Hello from the GetBlock team! This past month, we continued broadening, accelerating, and future‑proofing our infrastructure.
In June, we rolled out:
- Much‑awaited multi‑regional Shared infrastructure endpoints
- Our lightweight, open‑source MCP server to power AI agents
- Clio API for XRP Ledger
- Support for more blockchains
- Critical node software updates
This edition of our Dev Update packs a lot! Dive in for details on each launch.
Shared infrastructure is now multi‑regional with EU and US support
We’ve expanded our Shared infrastructure to support multiple regions. When creating a Shared endpoint, you can now pick Frankfurt or New York to serve your traffic. Every access token in the list will show its location tag, so our users always know where their calls land.
We’ve also overhauled the token‑creation flow: as soon as a new token is created, a pop‑up shows the ready‑to‑copy endpoint URL – no more scrolling through the list to find it.
Until now, only Dedicated node users could choose their serving site. Today, our shared infrastructure gets the same benefit. For our users building in Europe or the USA, requests will load faster and more reliably.
As of printing time, shared API endpoints in the US are already handling 25 mln requests per day.
At launch, multi‑regional support covers six major chains in the mainnet: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana, BNB Chain, Base, and Polygon. Support for more networks is on the roadmap.
Which blockchain should we add next? Drop us a hint.
MCP server is live & open-source: Power AI with blockchain data
AI agents are fast becoming part of Web3, and now GetBlock makes it simpler to plug them into multiple blockchains with the release of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
It’s a small, open-source middleware service that listens for standardized JSON-RPC calls coming from an AI agent and returns normalized data to the agent, allowing it to analyze or act on on-chain information.
GetBlock’s MCP works out of the box with Ethereum and Solana. Whatever AI tool you already use – Claude, Cursor, etc. – can now pull live blockchain data through GetBlock’s infrastructure without extra data‑fetching code. Explore the source code, Docker setup, and example configs on our GitHub repo.
New Clio API support for lightning‑fast XRPL access
GetBlock now offers Clio, Ripple’s high‑performance API server, for both full and archive XRP Ledger nodes. Clio integration delivers two major benefits:
It pulls validated data from a dedicated rippled server, indexes it in a compact format (4x smaller storage!), and serves requests significantly faster.
The API also unlocks eight advanced RPC methods that aren’t available on standard XRPL nodes.
Special thanks to Ripple’s own engineers, Florent Uzio & Peter Chen, for their hands‑on support in getting XRPL Clio up and running on GetBlock.
Today, anyone who needs a Clio-powered archive or full XRPL nodes can submit a request on our Contact page. Soon, our Dedicated Nodes subscribers will have access to on‑demand deployment via their dashboard.
Expanding our dedicated nodes support: Ronin, Zora & WorldChain
Following on from our XRPL upgrades, we’ve further broadened our Dedicated Nodes lineup, adding three in‑demand networks to our platform:
- Zora: Ethereum L2, Zora taps into the NFT market and on‑chain marketplaces, giving creators and platforms low‑latency access to mint, bid, and trade data.
- WorldChain: Permissionless Layer-2 blockchain built by Worldcoin is now available via GetBlock.
- Ronin: Complementing our mainnet support, the Ronin testnet now offers reliable RPC endpoints for testing and development in the booming blockchain gaming space (think Axie Infinity).
With these additions, GetBlock is following the developers and users into the fastest‑growing corners of Web3.
As always, reach out to our team if you need setup assistance or have questions about dedicated node deployment.
Node software updates: Sei, BSC & Jito Solana
This month, we shipped three key node software client updates so that our nodes run against the latest protocol implementations:
BSC nodes: The BNB Smart Chain client has been updated to handle the Maxwell upgrade. Maxwell is BNB Chain’s June hard fork that slashes block times from 1.5 s to 0.75 s, upgrades the P2P messaging protocol, and improves sync speed for new or recovering nodes.
Jito-Solana: Jito-Solana v2.2.16 mainnet upgrade ensures full compatibility with Solana’s Agave v2.2.16 update and more reliable performance thanks to stability fixes. It also includes refinements to Jito’s on‑chain auction logic, optimizing how block‐builder bids are gathered, validated, and sequenced.
Sei Pacific-1: Our nodes now support the Pacific 1 mainnet launch, Sei’s first major mainnet upgrade. It pulls in Pacific‑1’s new chain identifier, revised gas limits, and fee calculation logic, plus RPC fixes from earlier releases.
Wrapping up: What’s next on our roadmap
As we turned the page to July, we’re hard at work extending our multi‑regional RPC coverage to more blockchains. Behind the scenes, our engineering team is working on the in‑house implementation of the Data Availability Service (DAS) interface for Solana nodes, adding more straightforward invoicing scheme, and putting the finishing touches on a dedicated Aptos Indexer API to enable faster, reliable access to Aptos data.
We can’t wait to share these tools and see what you build next.
Thanks for being on this journey with us!
Best regards,
The GetBlock Team