Novacula Reviews & Product Details

Novacula is blockchain node infrastructure software for organizations that run their own nodes instead of renting access from a cloud RPC provider. It installs inside the customer's environment: the servers, Kubernetes clusters, node data and production RPC traffic stay under their control. Most teams reach the same decision point. An external RPC provider is the fastest way to start, but cost grows with request volume, throughput and available methods are set by the provider, and every production request passes through a third party. Running nodes yourself removes that dependency and introduces another problem: every blockchain network brings its own client software, resource profile, upgrade order and health signals, and every placement method brings its own procedures. Ten networks across two sites become twenty combinations, each with its own scripts, monitoring and recovery steps. Novacula is the third option. Nodes stay inside your perimeter, but every network is deployed, updated and observed through one interface. WHAT NOVACULA DOES Node deployment. Deploy nodes on established L1s, L2s and rollups, and emerging high-performance networks through one guided workflow. Full, pruned, archive and blob-serving node types are available depending on the chain, on Linux hosts through the Novacula agent or in Kubernetes through the operator. Client version management. Novacula maintains verified client versions and permitted transitions for covered networks, shows what each upgrade step does to your data, and records operator confirmation in the audit log. RPC endpoints and high availability. Publish RPC privately, on your own network, or on your own domain with TLS, access keys and rate limits. Group nodes into high availability pools behind one endpoint across independent sites, so applications keep the same address as the nodes behind it change. Monitoring and alerting. Track synchronization, block height, peers, RPC traffic, latency and resource consumption on ready dashboards. All metrics are collected in OpenTelemetry format and consumed by Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Victoria Metrics, Elastic or Splunk. Alerts route to Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Teams or a webhook. Access control and audit. Owner, Admin and read-only Member roles, two-factor authentication, and an append-only audit log of who changed what, where and when, with filters and export. ARCHITECTURE Novacula separates the control plane from the execution plane. The Hub stores configuration and receives telemetry. Executors run next to the nodes, open an outbound HTTPS connection to the Hub, and require no inbound access into your network. No RPC request passes through the Hub, and running nodes keep serving requests if the Hub becomes unreachable. The Hub can be hosted by Novacula or deployed inside your organization under licence. WHO USES IT Exchanges, custodians, wallet providers, payment companies, RPC providers and protocol infrastructure teams whose blockchain access cannot depend on a single node, a single site or a single external provider. Novacula-managed nodes can run alongside an existing RPC provider, so adoption does not start with a migration. Documentation: docs.novacula.io