Private Zeitgeist RPC Endpoints on a Dedicated Node

Zeitgeist is a decentralized blockchain for prediction markets and futarchy, where users can create, bet on, and settle markets on the outcome of future events. It runs as a Polkadot parachain built on Substrate. Its native token, ZTG, is used for market creation collateral, transaction fees, governance, and as the network's dispute resolution mechanism.

Most teams start with a full (pruned) Zeitgeist node because it serves current-state reads and transaction submission with far lower storage needs. Choose an archive node when your product must query full history, power explorers, run deep analytics, or support heavy historical lookups. If you are unsure, tell us your workload and we will map you to the right node type.

No. Zeitgeist is a Substrate parachain and exposes the Substrate JSON-RPC (the chain_, state_, system_, and author_ method families) over HTTP and WSS, not Ethereum's eth_* namespaces. You connect with Polkadot.js, the @zeitgeistpm/sdk, or any Substrate tooling. The ZTG token can move to Moonbeam over XCM, but Zeitgeist itself is not an EVM chain.

Yes. Most developers use Polkadot.js or the @zeitgeistpm/sdk over WebSocket for subscriptions and real-time updates. Your dedicated Zeitgeist node can expose WSS WebSocket endpoints for app usage, and you can keep them private or public based on your access model. To tighten control, restrict access by IP and allow only trusted clients.

No. We provision from current snapshots so your node is live in hours rather than syncing from genesis for days. As a parachain, a Zeitgeist node also tracks the Polkadot relay chain, which we sync alongside it. You can run it yourself with full root access, or choose our fully managed option where our engineers handle sync, updates, and monitoring.

Yes. A collator produces blocks on the Zeitgeist parachain and can participate in ZTG staking. You hold the collator keys; we run the metal with full root, KVM, and IPMI access, steady uptime, and fast recovery. Collators run the same zeitgeist binary as a full node plus a block-production setup, so the hardware footprint is similar.

Yes. That is a core benefit of running a dedicated Zeitgeist node on dedicated servers. You can scale up resources as load grows, add storage for archive needs, and move to higher core counts for heavy concurrency. This keeps your endpoint stable while your product grows, without rebuilding on a new platform.

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.