks and provider comparisons emphasize that Alchemy’s uptime (around 99.995%) and data consistency are significantly higher than those of typical competitors, which directly translates into fewer failed user actions and better UX for on-chain applications. ​ Another advantage is the breadth and depth of tooling layered on top of infrastructure. Alchemy offers smart wallets, gas sponsorship, DeFi orchestration, webhooks, portfolio and token APIs, rollups‑as‑a‑service, and rich debugging tools, allowing teams to solve user experience, data, and scalability challenges without stitching together many vendors. External analyses compare Alchemy to an “AWS of crypto,” noting that its multi‑chain coverage (Ethereum, L2s, Solana, and more) plus advanced APIs make it easier to build sophisticated products quickly while relying on a single backbone. Enterprise offerings like SSO, KMS integrations, and 24/7 support further strengthen its position with regulated institutions and high‑value, always‑on workloads that demand strong SLAs and security guarantees.

• Small Businesses (1-99)
• Mid Market (100-500)
• Enterprise (500+)