Flare Network and Ankr Partner to Enhance Developer Experience with High-Performance RPC Infrastructure

Key Highlights

• Flare Network and Ankr have formed a strategic partnership to enhance the experience of developers on the Flare platform.
• Developers on Flare Network will benefit from Ankr’s advanced APIs with custom indexing, reducing friction for onboarding and facilitating easy querying of onchain data, including NFT metadata.

Flare Network, the pioneering EVM-based smart contract platform focused on secure data acquisition and interoperability, has announced today a strategic partnership with Ankr, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider, to bolster its suite of remote procedure call (RPC) tools for developers.

Per the announcement, this strategic partnership aims to provide developers building on Flare with access to distributed and high-performance RPC services, streamlining dApp development processes and facilitating seamless node operations.

Paving the way for new use cases and monetization models with its unique interoperable cross-chain solution, Flare Network stands out as an EVM-based Layer-1 smart contract platform that extends the utility of blockchain technology. By optimizing decentralized off-chain data acquisition, Flare empowers developers with oracles built into the network’s structure, providing a simple and coherent stack for decentralized interoperability. As an EVM-compatible chain, Flare enables the deployment of decentralized applications coded in Solidity, facilitating the trustless acquisition of price and time series data, blockchain events and state data, as well as web2 API data on a large scale.

Flare’s Developers to Enjoy Premium RPC Tooling and Other Benefits via Integration with Ankr

The collaboration enables developers on the Flare Network to leverage Ankr’s cutting-edge infrastructure, which includes advanced APIs with custom indexing. These APIs not only simplify onboarding for first-time users but also offer seamless querying for onchain data, including non-fungible token (NFT) metadata. By integrating Ankr’s services, Flare Network aims to reduce friction and enhance the overall developer experience.

On the other hand, Ankr, a leading cloud infrastructure provider in the Web3 space, currently offers RPC services to over 35 different blockchains. Their services encompass both HTTPS and WebSocket RPC endpoints, leveraging bare metal cloud servers, alongside a comprehensive suite of developer tools. With more than 600 nodes located across 12 countries and five continents, Ankr’s RPC services provide rapid and efficient dApp request handling. Utilizing load-balancing technology, Ankr ensures that all requests are automatically directed to the nearest data center, guaranteeing 99.99% uptime. Furthermore, with an impressive average response time of just 110ms, Ankr’s nodes exhibit industry-leading speeds and low latency.

Hugo Philion, the CEO and co-founder of Flare, emphasized the immense benefits that developers would gain from the partnership with Ankr. He highlighted that this alliance allows developers on Flare to unlock the power of premium RPC tooling provided by Ankr, the leading node provider in the blockchain industry. In addition to the API Portal and Google Cloud infrastructure, this strategic partnership underscores Flare’s unwavering dedication to empowering developers with a versatile, resilient, and trustworthy stack. The goal is to provide developers with the necessary tools to effortlessly build and monitor their dApps and services, all while ensuring enterprise-grade levels of availability and security.