Private B3 RPC Endpoints on a Dedicated Node

A B3 RPC node is the server endpoint your app uses to read blockchain data, submit transactions, and listen for chain events on B3. B3 Mainnet uses chain ID 8333, the native gas token is ETH, and the official public RPC listed by B3 is https://mainnet-rpc.b3.fun. Since B3 is positioned as Base's layer 3 consumer ecosystem for games, apps, and enterprises, the node sits at the center of user actions such as reads, sends, claims, and event-driven flows.

A public endpoint is shared infrastructure. It is useful for quick starts, testing, and lighter workloads. A dedicated B3 RPC node gives you single-tenant compute, private access options, stronger traffic isolation, and cleaner control over reads, writes, and WebSocket traffic. That difference matters once your product moves into production, where shared and rate-limited infrastructure can become the bottleneck. Base says its public RPCs are rate-limited and not suitable for production systems, and our dedicated RPC offer is built around that production gap.

Not in the staking sense. B3 is a Base layer-3 rollup built on the OP Stack with a centralized sequencer, so there is no permissionless, stake-to-earn validator like Ethereum or Solana. What we provision is what apps and indexers actually need: a fast, dedicated full or archive RPC node running op-geth and op-node. If your goal is throughput, history, and private access rather than block production, a dedicated RPC node is the right build.

Yes. Like every OP Stack node, B3 derives its state from its parent chain, so your node must connect to a Base execution RPC endpoint to follow the canonical chain. If that parent-chain endpoint is slow or rate-limited, your node can fall behind, which shows up as stale reads and delayed indexing. You can bring your own Base endpoint, or run it on dedicated servers with us, ideally in the same region for tighter latency and faster catch-up.

Yes. B3's docs say the network is fully EVM-compatible, and they show standard wallet setup for MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and Rainbow. In practice, that means most Ethereum-style tooling, contracts, and developer flows carry over much more easily than they would on a non-EVM chain. From our side, that makes a dedicated B3 RPC node a practical fit for teams already working with Ethereum-like JSON-RPC patterns and wallet flows.

Yes. We can design B3 deployments for both request-response traffic and live event delivery when your workload needs HTTP and WebSocket access. B3 provider ecosystems commonly expose both HTTP and WSS access patterns. For production, we usually treat HTTP and WebSocket traffic as different load shapes, then size the server and routing plan around the mix you expect instead of assuming one endpoint profile fits everything.

Choose a full node when your app mostly cares about current state, recent blocks, transaction submission, and normal event handling. Choose an archive build when you need deeper historical state, older-block analysis, tracing-heavy workflows, or support investigations that go well beyond the latest view of chain data. This matters on B3 because some provider offerings expose no archive and only 128 blocks of state history, which is fine for many apps but not for every product or ops workflow. On the OP Stack side, archive planning also needs more care around snapshots and sync strategy than a standard full node.

For a serious production starting point, we would usually begin around 16 high-clock cores, 64 GB RAM, fast local NVMe, and a 10 Gbps uplink, then move up based on read intensity, WebSocket concurrency, history needs, and retention targets. That recommendation is more conservative than a bare-minimum setup because OP Stack style deployments are resource-heavy, and because Base's own node docs call out 8 cores, at least 16 GB RAM, and locally attached NVMe as a basic setup while its performance guide raises that toward 32 GB minimum and 64 GB recommended. We would rather size you for a stable production floor than force an early rebuild.

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.