What Solana builders ship on Alchemy

Solana is in the middle of cutting its block time from 400ms down to 200ms, rolling out in four 50ms steps, the first of which went live in late August 2026. A separate consensus upgrade called Alpenglow is targeting roughly 150ms finality, expected around October 2026. Stablecoin supply on Solana has grown past $16B, an 11x increase in three years, a real signal of where builders are choosing to build.

The block time is halving. Wallets serving millions of users, trading platforms processing billions in volume, and analytics tools tracking every transaction in real time all need infrastructure that can keep up as the chain gets faster.

We work with teams across that whole spectrum. Here is what some of them told us, and what we are seeing across the ecosystem.

Solana on Alchemy

Every team building on Solana hits the same wall: the chain moves fast, and infrastructure has to move faster. Alchemy's Solana RPC and gRPC are built to be the fastest, most reliable path for whatever you're settling, streaming, or reading.

Wallets

Wallets reaching millions of users need to reflect balances accurately, in real time and in historical view. Alchemy gives wallet builders the most robust historical reads at much faster speeds.

• Solflare: one of the largest and most trusted wallets in the Solana ecosystem, serving 4M+ active users. Runs Alchemy's Solana Archive Method for 20x faster archive queries and full wallet history backfills in under a minute.
• Phantom: the leading multichain, self-custodial wallet, trusted by 20M+ users. An Alchemy customer since our 2022 Solana launch.

"Their infrastructure and product suite has a proven track record for performance benefits. This will be a game changer for Phantom and any other Solana developers who choose to start using Alchemy."

— Francesco Agosti, CTO and Co-Founder, Phantom

Trading & market intelligence

Whether you win a trade is determined in milliseconds. Trading apps run on Alchemy's Solana RPC and gRPC to catch fast-moving, high-volume activity in real time.

• Cielo: a universal onchain information and execution layer, letting traders track wallets, copy trades, and trade directly across Solana and other chains in real time. Needed gRPC streaming fast enough to surface a trade before anyone else sees it.
• pump.fun: Solana's memecoin launchpad, letting anyone create and trade a token in one click. Runs $370M+ in TVL and $22B+ in 30-day DEX volume on infrastructure that has to keep up with thousands of new token launches a day.
• Collector Crypt: the leading platform for collectibles, with nearly $40M in tokenized trading card inventory onchain. Routes 29M+ requests through Alchemy every 30 days on its settlement and confirmation path, averaging under 7ms on common Solana read methods.

Validators & infrastructure

Validators and infrastructure providers sit at Solana's base layer, where low-latency block data and reliable streaming are the product. Everstake and Lighthouse build on Alchemy's Solana RPC and gRPC for exactly that.

• Everstake: a global staking infrastructure provider securing $7B+ in staked value across 130+ networks. Runs Blockspace, its Solana MEV infrastructure product, on Alchemy for low-latency shred delivery and stake-weighted transaction routing.
• Lighthouse: an open-source Solana program that checks a transaction against what was expected and cancels it if something's wrong, protecting wallets and their users from malicious or spoofed transactions. Leans on fast, reliable RPC access to do that in real time.

Purpose-built for Solana

None of this works without infrastructure built specifically for Solana, not general blockchain infrastructure with Solana bolted on. Alchemy's Solana RPC and gRPC are purpose-built and constantly tuned against real production traffic, and it shows up in the numbers:

• Ultra-fast gRPC at half the price of other providers, with average delivery times of 5-15ms, 48-hour block replay, and automatic backfill on reconnect
• 10x faster on heavy calls like getProgramAccounts, with staked connections for max speed and landing rate
• 20x faster on archival data, with exclusive historical methods with Solana Account Archive to query any account's state at any past slot
• 99.99% uptime, backed by multi-region infrastructure and 3-5 layers of autonomous failover
• 2x higher throughput than general-purpose Solana infrastructure

Across the network, Alchemy processes $1T+ in transactions annually and powers 71%+ of top onchain apps, for 100M+ humans using crypto apps.

"After evaluating other solutions, we concluded that Alchemy gave us the best cost-to-performance ratio, letting us scale to Solflare's user base, since we have more than 4M active users."

— Dušan K., Backend Engineer, Solflare

Read the Solflare case study →

Supporting builders at every stage of growth

We launched the $20M Solana fund because we want to help builders from day one. Hundreds of teams have joined so far, and have scaled from their first request to hundreds of thousands of requests a month.

We're excited to keep doing this for the next wave of Solana builders. Apply here to get up to $25k in credits.

"Our users are here for the thrill of the rip and the freedom to trade, sell, or redeem a real card whenever they want. All of that runs onchain, so settlement has to be fast and it has to be right every single time. Alchemy gives us a Solana path we can trust at the speed our community expects."

— Dax Herrera, CTO, Collector Crypt

Read the Collector Crypt case study →

Get started

It's easy to get started on Solana on Alchemy.

• Apply to the $20M Solana Fund
• Dive into the docs and start building.
• Or talk to our team about specialized solutions at scale.