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Pocket Network recently processed 1 trillion compute units (CU) while being on track to process 5 trillion requests per day.

The Pocket Network Foundation Partnership program is pioneering the cause by offering unlimited public data access at wholesale rates. The Foundation is on a mission to create an open ecosystem where every blockchain app developer and user can build and use seamless web3 services.

F-Chains: Pocket Foundation's Partnership Program

Web3 applications use Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) to request data, send transactions, and interact with blockchains. Such a critical infrastructure is not supposed to be a privilege for a select few to gatekeep information. Instead, RPCs must be a public good for all web3 stakeholders.

The Pocket Network Foundation has launched the F-Chains program as a public good, providing no-key RPC API access for a wide range of blockchains. As a non-profit institution, the Pocket Network Foundation doesn't profit from data access and offers services at minimal cost.

Unlike other protocol foundations, the Pocket Foundation is not restricted to grant disbursals and governance issues only. Rather, Pocket provides neutral data rails to provide access to unstoppable data through its robust data infrastructure.

Strengthening Web3's Data Pipelines

The first-of-its-kind F-Chains program offers data accessibility at a wholesale, non-profit rate of just $1 per 1 billion compute units. For example, it costs just $1 to serve 633,312 requests on Ethereum, 200,000 requests on BNB Smart Chain, and 811,688 requests on Base. All payments are made in Pocket Network's native $POKT token via an app stake.

With its usage-based burn mechanism, $POKT recently hitting 1 trillion CUs per day demonstrates how Pocket's paid network usage has created a sustainable data ecosystem. Other blockchain foundations that want to extend the benefits of unlimited data to their consumers can do so by covering the costs for token burns.

Centralized RPCs have a single point of failure, and blockchain systems collapse when that point fails. But Pocket Network's decentralized cluster of nodes offers round-the-clock RPC services at affordable rates.

The Pocket Network Foundation manages a decentralized load balancer that routes all public RPC requests to participating gateways. Although the service is provided with per-second rate limits and a total daily cap on data requests, protocols can sponsor costs to increase throughput.

Instead of paying arbitrary SaaS fees, the Pocket Foundation ensures partnering chains pay predictable rates for public RPC endpoints. Further, with the Shannon upgrade, Pocket Foundation has transformed from a blockchain RPC-based relay system to a permissionless open API network for AI and DeFi protocols.

For a long time, the web3 ecosystem was susceptible to centralized gatekeepers of data pipelines with opaque pricing structures. Pocket Network, led by its Foundation's partnerships, has changed the data landscape by providing information with no-key endpoints and usage-linked costs.