👋Welcome

Kotal is an open source alternative to centralized API gateway, Node as a service, and Staking service providers. Like Infura in Ethereum ecosystem, Onfinality in Polkadot ecosystem, and Hiro in Stacks ecosystem.

Kotal is multi-client, protocol-agnostic, and cloud-agnostic Blockchain Kubernetes Operator that makes it easy to deploy highly-available self-managing self-healing blockchain infrastructure on any cloud.

Kotal has been tested on Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Alibab Cloud, Tencent cloud 🤯.

What can I do with Kotal ?

• Deploy nodes across 10 Blockchain protocols (Aptos, Bitcoin, Chainkstack, Ethereum, Filecoin, IPFS, NEAR, Polkadot, Stacks)

• Upgrade and Downgrade node client software

• Load validator keys and start producing blocks

• Manage storage and resources (CPU & Memory) allocated to the node

• Manage Secrets (private keys, passwords, tokens, certificates)

• Monitor resources utilization

• Fetch real time logs

• Create TLS-secure API endpoints

• View API endpoints usage

• Create workspaces of nodes and resources

• Invite members to workspaces and assign roles