On the last day of October 2025, Bware Labs confirmed what many developers had feared. This means that the Blast API, one of Web3’s most widely used RPC providers, will be shut down.
This announcement came just ahead of a planned acquisition by Alchemy and sent ripples through the developer community. What seemed like a routine business move has turned into something much deeper, showing how fragile yet essential the backbone of Web3 is.
Centralization by necessity, not by design
The RPC (remote procedure call) layer is what allows decentralized apps to “talk” to the blockchain. It is a middleware that handles billions of requests, wallet balances, token transfers, and contract interactions every day.
However, despite the decentralized ideals of cryptocurrencies, this layer has become dominated by a few large players like Alchemy, Infura, and previously Blast. Their tools sped up blockchain development, but at the cost of dependencies.
Many developers see Alchemy’s acquisition of Blast as a sign of market consolidation. This simplifies access for enterprise clients, but also reduces the diversity of the infrastructure layer. This is something decentralization advocates have been warning about for years.
Developer reaction: Exploring resilience
The darkening of the Blast API is forcing developers to rethink their infrastructure choices. Some are moving directly to Alchemy, as suggested by Bware Labs. Other companies are taking this opportunity to diversify their setups, balancing across multiple RPC providers or considering more multi-chain options.
Interest in platforms like NowNodes has skyrocketed in recent weeks. The service supports over 115 blockchains, establishing itself as a multichain workhorse. We offer stable pricing and no request limits for projects requiring unpredictable scale.
This flexibility has become critical for developers running a variety of ecosystems, from Ethereum and Solana to Monero and eCash.
These changes suggest that developers are no longer chasing the latest API, but instead want to build infrastructure that can withstand uncertainty.
Developers at a crossroads: Stability over speed
Alchemy offers a migration path for former Blast API users, but developers are cautioned not to rush the process. Every project operates under its own unique architecture, expansion needs, and financial structure. What works well for one team may create bottlenecks and unnecessary costs for another. A thorough migration ensures stability and flexibility rather than a quick fix.
For multichain builders, the first thing to consider is range. While Alchemy’s ecosystem integration may be attractive for projects that run exclusively on Ethereum, projects built across networks such as Solana, Avalanche, and Monero require broader coverage. Scalability also plays an important role. When request volume spikes during peak usage, rate limits and price tiers can quickly become a constraint, slowing down operations and increasing costs.
Budget and support complete the equation. Your team should decide whether a predictable, flat-rate pricing model is better suited to your needs than a usage-based option that scales with traffic. Equally important, the quality and speed of customer support determines how quickly technical issues are resolved. This is an overlooked factor that can increase or decrease uptime during product launches or token events.
How developers are adapting: finding the right fit
Web3’s infrastructure layer is undergoing the same change that cloud computing did a decade ago, moving from the simplest to the most reliable. The Blast API shutdown is a reminder that reliability in distributed systems comes from diverse architectures, not one powerful provider.
As RPC services become more specialized, Alchemy will continue to focus primarily on the Ethereum ecosystem, while also expanding support for several other major blockchains. Meanwhile, NOWNodes has expanded its reach across dozens of chains, and developers are learning how to combine, adapt, and monitor stacks with the precision once possessed by traditional IT teams.
NowNodes provides multi-chain RPC access with a reported uptime of 99.95%, supported by a failover system and global redundancy to maintain stable performance. We offer free entry plans, flexible pricing options, and fast WebSocket connections for real-time blockchain data. That model is attractive to developers seeking a predictable cross-chain infrastructure without rate limits.
Alchemy, co-founded by Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau, remains a widely used infrastructure provider in the Ethereum ecosystem. Its supernode architecture and analytics tools are designed for speed, scalability, and data accuracy across Ethereum and Layer 2 networks, as well as several other supported blockchains such as Polygon and Arbitrum.
final verdict
The Blast API shutdown is not just an isolated event, but a snapshot of a maturing industry learning from its dependencies. In the race to decentralize everything, Web3 realized that true resilience comes not from a single provider, but from diversity, redundancy, and balance.
As developers explore new models, from the ecosystem-focused depth of Alchemy to the multi-chain reach of NOWNodes, a clearer picture is emerging of the next phase of Web3 infrastructure, one where flexibility and interoperability are as important as performance.
