When it comes to Web3 development, reliable infrastructure is everything. It’s what ensures lightning-fast transactions, real-time data access, and the seamless user experiences it takes to move from buggy new tech to the new rails of finance and online interactions. That’s why the partnership between Ankr and Zapper matters so much for the builders shaping the decentralized future.

This article dives into how Ankr's world-class node infrastructure powers Zapper’s developer APIs,  and how you can take advantage of this powerful combination to build faster, smarter, and more more efficiently.

Zapper: The Dev-First Operating System for On-Chain Data

Zapper has earned its place as one of the most powerful Web3 developer tools by abstracting the complexity of blockchain infrastructure into modular APIs and SDKs. At its heart is the Zapper API: a permissionless data layer that gives developers structured, composable access to the entire on-chain stack.

With Zapper, developers can build:

• Wallets
• Portfolio trackers
• NFT marketplaces
• Analytics dashboards
• Agent-based apps
• DeFi platforms and more

All without having to spin up and maintain their own RPC infrastructure. Instead of wrestling with multiple blockchains’ native quirks, Zapper gives devs one uniform interface for:

🔹 Tracking assets across chains and protocols

🔹 Minting NFTs with simplified endpoints

🔹 Executing swaps with real-time market data

🔹 Deploying LPs directly from app UIs

In other words, Zapper turns the chaos of on-chain interaction into clean, composable building blocks for modern applications.

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Developer Use Cases: What You Can Do Today

Zapper’s API and SDK, backed by Ankr, give you the tools to build full-featured apps with minimal lift. You can:

• Surface Portfolio Data: Let users see their entire cross-chain holdings.
• Query On-Chain Positions: Access live and historical token balances, LP positions, staking info, and more.
• Track Token Prices: Integrated market data helps you display real-time and historical prices.
• Get Complete NFT Coverage: Surface ownership, traits, floor prices, and activity from all major NFT marketplaces.

Whether you're building a personal wallet, DeFi dashboard, or NFT analytics engine, Zapper makes it easy, and Ankr ensures it's fast and reliable.

How Ankr Powers Zapper’s API Layer

Behind the scenes, Zapper relies on Ankr’s high-performance node infrastructure to deliver the fastest and most reliable blockchain data available.

Here’s what makes Ankr’s RPC support for Zapper so effective:

• Bare-Metal Global Node Network

  Ankr operates blockchain nodes on custom-built, bare-metal servers optimized for speed and scalability.

• Private Fiber Network

  Ankr’s global fiber backbone reduces latency and ensures high throughput, critical for real-time on-chain data access.

• Blockchain-Native Load Balancer

  A bespoke routing system smartly distributes traffic across multiple endpoints for unmatched reliability and performance.

This means every API call made to Zapper’s endpoints is backed by Ankr’s enterprise-grade blockchain connectivity, giving developers the assurance that their apps will perform at scale.

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Why Developers Win with Zapper + Ankr

Here’s why developers love building with Zapper, supercharged by Ankr:

• Much Faster Building: No need to set up and maintain nodes across dozens of chains. Zapper’s APIs give you instant access to ready-to-use blockchain data, so you can get to market in days instead of months.
• Unmatched Coverage: Zapper supports 50+ blockchains across the Web3 ecosystem. Whether you’re indexing DeFi transactions, NFT collections, or wallet portfolios, one API gives you access to tokens, NFTs, LPs, swaps, and even social graph data.
• Battle-Tested Infrastructure: Zapper’s backend has been running since 2019 and has helped power some of the most trusted tools in Web3. With Ankr’s infrastructure as the backbone, this system is robust, scalable, and enterprise-ready.

Final Thoughts: Building the Future, Together

Ankr and Zapper share a simple vision: make Web3 infrastructure extremely performant and invisible, and let developers focus on creating. That’s why this partnership works, and why it’s such a win for the builder community. Zapper simplifies Web3. Ankr supercharges it.

If you’re building a blockchain app and you’re tired of managing your own nodes or cobbling together multiple APIs, now’s the time to explore the Zapper API.

If you’re building any protocol or platform like Zapper and need the fastest, most reliable node infrastructure, get started with Ankr.

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