Lava pairs Providers with Applications for scalable, private and uncensored access to Web3.

Lava Network, a trustless market for blockchain Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). Lava facilitates relay requests to any blockchain. The market runs on an appchain built using the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK) and Tendermint Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus. Lava exists because there are no cryptoeconomic incentives for providing access to blockchains, like the mining / validator rewards that exist for block building. It is no longer reasonable to expect each network participant to maintain their own node. Today, the most commonly used RPC endpoints are provided through trusted Node-as-a-Service or rate-limited public nodes because running a node requires expertise, is time-intensive, costly and requires an increasingly significant amount of compute resources. Growing demand for robust RPC service has led to concentrated reliance on a small group of node operators. This reintroduces a single point of failure for Web3 and requires trust in node runners to ensure data integrity, scalability, privacy, and censorship-resistance.