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QuickNode
TypePrivate
IndustryBlockchain infrastructure
Founded2017
Founders
  • Alex Nabutovsky
  • Dmitry Shklovsky
  • Manuel Kreutz
  • Auston Bunsen
Headquarters
Miami, Florida
Key peopleAlex Nabutovsky (CEO)
Websitewww.quicknode.com

QuickNode is an American blockchain infrastructure company based in Miami, Florida. It provides access to blockchain networks through application programming interfaces (APIs), including remote procedure call (RPC) services, which allow applications to interact with blockchain nodes without running their own node infrastructure.[1][2]

The company was founded in 2017 by Alex Nabutovsky, Dmitry Shklovsky, Manuel Kreutz and Auston Bunsen.[3] Its blockchain infrastructure platform launched in early 2020, and QuickNode joined the Winter 2021 batch of Y Combinator.[1][4] An early investor in QuickNode was Vasily Klyukin.[5]

History

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QuickNode initially focused on providing access to blockchain node infrastructure. By 2021, the company was processing more than 30 billion requests per month, according to Forbes, which listed CoinGecko, DappRadar, Dune Analytics, PoolTogether and Fairmint among its customers.[6]

One of the company's early applications outside the blockchain industry came through its work with Twitter. The social-media platform used QuickNode infrastructure to retrieve and verify Ethereum blockchain data for its NFT profile-picture feature, as the Miami Herald reported in January 2022.[7]

During 2022, QuickNode broadened its platform beyond node access. Fortune described a marketplace that brought third-party blockchain development tools together with the company's infrastructure services. At the time, QuickNode supported 15 blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Solana and Polygon.[1]

The following year brought another expansion of the company's business. A January 2023 TechCrunch report described QuickNode as a provider of blockchain development infrastructure supporting 16 networks. The same report covered a $60 million Series B financing round, which valued the company at approximately $800 million.[8]

QuickNode subsequently expanded its infrastructure beyond conventional RPC access. Its product line came to include real-time blockchain data services such as Streams, which delivers filtered blockchain data through data pipelines, as well as Webhooks and other developer tools. The company's Solana infrastructure has also included geographically distributed infrastructure and dedicated clusters designed for high-throughput and low-latency workloads.[9]

In 2026, QuickNode began extending this infrastructure model to applications operated by AI agents. Its agent-oriented services allow agents to provision QuickNode infrastructure, interact with blockchain APIs and pay for requests using wallet-based mechanisms such as x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP).[10][11]

QuickNode's approach was also discussed by competitor Alchemy in a 2026 comparison of blockchain infrastructure for AI agents. Alchemy identified QuickNode, alongside Alchemy and dRPC, as one of three providers that it said allowed an AI agent to handle the infrastructure lifecycle from signup and payment through access to blockchain tools without human intervention.[12]

Products and services

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QuickNode's core service provides access to blockchain nodes through RPC endpoints. This model can be used by applications that need blockchain data or need to submit transactions without maintaining their own nodes. A 2022 paper published in the proceedings of the ACM Web Search and Data Mining conference listed QuickNode alongside Infura as an example of a managed service used to access Ethereum nodes.[2]

The company later added other developer services to its infrastructure platform. Its marketplace, introduced in 2022, allowed developers to access third-party blockchain tools alongside QuickNode's own services.[1]

QuickNode also provides managed data services for blockchain applications. Streams provides real-time blockchain data through configurable data pipelines, while Webhooks can deliver notifications in response to on-chain events. These services extend the platform from direct node access toward data delivery and application-specific infrastructure.[9]

Researchers have used QuickNode's RPC service to retrieve Ethereum blockchain data. A 2025 study of proposer–builder separation on Ethereum used QuickNode to obtain information about decentralized-finance smart contracts, including token addresses and decimal precision.[13]

In 2025, researchers included QuickNode among 16 RPC providers in a study of blockchain data services. Presented at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, the study examined the timeliness and consistency of block and transaction data returned by providers serving the BNB Smart Chain.[14]

By 2026, QuickNode had also introduced infrastructure designed for AI agents. Its agent-facing platform supports wallet-based authentication and payments, allowing an agent to make blockchain API requests without a conventional account or API key. QuickNode supports both x402 and MPP for agentic payments, and its platform includes an MCP server and other tools intended to let agents configure and manage blockchain infrastructure programmatically.[10][11]

Funding

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QuickNode raised $5.3 million in seed funding in 2021, followed by a $35 million Series A round led by Tiger Global later that year.[6][15] In January 2023, the company raised a further $60 million in a Series B round led by 10T Holdings at a reported valuation of approximately $800 million.[8]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Schwartz, Leo (September 21, 2022). "Web3 development is siloed. QuickNode wants to change that". Fortune.
  2. 1 2 Su, Voon Hou; Gupta, Sourav Sen; Khan, Arijit (2022). "Automating ETL and Mining of Ethereum Blockchain Network". Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. pp. 1581–1584. doi:10.1145/3488560.3502187.
  3. ↑ Wile, Rob (May 27, 2021). "Ohanian, SoftBank fund Miami blockchain startup QuickNode". Miami Herald.
  4. ↑ "QuickNode". Y Combinator. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
  5. ↑ "QuickNode". Nasdaq Private Market.
  6. 1 2 Ehrlich, Steven; Bambysheva, Nina (May 27, 2021). "Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Leads Investment In 'Picks And Shovels' Blockchain Firm". Forbes.
  7. ↑ Wile, Rob (January 27, 2022). "Twitter's hexagon NFT profile pictures? Partly powered by Miami company". Miami Herald.
  8. 1 2 Melinek, Jacquelyn (January 24, 2023). "QuickNode raises $60M at $800M valuation to become the 'AWS or Azure of blockchain'". TechCrunch.
  9. 1 2 "Study: QuickNode". Solana Compass. 2026.
  10. 1 2 "Agent-Native Blockchain Infrastructure". QuickNode. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
  11. 1 2 "Agentic Payments". QuickNode. August 14, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Best blockchain infrastructure for AI agents (2026)". Alchemy. July 20, 2026.
  13. ↑ Zeng, Liyi; Zhang, Zihao; Xu, Wei; Gu, Zhaoquan (2025). "An Empirical Study of Proposer–Builder Separation (PBS) Effects on the Ethereum Ecosystem". Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 9 (6): 156. doi:10.3390/bdcc9060156.
  14. ↑ Shu, Ye; Stefan, Deian; Savage, Stefan; Voelker, Geoffrey M.; Liu, Enze (2025). "Poster: When Blocks Go Missing: The Timeliness and Trustworthiness of Blockchain RPC Providers". Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference. pp. 1072–1073. doi:10.1145/3730567.3768594.
  15. ↑ "Crypto Startup QuickNode Raises $35 Million in Tiger-Led Funding Round". Bloomberg. October 27, 2021.
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