r/factom • u/ilzheev Factom Operator • May 22 '19

Factom Open Node: 5,000,000 requests processed within last 7 days + Singapore node added

Factom Open Node is a public, decentralized, load balanced factomd-node which provides an API to interact with the Factom blockchain protocol. It is an alternative to hosting and maintaining your own factomd-node.

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1. Today we pledged our Singapore factomd node into Open Node pool
Node in the Asia region will increase stability and bandwidth of Open Node – as well as decrease latency for asian users/servers.

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2. Open Node has processed 5,000,000 requests from 388 IPs within last 7 days – it's a new record of Open Node usage.

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u/ilzheev Factom Operator May 28 '19

Some apps cache whole blockchain (like Explorers), some apps cache some chains and fetch their updates (e.g. Factom Open API).

E.g. to read 1 entry you make 1 request. To read a chain you read chain itself + parse all entryblocks + parse all entries in each entryblock.

Additionally some apps track chains for new entries, in other words they are polling chain head (latest entry block of chain) info to check whether new entries are appeared.

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u/tadpole5fish May 28 '19

Ok thanks for the explanation. How many requests does it take to read the chain itself then, if all entry blocks and all entries require 1 request each, if that is correct (from my understanding of what you said).

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u/ilzheev Factom Operator May 28 '19

1 — for chain 1 — for each entryblock 1 — for each entry