Welcoming new professional Infrastructure Providers to Flare

Join the Flare team in welcoming our newest group of professional Infrastructure Providers (IPs) — Nansen, QuickNode, and Encode — to our rapidly expanding network!

As new IPs, these three teams are now among the growing ecosystem of 83 registered providers on Flare; an ecosystem consisting of both professional teams — like Google Cloud, A41, and Kiln — as well as experienced community-run nodes.

As a reminder, Infrastructure Providers play two crucial roles on Flare:

1. Validate the network: IPs run proof-of-stake validators that propose and confirm new blocks on Flare. 
2. Provide data: IPs act as data providers to the Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO), providing off-chain price and other time-series data used by Flare dApps.

IPs on Flare are independent, globally-distributed, competing entities that are incentivized by the network to provide reliable data and consistent, high-performance validation services in exchange for network rewards. 

This dual role is entirely unique to Flare, as IPs on other blockchain networks serve only as validators, while Flare IPs are responsible for providing data to our enshrined oracles.

Meet the new providers

Nansen

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallet labels. Crypto investors use Nansen to discover opportunities, perform due diligence, and defend their portfolios with their real-time dashboards and alerts.

Encode Club

Encode Club helps builders advance their careers in AI & Web3 through outstanding education programs like hackathons, bootcamps, and accelerators. The Flare community is already well-versed with Encode Club, the team behind the Encode London Hackathon — where Flare hosted a hackathon focused on building groundbreaking dApps that leverage our enshrined oracles. 

QuickNode

QuickNode is a fast, reliable blockchain developer platform that simplifies blockchain infrastructure for teams big and small. Its lightning-fast global API supports 60+ blockchains and 100+ networks, and provides powerful high-leverage tools like Streams, RaaS, and Validator services.

Notably, this also marks QuickNode’s first move into blockchain validation, which makes it doubly exciting that they’ve chosen to debut that service with Flare, reflecting the uniqueness of Flare’s data architecture.

Find the full list of all Flare Infrastructure Providers on the Advanced View of the Flare Systems Explorer. 

Strengthening Flare’s data network with Minimal Conditions

Since launch, the Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO) has delivered highly reliable price data to dApps across the network — with zero downtime and consistent, accurate pricing. To build on this success, Flare introduced a unified performance model known as Minimal Conditions, passed through FIP-10 (Flare) and SIP-04 (Songbird).

Minimal Conditions ensure that all Infrastructure Providers (IPs) meet the same baseline for data quality to remain eligible for rewards. This creates a level playing field and helps guarantee secure, reliable, and low-cost data for users and builders across the ecosystem.

What makes this model especially powerful is its openness. Anyone can become an IP — professional team or individual — as long as they meet the technical requirements and maintain strong performance. Flare’s IP network is permissionless by design, supporting a decentralized and resilient data layer.

Cross-chain vision

With seasoned new Infrastructure Providers continuing to onboard, Flare’s enshrined data protocols are becoming more robust, laying the foundation for a decentralized data layer that can support both native dApps and cross-chain use cases. 

On its new status as an IP, Encode Club Co-Founder Anthony Beaumont explains, “We chose to support Flare because of the quality of its tech, the impact our builders could have with it and its alignment within both the AI and Web3 spaces."

“Flare is the only Layer 1 with enshrined data protocols. Bringing professional Infrastructure Providers like Nansen, QuickNode, and Encode into the Flare Network is more than just scaling infrastructure,” says Flare Co-Founder and CEO Hugo Philion. “It’s a critical step in realizing Flare 2.0, where consensus extends across chains and empowers a new class of interoperable dApps.”

Support the network & earn

Everyone in the Flare ecosystem is welcome to delegate their tokens to Infrastructure Providers like Nansen, QuickNode, and Encode to help secure the network and strengthen Flare’s data layer. 

Delegators earn a share of the rewards their chosen providers generate. The more accurate an IP’s submissions, and the more tokens delegated to them, meaning more rewards for the IPs to earn and distribute back to their delegators.

Start delegating today on the Flare Portal