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Stablecoin-native L1s compared for node operators: Arc, Stable, Plasma and Tempo
Four Layer-1s built around stablecoins launched within a year of each other. This is the comparison from the operator's chair: chain IDs, gas tokens, consensus, what node types exist, the hardware each chain's docs ask for, and what a dedicated node costs.
Read →Arc mainnet is live: what a dedicated Arc node looks like on day one
Circle's Arc launched its public mainnet on 16 September 2026. Here is what the network is, what you can run on it, the hardware Arc's own docs ask for, and what a dedicated Arc node costs.
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Dedicated RPC node page
One page for the dedicated RPC node offer: how it works, what every node includes, the cities, and a quote form for any chain, answered within the hour.
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Lisk page
Dedicated Lisk RPC nodes (chain ID 1135), the OP Stack layer 2, on op-reth with full and archive nodes, priced per city.
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Theta page
Dedicated Theta RPC nodes (EVM chain ID 361), the Theta node with its ETH RPC adaptor, priced per city.
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Arbitrum Nova page
Dedicated Arbitrum Nova RPC nodes (chain ID 42170), the AnyTrust chain of Arbitrum, on Nitro with full and archive nodes, priced per city.
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peaq page
Dedicated peaq RPC nodes (EVM chain ID 3338), with Substrate and Ethereum JSON-RPC, priced per city; agung testnet linked.
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Lens Chain page
Dedicated Lens Chain RPC nodes (chain ID 232) on the ZKsync external node, priced per city; Lens Chain Testnet linked.
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WEMIX3.0 page
Dedicated WEMIX3.0 RPC nodes (chain ID 1111) on gwemix, priced per city; testnet linked.
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Bitlayer page
Dedicated Bitlayer RPC nodes (chain ID 200901), the EVM Bitcoin layer 2, priced per city.
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Taiko page
Dedicated Taiko Alethia RPC nodes (chain ID 167000), the based rollup on Ethereum, priced per city; Taiko Hoodi testnet linked.
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Ethereum Classic page
Dedicated Ethereum Classic RPC nodes (chain ID 61) on Core-Geth, priced per city; Mordor testnet linked.
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Polkadot page
Dedicated Polkadot relay-chain RPC nodes, priced per city, built to Polkadot's reference hardware; Polkadot Hub nodes on request.
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Kusama page
Dedicated Kusama RPC nodes on the same polkadot binary, priced per city; Kusama Hub nodes on request.
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Moonbeam page
Dedicated Moonbeam RPC nodes (chain ID 1284), Ethereum-compatible JSON-RPC and WebSocket on Polkadot, priced per city.
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Order any chain directly, in 18 cities
Every chain page now shows the price of its node in each city. Pick a city with a price and pay with just your email and a one-time code; pick any other and the same button asks for a quote, answered within the hour.
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Every chain priced from its own hardware spec
Each chain now has its own starting price, set by the hardware its official docs call for with headroom on top, and fixed-price nodes are priced per city. Archive nodes are priced wherever the chain documents archive sizing. Nodes in 18 cities, any other on request.
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Pay quarterly or annually and save
Every fixed-price node can now be paid every 3 months at 5% off or every 12 months at 10% off, at checkout or later from the node page. Clients can also move a running node to another plan: upgrades are prorated, downgrades apply from the next term.
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Order and pay for a node directly
Fixed-price nodes now have a Pay and deploy button: pick the node, create your account, pay in crypto. An engineer picks up the order within the hour and emails a go-live estimate. Validators, other chains and your own servers stay on a quote.
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Fixed-price nodes for the most-deployed chains
Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, BSC, Polygon and Robinhood Chain now have published monthly prices per node (Base, Bot / MEV, Archive), from $139.76/mo for Ethereum. Every other chain keeps its band.
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New site design
A new look across every page: editorial headlines, blue gradient heroes, rounded cards, and published prices first.
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Quick nav on the long pages
Chain pages, the homepage, pricing, the comparisons and the other long pages now carry a bar of section links under the header, so you can jump straight to the part you came for.
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Public RPC URLs on every EVM chain page
Each EVM chain page now lists the public RPC URLs from the chain registry that answered our chain ID check, each with a copy button. The check runs again every week.
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Chain pages retitled around the RPC phrase
Every chain page now leads with "{chain} RPC" in its title and heading, answers "What is the {chain} RPC URL?" and, on EVM chains, "How do I add {chain} to MetaMask with my own RPC URL?". Dedicated stays what we sell; it is no longer the keyword.
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Stablecoin-native L1s compared for node operators: Arc, Stable, Plasma and Tempo
Four Layer-1s built around stablecoins launched within a year of each other. This is the comparison from the operator's chair: chain IDs, gas tokens, consensus, what node types exist, the hardware each chain's docs ask for, and what a dedicated node costs.
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Arc mainnet is live: what a dedicated Arc node looks like on day one
Circle's Arc launched its public mainnet on 16 September 2026. Here is what the network is, what you can run on it, the hardware Arc's own docs ask for, and what a dedicated Arc node costs.
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Arc mainnet page
Arc moved from testnet to mainnet on our side the day Circle launched it: chain ID 5042, USDC gas, dedicated full and archive nodes from $199/mo.
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GIWA page
Dunamu (Upbit) OP Stack L2. Nodes on GIWA Sepolia today, mainnet on launch day, from $99/mo.
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Pricing cards on every chain page
Full, archive and validator prices side by side above the configurator, each card opening the configurator with that node type picked.
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Telegram channel
New chain pages, offers and weekly network changes now post to @argusnodes_channel automatically.
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Arc
Arc mainnet went live on 16 September 2026 with more than 100 institutional and ecosystem builders on day one, an 11-member founding validator cohort and USDC as the gas token; Circle names Alchemy, Blockdaemon, Chainlink, Figment, Kaleido and QuickNode among the launch infrastructure providers. source ↗
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Gno.land page
Beta Mainnet (gnoland1) nodes from $99/mo; the gnoland-1 mainnet is not launchable yet.
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Robinhood Chain promoted
First in the Chains menu and on the homepage: dedicated Robinhood Chain RPC nodes from $199/mo.
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Homepage price picker
Pick any researched chain and node type on the homepage and see the starting price before talking to anyone.
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GetBlock comparison
GetBlock added as the seventh provider in every comparison table, read from its own pages.
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STANDARD band at $199
Every chain that was $349 moved to $199/mo starting, Solana excepted. Four bands: $99, $199, archive from $799, Solana class $999.
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Full chain index
Every network alive on its own chain ID in the canonical registry now has a page, priced on the same flat terms.
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Arc
arc-node v0.8.0 (28 August 2026) is mandatory: Zero8 activated on testnet at 2026-09-03 15:00 UTC and Zero7/Zero8 on mainnet at 2026-09-10 15:00 UTC. It moves to reth 2.2 with Storage V2 snapshots, disables admin RPC routes by default (--rpc.admin to enable), makes arc-snapshots download take explicit --chain and --el-profile flags, and deprecates the separate-host EL/CL RPC transport ahead of removal in v0.9.0. source ↗
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Aura Network
The official docs site docs.aura.network has been returning HTTP 525 (SSL handshake failure) as of 2026-08-22; the documentation source remains readable in the aura-nw/docs GitHub repo, last updated 2025-02-24. source ↗
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Terra
The former official endpoints phoenix-lcd.terra.dev and phoenix-rpc.terra.dev now redirect to lcd-terra.tfl.foundation / rpc-terra.tfl.foundation, which returned 'No provider found to serve this request' on 2026-08-22, and a 'Terra Node Syncing Issue' opened January 2026 is still open; confirm chain liveness with the founder before listing. source ↗
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Warden Protocol
Mainnet (warden_8765-1) is live: the official RPC reported height 10,106,755 on 2026-08-22 running CometBFT 0.38.19, and the chain was upgraded to wardend v1.0.1 at block 5,418,000 in March 2026 (v1.0.0 tagged March 3, 2026; v1.0.1 tagged March 23, 2026). source ↗
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XPR Network
Mainnet is live (chain 384da888...437e0, head block advancing 2026-08-22) with 21 active producers; docs.xprnetwork.org carries no node-operator section, so node setup relies on the xpr.start repo. source ↗
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Bifrost (Polkadot)
The Bifrost source repository linked from the collator docs (github.com/bifrost-io/bifrost, binary bifrost-v0.15.0) now returns 404; runtime releases continue in github.com/bifrost-io/bifrost-release, most recently bifrost-v0.25.4 on 21 August 2026 (low-priority upgrade, runtime 25004 for Bifrost Polkadot, Kusama and Paseo). source ↗
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Cardano
UTxO-HD is now mandatory: node 10.4.1 integrated UTxO-HD (in-memory or LMDB on-disk backend), 10.7.0 added the LSM-tree on-disk backend, and 11.1.0 (pre-release 2026-08-21) removes the V1 LedgerDB and LMDB backend and the legacy tracing system, so LMDB users must switch backends and migrate tracing config. source ↗
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Cosmos Hub
Gaia v28.0.0 (pre-release tagged 21 August 2026) removes the Interchain Security provider module entirely; the upgrade handler sets staking max_validators to the former max_provider_consensus_validators. source ↗
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ADI
On 20 August 2026 at 15:00 UTC ADI mainnet (testnet on 18 August) switched to a new P2P (devp2p) protocol; external nodes still on the old HTTP-replay version stopped syncing and must run v0.20.12, which replaces HTTP replay with P2P (port 3060 TCP+UDP), removes the proof-sync sidecar and needs an updated genesis file. source ↗
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Canton Network
Splice 0.7.4 (tagged 20 August 2026) upgrades the bundled Canton to 3.5.14; validators are expected to stay current with network versions. source ↗
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Starcoin
Starcoin v1.13.21 (released 2026-08-20) is an emergency mandatory hard fork for Main: every node must upgrade before block 32,165,300 (projected about 2026-08-21 23:46 UTC+8); from that height every block must carry an Ed25519 block permit signed by a compiled-in authorization key, and v1.13.20 or older nodes fall onto a legacy fork. source ↗
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Aleo
snarkOS v4.9.1 (August 19, 2026) is a mandatory upgrade with mainnet consensus activation at height 21,342,000 (predicted August 24, 2026); v4.9.0 (July 29, 2026) activated at height 20,794,000 and v4.8.0 (June 29, 2026) at height 19,860,000, so operators must track frequent consensus-version upgrades. source ↗
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Solana
Agave 4.2 is the recommended mainnet release for August 2026 with feature activations beginning the week of August 17, 2026: a 90% rent reduction, larger (4096-byte, v1 format) transactions, and slot times stepping from 400ms to 200ms; indexers decoding raw transaction bytes must handle the v1 layout. source ↗
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Robinhood Chain page
Arbitrum Orbit chain from Robinhood (chain ID 4663): dedicated full and archive nodes from $199/mo.
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Supra
Mainnet (chain id 8) runs node binary supra_node_v11.5.1 with framework aptosvm-v1.16_supra-v1.8.15 since epoch 7573 (2026-08-14); governance proposal 37 activated the v11 feature flags (BLS keys, BCFT certificates, DKG, inclusion proofs) at epoch 7575, and validators still on legacy ed25519 keys were dropped from the active set (83 to 66). source ↗
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Firo
On August 13, 2026 Firo disclosed and mitigated a Spark protocol vulnerability (coin forgery in multi-input spends; about 200 FIRO minted by the researcher on mainnet) and shipped mandatory v0.14.17.2, which restricts each Spark spend to a single coin until the v0.14.18.0 hard fork targeted for the third week of August 2026. source ↗
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Karura
Karura shares the Acala codebase and release train: runtime 2.37.0 (2026-08-13, branch release-karura-2.37.0) adjusted governance parameters to prevent spam attacks, after 2.36.0 (2026-06-14), 2.35.0 (2026-03-17) and 2.34.0 (2026-02-21), so Karura is still actively maintained. source ↗
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IOTA
iota-node is actively maintained with frequent network releases (mainnet v1.29.0 on 12 August 2026, v1.30.x on testnet/devnet in the same month); the operator docs also say IOTA plans to migrate indexing-heavy RPC endpoints away from full nodes to the separate iota-indexer / GraphQL services. source ↗
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Darwinia
v7.0.3 (2026-07-30, Upgrade Priority LOW) is the latest release (Darwinia2 spec 7030, increased governance decision window) with pre-built Linux binaries and a ghcr.io image; the node-operator docs (last updated 2026-01-28) still show v6.7.1 in their download commands, so check the releases page for the current binary. source ↗
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Bifrost Network
bifrost-node v2.2.1 (28 July 2026) is a mandatory update fixing a block-sync panic and a relay-executive membership hook; the client is actively maintained (repo pushed 21 August 2026). source ↗
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Bitcoin Cash
BCHN v29.1.0 (2026-07-28) is an optional release that raises default -rpcthreads 4 to 16 and -rpcworkqueue 16 to 64 and adds spent-output RPCs. source ↗
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Bitcoin SV
Teranode source is public and shipping (v0.15.8 on July 27, 2026; v0.16.0 betas through August 6, 2026) but the official docs still place it in a testnet phase on Teratestnet; SV Node remains the documented mainnet client. source ↗
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Stacks
stacks-core 4.0.1 (July 15, 2026) contains the Epoch 4.0 (PoX-5, Clarity 6) hard fork activating at Bitcoin block 960,230 (about July 30, 2026); 3.4.x nodes diverge after that height, and from 4.0.1 stacks-node and stacks-signer ship as one combined release with a shared version. source ↗
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Neutron
On 14 July 2026 the neutron-org/neutron repository was archived and placed in maintenance mode with no active security monitoring; the canonical repository for releases and security fixes is now github.com/solva-solutions/neutron, and other core repos (neutron-sdk, neutron-std, mainnet-assets, testnets) were archived on 1 July 2026. source ↗
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Bifrost (Polkadot)
Following the Hyperbridge security incident, Bifrost announced on 13 July 2026 that it is discontinuing Hyperbridge, taking an on-chain snapshot at 15 July 2026 06:00 UTC and restoring affected vDOT/vETH balances through governance, with Hyperbridge ETH variants replaced 1:1 by Snowbridge ETH. source ↗
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GIWA
Upgrade 19 (Karst) activated on GIWA Sepolia on 6 July 2026 at 15:00 KST (timestamp 1783317600): Osaka EVM, a 16,777,216 per-transaction gas cap, BN256 pairing input capped at 300 pairs, fault proofs moved from CANNON to CANNON_KONA (kona-client) and the L2 Contract Manager. op-geth and op-program do not support it. source ↗
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