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Blockfrost Overview

What is Blockfrost.io?

Blockfrost.io is an instant, highly optimized, public and freely accessible API as a Service that serves as an alternative access to the Cardano blockchain and related networks, with extra features, without the need for running and maintaining additional infrastructure and tooling yourself.

Blockfrost.io is also a IPFS provider, allowing you to add and pin resources as well as access IPFS network through our IPFS Gateway clusters.

From the infrastructure perspective, we are a highly available and resilient multi-network platform hosted in multiple data centers all around the globe.

We are Blockfrost.io.