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 Public RPC Available
- Solana Private RPC (by invitation, currently in testing)
Zcash public RPC
Our public Zcash RPC is a fleet of self-hosted lightwalletd relays in the European Economic Area, North America and Asia-Pacific, compatible with standard Zcash light wallets. Some endpoints are load-balanced across several servers; others run on a single server. Provided as-is and as-available.
More networks coming soon… Stay tuned
All RPC clusters are monitored 24/7 with real-time metrics and low latency routing through our global server network; our load-balanced endpoints add redundancy across multiple servers.
Why Choose Stardust RPC?
- High Performance & Low Latency
Bare-metal infrastructure with optimised networking delivers sub-second response times and consistent access at peak load.
- Enterprise Reliability
Continuous monitoring across all endpoints, with redundant architecture and automated failover on our load-balanced endpoints, delivers high uptime and fault tolerance. Live availability and response times are published on our status page.
- Multi-Chain Expertise
We operate validators across NEAR, Sui, Solana, Monad, Oasis, Walrus, etc, giving us hands-on experience in protocol performance, upgrade cycles, and network-level tuning.
- Custom Integrations
From load-balanced endpoints to private clusters, we build custom RPC setups for enterprise and research partners.
- Self-hosted & Transparent
Direct access to self-hosted infrastructure — no resold or white-labelled RPC and no third-party node providers. You connect to nodes operated by Stardust Staking on the public, decentralised networks they serve. Some endpoints sit behind a CDN that terminates TLS and provides DDoS protection; see our Privacy Policy for what that means for connection metadata.
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, with performance dashboards. Service terms for dedicated clusters are agreed individually in writing. Public endpoints are free, provided as is, and carry no service level agreement.
Please reach us at [email protected] to request access or discuss custom RPC solutions.
Legal Disclaimer
Everything above this line describes our services; everything below it is a legal statement and applies to all use of our public RPC endpoints.
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.
Please note:
- The RPC infrastructure is intended primarily for read-only data access and does not offer custody, signing, or transaction-verification services. Any transaction you submit is one you have constructed and signed yourself, on your own device; Stardust Staking does not sign, assess, or endorse it.
- All data accessed via the RPC is provided without guarantees regarding accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
Our public RPC endpoints are free services, provided as is and as available, without warranty, and we may change, suspend or withdraw them at any time. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses arising from their use, including transaction failures, downtime, rate limits or inaccurate data. This does not limit our liability for intentional misconduct, gross negligence, or death or personal injury, or any right you have under consumer or data-protection law that cannot be excluded.
Privacy-preserving networks (Zcash)
Our public Zcash endpoints are free, non-custodial lightwalletd relays. Wallets construct and sign transactions on the user’s device; our servers provide blockchain data and relay already-signed transactions. We do not hold users’ funds or the private keys controlling them.
Without the relevant keys, our relay cannot decrypt shielded payment details. Transparent transaction components are public on the Zcash blockchain.
To answer requests and protect the service, we process connection information and request contents, which can include transparent-address queries and submitted transactions. Some of our endpoints are served through Cloudflare, which terminates TLS and processes requests and connection data; the others are served directly by our servers. Assume that either may apply to the endpoint you use.
As with any light-wallet server, the requests your wallet sends are visible to us, and to Cloudflare on the endpoints it serves. The address you connect from reaches Cloudflare on those endpoints, where the address that connects to our servers is Cloudflare’s; on the endpoints we serve directly, it reaches our servers. We do not keep a routine log of either: request logging is switched off on our Zcash servers. The exceptions are security and diagnostic records: error logs of failed connections and firewall records of blocked packets.
See our Privacy Policy for processing, logging, retention and provider information.
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.
Zcash wallets are products of their respective developers. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any wallet developer, 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. Stardust Staking exercises no control over the transactions users construct and broadcast and does not verify, endorse or monitor them. The liability provision in this disclaimer applies to these endpoints. Nothing here is legal, tax or financial advice.