This week, we spotlight Hemi Network, a modular Layer-2 that bridges the two largest blockchains by volume and capitalization with a decentralized infrastructure backbone.

This week DIN spotlights Simply Staking, a professional blockchain infrastructure company with more than seven years of production experience. The team secures $1B+ in assets across 40+ networks and works with recognized names across the ecosystem, including Cosmos SDK, Chainlink, Fuel Labs, and Babylon. Beyond validation, Simply Staking operates a full suite of infrastructure products such as Spectrum Nodes, which handles 1B+ daily API requests across 170+ networks. Becoming a DIN Provider was a natural fit with their belief that RPC should never be a centralized bottleneck.

This week DIN spotlights Northwest Nodes, a provider that cut its teeth operating Chainlink nodes and grew into a broader infrastructure partner for high-performance networks. From the start, the team focused on working with the best engineering groups in crypto, applying disciplined operations to deliver reliable access for builders.

This week DIN spotlights EigenCloud, the new developer platform from Eigen Labs that extends blockchain-grade trust and verifiability to any application, on-chain or off-chain. Built on top of the EigenLayer restaking protocol and secured by the $EIGEN token, EigenCloud unifies third-party Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVSs) with first-party primitives such as EigenDA (data availability) and verifiable compute.

This week DIN spotlights Nodies, an infrastructure team that has operated high-performance blockchain services since 2021 and now supports more than forty networks. Born from engineers with experience at top cryptocurrency firms, Nodies began by offering low-latency RPC endpoints, then expanded into node snapshots, indexing, and custom infrastructure. Their goal has remained constant: push decentralization deeper into the tech stack so builders can rely on resilient, censorship-resistant access points.

DIN’s co-founder, EG Galano, recently presented at CODE NYC Coinbase Hackathon in Brooklyn on Aug 9 talking about our implementation of x402 for DIN endpoints. For those who need a refresher, x402 is an internet-native payment protocol that was developed by Coinbase for fast, cheap, and AI-friendly payments. Our code calling this implementation is available for review:

This week on DIN's highlight, we turn our attention to Sei, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain built for parallelized execution, Ethereum compatibility, and scalability at Solana-level speed. This is currently live on MetaMask Developer Dashboard via Infura and decentralized by DIN.

This week DIN spotlights Grove, the protocol-native team that spun out of Pocket Network to build unstoppable infrastructure coordination. Grove has been decentralizing access since 2017; now the team is preparing a major leap forward with the Shannon upgrade, a new Cosmos SDK blockchain (launched June 3, 2025) that turns Pocket into a sovereign chain built for permissionless gateways and open-data services.

This week DIN spotlights CompareNodes, the first independent Watcher to join our ecosystem and a pioneer in transparent RPC benchmarking. Rather than operate nodes, CompareNodes measures them, giving builders verifiable data on latency, throughput, error rates, and stability across twenty-seven global test locations. Their neutral, audit-ready metrics are now woven into DIN’s decentralized stack, raising the bar for provider accountability.