Web3 Provider Watch — 2026-10-11

Claimable

Colosseum’s Crypto World’s Fair closes Oct 12 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific; official rules list $840,000 in prizes and up to $2.5 million in seed funding (register and submit). Goldsky offers a one-time $100 Starter credit without a card (pricing). Eligible pre-Series A teams can apply to Helius for eight free Business months (Launchpad). Onchain startups can apply to Alchemy for credits (amount unpublished) and $5,000 in AWS credits (program). Teams exceeding one billion monthly requests can contact Dwellir sales for a custom discount of 50% or more (pricing).

New services and changes

Midnight’s Foundation-hosted Mainnet RPC and indexer retired Sep 30 at 22:00 UTC; Preprod endpoints shut from Oct 9 at 22:00 UTC. Blockfrost is now the primary public provider for Mainnet and Preprod, offering Node JSON-RPC and a GraphQL indexer. Each environment needs its own project token; the free plan provides 50,000 requests/day. Blockfrost also lists Preview as Beta, while Midnight says its existing Preview endpoints remain unchanged (Midnight migration notice, Blockfrost docs, plans).

QuickNode resolved Solana’s Alpenglow Regenesis at Oct 11 00:04 UTC and completed Agave v4.3.0 maintenance at 00:00 UTC; endpoints remained available, with Transaction V1 encoding and 32-address reward-call limits documented (status). Its board also records two resolved Morph EU incidents on Oct 10 (02:00–04:00 and 08:50–22:19 UTC) and an Arbitrum Nova halt on Oct 9 (13:21–13:30 UTC). The completed Starknet upgrade sets a 5×10^13 wei minimum for L1-to-L2 fee estimates.

Act by date

Oct 12: Colosseum closes at 11:59 p.m. Pacific; Etherscan ends opBNB API support; QuickNode schedules Avalanche and Sonic upgrades. Oct 13: QuickNode BCH upgrade. Oct 14: Hyperliquid maintenance. Oct 15: Etherscan Arc and Robinhood community endpoints move to Lite+; QuickNode schedules Ethereum and OP-stack upgrades; Sui’s mid-October JSON-RPC removal remains a date-only tracking placeholder. Oct 16: Ankr Kaia endpoint shutdown. Oct 19: CoinGecko database maintenance, 03:00–03:30 UTC; GeckoTerminal is excluded (notice).

Changes and gaps

No confirmed plan price, rate, or access changes were found in the rotating slice. Nodit's general health page labels Aptos operational, but it does not distinguish the suspended Aptos Testnet APIs; service restoration remains unconfirmed. Alchemy’s free throughput and Infura’s free quotas remain conflicted; ZAN’s official docs disagree on 270 versus 400 credits/second, and All That Node lists 20 versus 150 CUPS. DoubleZero and Unmarshal pages did not load; Dune’s pricing page remains script-rendered and its current Free/API terms are not fully confirmed. Date-only Oct 8 announcements cannot be placed against the exact 48-hour cutoff. This was a bounded official-source sweep.