Product & Features

Infura product updates and feature announcements.

News

Introducing Infura Trace API: Gain Deeper Insights from the Ethereum Execution Layer

The Trace API offers transaction data from the Ethereum Execution Layer to provide developers deeper insights from transactions to optimize devops.

Product & Features

Infura Sepolia Faucet Status Powered by New Notification Feature HAL

Here’s how Infura uses recently acquired blockchain notification tool, HAL, to monitor the Infura Sepolia faucet and a tutorial to get started using blockchain listening.

Product & Features Featured

Introducing Infura’s ETH testnet faucet: Get 0.5 ETH daily to test your dapps!

At Infura, we believe testnet ETH should be free and easily accessible.

Product & Features Featured

The Developer’s Guide to the Web3 Stack

This guide provides an overview of the web3 stack and is designed to help developers understand the essential technology and tooling to build full stack, decentralized blockchain applications.

Product & Features

New Infura Features 2022 Recap

Here’s a list of all the features and ways we made the Infura platform better in 2022.

ethereum

Deploy an ERC721 Smart Contract and Mint Accounting NFTs with Infura and Avalanche C-Chain

Learn to use Avalanche and Infura to deploy an ERC721 smart contract and mint NFTs with links to metadata that represent double-entry accounting transactions.

ethereum

Infura Makes Layer 1 Network, Avalanche C-Chain, Available to All Users

Fast, low-cost and scalable Avalanche C-Chain is now available to all Infura users for free, including free archive data access.

layer-2

ZK-Rollup StarkNet Now Available to All Infura Users

The scalability, security and speed of the first ZK-rollup, StarkNet, are now available to all developers through Infura, a one-stop shop for your end-to-end dapp development needs.

Tutorials

Best practices for building with Infura NFT metadata and IPFS

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are a way for digital artists to create and share, reaching a wider audience than traditional art markets, and remunerating digital creators. They have taken the Web3 space by storm over the past year, and we at Infura have loved being part of this momentum with the

Product & Features

What To Consider When Choosing A Node Provider

Learn what a blockchain node provider is, what it can do for you and the top considerations to keep in mind when choosing a node service provider.

Product & Features

Introducing Project Sharing

Starting today, you are now able to share your projects with one or more Infura users.

Product & Features

IPFS Public API and Gateway Deprecation

We are bringing forward the deprecation of the Infura public API and gateway to 10th August. Read on, for a step-by-step guide on how to set up your gateway.

ethereum

Introducing the Infura NFT API Beta Release

Introducing the new Infura NFT API Beta release. Build the future with us by signing up today for a free beta!

Product & Features

Introducing A Simplified Infura Plan, With Free Access to Ethereum Archive Data and All Networks

Introducing free access to all integrated networks and archive data for Infura users, including a sample tutorial using archive data.

Product & Features

Deploy Your Smart Contract via Infura Through Truffle for VS Code Extension

The Truffle for VS Code extension allows Infura users to deploy smart contracts via Infura nodes, without needing to switch between VS Code and the Infura portal.

Product & Features

Scaling Your DeFi Project - 2 Core Infura Features You Can Leverage

Disaster recovery, and accelerated development tooling can help your DeFi project achieve scalability

Product & Features

HTTPS Filters and WSS Subscriptions through Infura: Weighing the Advantages

Weighing the advantages of using HTTPS filters or WSS subscriptions through Infura, to avoid bottlenecked dApp performance.

Product & Features

Introducing your dedicated gateway to IPFS Web3 storage

We have released a feature to enable a dedicated gateway in your IPFS project. You can choose a unique subdomain and restrict content to retrieve only content you have pinned.

Product & Features

A Brief History of Infura

Why and how Infura was created, how it evolved to become a cutting-edge, microservice-drive architecture optimized for scalability, reliability and efficiency.

Product & Features

How to Fork Ethereum and Replay Historical Transactions with Ganache 7 Archive Support

In Ethereum, archive nodes are full nodes running on archive mode. Ethereum’s full nodes do not store the generated World State from each block verification. They only need to store information such as headers and block contents. They need to keep this information around long enough to be able

Product & Features

Changes to the go-ipfs API

We are upgrading to go-ipfs  v0.11.0 on 2nd March 2022 15:00 UTC, which will include breaking changes listed below for go-ipfs v0.10.0. Furthermore, to reduce the impact that some backward-incompatible API changes in the go-ipfs client would have had on users after the release of

News

350,000 developers are now using Infura with new features to power Web3

An updated and improved dashboard, with operational analytics and threshold notifications are here to improve the Web3 developer experience.

Product & Features

London Fork

The Infura team describes the technical details and changes which may be needed for a project to be London fork and EIP-1559 compatible.

Product & Features

Arbitrum supported by Infura

Today, we are excited to announce that we are adding support for Arbitrum as a continuation of our efforts to support the Ethereum ecosystem to increase throughput and optimise gas costs. Arbitrum, created by Offchain Labs, uses optimistic roll-up technology, which allows for high throughput and low gas cost smart

Product & Features

Infura Launches Support for Optimistic Ethereum

As the demand for scaling solutions grows, so too does our desire to support developers in accessing them. With that, we are excited to announce that we are now live with support for the Optimism Layer 2 scaling solution in time for the Optimism launch on Uniswap. Optimistic Ethereum uses