What Is GetBlock? A Guide to the Node Provider Behind Wallets, Exchanges, and Swaps

Every crypto wallet, block explorer, trading bot, and swap service has one thing in common: it needs to constantly read from and write to the blockchain. Most of them don’t run that machinery themselves. They rent it from a blockchain node provider, and GetBlock is one of the larger names in that category.

For anyone searching “what is GetBlock”, “GetBlock RPC” or “GetBlock node provider”, this guide explains what the company does, how its infrastructure is built, what it offers beyond plain node access, and where it has trade-offs. It also covers why a self-custodial swap aggregator like SimpleSwap cares about this layer at all.

A note on where this article comes from: GetBlock is a SimpleSwap content partner. The product facts below were supplied by GetBlock and checked against its public documentation as of September 2026. The assessment is ours.

What Is GetBlock?

GetBlock (getblock.io) is a Web3 infrastructure platform headquartered in Singapore and operated by GetBlock Pte. Ltd. It was founded in 2019 as an RPC node provider, meaning a company that runs blockchain nodes and sells access to them through an API.

Since then, the catalog has widened. Today, one GetBlock account covers node access on 130+ networks, real-time and historical data feeds, on-chain risk screening, TRON energy rental, NEAR staking and an AI gateway. The company reports more than 200,000 registered customers and over 50 billion API requests a month, served from clusters in Frankfurt, New York and Singapore.

The CEO since April 2025 is Vasily Rudomanov, who joined as Chief Product Officer in 2024 after a career in cloud storage and infrastructure at Acronis and in Solana developer tooling. Under his tenure, the network count roughly doubled, and the company completed its SOC 2 Type II attestation in June 2026.

What a Node Provider Actually Does

A blockchain node is a computer running the software of a given network, holding a copy of the ledger and staying in sync with every new block. To check a wallet’s balance, list its transactions, or broadcast a signed transfer, an application must communicate with a node. The standard way to do that is via RPC (remote procedure calls) over the internet.

Running one node for one chain is a weekend project. Running synced, monitored nodes for fifty chains, including archive nodes that keep the full history rather than just recent state, is a dedicated infrastructure team with hardware in several regions. Most product teams would rather build the wallet than babysit the servers.

That is the gap node providers fill. You get an endpoint URL and an access token, point your application at it, and the node calls are answered from the provider’s clusters. The trade-off is the same one that exists everywhere in software: you save the engineering and accept a dependency. If the provider’s node lags, your users see stale balances and “pending” transactions that have already confirmed on-chain.

For a deeper primer on how chains and nodes fit together, see our guide to blockchain technology.

GetBlock’s Infrastructure

Networks and interfaces

GetBlock runs full and archive nodes for 130+ blockchains, mainnet and testnet, covering EVM chains such as Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Base, Arbitrum and Polygon, and non-EVM networks including Bitcoin, Solana, TRON, Sui and NEAR. Access is available through five interfaces: JSON-RPC, REST, WebSocket, GraphQL and gRPC. In practice, that means a Bitcoin wallet, an Ethereum dApp, and a Solana trading bot can all use the same account.

Footprint

The company reports 1,000+ servers across three regions, with inter-region latency under 50ms. Multi-region matters more than it sounds: a wallet user in Jakarta and one in Berlin should both see a new block quickly, and a single-region provider can only be close to one of them.

Node tiers

GetBlock structures access in tiers that a team can move between without changing vendors:

Shared nodes are multi-tenant endpoints pooled across customers. There is a free plan for prototyping and paid plans that scale with usage, measured in Compute Units (a weighting that charges heavier RPC methods more) and requests per second.

Limitless nodes, introduced in 2026, remove the usage cap and instead sell a fixed requests-per-second ceiling. This suits teams whose problem is concurrency rather than raw volume.

Dedicated nodes are single-tenant machines reserved for one customer, with no throttling and a 99.99% uptime SLA.

On-premises clusters run inside a client’s own data center, for banks and payment firms that cannot let chain data leave their perimeter. A Confidential RPC option uses trusted execution environments to shield request contents from the provider itself.

Pricing is public and self-serve on the lower tiers, with contract billing for enterprise accounts, payable in crypto if required.

Beyond RPC: Data, Risk Screening, Payments and AI

Data streams

Instead of polling a node every second and paying for each ask, an application can subscribe to real-time streams and receive events as they happen. GetBlock offers EVM event streams over WebSocket, a Solana trading stack with sub-slot streaming and Solana shreds streams at sub-30ms median latency, and historical data streams for backtesting and compliance work.

Risk and compliance APIs

This part of the catalog overlaps with topics we cover in our Know the Scam series. GetBlock sells address screening (Crypto AML, Wallet Risk Check, Full Wallet Audit) and contract screening (Rug Pull Checks, Smart Contract Checks). The contract checks look for the traps we described in our honeypot guide: sell restrictions, modifiable taxes, mint rights, blacklists, unlocked liquidity, and upgradeable proxies.

What these APIs do is automate a check a careful user would run by hand. A wallet that integrates them can warn the user before they sign. What they cannot do is certify a token as safe. A clean result means no known pattern was found at that moment, and a proxy upgrade can change the answer minutes later. That limit applies to every scanner on the market.

TRON energy and NEAR staking

On TRON, sending USDT costs energy, a network resource that applications normally obtain by freezing TRX. GetBlock rents energy out, so a payment app can process TRC-20 transfers without holding large TRX balances. If the TRON resource model is new to you, our TRON and TRC-20 explainer covers it. GetBlock also operates NEAR validators and offers staking for that ecosystem.

GetBlock AI

The newest product routes requests to multiple AI model providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, billed from the same balance as the nodes, with per-request logging of provider, latency, and fallbacks. It is aimed at teams building on-chain agents. It launched in 2026, so there is little track record to assess yet.

Who Uses GetBlock

The company’s stated customers include Coinbase, Arkham, Trust Wallet, Tangem, Blockaid, and CoinGate. Two cases illustrate the range. CoinGate, an EU-licensed crypto payment processor, runs 100M+ monthly requests across 13 chains in a single GetBlock cluster. Blockaid runs custom node software on GetBlock at sub-7ms latency for a transaction security layer used by several major self-custody wallets.

Tangem also appears on SimpleSwap’s partner list: the Tangem Express swap feature inside the Tangem cold wallet runs on the SimpleSwap engine. That overlap is a small illustration of how the stack fits together. A hardware wallet reads the chain via a node provider, executes swaps via an aggregator, and presents a single interface to the user.

Strengths

Breadth on one account. For a multi-chain product, having Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and TRON behind one login and one invoice is a practical advantage over juggling specialist providers per chain.

A tier for every stage. A team can start on the free plan and end up on dedicated hardware or an on-premises cluster without migrating vendors.

Enterprise paperwork. SOC 2 Type II (completed June 2026), GDPR-compliant data handling, and service terms aligned with DORA for European financial clients. For a regulated buyer, these documents are often the difference between a provider being usable and not.

Independent measurement. GetBlock publishes latency results measured by CompareNodes from 27 locations rather than from its own dashboards. The numbers are dated and point-in-time, as all benchmarks are, but the method is the right one.

Public pricing. Prices for shared, Limitless and dedicated tiers are on the website. Not every infrastructure vendor does that.

Trade-Offs to Know About

None of these is a flaw in the ordinary sense. Each is a design choice that suits some buyers better than others.

Generalist rather than specialist. Covering 130+ chains means GetBlock competes on some networks with providers who do only that chain. For a team building exclusively on Solana, a Solana-only vendor may go deeper on ecosystem-specific tooling. For a multi-chain team, the breadth is exactly the point.

Usage-based pricing needs modelling. Compute Units charge different RPC methods differently, and archive calls cost more than recent-state calls. A team that knows its call mix can size a plan precisely; a team that doesn’t will over- or under-buy at first. The Limitless tier exists partly to sidestep that arithmetic.

Some assurances are still in progress or under NDA. The SOC 2 report is available only under NDA, and ISO 27001 certification was still at the audit stage in September 2026. Standard for the industry, but worth knowing before a procurement conversation.

Not a consumer product. If your contact with crypto is a wallet and a swap, GetBlock sits two layers below you. You benefit from it only through the products built on top.

Where GetBlock Meets SimpleSwap

SimpleSwap is a self-custodial multi-source swap aggregator: funds move from a wallet the user owns to a wallet the user owns, with the conversion routed across 20+ liquidity sources. That flow depends on node infrastructure at four points the user never sees: detecting the deposit, counting confirmations before a route is released, broadcasting the outgoing transaction, and validating that an address matches the selected network.

When a node lags at any of those points, the user’s transaction is already on-chain while the status page still says “waiting for deposit”. The user blames the swap service, and from the user’s side that is fair. This is why the properties covered above, regional footprint, WebSocket freshness, an SLA with a number in it, matter to a swap aggregator as much as to a wallet.

GetBlock and SimpleSwap are content partners. This article is not a statement about which infrastructure providers SimpleSwap uses; we do not comment publicly on our own vendors.

Round-Up

GetBlock is a Singapore-based infrastructure company that started in 2019 by renting out blockchain node access and has grown into a one-account platform for node access, data streams, risk screening, and adjacent services across 130+ networks. Its strengths are breadth, a tier structure that scales from free to on-premises, and the compliance documentation regulated buyers ask for. Its trade-offs are the ones that come with being a generalist and with usage-based pricing.

For most readers of this blog, GetBlock will remain invisible, the way plumbing is. The wallets, explorers, and swap services you use every day are the visible layer. Companies like GetBlock are why that layer knows what the chain is doing.