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🚀 Quickstart guide

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Overview

Quick start.
After learning this chapter, you can gain:

  • Quick connection to the world of Web3
    You can access all supported public blockchains by creating an API key, without additional configurations.
  • Application isolation
    You can create multiple API keys to isolate applications and secure production.
  • Dual support for HTTPS and WSS
    Connections can be established over HTTPS and WebSocket Secure (WSS). This can meet the different requirements of applications.

For Web3 application developers, the cost of building nodes on public blockchains is relatively high, and the stability and security of the node running cannot be ensured. In this issue, a node service is available in public preview for free (allows you to create a maximum of ten API keys). To interact with blockchains through HTTPS/WSS, developers only need to get the API key that is required to establish connections to RPC nodes.
Before you use the node service to connect to blockchains, sign up for an account on the ZAN platform. Then, you can use this account to log in to the ZAN console and create the API keys required for Web3 application development.

🔏 Preparing a ZAN account

If you have not signed up for a ZAN account

  1. Click sign up in the upper right corner of the ZAN Node Service Console. The following login page appears.
  2. After filling in your email address and password, click Continue to receive an email to activate your account.

If you have registered

Click Log In in the upper right corner of the product introduction page. Enter your account and password, then you can you can start for a free plan!

Start for Free

After completing the registration for your ZAN account, you can start for a free plan!

  1. Click Start for Free on the product introduction page, and the page will automatically redirect you to the product console to create an API Key required for connecting to node services.
  2. See Creating your API key on the ZAN platform to create your first apikey.

🔑 Creating your API key on the ZAN platform

Before you get an API key on the ZAN platform, sign up for an account on the ZAN official website. Then log in to the ZAN console and start creating your first API key.

Creating an API key

You can create multiple API keys on the ZAN platform to isolate applications and secure production. You can access all supported public blockchains through each API key that you create, without additional configurations. The procedure for creating an API key is as follows:

  1. After you log in to the ZAN console, if you have not created an API key, the following message appears, guiding you to create your first API key.

  2. Click Create Now, and specify an API key name.
    Naming your API key can help you manage its application scenarios and purposes.

  3. Click Yes to create the API key.
    Once the API key is created, you can view some basic information about the API key in the list, such as its name, creator, and creation time.

    On the left side of the page, you can view the available Cerdits of the current plan. On the right side of the page, you can view your current plan.

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    Note:

    The Free Plan provides a free quota of 300 million credits by default. The system calculates the number of consumed credits based on the consumption of each RPC node. The number of consumed credits also varies based on the API methods that are called. For more information, see Credit pricing details.

Getting API key information

After an API key is created, you can view the API key and the network URLs for the blockchains supported by the platform.

View path

Move the pointer over the target API key panel, and click Action. On the Get Started tab of the API key management page, you can view the API key and the network URLs for each blockchain.

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Note:

You can click Copy to the right side of the API key or network URL to copy the content.

Connectable blockchains

You can connect RPC nodes to blockchains that the platform currently supports by using the API key you get. The platform will support more EVM-compatible blockchains and other blockchains in the future.

To help you directly get the network URLs of different blockchains, the platform automatically generates URLs concatenated with the API key for you, and provides HTTPS and WSS connection methods.

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Attention:

If you're using the free version, you must upgrade to the paid version to use WebSockets in Solana.

To switch networks such as the testnet and mainnet, click the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the specific blockchain module. Different URLs are provided for different networks. You can click Copy to the right side of the URL to copy it.

Start for Price Plan

For Growth or Pro

  1. Click Price Plan on the product introduction page, then click Buy Now.
  2. See Purchase plan to purchase plan.

For Enterprise

  1. Click Price Plan on the product introduction page, then click Contract Us.

  2. The page will automatically scroll to the bottom of the product page. Please fill in your custom requirements in the text box, read and check the agreement below, and then click Send a message.

  3. After a successful application, the page will display the following message.


    You can click View Detail in the pop-up window to check the status of your application on the homepage.

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    Note:

    After we receive your application, we will provide feedback as soon as possible and notify you by email. Please check your email regularly.

📚 What to do next

Updated 12 days ago