About Center
Center is a powerful blockchain indexing platform that provides developers and teams with seamless access to real-time, structured on-chain data. Designed for speed, precision, and reliability, Center helps eliminate the traditional pain points of building infrastructure from scratch by offering production-ready APIs and managed data services.
With a growing list of supported chains and clients including Uniswap, Astaria, Tribute Labs, and Soho, Center has proven to be the backbone for many critical Web3 applications. Whether you're indexing NFT metadata, managing token balances, or building custom contract logic, Center's plug-and-play infrastructure ensures developers spend more time shipping and less time worrying about data pipelines.
Center is a developer-first blockchain data indexing platform that makes accessing and managing Web3 data as simple and powerful as possible. The platform’s flagship service, Chainpipe, allows developers to index any EVM smart contract and ingest data into structured, query-ready formats like a managed Postgres database. This modular design allows teams to define exactly what data they want to track (sources) and how they want to receive it (destinations).
The platform supports major networks including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Scroll, Solana, and others, both on mainnet and testnet. As more ecosystems join the modular blockchain movement, Center remains agile, adding support for new chains and data formats in response to developer demand.
In addition to Chainpipe, Center also provides a purpose-built NFT API designed to render, display, and process metadata and media from token collections. This has become a key piece of infrastructure for NFT platforms such as Soho and Uniswap, helping them to accurately render NFT assets across various chains and standards without delays or errors.
Unlike traditional infrastructure providers that require custom integrations or expensive engineering work, Center empowers teams with clean abstractions, instant backfilling of data, and millisecond-level processing of new blocks. Teams like Agora and Astaria rely on Center to reduce operational complexity, save on development time, and focus entirely on building customer-facing products.
In a competitive space alongside indexing platforms such as The Graph, Goldsky, and SubQuery, Center differentiates itself through its minimal setup time, instant data availability, managed infra, and robust enterprise support—making it ideal for Web3 teams aiming to get to market quickly.
Center offers a suite of benefits and features tailored for modern Web3 developers:
- Instant Indexing: Index any smart contract in seconds with automatic data ingestion and zero setup.
- Managed Postgres Database: Access clean, structured blockchain data via a ready-to-query hosted database.
- Purpose-Built NFT API: Render and manage media assets from NFTs with precision across supported chains.
- Millisecond Block Processing: Stay up-to-date with on-chain activity using near real-time data processing.
- Broad Chain Support: Compatible with Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, and more.
- No Backfilling Headaches: Say goodbye to manual backfill requests and missing historical data.
Getting started with Center is fast and developer-friendly:
- Sign Up: Visit the Center website and create an account to get access to your dashboard.
- Create a Project: Launch your first project from the dashboard and define your data source (contract or event logs).
- Connect a Destination: Choose a destination such as a managed Postgres DB where your indexed data will be sent.
- Use the API Library: Explore the NFT API, Token API, and other endpoints to start querying blockchain data instantly.
- Access Support: Connect with the team via Twitter or Telegram for help and feedback.
Center FAQ
Center offers an all-in-one contract indexing platform that handles the complexities of backfilling, parsing, and maintaining on-chain data. Teams no longer need to spin up custom indexers or maintain cron jobs just to keep their data in sync. With automatic ingestion and real-time updates, developers can ship faster without engineering overhead.
Chainpipe is Center’s proprietary indexing engine that allows developers to specify the exact data they need (sources) and how they want to receive it (destinations). With near-instant indexing of smart contracts and real-time syncing, Chainpipe delivers production-ready blockchain data in formats that can be easily queried and integrated—ideal for rapidly scaling Web3 projects.
Yes, Center provides a powerful NFT API that allows developers to render NFT images, metadata, and media accurately across supported chains like Ethereum, Zora, Polygon, and Solana. Used by teams like Uniswap and Soho, this API simplifies media handling and ensures smooth UX across dApps. Check out the media rendering endpoints on Center.
Center’s managed Postgres database gives you structured access to real-time blockchain data without any DevOps work. Unlike self-hosted systems that require setup, monitoring, and scaling, Center provides fully hosted infra with instant updates, backfilled history, and SLA-level reliability—allowing developers to focus solely on application logic.
Teams can go from signup to live queries in minutes. Once you create a project and connect your contract source in the dashboard, Center immediately starts indexing and streams data into your selected destination—such as a managed Postgres instance. With Center, the path from idea to execution is frictionless and fast.