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What Is an RPC Endpoint, and Why It Matters

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The short version

An RPC (Remote Procedure Call) endpoint is the door your application knocks on to talk to a blockchain. Every balance check, transaction broadcast, and event subscription travels through it.

Why the endpoint matters

A slow or unreliable endpoint shows up as slow, unreliable software for your users. Latency, uptime, and rate limits are not infrastructure trivia — they are product features.

Spectrum runs geographically distributed nodes so that the endpoint nearest your users answers the call.