202508302322 Ethereum Wallet APIs

Currently digging into a cryptocurrency integration for my actual server implementationand found a few options that I think are worth considering.

1. Moralist
2. Alchemy
3. Infra
4. MetaMask (dApp)
5. Etherscan

All these options offer APIs that you can use as libraries and/or with a private API key.

Initially I had wanted to spin up my own node in order to have a less abstractions in order to interact with the web3 space. However, I realise that I’m not very interested in working on web3 platforms at the moment and couldn’t care less about “decentralisation”. The providers above are platforms that offer nodes that users can interact with data on the blockchain and therefore, by design, are “centralised”.

Out of the 5 options, I’ve found Moralis API and documentation to be the easiest to work with while offering a test live API that I could use to see my current balance in my wallet, across the various chains. I found that was a big selling point because I am lazy.