Web3 Provider Watch — 2026-09-25

Claimable

Coinbase CDP Paymaster advertises up to $15,000 in Base gas credits and separately displays up to $600 in signup credits; create a Paymaster account and apply for additional gas credits through the CDP Discord. Eligibility and whether offers combine are not specified. Nansen’s 2x API-credit purchase offer and Meridian Buildathon submissions close Sep 27 at 23:59 UTC. OnFinality offers 35% off the first month of Growth or Accelerate; confirm at checkout. NOWNodes says its Business plan includes a first dedicated node; confirm eligibility before purchase.

New services and betas

GetBlock’s Solana Shred Streams are live: raw shreds over direct UDP with Frankfurt ingest. A 24-hour test costs $20; subscriptions start at $300/month and can be added to a GetBlock Solana Dedicated Node (launch).

Act by date

Today, Sep 25: Moralis removes Moonbeam, Moonriver and Lisk across Data API, Streams, RPC Nodes and Datashare; export needed history and migrate affected requests. ETHGlobal Tokyo runs Sep 25–27. Sep 27: claim Nansen’s credit offer or submit a buildathon demo by 23:59 UTC. Sep 28–29: QuickNode schedules Tron/Nile v4.8.2.2, Base v1.4.2 and XRPL Mainnet rippled 3.4.0 maintenance. Sep 29–Oct 4: Solana Agave 4.3.0 changes client behavior, while endpoints remain available; Mantle op-geth v1.6.3 runs Sep 29–30. Sep 30–Oct 1: Stacks API/core, Sepolia Geth and XRPL EVM maintenance; Alchemy sunsets legacy NFT endpoints Sep 30. Oct 1–2: QuickNode 0g Aristotle v1.0.7, Hoodi/Sepolia Reth v2.6.0 and Zcash Zebra 6.4.0 upgrades. Also Oct 1: Solana gRPC billing rises to 15 credits per 0.1 MB and port 10000 sunsets. Sui’s JSON-RPC archival fallback ends around month-end; no exact day is published. Arbitrum Open House submissions close Oct 4.

Changes

Nodit now describes free access as a 30-day trial (1M CU/day, 300 CU/s); its current page does not date when that term took effect. Etherscan’s Katana Free requests share one pool across all users and pause when depleted. Hiro documents independent Stacks and Bitcoin API quotas; Jupiter’s Swap V2 execute endpoint has a separate 20/50/100 RPS keyless/Free/paid bucket. Pocket’s current docs publish 2,000 requests/IP/minute and 10,000 RPS per public endpoint.

Gaps

Allium marks the Sep 22 Cosmos ingestion incident resolved Sep 24, and its current Cosmos component is operational. BlockPI still reports a chain-level Cosmos outage after gaiad v28.3.0. QuickNode’s latest update said Cosmos full nodes were serving latest blocks while archive restoration was still monitored. Chainstack continues to show the Solana Frankfurt v4.3.0 upgrade as In Progress after its Sep 22–23 window; impact and completion remain unconfirmed. Official 4byte.directory captures disagreed on the exact live signature count. This run checked 35 oldest providers plus selected notices, not every provider; no historical daily runs were fabricated.