The Stack Stellar Builders Ship On

Quicknode is a leading Stellar RPC provider, serving Stellar mainnet and testnet over the low-latency Horizon REST API and Soroban JSON-RPC from 17+ global regions with a 99.99% uptime SLA. You get a private endpoint in seconds, Streams and Webhooks, and support for payment apps, anchors, and Soroban contracts, on a platform that handles 500B+ requests a month across 80+ chains.

Stellar is a fast, low-cost payments network for issuing and moving digital assets, with the Soroban platform for smart contracts. It uses XLM as its native asset. Quicknode serves Stellar mainnet and testnet through the Horizon and Soroban APIs.

Create a free Quicknode account, select Stellar, and a private RPC URL is generated instantly with full method coverage and rate limits that scale with your plan. No credit card is required for the free tier.

No. Running Stellar infrastructure means operating a Horizon instance and a Soroban RPC alongside a Stellar Core node and keeping them in sync. Point the Stellar SDK at a Quicknode Stellar endpoint and you get the Horizon REST API and Soroban RPC with no infrastructure to manage.

Quicknode serves Stellar over the Horizon REST API for accounts, payments, and history, and the Soroban JSON-RPC for smart-contract deployment, invocation, and state.

Quicknode retains roughly 90 days of Horizon data and about 7 days of Soroban data on mainnet, and about 1 day of Soroban data on testnet. Use Horizon for account and payment history within that window, and the Soroban RPC for current contract state.

No. Stellar is not an EVM chain, so there is no eth_ JSON-RPC, MetaMask, or Solidity support. Payments and assets run on the Stellar Core protocol, queried over the Horizon REST API, and smart contracts run on Soroban, written in Rust and accessed over the Soroban JSON-RPC. You interact with both using the Stellar SDK.