Alchemy

Alchemy has opened applications for a $1M credit program aimed at builders on Arc, offering up to $10K in credits per team. The program was announced jointly on X, with Arc's account confirming the partnership alongside Alchemy and inviting builders to apply.

• Up to $10K in credits per eligible team from the $1M pool
• Applications are open; no further eligibility or allocation details were given

Alchemy says it is the infrastructure behind Cash App's stablecoin payments, calling it evidence that mainstream adoption is already here. Cash App — which serves 59M+ users a month — runs 3.5M+ balance checks a day on Alchemy's Node RPC APIs and Webhooks, keeping every stablecoin balance and transfer continuously verifiable against public chain state.

• Alchemy's follow-up X post touts the broader payments win: Slash processes $10B+ in annual payments and Pana added 200K+ users in 6 months on Alchemy infrastructure
• Alchemy previously touted its payments infrastructure across $1T+ in annual transaction volume, with clients including Robinhood and Stripe

Alchemy says it supports Kinexys by J.P. Morgan as JPM Coin (JPMD) — the bank's USD deposit token — expands to the Ethereum mainnet, giving institutional clients onchain cash on a second public blockchain. Alchemy framed the move as another signal that public blockchain rails are becoming institutional financial infrastructure, alongside earlier JPMorgan tokens MONY and JLTXX.

• JPMD first launched on Base in November 2025; access remains limited to vetted institutional counterparties via Kinexys, J.P. Morgan's blockchain unit
• Alchemy says it supports Kinexys as it brings tokenized deposits onchain

Alchemy says every chain it supports now has an AI agent attached for network monitoring. The company claims the rollout delivers 247 monitoring, 3.5x faster incident resolution, and frees up roughly 120 engineering hours per month that teams can redirect to product development.

Alchemy announced the move in a post on its X account, framing the agents as always-on infrastructure watchdogs across its supported chains. No pricing or rollout details beyond the headline numbers were given.

• AI agents provide continuous, around-the-clock monitoring on every Alchemy-supported chain
• Claims 3.5x faster incident resolution and 120 engineering hours/month saved

Alchemy is now live in Tokyo, with APAC traffic automatically routed to the closest region — no new endpoint or configuration required. Dedicated Clusters launched there this summer, and after demand blew past plan, Alchemy shipped Node RPC & WebSockets to everyone. The company reports up to 8x lower median latency, roughly 70ms faster requests, and up to 76% lower p95 latency for traffic originating from Japan, and its week-in-review recapped that the expansion means APAC-based teams are now serving traffic to users faster than ever.

• After the open rollout, traffic from Northeast Asia is up to 8x faster, with claimed #1 p95 latency on Polygon, BNB Chain, and Arbitrum
• Launch covers Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Robinhood Crypto Chain, and Hyperliquid HyperEVM; DSRV partnership extends infrastructure to teams in Korea and Japan, including Bitget (125M+ users)

Alchemy is the launch and primary RPC provider for Elysium, the testnet of Kinetiq's high-performance Layer 2 for the Hyperliquid ecosystem, built for high-frequency trading and market-making AMMs. Elysium confirmed on X that Alchemy's RPC and WebSockets are live on testnet now and ready for mainnet on day one; Alchemy officially announced the testnet launch, saying it is "proud to be their primary RPC provider." In its week-in-review, Alchemy reaffirmed it is the Day-1 primary infrastructure provider for both Elysium and Upbit's GIWA L2.

• The setup lets builders ship apps spanning Elysium contracts to HyperCore order books on "the most performant infrastructure onchain"
• Elysium is Kinetiq's L2 for high-frequency trading, settling in the Hyperliquid ecosystem

Alchemy is partnering with GIWA — the new Ethereum Layer 2 from Upbit (operated by Dunamu, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges) — and GIWA's testnet is now live with Alchemy-powered RPC and WebSockets plus developer tooling. Alchemy shared the news on X in a thread describing the infrastructure as industry-leading and developer-focused.

GIWA — short for Global Infrastructure for Web3 Access — is an OP Stack-based L2 introduced at the Upbit D Conference, designed for faster transactions while settling on Ethereum. The partnership gives GIWA builders Alchemy's infrastructure from the testnet stage, ahead of its mainnet rollout.

• GIWA testnet live with Alchemy RPC + WebSockets and developer tools
• GIWA is Upbit/Dunamu's Ethereum L2 built on the OP Stack

Alchemy co-founder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan introduced Chain Rankings, a new view of the crypto ecosystem that ranks chains by developer usage, which he calls "the only real metric." The announcement argues that token prices can be manipulated and onchain volumes faked, while developer usage reflects genuine activity — noting that despite the market dropping 30%+, ecosystem activity is up 5x in 2 years.

The launch was shared via Viswanathan's post on X and reposted by Alchemy's official account. Alchemy reposted the announcement on its X account.

• Ranks chains by developer usage rather than price or volume data
• Framed as "the first real view into the crypto ecosystem"

Alchemy is partnering with AgentCard AI and Mastercard so AI agents get an identity, a wallet, and one-time-use Mastercard credentials to buy products online on their users' behalf, anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Users set spending limits and let the agent purchase autonomously, with the first agent provisionable in under a minute via AgentCard.

AgentCard has now rolled out a big upgrade: agents can use a user's actual Mastercard with spend controls and audibility. Alchemy co-founder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan announced the upgrade, noting the partnership with Mastercard and pointing to a WSJ piece — Alchemy reposted the announcement on its X account.

• Mastercard says the collaboration supports its Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent work toward trusted agentic commerce
• Alchemy's framing positions agent purchasing as replacing the checkout button

Alchemy announced it is supporting Astar Fi (@Astar_Fi) with "super fast and reliable" infrastructure, in a post on its X account. Astar Network echoed the news, noting that Astar Fi reads the chain through Alchemy — the data layer behind its net-worth tracking, covering positions held across protocols down to individual vaults.

• Astar Fi is an onchain personal finance manager incubated by the Astar Foundation, combining net-worth dashboards, curated DeFi vaults, and tokenized assets in one self-custodial interface
• Alchemy frames the support as dependable read infrastructure for Astar Fi's portfolio and vault data
• The announcement follows Astar Fi's public beta launch, with fees waived during beta and an initial rollout focused on Japan