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Today's options are Run a full node. That takes days to sync and at least 1TB SSD... Run a light node. Barely works, relies on altruism from full nodes who are serving an API for free. Use a hosted node API, like Infura or Alchemy. Almost everyone uses that last option, often without even realizing it. Metamask, for example, defaults to Infura. Unfortunately, the last option is also completely trusted and centralized. An API provider can tell you anything about the state of the chain, and your client (wallet, browser, etc) has no way to verify. This is about to improve. We a few amazing techno

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