# Pocket Network

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pocket-network/  
**Website:** https://pocket.network  
**APIs profiled:** 16

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.

## Kin Score — 62.3 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 61.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 68.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 71.1 |
| Access Clarity | 71.1 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (16)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pocket Network Agentic Access** — 29 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Pocket Network Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Pocket Network Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Pocket Network Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Web3, Blockchain, RPC, Decentralized Infrastructure, Pocket Network, Grove, Path, Shannon, Cosmos, POKT

---

Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/pocket-network/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.