Pocket Network
Pocket Network is the decentralized RPC layer of Web3 — a permissionless, fully open data delivery protocol built on Cosmos SDK and CometBFT (the Shannon upgrade, June 2025). 5,000+ independent supplier nodes serve relays across 60-69+ blockchains, metered in compute units at $1/billion and settled on-chain in POKT under deflationary tokenomics (PIP-41, 97.5% mint ratio). Grove (grove.city) is the for-profit infrastructure company that operates the largest gateway on the network — rpc.grove.city — and maintains PATH, the open-source Go gateway any operator can run to expose Pocket Network as a single HTTP endpoint. Grove offers free no-API-key per-IP public endpoints per chain (eth.rpc.grove.city, solana.rpc.grove.city, etc.) plus paid portal applications with relay analytics and SLAs. Together they form the canonical decentralized alternative to Alchemy / Infura / QuickNode for serving JSON-RPC, REST, and WebSocket traffic to any public blockchain.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Pocket Network the way a machine reads it — 63 machine-readable artifacts across 16 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Pocket Network scores 70.5/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Pocket Network
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pocket Network. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 16
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Pocket Network Application API
Pocket application module — applications stake POKT to consume relays
Pocket Network Bank API
POKT supply, balances, and burn tracking
Pocket Network Blocks API
Block and consensus state queries
Pocket Network Consensus API
Block, header, and consensus queries
Pocket Network Gateway API
Pocket gateway module — gateways stake POKT and proxy relays for applications
Pocket Network Health API
PATH service liveness and readiness probes
Pocket Network Mempool API
Mempool inspection and broadcast
Pocket Network Proof API
Pocket proof module — claims and proofs that suppliers submit to earn POKT
Pocket Network Relays API
JSON-RPC, REST, and WebSocket relays proxied to Shannon suppliers
Pocket Network Service API
Pocket service module — services represent the data sources (EVM chains, Solana, etc.) the network serves
Pocket Network Session API
Pocket session module — sessions group applications, suppliers, and services for a given block window
Pocket Network Status API
Node status and network info
Pocket Network Supplier API
Pocket supplier module — suppliers stake POKT and serve relays via RelayMiner
Pocket Network Tokenomics API
Pocket tokenomics module — global mint, burn, and reward parameters
Pocket Network Transactions API
Transaction lookup and broadcast
Pocket Network Validators API
Staking and validator queries
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Postman Collections 3
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 3
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Pocket Network CometBFT RPC API
OPEN COLLECTIONPocket Network PATH Gateway API
OPEN COLLECTIONPocket Network Shannon RPC API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 8
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Pocket Network CometBFT Node Block Inspect
Read node status for the latest height, fetch that block, then its ABCI results.
ARAZZOPocket Network PATH Relay Readiness
Confirm the PATH gateway is ready, then send an authenticated JSON-RPC relay through it.
ARAZZOPocket Network Shannon Application Balance
Look up a Shannon application, then read the on-chain balances of its address.
ARAZZOPocket Network Shannon Application Session
Resolve an application, confirm the target service exists, then fetch its active session.
ARAZZOPocket Network Shannon Block Explorer
Read the latest Shannon block height, then fetch that exact block by height.
ARAZZOPocket Network Shannon Service Economics
Read a service definition, the network tokenomics parameters, and total supply.
ARAZZOPocket Network Shannon Supplier and Gateway Survey
List suppliers, drill into the first supplier, then list gateways for network context.
ARAZZOPocket Network Shannon Transaction Lookup
Find the latest block, then look up a supplied transaction hash on Shannon.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Pocket Network Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Pocket Network Finops
FINOPSFeatures 19
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Pocket Network Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Pocket Network API Rules
SPECTRALPocket Network API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Pocket Network Relay
JSON SCHEMAPocket Network Shannon Actor
JSON SCHEMAExamples 3
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Pocket Network — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 10
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 13
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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