14 posts tagged with "aptos"

Bock Eden is glad to add the indexer fullnode GraphQL to our Aptos API and Node Service. This solves the pain point immediately for many DApp developers with a high QPS demand in the Aptos ecosystem.

Without our out-of-box performant API, these developers have to connect to the official servers, which are shared across hobbyist developers with a very restrictive rate limit of 300 requests/hour. This limit is not for production-level products. In this case, developers are forced to run the indexer full node by themselves. And unfortunately, the official guide is confusing and does not cover the entire tech stack.

Now, with BlockEden.xyz's Aptos GraphQL API, developers are now free from worrying about the rate limit or the huge hassle of running their own GraphQL servers.

Here's how to get started...

Step 1. Go to https://blockeden.xyz/dash/. Please sign up if you haven't done so.

Step 2. Input your name for the API key, select Aptos Mainnet Indexer GraphQL, and then click + Create key.

Step 3. Click the access URL in the table to copy or click Test to get started with the Hasura GraphQL playground.

Bungie, who is working on an Aptos wallet, says "This is literally life-saving!"

BlockEden.xyz is committed to growing with the Aptos developers and providing the most tailored and scalable developer infrastructure. This GraphQL feature is exactly the result of listening to our customers. If you are an Aptos developer that needs anything from us, let us know at https://discord.gg/4Yfvs2HWey

On Day 1 of Aptos Mainnet launch, there’s some confusing conversations on social media –

Let's look at transaction speeds on Aptos.

Aptos promises 100k TPS in its finalized version. However, the current TPS is somewhere around 4 transactions per second. pic.twitter.com/joWnxAeIpZ

— Paradigm Engineer #420 (@ParadigmEng420) October 17, 2022

TPS is the acronym for transactions per second and how engineers measure the volume of the network traffic. There are multiple scenarios when we are talking about TPS:

• Max TPS means the maximum network traffic a blockchain could support . This is determined by how fast a chain could reach consensus and mint a new block, and the block size (e.g., BTC) the gas limit (e.g., Ethereum) of a block. For ethereum and later blockchain that support smart contracts, it makes more sense to be limited by gas, because different transactions (e.g., 1-to-1 token transfer vs multi NFT token mint) has various computation complexity, and they need to be metered consistently. That said, max TPS is not a very strict measurement of a chain’s throughput. Instead, max gas per second is. Then, how do developers get the value of the max TPS? It’s usually a result of experiments - upper bound given the good network condition, fully available validators, and simplest transactions.

• Actual TPS is the current traffic volume of a blockchain in operation. This is majorly determined by how busy the network is. Around the launch of Aptos Mainnet, there’s not many dApps ready, and not many users holding Aptos tokens, so that not many people were doing business on Atpos at that moment. That’s why the actual TPS was low at that moment. However, actual TPS will be bounded by max TPS. The so-called Ethereum congestion is the moment when actual TPS already reaches max TPS, no more transactions could be processed, and they have to wait.

So Aptos’s high max TPS will demonstrate its advantage when the ecosystem is growing up, when we will still see almost instant transaction settlement and low transaction fee.

Then, let’s get back to BlockEden.xyz customers. We offer node API services at different tier, where the major difference is QPS (similarly, the acronym of queries per second) limit of using our service. Free tier basically gets 1 QPS, while Pro tier gets 10 QPS. That means how many REST API calls you could make per second. This is different from how many transactions could be settled on blockchain per second. When you call REST API, you may not only do the write operations (aka sending a transaction), but you could also do lots of read operations (e.g., getting account info, getting a block, getting a transaction).

If you haven’t signed up for our services, please visit this link to start from free.

BlockEden.xyz is committed to growing with the Aptos and Sui developers and providing the most tailored and scalable developer infrastructure. Thus we have been serving Aptos mainnet since its day-one launch.

In this tutorial, we will share step-by-step tutorials on connecting to Aptos mainnet by using BlockEden.xyz Node Service.

How to connect to Aptos mainnet?​

Step 1. Go to https://blockeden.xyz/dash/. Please sign up if you haven't done so.

Step 2. Input your name for the API key, select Aptos Mainnet, and then click + Create key.

Step 3. Grab your access URL by clicking it and copying it to the clipboard.

Step 4. Use the access URL in your project like the following. Remember to replace 42424242424242424242 with your own key.

import {AptosClient} from "aptos";

const client = new AptosClient("https://aptos-mainnet.blockeden.xyz/42424242424242424242");
const block = await client.getBlockByHeight(1);
console.log(block);

About BlockEden.xyz​

BlockEden.xyz is a San Francisco-based software company that helps web3 developers connect to the Aptos network instantly and securely. Our mission is to build an all-inclusive platform for web3 developers in the next five years, starting with a genesis product that could immediately serve the Aptos developer community's needs. We are committed to making it easy for developers to get started building on blockchain technology, and we believe our platform will play a key role in bringing about mainstream adoption of web3 applications.

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Hello, world! We are a group of software engineers from the San Francisco Bay Area, building BlockEden.xyz - a suite of APIs powering DApps of all sizes for Aptos and Sui blockchains. Why are we doing this?

We were fascinated by the Bitcoin whitepaper and its disruptive technology back in 2012 and then started to build our own blockchain and its ecosystem at IoTeX in 2017. During the trip, along with the fast-moving industry, we find that:

1. There are huge gaps between developers and new blockchains. Blockchain installment is like software in the 90s - complex, slow, error-prone, and unscalable.
2. Web3 developer experience is quite fragmented. Blockchain raw data, derived data, API, push notification, blob store - all those APIs are scattered into different places for the developers to find out and make integrations.

Usually, DApp developers run their own blockchain node or purchase an API service; unfortunately, API service is not quite available for new blockchains like Aptos and Sui.

BlockEden.xyz is here to help -

We bring an API cloud SaaS to developers so they do not have to run and maintain their own blockchain nodes and services. (Starts to build in 10s, instead of spending 20 hours to start, countless hours to maintain!) We get started by serving unique developer tools and data to the Aptos and Sui ecosystem.

The developers could call our standard blockchain and GraphQL APIs with access keys, and use our dashboard to inspect blockchain data schemas, write SQLs and manage their access keys.

How are we different from other blockchain service vendors?​

BlockEden.xyz vs. Ankr, NodeReal, Alchemy, and Shinami - Node RPC Services​

We are a chain node vendor and we deep dive into the Move-language blockchains by providing unique APIs and services that developers cannot find elsewhere.

BlockEden.xyz vs. Dune Analytics, Flipside Crypto - Data Service​

We have no intention of being a web3 data infra for all blockchains.

Blockchain data is all public - Homogeneous content, quality and SLA won’t outrun category leaders. Web3 innovators want painkillers for specific pains, not one-stop shop vitamins for everything. Thus, we aim to be a category leader for Move language blockchains and avoid direct competition with established late-stage businesses.

Although we can build the general-purposed data infra, we think the costs are too high while the profitability is too low to target data analysts and researchers. So instead, we focus on builders, run lean, and persevere.

Going beyond​

Node RPC service is just a starting point for BlockEden.xyz. Compared to the crowded data infra space, we think there is vast room for innovations to bridge the gap between web3 developers and blockchain vendors.

In the past five years, we have built a top-50 blockchain, SDK, wallet, DEX, staking portal, decentralized e-commerce, and many more DApps. Now, we are sourcing the best technologies into a unified API and service suite, so that web3 developers like ourselves could focus on building their magic, without the hassle of maintaining a blockchain and its utilities.

In the incoming five years, if your mission is to build the killer app to bring web3 to everyone on the planet, then our mission is to be your best ally. Together, we fight for the next-generation decentralization innovations.