Stardust RPC Services

Reliable, high-performance blockchain access by Stardust Staking

Overview

At Stardust Staking, we believe that reliable infrastructure is the foundation of every great blockchain project. Our RPC services deliver fast, scalable, and secure connectivity to leading blockchain networks, enabling builders, validators, and data providers to interact with the blockchains seamlessly.

Our infrastructure powers validators, explorers, and dApps across multiple ecosystems — all backed by enterprise-grade uptime and self-hosted, transparent operations.

Supported Networks

  • NEAR Mainnet Permissioned RPC (by invitation)
  • ZCASH (Zodl) Public RPC Available
  • Solana Private RPC (by invitation, currently in testing)

More networks coming soon… Stay tuned

All RPC clusters are monitored 24/7 with real-time metrics, redundancy, and low latency routing through our global server network.

Why Choose Stardust RPC?

  1. High Performance & Low Latency

Bare-metal infrastructure with optimised networking delivers sub-second response times and consistent access at peak load.

  1. Enterprise Reliability

Redundant architecture, continuous monitoring, and automated failover deliver high uptime and fault tolerance.

  1. Multi-Chain Expertise

We operate validators across NEAR, Sui, Solana, Monad, Waterfall, Oasis, Walrus, etc, giving us hands-on experience in protocol performance, upgrade cycles, and network-level tuning.

  1. Custom Integrations

From load-balanced endpoints to private clusters, we build custom RPC setups for enterprise and research partners.

  1. Self-hosted & Transparent

Direct access to self-hosted infrastructure — no opaque proxying or third-party intermediaries. You connect directly to nodes operated by Stardust Staking on the public, decentralised networks they serve.

Technical Highlights

  • HTTPS & WebSocket endpoints
  • Geo-balanced load distribution
  • Prometheus-based monitoring
  • Optional authentication (API key)
  • Versioned endpoints for long-term stability
  • Compatible with CLI, SDKs, and RPC tooling

Use Cases

  • Wallets, explorers, and dApps
  • Indexers & data aggregators
  • Validator monitoring & MEV analytics
  • Research and infrastructure testing
  • Private RPC gateways for institutional access

Private & Dedicated Access

Need guaranteed throughput or custom configuration? We provide dedicated RPC clusters for partners building on NEAR, Solana, Walrus, IKA, etc, and upcoming Layer-1 networks - complete with uptime SLAs and performance dashboards.

Please reach us at [email protected] to request access or discuss custom RPC solutions.

Stardust Staking is a non-custodial validator infrastructure provider. We do not custody crypto-assets, sign transactions, or transfer funds on behalf of users. For our site-wide regulatory and risk statements, including positioning under Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA), see our Legal & Disclaimer page. For information on what request metadata we log when you use these RPC endpoints, see our Privacy Policy.

Stardust Staking provides public RPC endpoints strictly on an as-is and as-available basis. These endpoints are intended primarily for read-only access to blockchain data. While users may submit their own transactions through the RPC, Stardust Staking does not modify, intercept, or validate the intent of any user-submitted operations.

By using these services, you acknowledge and agree that:

  • The RPC infrastructure is read-only by design and does not offer custody, signing, or transaction-verification services.
  • All data accessed via the RPC is provided without guarantees regarding accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
  • Stardust Staking assumes no responsibility for transaction failures, network conditions, downtime, rate limits, data issues, or any financial or operational losses arising from the use of the service.
  • Usage of the RPC endpoints is entirely at your own risk, and no warranties - express or implied - are provided.

Stardust Staking accepts no liability, direct or indirect, for any damages, losses, or consequences resulting from reliance on these public RPC services.

Privacy-preserving networks (Zcash)

Our Zcash endpoint is a self-hosted lightwalletd relay, compatible with Zcash light wallets including Zodl (formerly Zashi). It is non-custodial infrastructure: wallets build and sign transactions on the user’s own device, and our server serves block data and address-index queries and relays already-signed transactions to the Zcash network. We never hold private keys or funds, and we cannot read the contents — amounts, recipients or memos — of shielded (z-address) transactions. Transparent (t-address) transactions are public on the Zcash blockchain by design.

Access logging is disabled on this endpoint, and lightwalletd, in the configuration we run, records no client identifier of any kind. We keep no per-request record of your wallet’s activity: no request contents, no wallet or Zcash address, no user agent and no timing. Three qualifications, so that the statement above is complete: some of our endpoints are served through Cloudflare, which terminates TLS and processes connection metadata including client IP addresses under its own privacy policy; diagnostic error logs may briefly capture the address of a connection that fails, and are kept for at most 14 days; and our firewall records the source address of blocked packets as a security measure, also for at most 14 days. Our operational metrics are aggregate service counters together with public peer-to-peer network telemetry, and are not linked to any Zcash address, wallet or user identity. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Operating this relay is not a regulated crypto-asset service. Stardust Staking is not a Crypto-Asset Service Provider under Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA): we provide no custody, no exchange, no order execution and no transfer service on behalf of clients. Running a node that merely validates, confirms or propagates transactions is outside MiCA’s crypto-asset service definitions — a transfer service “should not include the validators, nodes or miners that might be part of confirming a transaction and updating the state of the underlying distributed ledger” (Recital 93; see also Recital 22 on services provided in a fully decentralised manner without any intermediary).

For the same reason, the Transfer of Funds Regulation (EU) 2023/1113, which applies to crypto-asset service providers and payment service providers, does not apply to this relay. The Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, which applies from 10 July 2027, will likewise not apply to it: the prohibition on anonymous crypto-asset accounts in its Article 79 binds obliged entities — credit institutions, financial institutions and crypto-asset service providers — and the Regulation’s recitals confirm that the prohibition “does not apply to providers of hardware and software or providers of self-hosted wallets insofar as they do not possess access to or control over those crypto-asset wallets” (Recital 160). Our full regulatory positioning is set out on our Legal & Disclaimer page.

Zodl and Zashi are products of their respective developers. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of them, the Zcash Open Development Lab, the Electric Coin Company or the Zcash Foundation, and we do not publish wallet software.

You are solely responsible for your own use of Zcash and for compliance with the laws and reporting obligations that apply to you. This endpoint is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranty of any kind, and we may change, suspend or withdraw it at any time. Stardust Staking exercises no control over the transactions users construct and broadcast and does not verify, endorse or monitor them. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Stardust Staking accepts no liability for any loss arising from use of this endpoint or of the Zcash network. Nothing in this notice excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Nothing here is legal, tax or financial advice.