Buy & Swap Ankr (ANKR)

The plumbing of Web3

When an app shows your balance, it asks a blockchain node through what is called an RPC request. Ankr's core product is providing those connections at scale. Its homepage advertises an average response time of 56 milliseconds, 99.99% uptime and support for more than 70 blockchains; its documentation cites more than 80 chains with JSON-RPC and WebSocket access, both public and premium.

The scale behind that is large. Ankr reports 8 billion daily RPC requests, bare-metal nodes in more than 30 global regions, and 760,000 unique geographic locations served each month. It describes this network as a decentralised physical infrastructure network (DePIN), designed so that requests always take the shortest round-trip path.

Why does that matter to an ordinary user? A slow or unreliable node means a wallet that hangs, a trade that fails or a balance that looks wrong. Fast, widely distributed nodes are what make an app feel instant, wherever in the world its users happen to be.^{[1], [2], [3]}

More than connections

Beyond RPC, the docs describe an Advanced API with multichain NFT, token and transaction endpoints; AppChains, which let a team launch a dedicated rollup or sidechain; and staking products including liquid staking. Ankr's homepage reports more than $83 million in staking TVL across 9+ supported tokens and 18,000+ users.

The documentation also reflects where the industry is going. Agentic RPC offers MCP servers so AI agents can read chain data cheaply, and Verifiable RPC returns signed responses proving which secure enclave produced them — a way for apps to trust that data wasn't altered in transit.

Ankr's partner case studies include Polygon, BNB Chain and Mantle. For Polygon, the site cites 30 billion monthly RPC requests powered and more than a million smart contracts enabled, and quotes Polygon's director of growth crediting Ankr's node hosting, APIs and liquid staking.^{[4], [5], [6], [7]}

ANKR, reforged

Ankr Forge is the newest chapter for the token. The docs describe it as Ankr's rewards and coordination platform for ANKR, connecting holders to partner ecosystems through mission-based earning. Onchain activity — transactions, bridging, app interactions — earns Forge Points.

The model has two parts, and the docs are careful to separate them. Holding ANKR qualifies a wallet for a Forge Drop, a reward distribution tied to a partner campaign; Forge Points determine the size of each wallet's share. Partners can run campaigns inside Forge ahead of their own token launches.

The docs argue Forge differs from generic incentive platforms because it plugs directly into Ankr's existing infrastructure — Ankr already runs nodes for many partner chains — which is intended to attract sustained users rather than one-time airdrop hunters — people who arrive for a single reward and leave the next day. Two further products are on the roadmap: Forge Vault, where locking ANKR multiplies points by size and duration, and ValidatorFi, which pairs staking yield with Forge points.^{[8], [9], [10]}

When the Forge roadmap lands

Forge Vault and ValidatorFi are described as planned products. Their launch dates are UNKNOWN from official sources, and none are predicted here.^[10]