Alchemy
Alchemy provides RPC APIs, data APIs, and developer tools for building apps across 100+ blockchains.
- Category
- On-chain & Smart Money
About Alchemy
Alchemy is a complete platform for building and scaling applications onchain. It provides web3 infrastructure, including RPC APIs, data APIs, and wallet solutions across more than 100 blockchains.
The platform is designed to power financial products, payments, decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs, and AI agent applications. It features a distributed underlying infrastructure engine called Cortex to power platform requests.
Key features
- Provides Node RPC API and WebSockets for multi-chain access.
- Delivers real-time and historical onchain data APIs for balances, NFTs, transactions, and prices.
- Supports gas sponsorship to eliminate gas friction for end users.
- Streams real-time onchain events to applications using Webhooks.
- Provides developer tooling to connect AI agents to blockchain networks via MCP server, CLI, and agent skills.
- Offers trace functions to monitor transaction execution, gas usage, and smart contract creation.
What it is used for
- Fetch multi-chain token, price, transfer, and portfolio data using consolidated data API endpoints.
- Sponsor gas fees for user transactions via gas management APIs.
- Enable autonomous AI coding agents to interact with onchain environments.
- Inspect smart contract executions and detailed transaction traces.
What it does
Who it is for
Kind of tool
- API
Platforms
- Web
- API
- SDK
Things to know
- Access to specific advanced capabilities like the Trace API requires an upgrade to paid plan tiers.
Verification and freshness
- Not verified yet.
- Last updated on November 8, 2026.
