Cortex

The intelligent infrastructure engine behind every Alchemy request.
AI-powered routing and global orchestration make your apps 2.5x faster, 5x more reliable, and capable of 500x more throughput.

Powering $1T+ in transactions annually for 100+ million humans

The world's first

Intelligent blockchain engine

Cortex is the new engine that powers our full developer platform. Your apps are now 2.5x faster, 5x more reliable, with 500x more throughput.

Global orchestration and AI subsystems continuously evaluate live network conditions to route each request to the fastest healthy node.

Architected from the ground up over the last 2 years, Cortex was trained on data from 7 years powering hundreds of billions in transactions for the top crypto companies worldwide.

$1T+

in transactions annually

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100M+

humans using crypto apps

71%+

of top apps powered

Powering the best apps in crypto

$15.5B+ in trading volume

Polymarket uses RPC and Data APIs

Priority blockspace for 13M humans

World app uses RPC APIs and Rollups

22M+ funded accounts

Robinhood uses RPC and Data APIs

Intelligent infrastructure, unmatched performance

Build the fastest and most reliable apps—stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets, and more.

Contextual smart routing

Smart routing algorithms trained on trillions of global queries and intelligent request segmentation to deliver up to 2.5x faster queries, all around the world.

Data taken from Alchemy's RPC benchmarks, last updated: Sep 15, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

Unlimited elastic throughput

Purpose-built bare-metal hardware, dark fiber connections, and elastic scaling deliver throughput far beyond industry standards so you never run out of capacity on launch day.

Chart showing Alchemy's throughput vs competitors

Global availability

Multi-region infrastructure, autonomous failovers, and AI-based threat detection so your apps stay performant even under extreme conditions.

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Data taken from Alchemy's RPC benchmarks, last updated: Sep 15, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

Brand new capabilities for a new crypto era

Cortex's intelligent infrastructure enables developers to build apps that were never possible before.

Unlimited range getLogs

Scans the whole chain for your events 265x faster, in a single request.

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Block-perfect consistency

No more jarring errors for your users due to inconsistent data.

Zero connections dropped

Never risk missed events or inaccurate data when using smart websockets.

Smart contextual routing

Intelligent routing in every situation, ensuring optimal performance and reliability across different geographical regions.

Agentic node management

Using AI systems to continuously expand support to new blockchains.

Fast Solana archive

Blazingly fast archival access at high throughput, delivering 30-50K RPS for getSignatures via purpose-built hardware clusters.

Smart indexing

Multi-chain APIs and federated data endpoints to query data across all EVM chains and Solana in a single request.

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Autonomous failovers

Automated failovers to alternative deployments at machine-speed upon disruption.

Optimized block discovery

Predictive peer selection and quorum building to detect new blocks before any other solution.

EVM boosted writes

Virtual mempool, sticky nonce router, gas escalator, and optional bundle relay for optimized blockchain transactions.

Shuffle sharding

Deterministic micro-fleet per tenant ensuring that performance spikes from neighboring users never impact you.

Transaction lifecycle toolkit

Simulate, send, mempool stream, confirm, and archive transactions from a single dashboard/API.

Powering the world's largest prediction market

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"Latency went from 250ms to 100ms. The improvement will drive a big boost in performance and UX."

Rodrigo C., Head of Platform at Polymarket

$15.5B+

in trading volume

350K

monthly active users

$165M

in capital raised

125K

concurrent users

Powering financial access for humanity

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"Working with Alchemy has consistently been a great experience. Their team has deep expertise in running critical infra at scale. They free us up to focus on high-impact workstreams—and push us to raise the bar for how we operate."

Eric Woolsey, Protocol at Tools For Humanity

1.9M+

daily transactions

30.1M+

World App users

160+

countries with users

598K

new accounts / week

Don't just take it from us

Here's what the community is saying.

Ormi@ormilabs

·2 Jul

For our users, staying at the tip of the chain is critical. @Alchemy's new global infrastructure delivered blocks up to 35% faster than other providers during peak load, making it an vital part of Ormi's stack.

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Ormi@ormilabs

For our users, staying at the tip of the chain is critical. @Alchemy's new global infrastructure delivered blocks up to 35% faster than other providers during peak load, making it an vital part of Ormi's stack.

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Usual@usualmoney

·29 Jul

Did you notice? Our dApp now now loads faster than ever: APYs, positions... all there instantly. "Monitoring the situation" has never been that easy. Hard work with @Alchemy made this 2x faster thanks to their new infra, because waiting 2 seconds felt very...TradFi

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Usual@usualmoney

Did you notice? Our dApp now now loads faster than ever: APYs, positions... all there instantly. "Monitoring the situation" has never been that easy. Hard work with @Alchemy made this 2x faster thanks to their new infra, because waiting 2 seconds felt very...TradFi

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Zerion@zerion

·14 Jun

Zers 🩵Alchemy We've built everything from the Zerion API to the Zerion Wallet, with the help of @AlchemyPlatform They are the only blockchain infrastructure platform that will let you scale infinitely.

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Zerion@zerion

Zers 🩵Alchemy We've built everything from the Zerion API to the Zerion Wallet, with the help of @AlchemyPlatform They are the only blockchain infrastructure platform that will let you scale infinitely.

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Ormi@ormilabs

·2 Jul

For our users, staying at the tip of the chain is critical. @Alchemy's new global infrastructure delivered blocks up to 35% faster than other providers during peak load, making it an vital part of Ormi's stack.

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Ormi@ormilabs

For our users, staying at the tip of the chain is critical. @Alchemy's new global infrastructure delivered blocks up to 35% faster than other providers during peak load, making it an vital part of Ormi's stack.

18

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Usual@usualmoney

·29 Jul

Did you notice? Our dApp now now loads faster than ever: APYs, positions... all there instantly. "Monitoring the situation" has never been that easy. Hard work with @Alchemy made this 2x faster thanks to their new infra, because waiting 2 seconds felt very...TradFi

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Usual@usualmoney

Did you notice? Our dApp now now loads faster than ever: APYs, positions... all there instantly. "Monitoring the situation" has never been that easy. Hard work with @Alchemy made this 2x faster thanks to their new infra, because waiting 2 seconds felt very...TradFi

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Zerion@zerion

·14 Jun

Zers 🩵Alchemy We've built everything from the Zerion API to the Zerion Wallet, with the help of @AlchemyPlatform They are the only blockchain infrastructure platform that will let you scale infinitely.

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Zerion@zerion

Zers 🩵Alchemy We've built everything from the Zerion API to the Zerion Wallet, with the help of @AlchemyPlatform They are the only blockchain infrastructure platform that will let you scale infinitely.

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Ormi@ormilabs

·2 Jul

For our users, staying at the tip of the chain is critical. @Alchemy's new global infrastructure delivered blocks up to 35% faster than other providers during peak load, making it an vital part of Ormi's stack.

18

1

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Ormi@ormilabs

For our users, staying at the tip of the chain is critical. @Alchemy's new global infrastructure delivered blocks up to 35% faster than other providers during peak load, making it an vital part of Ormi's stack.

18

1

4

693

Usual@usualmoney

·29 Jul

Did you notice? Our dApp now now loads faster than ever: APYs, positions... all there instantly. "Monitoring the situation" has never been that easy. Hard work with @Alchemy made this 2x faster thanks to their new infra, because waiting 2 seconds felt very...TradFi

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10.2K

Usual@usualmoney

Did you notice? Our dApp now now loads faster than ever: APYs, positions... all there instantly. "Monitoring the situation" has never been that easy. Hard work with @Alchemy made this 2x faster thanks to their new infra, because waiting 2 seconds felt very...TradFi

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Zerion@zerion

·14 Jun

Zers 🩵Alchemy We've built everything from the Zerion API to the Zerion Wallet, with the help of @AlchemyPlatform They are the only blockchain infrastructure platform that will let you scale infinitely.

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Zerion@zerion

Zers 🩵Alchemy We've built everything from the Zerion API to the Zerion Wallet, with the help of @AlchemyPlatform They are the only blockchain infrastructure platform that will let you scale infinitely.

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