Information Map

This section aims at navigating your ship fast and easy through the vast ocean of our docs. Here you can find the sections we have and the info they contain.

Node API

• Getting Started
  Basics on Web3 API platform functionality; intro into UI; common user actions (signing in, depositing funds, using endpoints); creation of business-specific accounts, using multiple projects, and performing duties under different access rights.
• Overview
  Basics on what a Web3 API platform is, its architecture, technologies, and user-service interaction safeguards.
• Service Plans
  Service plans available to empower your Web3 projects with blockchain interaction capabilities, along with their feature list, rate limits, and charging models.
• Pricing
  Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) / Deal models definition and pricing per request info.
• Supported Chains
  The list of chains we can empower your project to interact with along with the API Reference docs for those chains.

Agentic RPC

• Overview
  What Ankr offers software that reads chains without a human in the loop, and which of the three pieces you need.
• Quickstart
  From an API key to a decoded on-chain answer: install the MCP server in Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code, and read a real transaction.
• Agent RPC MCP
  The hosted data plane: seventeen read-only tools, the compression contract, and the guarantee that nothing here can sign or broadcast.
• TORPC
  The open protocol underneath: one request header for ABI-decoded, token-efficient JSON-RPC, specified under CC0 so anyone may implement it.
• Troubleshooting
  Connection, key, method and compression failures, with the error each one produces.

Verifiable RPC

• Overview
  Cryptographically signed RPC responses, each carrying proof of the enclave-run node that produced it.
• Quickstart
  The one-line swap for ethers and viem.
• What is verified
  The exact guarantees, and their limits.

Advanced API

• Overview
  Advanced API basics; chains and methods supported; pricing per methods.
• Pricing
  Advanced API charging model and pricing per method.
• Full API Reference
  Advanced API Reference docs with dynamic request/response samples.
• Ankr.js SDK
  Docs on a JavaScript library for interaction with Advanced API.
• Ankr.py SDK
  Docs on a Python library for interaction with Advanced API.
• Ankr React Hooks
  React Hooks for fetching data from Advanced API.
• Quickstart Guide
  Basic tutorials for Advanced API interaction.

Blockchain Node Snapshots

• Blockchain Node Snapshots
  Node Snapshots used in nodes syncing by our Infrastructure engineering teams.

Contract Automation

• Overview
  Contract automation basics; types of triggers; supported networks.
• Time-based Automation
  Automate calls to a contract on a custom schedule.
• Custom Logic Automation
  Automate calls to a contract on an event of your choice.
• Manage Automation Tasks
  Manage your automation tasks from a single dashboard.

Tutorials

• Basic Tutorials
  Basic tutorials to start learning when new to Web3.
• Smart Contract Development
  Step-by-step instructions on how to create and deploy smart contracts.
• Advanced Tutorials
  Advanced tutorials for building complex dApps.

Scaling Services

• Overview
  Ankr Scaling Services basics; what they are, rollup stacks, the data availability and interoperability layers supported.
• Rollups
  A RaaS service to configure and deploy your own rollup.
• Sidechains
  A SaaS service to create your own fast and reliable network.

Staking

• For Developers
  Staking implementation details, smart contract and RESTful API, SDK reference, price and APR oracles, flash loans, and referral program.
• Delegated Staking
  Delegated staking how-tos; ANKR and GNO stake, unstake, FAQ, general information.
• Liquid Staking
  Liquid staking how-tos; AVAX, BNB, DOT, ETH, FTM, KSM, POL stake, unstake, FAQ, general information, audit reports.
• Liquid Crowdloan
  Liquid Crowdloan basics; general information.
• DeFi
  Ankr DeFi basics; Liquidity Pools, Yield Farming, Vaults, how to use them.
• Bridge
  Bridge basics; general information, how to bridge tokens between networks.
• Switch
  Switch basics; general information, how to switch one Liquid Staking Token for another.
• Extra
  Extra information; list of all audit reports, technical service fees, validators, smart contract addresses, compatible wallets, specific fixes, types of Liquid Staking Tokens, ANKR tokenomics and governance.

Support

• Request Support
  Open a ticket and request support for your problem; we will find a solution to resolve it.
• Knowledge Base
  Knowledge base with questions and answers to some topics not covered by this documentation.