Introduction

Building reliable blockchain infrastructure is a notoriously hard problem. As a result, most blockchain companies don’t run their own infrastructure, instead choosing to outsource it to a third-party. chaind makes deploying your own infrastructure simpler and cheaper by acting as a proxy between the Internet and your blockchain nodes. Out of the box, chaind provides the following features:

• Automatic failover to any blockchain node with an open RPC endpoint
• Intelligent request caching that takes chain reorgs into account
• RPC-aware request logging

Getting started

The simplest way to get started with chaind is to install one of our pre-built packages using your OS’s package manager. For more information, head on over to Installation and Configuration.

History of chaind

chaind began in late 2018 as as an internal project at Kyokan. Since then, chaind has served millions of RPC request on low-cost hardware.

Contents:

• Installation
  • From Package
  • From Source
  • Next Steps
• Configuration
  • Configuration file
  • Backend configuration
  • Server configuration