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Welcome to Alchemy Docs - documentation for the world’s most powerful blockchain developer platform. |
Use these docs to learn more about Alchemy's core products, explore guides, and check out our API references.
Get access to Alchemy for free here.
Check out Alchemy's API Reference pages to understand how to use the Enhanced APIs, a suite of higher level methods built to streamline your development workflow, and each of the chain specific endpoints for Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Flow, and Crypto.org!
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Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform focused on making blockchain development easy. We've built a suite of developer tools, enhanced APIs, and superior node infrastructure to make building and running blockchain applications seamless.
Our platform supports 70% of the top Ethereum applications, including the top blockchain companies in the world:
To learn more about the benefits of using Alchemy, check out the "Why Use Alchemy?" page below:
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Alchemy has a full suite of products built to accelerate blockchain development. Our tools make it easier for blockchain developers to focus on their applications and users, rather than interfacing with the low level blockchain integrations.
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Get set up to use the Alchemy API in under 5 minutes. Learn how to get and use your API key, start making requests, and set up your application to use Alchemy's endpoints!
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Not sure where to start? New to building in Web3? Check out some of the beginner tutorials below!
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