Private Arbitrum Nova RPC Endpoints on a Dedicated Node

Arbitrum Nova is Arbitrum's public AnyTrust chain, while Arbitrum One is Arbitrum's public Rollup chain. In plain terms, Nova lowers fees by using a Data Availability Committee, while Arbitrum One keeps the stronger rollup-style trust model. We position Nova for teams that care about cheaper user actions, high interaction volume, and EVM compatibility, without pretending it is the same thing as Arbitrum One. Nova also uses chain ID 42170 and ETH as the gas token.

Use a dedicated node when your app cannot afford shared limits, noisy traffic, or weak recovery options. Arbitrum's official public RPCs do not provide WebSocket support, which is often the first blocker for live listeners, alerting, and event-driven product logic. With us, you move onto single-tenant hardware with dedicated CPU, RAM, and NVMe, plus KVM, root, and IPMI access when something needs direct intervention.

Not in the staking sense. Arbitrum Nova is an AnyTrust L2 on the Nitro stack with a centralized sequencer and a Data Availability Committee, so there is no permissionless, stake-to-earn validator like Ethereum or Solana. What we provision is a fast, dedicated full or archive RPC node, which is what apps, wallets, and indexers on Nova actually need.

Yes. Arbitrum Nova is an L2 that derives its state from Ethereum, so your Nitro node must connect to an Ethereum L1 execution RPC endpoint. If that parent-chain endpoint is slow, your node can fall behind, which shows up as stale reads and delayed indexing. You can bring your own Ethereum endpoint or run Ethereum on dedicated servers with us, ideally in the same region for tighter latency.

Nova nodes can support WebSocket access when you run dedicated or self-managed infrastructure. The key limitation is the official public Arbitrum RPC, which does not offer WebSocket support. That is why teams building listeners, subscriptions, bots, and live notification systems usually move off public endpoints once the product becomes serious.

Most teams should start with a full node. Arbitrum's docs say most users do not need an archive node, and they point to archive mode mainly for historical-state access and long-range data workloads. We recommend a full node for live app reads, writes, and common backend traffic, and archive only when you know you need deep historical queries, analytics backfills, or compliance-style record pulls. For Nova, archive planning is real work because Arbitrum's published storage note lists 4.3TB SSD and rapid monthly growth for archive data.

Arbitrum's current full-node guide lists 64GB RAM, an 8-core CPU, and NVMe SSD as the minimum recommended baseline for a Nitro full node that is not archival. We treat that as a starting point, not a finish line. For production Nova RPC we usually think in tiers: a private full node for steady app traffic, a larger box for heavier read concurrency, and a separate archive-capable build when history depth matters. If you need archive access, plan storage generously from day one because Arbitrum's archive note for Nova shows meaningful growth pressure over time.

Launch windows fail at the same point every time: too many reads, too many event checks, too many retries, and too many users hitting the same contracts at once. A dedicated setup gives your launch its own CPU, RAM, and storage instead of throwing it into a shared pool with unrelated workloads. That matters for claim campaigns, reward drops, wallet surges, mint windows, and social product bursts where the first impression decides whether users trust the app or leave.

No. Unlike shared RPC providers that bill per "compute unit" and throttle you past a quota, a dedicated node is a flat monthly price with unlimited requests and zero overages. One node equals all the throughput your hardware can serve. That makes budgeting predictable and removes the surprise bills that come with usage-based RPC pricing.

Shared RPC pools serve thousands of customers from pooled infrastructure, so you inherit rate limits, noisy-neighbor latency, and compute-unit billing. A RedSwitches node runs on single-tenant bare metal that is yours alone: reserved CPU, RAM, and NVMe, a dedicated 10/25 Gbps port, and a private endpoint you control. Performance tracks your hardware, not another tenant's traffic.

No. We provision from current snapshots so your node is live in hours rather than syncing from genesis for days. You can run it yourself with full root access, or choose our fully managed option where our engineers handle the sync, updates, and monitoring. Either way you receive a working private endpoint, not an empty server.

Yes. With 20+ Tier III locations across the US, EU, Asia, and Australia you can place your node in the same region as your users or a chain's sequencer to cut round-trip latency. Tell us your target region and we will recommend the closest facility. You can also run multi-region nodes for redundancy and split read and write endpoints.