If you have ever developed a decentralized application on the NEO network, you have most likely experienced having to wait all day for your node to sync. Building a decentralized application is hard, and it’s 3x harder when you also have to manage your own node infrastructure.

Over the past year at o3, we have been building and refining our platform to serve our growing user base. Our backend is currently serving roughly 3 million requests per day feeding data into several traditional and decentralized applications. We build great stuff, and we want to make things easier for other developers like ourselves. Our dAPI proposal was the first step towards making it easier for others to move faster when developing an application that relies on blockchain. We aim to make it so that blockchain developers can focus more on building the actual product, rather than knowing the ins and outs of blockchain technology. The dAPI allows developers to drastically reduce time-to-market by not having to worry about how to manage a user’s private key.

So the dAPI allows your client-side app to easily interact with your users, but how about the blockchain data that you need on your backend? Sometimes, you just want to fetch data from the NEO network. Today you have two options for this:

Find a reliable public node to connect to Manage your own node

Public nodes have no guarantees for uptime or data consistency, and managing your own can require long syncs, reboots, logging, and monitoring… Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Luckily we’ve now got a solution.

Introducing neod network https://neod.network — a secure, fast, reliable and scalable gateway to the NEO network. Focus your effort on building the actual product, no need to waste your time managing the infrastructure. Connect to a provided TLS-enabled endpoint and you are all set. It works just like connecting to a neo-cli node with neon-js or the dAPI. neod supports NEO mainnet, testnet, and you can even spin up your private network for your local development. We will be adding support to NEO 3.0 Preview when it launches.

For more information please visit https://neod.network

If this is something you are interested in make sure to signup to get notified first about our official launch. If you have any questions or would like to receive more detailed information please don’t hesitate to contact us at business@o3.network