Well, we made it to the finish line of what might be GetBlock's biggest year yet. And honestly, what better way to wrap up 2025 than with a proud look back at everything we crushed this year?

TL;DR

Here are ten of our biggest highlights from 2025:

And that's just scratching the surface! Keep reading for all highlights of 2025 and a sneak peek into what we're cooking up for 2026.

1. Going global

If we had to pick one achievement that defined GetBlock in 2025, it would be this: we became a genuinely global infrastructure provider, bringing our infrastructure to three continents – Europe, North America, and Asia. 

More than this, we made it a user-controlled feature, giving all of our customers a choice over where their infrastructure runs.

It was a year-long execution: 

This was radical. Major RPC providers typically restrict regional customization to premium or enterprise plans or handle geography entirely behind the scenes. We turned it into a standard feature of the GetBlock platform available to all users starting from the free tier. You choose where your traffic goes. 

Why node location matters

If you're using a dApp in Montreal, Canada, and your RPC provider's servers are in Germany, every blockchain query travels halfway around the world, adding hundreds of milliseconds of delay. But if you can connect to servers in New York instead, that drops to around 40 ms. 

For real-time applications like trading bots, DEX interfaces, or blockchain games, that difference is massive.

2. Latency wins: turning global reach into real-world speed

By making regional infrastructure available, GetBlock turned geography into one of the biggest performance multipliers on the platform.

Throughout 2025, independent benchmarks confirmed measurable reductions in latency across multiple blockchains: 

Don’t take our word for it; check the independent benchmarks on CompareNodes.

Core infra optimizations

Beyond expanding regionally, we improved our core architecture to make every request faster.

First, we migrated nodes to high-performance servers in top-tier data centers, with improved failover protection and higher-capacity network connectivity.

Next, by caching user configurations in memory, access token authorization checks happen almost instantly, and by making our internal accounting asynchronous, requests reach blockchain nodes immediately. Together, these changes cut average latency by about 50 ms across all services.

3. RPC service upgrades

We shipped several upgrades to how GetBlock RPC works day to day – expanding access to archive data, adding flexibility to Dedicated Nodes, and raising throughput limits across Shared plans.

Archive data on Shared Nodes

Since October 2025, GetBlock’s Shared Node endpoints support archive data queries.  

Previously, if you needed access to historical blockchain data, you had to order GetBlock's premium Dedicated Node service. Now, this functionality is available on Shared Node subscription plans, which start at only $39/month. 

To enable, toggle "Archive mode" when creating a new endpoint in your GetBlock dashboard. There’s no extra subscription fee for this. Just note that since historical queries are more resource-intensive, Archive RPC calls consume more Compute Unit (CU), as shown in our CU costs table. 

We first launched access to archive RPC calls on core networks such as Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Cardano, and now progressively enabling it across our RPC nodes list. The feature is also becoming standard for most new blockchains added to GetBlock. Check the availability in your dashboard. 

New Shared Nodes plan

Remember hitting Starter plan limits but not being ready for Pro (which is a 12x capacity jump from Starter)? We heard that a lot. In August, we launched Advanced – a new Shared Node plan that finally filled the gap between entry-level and enterprise-scale infrastructure.

Advanced landed with 220M Compute Units, 100 RPS (bumped to 300 RPS in November), and 25 Access Tokens. That's over 4x more capacity than Starter with 50M CUs and only 40% of Pro plan's cost. 

Tiered Dedicated Nodes

In 2025, we packaged our Dedicated Node services into two tiers – High and Standard. The tiers differ by performance profile and pricing.

The High tier targets use cases needing absolute maximum throughput and reliability. Projects with solid but less extreme requirements can opt for Standard and reduce infrastructure costs by roughly 40%. 

Instead of defaulting to a single, maximum-spec Dedicated Node configuration, GetBlock now matches hardware allocation to different performance needs.

RPS limits 4x'd

In November 2025, we increased default RPS (requests per second) limits across Shared Node plans without changing prices. 

Our lower-tier plans, Free and Starter, got the biggest increase (up to 4x) and now support more realistic workloads. Pro reached 500 RPS, but it’s not yet the limit – Enterprise plan stays fully configurable, so users can request even higher throughput as needed. 

Users across all plans tell us the difference is real: fewer timeouts and more consistent response times.

4. New tools & integrations

In 2025, we added several tools and partner integrations that extend what you can do with GetBlock RPC. 

bloXroute-powered BNB Chain nodes

If you're running time-sensitive operations on BSC, like trading bots, you now have infrastructure that moves faster than standard RPC. For our Dedicated BSC nodes, we created a specialized setup that connects you directly to bloXroute's BNB Chain BDN. 

Add bloXroute during Dedicated Node provisioning: pick BSC, move to the add-ons step, and enable the bloXroute add-on. Your node gets its own bloXroute Gateway instance deployed in parallel.

Instead of waiting for blocks and transactions to move node-to-node across the public network, bloXroute uses optimized paths through its relay network, reducing propagation time. 

This delivers measurable competitive advantages:

There’s also a limited-time offer worth taking advantage of: Until Feb 1, 2026, you can provision a BSC node with bloXroute and only pay the standard node price. The add-on is included for free during this period.

Advanced Solana tools for trading and low-latency apps

This year, GetBlock invested in understanding and solving the hardest Solana infrastructure problems. More specifically, problems that appear under competition: latency, congestion, competitive execution environments, data completeness and accessibility.

Since Solana is the primary hub for high-frequency crypto activity, these are real pain points for high-frequency trading scenarios, MEV searchers, and institutional operations.

To address this, we developed four specialized tools through partnerships with best-in-class Solana ecosystem teams:

See our Solana documentation for a technical deep dive into these solutions. Details coming in 2026.

MEV-protected RPC endpoints 

In May 2025, we partnered with Merkle to launch MEV‑protected endpoints across our Ethereum, Base, Solana, and BNB Smart Chain RPC node services. 

The protection is automatic, built-in, and ready to use. How it works:

Importantly, it’s not a premium or enterprise-only feature – the MEV protection is included by default in all paid plans. 

Clio API for XRP Ledger

Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, we optimize our infrastructure to match each chain’s specifics. One good example is launching Clio API support for XRP Ledger, giving our RPC users a faster, more efficient way to access XRPL data. We worked directly with Ripple's core engineers to get it right. 

Clio is Ripple's high-performance API server that pulls validated data from trusted rippled servers, indexes it in a much more compact format, and serves API requests significantly faster. It also unlocks specialized RPC methods that standard XRPL nodes don’t support. 

Users can request Clio-powered nodes – both full and archive – through GetBlock's Dedicated Node dashboard. 

GetBlock MCP server

We released an MCP Server, a small open-source service that lets AI tools talk to blockchains through GetBlock using the Model Context Protocol. It's compatible with popular coding assistants like Claude, Cursor, and other AI-powered IDEs. 

Out of the box, GetBlock’s MCP works with Ethereum and Solana and allows several blockchain operations:

If you’re building tools or applications that use AI agents to interact with blockchain data, the MCP Server removes a lot of manual work.

In our GitHub, we published installation steps via Node.js or Docker and examples showing how to connect GetBlock MCP to popular agent frameworks.

5. New Feedback portal: Your voice, our roadmap

GetBlock's Feature Request and Feedback Portal is live since November 2025. It is a platform where the community of our users can submit, vote on, discuss, and track new features. 

We believe the best product ideas come from the developers using our infrastructure every day. Now you can request and track what we're building next.

Check it out at getblock.featurebase.app. Don't hold back: submit the feature you actually want and push us to build it!

6. 40+ new blockchains joined GetBlock this year - an unprecedented scale-up

​​In 2025 GetBlock onboarded 41 new blockchains, bringing together an unusually broad mix of L1s, L2s, and diverse ecosystems where Web3 is actually building right now. 

That number matters not because it’s big, but because it shows the ecosystem’s growth. Many networks crossed from “interesting” to production-relevant for builders in 2025. Better support for new and actively growing markets is what we aim for.  

Just look at the categories of blockchains GetBlock onboarded:

For every chain listed, there’s now a GetBlock endpoint. Dedicated nodes, multi-regional placement, historical access – also wired in.

On a sidenote, this is our largest single-year expansion ever! Shoutout to the GetBlock team: DevOps, SRE, and node engineering moved at a breakneck pace. 

​​See our RPC nodes list to get a full scope of supported chains after these additions. 

Looking back at 2025 for GetBlock

2025 was nothing if not a year of doing the hard, visible work. The single biggest signal? Scale. GetBlock is ready to be the go-to infra for diverse ecosystems and use cases.

In 2026, we’re building on that momentum:

Track our progress in real-time via our Feedback portal.

With 2025 behind us, we wish you a fresh and strong start in 2026. Recharge, reset, and come back ready to build the next wave of Web3 together.

Best regards,

– The GetBlock Team