# Welcome

Kotal is an [open source](https://github.com/kotalco) 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