Today, Coinbase Cloud is expanding its offering with the launch of Solana Archival Nodes. Managing archival nodes in a scalable way is technically challenging due to Solana’s high throughput design (~2–3 blocks/sec) and large data footprint (~100TB for all historical data).

Solana Archival Node is built for builders: Solana builders can let Coinbase Cloud do the heavy lifting and access the archival data they need. Coinbase Cloud’s Solana archival node infrastructure is built with deep understanding of the Solana network.

Coinbase Cloud’s multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure is architected to minimize downtime risk, and let you access data without skipping a beat. The infrastructure is built to meet or exceed the security needs of highly regulated institutions.

Solana is an open source, high-performance, permissionless blockchain that uses highly scalable technology to prioritize transaction throughput, the ability to process a large number of transactions in a short span of time. Solana is currently able to process more than 50,000 transactions per second.

The high throughput capacity also requires expertise in developer operations and hardware selection to run a performant node. Nodes require powerful hardware, extremely high bandwidth, and significant protocol expertise to manage participation.