Case Study: icy.tools scales blockchain data access and eliminates rate limits with QuickNode

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icy.tools, an NFT analytics platform, faced significant challenges with scaling its data requests and hitting restrictive rate limits while using competing infrastructure providers and public endpoints. This core issue threatened their ability to reliably collect the essential blockchain data their business depends on. The company switched to QuickNode, utilizing its Ethereum API along with add-ons like Archive Mode and Trace Mode, to solve their scalability problem.

By implementing QuickNode’s Scale plan, icy.tools was able to process an immense volume of data, successfully making over 500,000 requests to backfill months of transaction history without any issues. The solution provided extreme reliability and a flat-rate pricing model that was more cost-effective for their high volume of calls. The QuickNode team also provided invaluable support, saving the small icy.tools team significant debugging time. This move eliminated rate limits and anxiety, allowing icy.tools to reliably deliver critical NFT tracking and holder data to its users.

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