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The world’s most powerful blockchain developer platform.

👋 Welcome to Alchemy

Use these docs to learn more about Alchemy's core products, explore guides, and check out our API references.

Get access to Alchemy for free here.

📖 API Reference

Jump into our API Reference pages, from the Ethereum Standard JSON-RPC API, to Arbitrum's Layer 2 API, and to our exclusive Enhanced APIs.

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🤷♂ What is Alchemy?

Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform focused on making Ethereum development easy. We've built a suite of developer tools, enhanced APIs, and superior node infrastructure to make building and running blockchain applications seamless.

Our platform supports 70% of the top Ethereum applications, including the top blockchain companies in the world:

Our product is used by millions of users per week across 99% of all countries, bringing in of billions of dollars in annual volume.

To learn more about the benefits of using Alchemy, check out the "Why Use Alchemy?" page below.

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🎁 Alchemy's Products and Features

Alchemy has a full suite of products built to accelerate blockchain development. Our tools make it easier for blockchain developers to focus on their applications and users, rather than interfacing with the blockchain.

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🛠 Start Building!

Get set up to use the Alchemy API in under five minutes. Learn how to get and use your API key, start making requests, and set up your application to use Alchemy's endpoints.

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