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Welcome to Alchemy Docs - documentation for the world’s most powerful blockchain developer platform.

👋 Welcome to Alchemy

Use these docs to learn more about Alchemy's core products, explore guides, and check out our API references.

Get access to Alchemy for free here.

📖 API Reference

Jump into our API Reference pages, spanning all of our supported chains: the Ethereum Standard JSON-RPC API, our Layer 2 APIs for Optimism, Polygon, and Arbitrum, and our exclusive Enhanced APIs for Flow and Crypto.org.

{% content-ref url="apis/ethereum/" %} ethereum {% endcontent-ref %}

🤷 What is Alchemy?

Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform focused on making Ethereum development easy. We've built a suite of developer tools, enhanced APIs, and superior node infrastructure to make building and running blockchain applications seamless.

Our platform supports 70% of the top Ethereum applications, including the top blockchain companies in the world:

Our product is used by millions of users per week across 99% of all countries, bringing in of billions of dollars in annual volume.

To learn more about the benefits of using Alchemy, check out the "Why Use Alchemy?" page below.

{% content-ref url="introduction/why-use-alchemy.md" %} why-use-alchemy.md {% endcontent-ref %}

🎁 Alchemy's Products and Features

Alchemy has a full suite of products built to accelerate blockchain development. Our tools make it easier for blockchain developers to focus on their applications and users, rather than interfacing with the blockchain.

{% content-ref url="introduction/core-products/" %} core-products {% endcontent-ref %}

🛠 Start Building!

Get set up to use the Alchemy API in under 5 minutes. Learn how to get and use your API key, start making requests, and set up your application to use Alchemy's endpoints!

{% content-ref url="introduction/getting-started.md" %} getting-started.md {% endcontent-ref %}