Web3 Provider Watch — 2026-09-28

Claimable

Goldsky gives a $100 one-time credit at signup with no card required. Early-stage teams in its partner network can ask sales for 50% off the first year. GetBlock now offers volume terms worth up to 50% to teams spending over $1,000 a month, requested through its Telegram growth bot. Annual billing is 20% cheaper. Coinbase CDP, Allium, OnFinality and Alchemy Startup offers carry over from prior runs. Nansen's buildathon and 2× purchase offer closed Sep 27.

New services and betas

No new launch or beta with a verifiable date in the 48-hour window was found. On Sep 28, QuickNode began rolling Sei Testnet (atlantic-2) to v6.7.0-rc3, which removes every legacy sei_* JSON-RPC method and the IBC and feegrant modules. Switch to eth_* methods before mainnet follows.

Act by date

Sep 29–30: QuickNode lists maintenance for Gravity, Base, XRPL, Mantle, MegaETH and NEAR Testnet.

Sep 30: Alchemy's Transaction Simulation APIs and selected legacy NFT endpoints deprecate. Sui's archival JSON-RPC fallback ends "end of September", with no exact day published. QuickNode's Sui v1.80.1 notice now appears only in its history, marked completed on Sep 24, so its status is unclear.

Oct 1–2: QuickNode's Sepolia/Hoodi windows are now Geth v1.17.6 plus Erigon v3.7.0, and Reth v2.7.0. Solana gRPC port 10000 sunsets Oct 1; QuickNode's docs now consistently state 15 credits per 0.1 MB. Arbitrum Open House registration closes Oct 2 at 17:01, with no timezone given.

Oct 4–8: Arbitrum submissions close Oct 4. QuickNode lists World Chain (Oct 5), Tempo (Oct 6) and Stacks v4.0.4 (Oct 7). Sepolia activates Glamsterdam on Oct 6 at 13:53:36 UTC. On Oct 8, The Graph ends Subgraph Studio staging queries for BNB Smart Chain and Polygon: publish to the Network and move to Gateway endpoints first.

Oct 12: Colosseum's rules now fix the cutoff at 11:59pm PT (Oct 13 06:59 UTC).

Changes

Thirty of the oldest rows were rechecked. GetBlock added Growth ($99), Scale ($349) and Premium ($699) tiers and raised Starter to 90M CU at 250 RPS and Pro to 1B CU at 800 RPS; its free tier is unchanged. Goldsky now publishes subgraph query limits (20, 50 and 1,000+ per 10 seconds) and Edge RPC Starter limits (6,000 per minute, 500 per IP). Carbium documents a full ladder from Free (500K credits, 10 RPS) to Professional ($640), with gRPC from Business. BlockCypher's docs say free limits are identical with or without a token.

Gaps

Unmarshal's docs and console domains no longer resolve and its homepage returns 404; that may mean a shutdown, but it is unconfirmed, so the row is unchanged. LlamaRPC (SSL 526), Transpose (TLS error), Syndica pricing (404) and TonAPI pricing (behind a login) would not load. Lava's new tier table is labelled "illustrative", so it was not treated as verified. The Helius, Goldsky, Dune, Moralis and Infura changelogs returned 404, QuickNode's was bot-blocked and Tenderly's rate-limited, so news from those providers may have been missed.