Ankr Confirms Providing RPC to Sui Blockchain

The partnership enables developers to create safe, upgradeable, and scalable dApps on the Sui blockchain.

November 22, 2022

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Ankr Confirms Providing RPC to Sui Blockchain

Ankr has announced to become the first Remote Procedure Call (RPC) provider to the Sui blockchain. For your information, Ankr is among the world’s largest Web3 infrastructure providers, whereas in the blockchain spectrum, Sui is a step-function advancement that’s been designed to meet the needs of crypto’s next billion users.

With this partnership, Ankr has become the RPC provider of choice to over 39 blockchains and testnets. This includes BNB Chain, Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, and Polygon.

The new development came a month after Ankr launched its free Blockchain explorer tool called Chainscanner. The tool lets users search for transaction data, addresses, smart contracts, and much more.

What Difference Does it Make for Sui Users?

It will help strengthen the global Sui network since Ankr will provide a geo-distributed and decentralized Sui RPC comprising many independent nodes that run worldwide to ensure reliable connection and low latency.

Developers can easily access the Sui Testnet Community and Premium RPCs now. Furthermore, they can make request calls and receive information mirroring the results they would get by running a full node. The partnership enables developers to create safe, upgradeable, and scalable dApps on the Sui blockchain.

Ankr’s product head, Josh Neuroth, stated that the new technology and move-based development on Sui, along with Ankr’s easy connectivity to the blockchain, helps produce a building environment that’s intuitive and easy enough to encourage a wide range of new developers and projects.

“We are very excited to support Sui so Web3 developers can build faster on what is shaping up to be a promising new ecosystem,” Neuroth added.

What is Sui?

It is a permissionless Layer-1 blockchain that allows creators and developers to create Web3 experiences for the next billion users. Developed by Mysten Labs, Sui is horizontally scalable to support an extensive range of dApp development with unrivaled speed but at a low cost.

It is the first-ever platform that offers users a general-purpose blockchain that ensures high throughput, rich on-chain assets, instant settlement speeds, and user-friendly web3 experiences.

Sui uses the proof-of-stake mechanism and is based on the Move programming language. It can process more than 120,000 transactions per second and attracts a wide array of DeFi protocols, DEXs, NFT projects, launchpads, wallets, and social platforms.

What is Ankr’s RPC?

The Testnet RPC from Ankr connects wallets, dApps, and command-line interfaces with the Sui blockchain. It is like a messenger or blockchain router communicating on-chain information between the dApp, Sui nodes, and end-users.

This makes the execution of necessary transactions such as transactions, obtaining ownership information, and populating wallet balances smooth and convenient. After the Sui mainnet goes live, Ankr will add support for additional features, docs, and tools so that Web3 developers can streamline building.