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.