By Nancy Dahlberg
QuickNode, a leader in blockchain infrastructure, announced today its official launch of the QuickNode Marketplace, offering a one-stop-shop for Web3 tools for the more than 100,000 developers on its platform. QuickNode made the announcement at the 2022 Messari Mainnet Conference in New York City.
With the marketplace, developers can now create and sell custom plugins for the QuickNode Marketplace, giving QuickNode’s registered developers access to new APIs for their blockchain enabled apps, the company said. Third-party developers can now offer powerful add-ons to be used with QuickNode’s web3 endpoints via a simple API. They could also manage their customers, payouts and promote updates.
Before, developers would have to use different blockchain tools via separate accounts and write software to integrate them with their own applications. Now it can be done with a single click, said QuickNode co-founder Auston Bunsen.
“QuickNode Marketplace is the easiest way to level up your infrastructure. It’s basically the app store for Blockchain and Web3,” said Bunsen, QuickNode’s Product Lead.
Modeled after the Web3 decentralization ethos, the marketplace allows the ecosystem to work collectively for the first time. In crypto, “no one has tried to really build something that allows everyone to work together nicely. We are no longer enemies,” Bunsen told Fortune, which broke the news.
Bunsen, Alex Nabutovsky, Dmitry Shklovsky and Manuel Kreutz, all from the Miami area, co-founded QuickNode in 2017 to create an accessible API platform for businesses to build and scale Web3 apps and launched the platform in early 2020. Today, QuickNode is a team of at least 69.
QuickNode is a Y Combinator Winter 2021 alum, and last October raised a $35 million Series A round, backed by Tiger Global, Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, Soma Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, Crossbeam and crypto entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano. In total, QuickNode has raised over $45 million, including its $5.3 million seed round in May led by Ohanian and including SoftBank.
QuickNode Marketplace is launching with eight partners and aims to quickly expand. Add-ons ready to be installed include Crossmint, an NFT minting API that allows developers to mint new NFTs and add them to a collection in a single call to the API. Blocknative predicts gas fee prices. Blocktorch is a multi-chain observability platform for any smart contract, with quick access to logs, metrics and other data.
The QuickNode Marketplace will give customers more options in the customization of their blockchain infrastructure, Bunsen said. “Every Blockchain-enabled app wants a cutting-edge experience, but providing too many features can make the software cumbersome to use. QuickNode Marketplace solves this by allowing developers to install exactly the features and APIs they need to get the most out of their endpoint.”
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