ANKR, the leading Web3 infrastructure provider, announced this week that its RPC platform will process more than 1 trillion requests per month. This is a milestone that highlights how well blockchain activity performs centralized infrastructure, even when apps are trying to decentralize. The company framed milestones not as marketing puffs, but as snapshots of everyday traffic. From balance checks to roll-up calls and MEV bot pulls.
Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) are API layers between blockchain read/write plumbing, wallets, DAPPS, and node fleets that actually retain their state. According to ANKR, the largest slices of that trillion times come from the long tail of small dapps across wallets and front-ends, indexers and analytics services, bots and MEV systems, rollups/L2S and bridges (generating a lot of cross-chain calls), and small dapps across more than 80 networks.
These daily calls include frequent read methods such as ETH_CALL, ETH_GETBALANCE, ETH_GETBLOCKBYNUMBER, and more heavy range and log queries (ETH_GETLOGS), trace/debug calls, WebSocket subscriptions for new heads, pending transactions, and smaller but mission-critical volumes of writes like ETH_DENDRAWTRANSICTION.
What does that mean?
Once you reach 1 trillion monthly requests, you will be asking for all the issues of reliability, latency and cost if your app relies on on-chain data. ANKR says it is addressing these pressures with a combination of networking and software engineering: global casting and regional routing to reduce latency, load balancing of blockchain awareness, specialized fleets (separating hot leads from archives and trace/debug/write paths), enhanced failover logic in rate shapes and ways, as well as priestly infrastructure for customers with advanced high-throughput. As a result, the company claims it is an RPC layer that can handle both routines, wallets that check account balances, bursts, rollups or MEV systems hammer endpoints.
For developers, the ANKR message is practical. Carefully design your app on an RPC and you’ll see the best performance. This means using cache, batch calls, pinning traffic to the region, respecting method weights, and monitoring chains and method usage. In short, it optimizes how you request data as much as you would get it.
Why is this important? An RPC is an invisible chokepoint that can create or break user experiences. There is no balance, there is no swap. There is no reliable subscription or real-time UX. As more users and services flock to L2, bridges and multi-chain wallets, RPC traffic volume and complexity grows, which requires a scalable and resilient infrastructure. So it’s not an ANKR trophy, but a metric that current Web3 relies on current infrastructure providers.
The complete ANKR thread and traffic type breakdown is available in official posts. Developers who build Web3 are behind all smooth balance checks or instant swaps, making it a good choice to treat RPC as a core part of their architecture plan rather than an afterthought.
